5: All Saints Day
For you, Susan...
Two of my granddaughters were dragon hunters for Hallowe'en!
Hurrah for strong women who guard against dangerous beasts!!
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Those who guard against dangerous beasts are FIRST!
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Notes for you on the last thread.
listener--that old saying about the Episcopal Church being the Republican Party at prayer is just that--old, probably fifty, sixty years or more.
DeleteAs I sit with good hearted clergy who are seeking spiritual guidance, I am noticing that spending time in Beauty has helped them so much in these harsh times. (One preached the words of Christ and was SHOUTED DOWN recently by right wingers in his congregation...!) Beauty is Love made visible.
ReplyDeleteGood heavens. Here's something:
Delete'I’m not anti-Trump, I’m just pro-Jesus': the evangelicals stumping for the Democrats [Click]
What a BRILLIANT concept!! To take an evangelical who actually believes what Christ preached and tries to live it, yet who SPEAKS THE LANGUAGE of the evangelicals to go around the country spreading the Good News of what's what! Glory Hallelujah!!!
DeleteDemocrats See Some Good Signs In Booming Early Vote Numbers [Click] “The most impressive is Texas.”
ReplyDeleteHeadlines from politicalwire.com[Click]
Trump Shocks with Racist New Ad
CNN Cools on Hiring Trump Alums
Conspiracy Theorist Is Key Mueller Witness
Trade War Impact Deepens Across Asia
Fox Continues to Crush Other News Channels
[But remember that TV news viewership has decreased substantially, and skews ever more to old folks.——Alan]
This Isn’t the Way the 2016 Campaign Ended
From yesterday: Wall Street Overwhelmingly Backs Democrats In Midterms[Click]
listener, re question on last thread: Cataract surgery wouldn't be more complex for me, but the benefits would be more limited than for the average person. Retinal scarring left me legally blind before I ever had cataracts. But it's now starting to look like the benefits would justify the small risk. The cataract surgeon wasn't sure two years ago.
ReplyDeleteThe procedure has gotten a little better over time, and one's cataracts tend to get a little worse. Maybe you've come to the place where the two meet. All the best to you!!
DeleteThanks.
DeleteUK: Women’s Voluntary Service[Click]
ReplyDeleteSpinal implant helps three paralysed men walk again [Click]
Lots of jobs to come in autonomous vehicles industry? [Click]
”Mars boot” made of fungus and perspiration [Click] They say similar materials are already in use on earth; they don’t mention it, but it seems to me they would or could be carbon negative—a good match with carbon-neutral liquid auto fuels.
Wow, Alan, that spinal implant is AMAZING! I'm particularly astounded that it can cause some nerves to regrow!
DeleteYes, and the test subjects had been injured a long time ago--years and years, which makes it even more astounding.
DeleteLooking into the mycellial leather substitute reminded me I had seen some news about that a year or two back. They project bringing the cost down far enough to compete with inexpensive leathers before long. And I discovered that industrial production of mycellial packaging materials is under way, ditto insulation, and anything made of styrofoam (including disposable plastic tableware) is coming along. No petroleum and no edible foodstuff used--only ag waste, and the material is compostable. Sure sounds good to me.
Hooray for dragon hunters! (Great costumes). On the laugh or go crazy front I present this:
ReplyDeleteA German Shepherd, Doberman and a Cat have died. All three are faced with God who wants to know what they believe in. The German Shepherd says: "I believe in discipline, training and loyalty to my master."
"Good," says God, "then sit down on my right side."
"Doberman, what do you believe in" asks God. The Doberman answers: "I believe in the love, care and protection of my master."
"Aha," said God, "you may sit to my left."
The he looks at the Cat, and asks: "And what do you believe in?"
The Cat then answers: "I believe you're sitting in my seat."
LOL!!
DeleteI first saw that joke on Wednesday, and the funny thing was that, while reading it, I was sitting on our love seat with one cat curled up beside me and the other curled up behind me, such that I had to sit on the edge of the seat.
DeleteI believe! LOL!
I didn't write this, but I also witnessed it:
ReplyDelete""In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing "Amazing Grace" in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. Watch him again, behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."
– Charles Pierce.
At once poignant and haunting and all too real.
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