Yesterday i was raised to a Master Mason in my local Lodge. This was quite a meaningful event for me, and i am proud to be considered part of a Lodge. The Craft has played a major role for me throughout most of my life, albeit mostly in the background. No one in my family, that i know of anyway, was a Mason; however, i grew up down the road from the George Washington Masonic Temple in Alexandria, VA so i saw Masonic symbols everywhere. I have wanted to join for a long time but never knew a member.
Who knows, maybe i can start a Masonic Reefers club

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Samuel
"If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.... There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region."
Herman Melville,
Moby Dick, Ch. 1.
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