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I have an important announcement of interest to long-time FReepers: FReeper GladesGuru, ecologist, and private property advocate, has died from complications due to prostate cancer. He was 75. Jan (pronounced “Yan”) Jacobson was a man of acerbic wit who could cut to the bottom line with a merciless precision. Pity the bureaucrat or academic peddling questionable “facts” under his scrutiny. His passion was wildlife biology and its relation to habitat. For over thirty years, he was Director of the Everglades Institute, a private parcel within the Big Cypress National Preserve, immediately adjacent to Everglades National Park. The parcel is unusual...

We have just learned that Daffynition passed away in November. She was a 15 year FReeper, and will be sorely missed. Sending prayers for her family and loved ones. "She brought so much joy and good cheer to your place [FR]. Never a cross word to anyone ever, always just rolling along with her bright aura of sunshine."

My PTSD dog/best friend goes for chest x-rays tomorrow to see if his osteosarcoma has spread or not.

I am requesting prayer on behalf of my former daughter-in-law. She's in a bad way right now because her firstborn was just murdered. He'd tried to stop a man from injuring a woman. The man ended up stabbing and killing the young man. DIL has 2 other teenage kids, they need prayer too. Mom is in a VERY bad way. Thankyou.

My beloved Mr. Bearshouse has passed away tonight and I am asking for remembrance in your prayers. He has been very ill for a month now and in a way it was expected, but it happened far too soon. The prayers are for me that I can hold up to the coming days with grace and make him proud. He was such a good man.