Raised and Returned (July 31)

Hello all. Greetings and salutations, hail fellow well-met, g’day milady. And how is everyone doing today?

I’m asking that question not just as a matter of polite form, but rather because I genuinely want to know the answer. It’s something that’s been on my mind a lot recently.

It’s a question that’s supposed to express, and model, a general civility. The word “civil” has generally passed into usa...