Impermanence ... Humility ... Ash Wednesday ...
https://stlukeinthefieldsblog.org/2014/03/05/ash-wednesday-how-we-burn-the-palms/
On a lighter note...
On a lighter note...
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Hmmm... I suppose Vermonters have to import their palm fronds.
ReplyDeleteLooking at Stannard in the satellite view, the notable difference from where I come from is the abundance of farmland. There were a lot of trees around Briceland, but the soil was formed in ancient tropical forests and was generally poor. Some people ran sheep, and a few people had a cow to provide milk for the family. It was a hardscrabble place. After we left the area became well known for a popular green leafy substance. Nowadays there is a vineyard and winery! [bangs head in disbelief]
The population of the place I am from, Briceland, must have been greater in times past than it was back around 1950. My folks owned the general store, and used the old town hall as a warehouse. Specifically I remember they stored baled hay there. I can remember going there with my father and brother; of course to a little guy it looked bigger than it was, but there must have been room for a fair bunch of people; there was a dais or stage in the front, a lower seating area, and a higher area toward the back.
DeleteHALLELUJAH!!!
ReplyDeleteHillary Clinton won’t run in 2020
https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Hillary-Clinton-says-she-wont-run-for-president-in-2020-506697531.html
Lord be praised! That is mighty good news and a tremendous relief!
DeleteReposting from previous thread and continuing:
ReplyDeleteAnd to tell the truth, I think that stuff about Bernie being grumpy is just projecting on him a standard prejudice about old men--that they are "grumpy." Just as bad as saying women are "hysterical" or fat people are "jolly." I am reminded of the nonsense about "Silent Cal" Coolidge being a dour sort of fellow; Will Rogers said, not without reason, that he was the funniest man he knew. But his humor was of a dry variety that some people simply didn't understand, so he learned as President to refrain from it in public to avoid being misunderstood.
And if people can't be grumpy in their old age, when? But Bernie is still a tad younger than me.
DeleteBernie's grumpiness, such as it is, is part of his endearing charm. In any case, what shallow types like creatures from the media perceive as grumpiness is, to my mind, largely impatience with pretense and inessential nonsense. He has work to do and a very serious message to get out. While I have no difficulty whatever in believing Listener's anecdote, at the same time it is obvious that he does not suffer fools. And why should he? Like Bill says, if you can't be grumpy when you're old, then when?
DeleteHere I've been faithfully recycling paper receipts for *Years* and I *just* learned that you're not supposed to because they have too much BPA in them. Wish I had learned that earlier.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that either. I haven't been recycling anything that has personal info on it. It's a policy at the Library that anything with a person's name or identifying info on it goes into the trash not the recycling, of privacy reasons. So I do the same at home. Thanks for mentioning this, Susan.
DeleteRemember the Alamo!
ReplyDeleteBattle of the Alamo - Click
Mebbe google's decided to let me in?
ReplyDeleteDid a complete, full scandisc after I went to bed. It appears that i cleared the block, whatever it was.
ReplyDeleteHurray!
DeleteWelcome back, puddle!
DeleteWhoo hoo!!! Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!
DeleteIf we are going to fund a Green New Deal, we need to acknowledge how the original actually worked. [Click] Yep. Very yep.
ReplyDeleteThanks. We need more history lessons of this type.
DeleteVery interesting article. I'm trying to think how it could be applied today. It makes the point that in 1932 banks had a lot of capital lying idle because every available investment opportunity seemed too risky. That's not true today. And we already have companies investing in renewable energy -- I buy my electricity form one of them. So what about high-speed rail. That's very much a green alternative to planes and autos. And yes, a private company in Florida is already operating a high-speed train and one in Texas has almost cleared the legal hurdles. Amazing in an economy where railroads have assumed for 70 years that passenger service necessarily loses money and only government-subsidized Amrrak can provide the service we need. So are low-cost loans what we need? I must say that just getting passenger trains off tracks built by and for freight railroads would be a big help is many ways.
DeleteI am reminded of an economics article I read several years ago. The basic thesis was that in the world at large there was more money sloshing around than there were good places to invest it. According to the circumstances of the moment it would flood ashore in this country or that, and in due course recede, sequentially causing booms and busts.
DeleteWikipedia: Eleanor Alice Hibbert (née Burford; 1 September 1906 – 18 January 1993) was an English author who combined imagination with facts to bring history alive through novels of fiction and romance. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty; Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. A literary split personality, she also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under the various pseudonyms including Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.
ReplyDeleteHoly pen names,Batman! I had a hunch Victoria Holt was a nom de plume, but I had no idear the same lady was Jean Plaidy. I read a number of those books in late teens and early twenties. And all those other names and genres? Makes my head spin just a bit. Very prolific, talented lady!
I was impressed. You will note that the last sentence says "under the [sic] various pseudonyms including..." which I take to mean there are or could be even more!
ReplyDeleteSTAND BACK!
ReplyDeleteHarris, Sanders Condemn Effort to Rebuke Ilhan Omar [Click] Good, IMO.
John Bolton Shows the Dangers of a Weak President [Click]
Biden’s Senate Votes Could Prove Troublesome [Click] You think?
Americans Oppose Trump’s Use of Emergency Powers [Click] Eye-popping numbers. The survey has a lot of other bad news for the GOP too.
Clinton Did Not Intend to Close Door on 2020 Bid [Click] Her zeitgeist detector continues to malfunction.
Bloomberg: Trump Intimately Involved In Planning Inauguration [Click] “The White House has repeatedly denied that Trump had any role in planning it.”
Hmmmm…. I seem to recall that there are some other things he has reportedly denied being involved in.
The Other Mueller Report [Click]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will uphold a pledge from his 2016 campaign to abstain from “personal attack ads” against his opponents, but is not ruling out the possibility of ads that draw contrasts on the basis of policy “differences,” BuzzFeed News reports.
Love that "STAND BACK!"
DeleteI need more time to read this section! Thanks!!!
HRC ... NO!
DeleteBernie & Harris ... Good IMO, too, Alan.
I didn't get my gnus fix until rather late today; my apologies for the delay. Up kinda early for me, drawing class, lunch, grocery shopping, nap, some consulting work (still a bit more I want to do on that) and other stuff including dinner. Art class today was more learning experiences with charcoal, observation, perspective--drawing a collection of paper bags on the central table. It's not going badly.
DeleteTrump's tariff war pushes US trade deficit to 10-year high [Click]
ReplyDeleteI want to see all the movies that come out of the Mueller Report.
ReplyDeleteHow many knocks on the head will it take to get through to Hillary that WE DO NOT WANT HER! I know she still has a rabid following, almost all women, and they fight viciously against anyone else's choice or opinion.
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