tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9343674911760965562024-03-05T02:11:14.389-08:00The Cooler Side of My PillowUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934367491176096556.post-61584404142889779812018-07-16T04:12:00.000-07:002018-07-16T04:13:36.539-07:00Press in Peeps - Press in to God<div>
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Life is confusing. I don't know how atheists get through the day. Without God, I know I couldn't do it. In a strange way, they have more faith in nothingness sometimes than I do in God. Just thinking about life without God makes me feel as though I'm free falling off a cliff.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Work has been frustrating and hurtful. I've struggled with terrible back and neck pain. (Praise God it is getting so much better.) My mother's funds have been frozen by the Bank of America in a bizarre situation. The resulting chaos has impacted the entire family. Differing political opinions have strained friendships.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like many of us, I hate to turn on the news. Children in cages, abused animals, murders, maiming - I turn it off. I worry about the division n this country, Is this era worse than the unrest in the 1960's? Thinking about the student deaths at Kent State and the assassinations of JFK, Bobby Kennedy, and Dr. King - I have to say no. However, the divisiveness feels terrible just the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As Solomon said in Ecclesiastes, there is nothing new under the sun. These present worries and unrest are nothing new. Ancient Israel experience what we do and much more. When Moses was blessing the 12 tribes before his death, he related a Godly truth and blessing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. Deuteronomy </span><span style="font-size: large;">33:27</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's my reminder for today...for myself and anyone reading this. God IS our refuge and we can fall back on the everlasting arms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The key to peace is time spent with God in his Word, in prayer, and in contemplation. I guarantee that we will never find it in squabbling, smarty pants FaceBook posts from either side, on CNN, MSNBC, or on Fox.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934367491176096556.post-17346365626554002702018-06-08T05:57:00.002-07:002018-06-08T05:57:27.516-07:00Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So tragic about the suicides Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade, isn't it? I pray for their loved ones and work associates. Both were at the top of their games professionally, but apparently at their lowest ebb spiritually and emotionally. Anthony and Kate</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> had the money and resources to find help, yet were seemingly unable to ask for assistance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Centers for Disease Control and Atlanta report that suicides are up in almost </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">every state. Suicide among first responders (particularly in EMS) continues to increase and the same among military service members. Chances are statistically that you know someone who is having suicidal thoughts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My friends Trish Buchanan and Sean Riley are both working to improve awareness of suicide prevention and resources to assist first responders in need of help. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Trish created a CT charity, <a href="http://believe208runforthebravefinest.itsyourrace.com/event.aspx?id=3427">Believe 308</a>, which provides funding and advocacy for mental health issues after the suicide of her husband, East Hartford CT Police Officer Paul Buchanan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After his addiction, Sean Riley created <a href="http://www.safecallnow.org/">Safe Call Now</a>, an advocacy and referral network for first responders who suffer from a variety of mental health issues or addictions and need a confidential place to find healing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What can we ordinary folks do? In an increasingly polarized America where we are connected yet separated by social media, we can reach out to others personally with a smile, some kind words, a hug or an invitation for coffee. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I do believe that the isolation we create while furiously texting or emailing and not even looking at the person right next to us, is a contributor to an increasingly soul-less society. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We can invite others to our church or a club or just chat with a neighbor. Isolation can be a killer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We can advocate with legislators for mental health care resources to be improved. We can also educate ourselves about local resources which already exist. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are two excellent national resources:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Perhaps the very best thing we can do is pray without ceasing.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934367491176096556.post-14200352108054943882018-01-01T15:20:00.001-08:002018-01-01T15:20:52.550-08:00Crypto Jews, Conversos, and a Prophecy at Magnolia Bakery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In a typically New York slice-of-life, we ran into a wonderful Australian tourist who explained why the electoral college system ended up producing many US Presidents from Virginia. He modestly claimed he was a student of the US Presidency. Mr Land-Down-Under also shared that his week in New York was the very first time he'd seen snow in his life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then things come into perspective. I am never one to complain about snow. I love snow. How nice, though, for this man to experience it. While New Yorkers grumble...a visitor has the happy experience of his life. Isn't life like that? It is all in how you frame it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had a shared interest in genealogy. Kim explained the issues associated with researching a Jewish background. I learned about "conversos," that is, Jews who converted due to societal pressures. Crypto-Jews are those who may have outwardly converted but continue as Jews in secret. I'd never heard that phrase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyone who professes Christianity as I do, yet does not understand the Jewishness of Jesus Christ is missing a great deal of his message. Due to a friend who is an Orthodox Jew, I've picked up a lot of info about Jewish thought. If you don't get Jesus as a rabbi, you aren't really understanding him at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We continued on in our discussion as Piper came back to the table with her cupcakes. Piper's father is Jewish and a Cohen (priestly caste) on his maternal side. Turns out Kim is also mixed, although she worships at a nearby synagogue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Looking intently at Piper, she said, "You and I, we are the same. By cultural law, by the law of Judaism, we should not exist. (She was referring to the fact that Orthodox Judaism teaches that Jews should only marry other Jews.) This means that our souls have struggled for existence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That means that you and I, Piper, have a destiny, a high calling on our lives. You should understand this."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is what happens in New York City, these small hours, these little wonders, these twists and turns of fate (to quote Rob Thomas), random conversations and commiserations which leave you with something you remember for the rest of your life. And that's why I love New York. These small hours still remain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Not cooking out is a mindset. Once I saw the ridiculous amount we spent on eating out, I was determined to avoid it as much as possible. By pre-planning, I know for sure that I can cook a cheaper more healthy meal faster than buying take out.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last night, I left chicken breast tenderloins out to thaw. They were marked down for $2.73 from $4.55. I also cut up two containers of on-sale Brussels sprouts, or Martian Heads, as we call them at Chez Bremer. This took about 5 minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This morning, I put the brussies to the boil with some "Caldo de Pollo," basically chicken bullion crystals from the Hispanic foods section. I will butter the sprouts with salt, pepper, and fresh ground nutmeg. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whole nutmeg can be found in the same International section of the store. They can be grated with a cheese grater. The taste/aroma is nutmeg on steroids...simply amazing. Like ground nutmeg to the tenth power.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I took a shower while they boiled. I turned the brussies off early, just before they'rd finished cooking. I just left them on the burner in the pot with the lid. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Four large baking potatoes were scrubbed and put in the cold oven. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Finally, I mixed one can of sale cream soup (reduced salt), a small amount of pesto from Big Lots, a slosh of white wine, and some garlic together. I sprayed a baking dish with off-brand Pam, poured in half the cream soup mix, added the chicken (which was still half frozen) and put the rest of the soup mix on top. The dish was covered with tin foil and refrigerated. All of this took perhaps 7 minutes, if that long.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I got home from work, I turned on the oven to 400 degrees to start the potatoes first. About 20 minutes later, I turned the temp down to 350 and popped in the chicken. The chicken took about 25 minutes. Ten minutes before dinner, I re-heated the martian heads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had a delicious chicken dinner. The extra baked potatoes made up two lunches for Bruce, with a little chicken and some delicious sauce on top. All for 15 minutes prep time. Anyone can do this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For all the reasons to "not eat out" check out this great NYC food blog:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Before we were dismissed from services today, Derek said, "You know how we experienced 9/11 and wondered why moderate Muslims didn't speak out? Now it is our turn to speak out against the racism which is tearing us apart."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the aftermath of the inexcusable racism in Charlottesville, VA which culminated in the deaths of three people, it is imperative that all those who really love Jesus speak out against the white "supremacists." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Please look at the picture above, re-posted from the Huffington Post. We see a dignified young black cop standing duty. Behind him is a man in a dress with a red pointed cap on. Uh, who exactly is supposed to be supreme to whom? All I see is a patriot in uniform with a confederacy of dunces behind him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">KKK members, neo-Nazi's, and other affiliated groups who claim Christ and carry or use the sacred symbol of the cross to advance their racist ideology are apostate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They have missed Jesus' entire message, which teaches that in Christ there are no superficial divisions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">How do you do the right thing? Don't laugh at jokes with racial overtones. Moreover, state your repugnance for such things. That's not hard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't publicize Internet garbage attacking Muslims or any other type of prejudice. Quit reading Facebook posts from those who continually spread fear of groups different from yours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do what my husband, Bruce, did in one of his Navy moments of which I am the most proud. Another Navy Chief (and I use this term loosely) was a racist, a quiet one, but a racist. Bruce saw that a very worthy African American sailor was not gaining the recognition that he deserved. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He arranged with the Chief of the Boat to write up this young man's accomplishments. Brian Robertson ended up being the Commander of Pacific Forces Afloat Sailor of the Year, advanced to Chief Petty Officer, and became an officer. Tim, the other "chief" never spoke to Bruce again. It was no loss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We helped raise three inner-city kids through an odd set of circumstances. At the least, we were two white folks who treated them well. Lest I appear to be bragging, let me assure you that they gave us more than we ever gave them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because of all the disrespect which my neighbors of color have experienced, I am careful to show extra respect by holding the door open, calling them Sir or Ma'am, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do you think that racism isn't such a big deal? Let me tell you the story of my precious friends Billie (the wife) and Leslie (the husband) Walker and what racism did to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Apparently, this physician didn't approve of interracial marriage. He never did a chest x-ray in all the times Les sought medical help and eventually accused Les of malingering to avoid work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The racist physician went on vacation and the new doctor found that Les had bronchial aviolar carcinoma, which he eventually died from. How much better would things have gone if he had a non-racist physician who treated the disease in its earlier stage?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The last thing he ever said "to" me was when he was dying. Bruce slipped in to see him at the same military hospital in Hawaii where I was in surgery to take out my appendix. Les said he'd pray for me. Humbling to say the least.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Racism is like a cancer. It can be subtle or overt. Subtle racism is when you cross over to the other side of the road when you see three black youths because they make you nervous. Something to try instead: stay where you are and say "Hey how are you today?" You'll be surprised at the results. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two bloggers whom I otherwise love to read spend a great deal of time complaining about various ailments, problems with their homes that they feel helpless to fix, rudeness in today's society, fixed incomes, etc. Lovely pictures are taken and shared, their gifts and talents are amazing, but for the constant complaining.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A close relative (who will not see this) is a constant complainer. Folks who drive with bicycles on the back of their vehicles are "a-holes." S/he didn't like the conversation over dinner at a nice restaurant, so complained about that. Any one who doesn't follow this relative's lifestyle is subject to ire, even to the point of talking to the car radio or TV screen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another gloom and doom relative complained that s/he "had" (as in "was forced) to go on a luxury vacation in another country completely paid for by someone else. For months, I listened to the complaints and stress about it to the extent that s/he broke out into shingles the night before leaving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now s/he wistfully states that s/he would love to go back to this lovely country, but doesn't really have the extra money to do so!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because I grew up in a rather negative atmosphere, I picked up early on the habit of murmuring and complaining. I constantly work to ensure that I don't spend a lot of time complaining.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Okay so let's sum up, Five Reasons We Should Not Complain:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Ingratitude - This holds you back from receiving all God has for you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. Complaining shrinks brain size in the same way Alzheimer's does.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. Complaining is ungodly and He hates it. He called the Israelites a "stiff-necked people." Their whining and moaning kept them wandering in the desert for forty years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">4. Complaining is demoralizing for all who have to listen to you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">5. I believe that when you repeat complaints instead of praise you block God's blessing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I love this song from Daniel Powter and I love the video even more. Here are some of the lyrics:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #676666;">'Cause you had a bad day</span><br style="background-color: #f9f9f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676666;" /><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #676666;">You're taking one down</span><br style="background-color: #f9f9f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676666;" /><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #676666;">You sing a sad song just to turn it around</span><br style="background-color: #f9f9f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676666;" /><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #676666;">You say you don't know</span><br style="background-color: #f9f9f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676666;" /><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #676666;">You tell me don't lie</span><br style="background-color: #f9f9f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676666;" /><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #676666;">You work at a smile, and you go for a ride</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So listen to it by clicking above</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">...trust me it is worth it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I went for a ride. Right in the middle of a major metropolitan area of 1 million people, the tidal estuary shown above was a moment of peace, beauty, and tranquility. And boy did I need it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some girls never grow up, so I played early in the morning with my dolls' house</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another girl, I'm not sure if she is a grown up girl or not, played with this dolls' house which I saw later on a drive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Queen Mary of Great Britain was a great curator of Royal Family history and objects associated with the family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We normally see Queen Mary as an imperious old woman, but I love this picture of her during the early days of her marriage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is the dressing table from her dolls' house, an exact replica of the one she used for her toilette in real life:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Perhaps you'll enjoy this video of Queen Mary's Dolls' House:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even royalty loves playing with a dolls' house. Queen Mary was quite elderly when this was completed and it delighted her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You're as young as you feel. The Bible confirms this in Psalm 92:14: "They will still yield fruit in old age. They shall be full of sap and very green."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Stay green and sappy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes a walk on a Sunday is just what the doctor ordered. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you look closely at the top white flower on the right, a dear little bumblebee is drinking some nectar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Consider the lilies of the field, for Solomon dressed in royal robes had not the wealth of these. - Jesus</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Have a happy week and remember to stop and smell the roses!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Owens Creek Portsmouth, VA</span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934367491176096556.post-64897967867734302712017-07-29T07:22:00.002-07:002017-07-29T07:22:54.383-07:00This Victorian Life<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So this book, This Victorian Life, has been one of the best books I've ever read. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Chrismans, Sarah and her husband Gabriel, live a Victorian life in the small town of Port Townsend, Washington.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In researching this couple, I saw a hate-filled Twitter review by an apparently angry young man, who used the "F" word 7 times in describing them. I'm not quite sure what about their choices infuriated him so much, but I daresay that his hatred of two folks he never met, spoke more about who he is than who the Chrismans are. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sarah's book struck a raw nerve among folks her age and got a bit out of control on the Internet.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This whole non-controversy speaks a great deal to how intolerant we have become in America. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gabriel, an expert rider of the penny farthing type of bicycles, manages a bicycle shop. Both of them provide historical interpretation of the late Victorian period for the public in various events and as consultants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Chrismans live the Victorian lifestyle 24/7; clothes, food, transportation, and in the make up of their home. They support themselves and do not expect others to live as they do. The vitriol, death threats, cat calls, and other antisocial behavior towards them has been unbelievable to read about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many folks in America claim that one political side is tolerant and the other is intolerant. Perhaps one side is tolerant in terms of progressive social issues such as accepting gay and transgendered citizens, people who use illegal drugs and alcohol to excess, and tolerance towards other like-minded folks who make choices like they do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, when people like the Chrismans make the choice to live like Victorians, the tolerance melts away. When Christian individuals or companies do not wish to pay for medical procedures against their value systems, they are considered hateful. When another family chooses to have as many children as possible to live out their faith in their own way, there is no tolerance for that at all. </span><br />
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<b><i><span class="text 1Thess-4-11" id="en-NIV-29615" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">M</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">ake it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-29615A" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-29615A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>just as we told you,</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span class="text 1Thess-4-12" id="en-NIV-29616" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-29616B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-29616B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sarah Chrisman has written a fascinating book about how they came to live as they do. We learn about her daily habits and read about the foraging she does in the woods for berries I never have heard of, such as salmon berries. I read it through in one day, up to 2 a.m. when I had to work the next day. Yikes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do you think Sarah is so unusual? She's a strong woman living her convictions, but her desire to live in a time she prefers is not so different from many of my own practices. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I often write and tend to dinner at the same time. I just got up and made mashed potatoes using a red World War 2 masher. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tomorrow's coffee was set up for brewing in a 1940's era stainless steel percolator with a bulb on the top, in which coffee bubbles up as it percolates. My re-wired chrome toaster once belonged to an elderly neighbor and dates from the 1930's.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next to my desk is a 1940's tube radio on which I listen to AM stations. FM stations were not available when the radio was made. My desk is a Word WarII era enamel-top dinner table with a silverware drawer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let's really be tolerant, peeps, regarding the choices of other folks, unless their choices hurt someone else or are against the law. After all, judge not, lest ye be judged.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And, hey, I'd love to hear your thoughts about this book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I didn't see anything special in this house at all as I took this shot from across the street. It is in the American Four Square architectural style, just like my house. i liked the chippy texture of the paint and the vines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was editing this photograph recently, and thought I saw something strange. My friend Deb was looking over my shoulder and said,"What's THAT?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She was looking at what I had just noticed. To me, it looks as though there is a man framed in the doorway, on the inside. He is standing sideways and wearing a fedora hat, with his hands clasped under his chin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then Deb pointed out that on the second floor left hand window that it looks as though ghostly twins are standing there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I don't know what this means, but it is not the first time that I've seen something odd in a photograph of an old house that I didn't notice while taking the picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, in the famous words of the Ghostbusters, "I ain't afraid of no ghosts!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is the season of our constant wanderings on the back roads of Virginia and North Carolina. Late afternoon light is beautiful, the roads wind and bend, with little adventures waiting for us around every turn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A sign on the side of this weathered old building above reads, "Sycamore Cross." I'm not sure if that refers to the old house that sits next door or perhaps it refers to the street's name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This late afternoon, we ended up in little Ivor Virginia whose population of about 300 people has not changed much since1910.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ivor once had a passenger railroad stop, along with other tiny Virginia communities like Waverly and Disputanta. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Otelia Butler Mahone, wife of the owner of the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad,(now Norfolk Southern) was a great fan of Sir Walter Scott's novels. Local legend says that Otelia named various stops after places in Scott's novels, such as Ivor and Waverly Virginia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As for Disputanta, it came about after Mr. and Mrs. Mahone couldn't agree on a stop's name, i.e. they had a dispute about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ivor lives on and still is primarily agricultural. This old grain silo was probably there back in 1910.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I don't see ghosts. However, I fancy that I hear echoes of the past in old places like Ivor. In my mind's eye, I see women heading to a small grocery fanning themselves and saying, "I declare it is hot."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I see shoeless boys heading to a creek to swim. I hear mothers ringing large bells from the back door calling, "Supper's ready."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Can you see the checkered tablecloths and piles of cooked sweet corn, sliced tomatoes, and iced tea sweating in the sun? I see freckles, heads bowed over grace, crooked teeth, straw hats, aprons, strawberries made into jam, and ribbons in little girls' hair. In my mind, these types of "ghosts" are everywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is Dr. Walter Reed's home in Murfreesboro, NC. We are all familiar with this name, what with the famous Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the Washington DC area. How many of us know why he is famous?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dr. Reed researched yellow fever, once a terrible scourge with periodic epidemics in the United States. His painstaking investigation both in the US and Cuba (the part of the US), confirmed the cause of the disease. He was a pioneering biomedical researcher using strict scientific methods and studies to confirm his theories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dr. Reed's wife, Emilie Lawrence, was born in Murfreesboro, as was Dr. Reed's mother. His father was a circuit preacher. Walter lived in this home during his father's preaching tours and also later as an adult. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yellow fever hit warm locations, as it is spread by mosquitoes. Can you imagine Dr. Reed's fatigue in working with no relief from the temperature with no certainty whether he would survive exposure to it? In 1855, ten percent of my local population died from this infectious disease. <a href="https://pilotonline.com/news/local/history/the-fever-chapter-a-killer-sails-into-port/article_7e3854e0-3754-590d-88a8-edc8e93fb798.html">Yellow Fever </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've known about Walter Reed my entire life, what with a father who was also an Army physician. However, I never knew that he had a distinct presence here so close to home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It seems so odd to have run across his house, as I just finished this book regarding Yellow Fever. American Plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby was mesmerizing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am a grammar Nazi. I admit it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My mom, a teacher, raised us to speak properly. I remember answering the phone at Fort Monroe, VA at 5 saying, "Captain Galvin's residence, Annie speaking." My mother spent a lot of time teaching me to do that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She drilled us in grammar and syntax. I disliked it as a child. However, as I grew up, I appreciated her instructions very much. I ended up doing well in job interviews and in expressing myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So it is in that spirit that I offer this: Peeps...The term is not "LIKE I said." The proper term is "AS I said." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm hearing this term often with professional newscasters. It makes me cringe. Someone used "like I said" on Friday on the Fox News noon show, "Outnumbered."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These are all smart, well-educated women (with one rotating male guest) who have no excuse for not using proper grammar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just to be an equal opportunity grammar snob, I also hear this term constantly on the Today Show on NBC.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thus, my dear friend <a href="http://debrasotherthoughts.blogspot.com/">Debra's very well-written blog is As I See It Now</a> and not Like I See it Now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let me get the following other issues off my chest:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Your - belonging to you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> You're - contraction for you are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. There - at that place</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Their - belonging to them</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> They're - contraction for they are</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. To - preposition indicating direction of motion</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Too - also</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Two - the number after one<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">4. Using the term "I seen" when you mean "I saw."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5. Here - at this place</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Hear - what your ears do</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">6. Using the word "like" as an oral connector for no</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <b><i> So like I went to the store and there weren't any </i></b></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> some guac. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So my Mom was like all up in </span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> my grill and like she said to just </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">like move on </span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i> and like get some clam dip instead. Like, I don't</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i> have needs?</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">7. Here's a favorite: "He don't know any better." Please </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> peeps it is "He doesn't know any better."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">8. Its - belonging to it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It's - contraction for it is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Finally, we need to remember that "apostrophe s" after a word ('s) as in the word pump's above, means "that which belongs to the pump" as in "That pump's notice is grammatically incorrect with poor spelling." Pumps, no apostrophe, means more than one pump.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pumps are not taking debit cards. Please pay inside with your debit card and then pump gas. Credit cards can be used right at the pump. Thank you. We are sorry for any inconvenience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My husband is a great writer with excellent grammar and syntax.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is Bruce's great-grandmother Delphenia "Della,"above but I think she looks like a lot like Laura Ingalls Wilder pictured below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pa Ingalls and John Hurd must have had a lot in common. He must have had that wanderlust like Pa. John, Bruce's second great grandfather, started out in Ohio and ended up in Thedford, Nebraska territory. This was the time when the federal government was encouraging homesteading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As an aside, and in what I think is one of the coolest things EVER, my mother-in-law, Della's granddaughter, grew up in a sod house like the Little House book, "On the Banks of Plum Creek." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Della's daughter Irma taught in a one-room schoolhouse on the prairie, just like Laura. Only Irma supervised recess with a rifle over her lap ready to kill rattlesnakes if need be. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Irma's grandson and my husband, Bruce, teaches Alternative Energy Systems on the college level, among other courses. One topic explored is modern uses of sod houses to conserve energy. It's just in his DNA, I guess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">How peculiar looking is this citrus fruit? The label at Fresh Market said, "Buddha's Hand."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They had a lovely aroma, despite their rather creepy appearance. Buddha's Hand fruit can be used to impart a flavor to sugar and is used in mixed alcoholic drinks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can take part of a Buddha's Hand and add it to vodka, infusing it with a lemony flavor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">According to the Smithsonian, five varieties of Buddha's Hand are cultivated by farmers in China.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Buddha's Hand is definitely the most unusual kind of produce that I've ever seen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Does the ground feel rocky? Do you think you'd do better if only you had: more time, more money, a better place to live, better health, a better job, or a million and one other "if only's?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bloom where you're planted baby!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The "if onlies", notions of future perfection, and lots of money may never come so love your life right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">God uses nature to show us that one may bloom even in the rockiest of environments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So do something today, right now, this minute to improve your situation. Pick a free bouquet of flowers right outside. Pray intensely for someone. Create something, fix something, paint something, DO something to make things better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Send an email to a friend,ride your bike, go to a river or the ocean and let it soothe your soul,take a walk, cook a lovely meal, make your bed, throw out the trash, play with the dog, pull some weeds, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim 6:6</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Talk about the life of Reilly, or Daisy, or Old Bossy...these cows have some fabulous owners who damned up a pool for them, diverting a little nearby stream.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was so beastly hot and there they were, lowing softly and just standing around in the cool water in the later afternoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I almost wanted to jump in too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This old barn with the wonderful texture and rusted implements is beautiful to me. Maybe I am kin to Oscar the Grouch who used to sing, "Oh I love trash. Anything dirty or dingy or dusty. Anything ragged or rotten or rusty."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Well, okay, I don't like anything rotten.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I love this abandoned farm house, which we passed after the cow pool. I don't find such a house spooky or scary. Maybe the house is a bit sad, as it thinks of the lives once sheltered there with only mice, hoot owls, and other furry creatures to keep it company now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I always wonder who was the last person to close the door, to take down the curtains, and to say goodbye. What was the last meal eaten 'round the table? Cornbread and beans? A Sunday chicken dinner with mashed potatoes and sweet corn? Was it during the Depression or during World War II - so hard to say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. I made a pasta salad as I cleaned out the fridge. So tail ends of feta and mozzie cheeses, almost empty bottles of Italian dressing, lemon juice, a quarter of a bag of frozen mixed veggies, half a green pepper, black olives, a couple of ribs of celery, whole wheat elbows bought for under a dollar, some black olives, and leftover chicken all went in. I took a little taste and it is YUM-O. Easiest way to save on food? Use every bit of what you purchase.The Atlantic reports that 50% of all American produce is thrown away. Second easiest way? Cook and eat at home: cheaper, healthier, and more environmentally friendly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. A fellow church member is affiliated with a famous and rather expensive chain of restaurants which uses "clean" foods. This person brings in the bread that will be discarded. I used part of that bread for "Philly Cheese Steak" sandwiches with leftover cooked beef with grilled onions, green peppers, and a few mushrooms. I normally take home several loaves. It pleases me that my church reuses food that would be thrown away in a world with millions of hungry children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. I folded ten ziplock bags I had washed and hung in the laundry room on a multiple skirt hanger. Hence that beautiful pic above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">4. I took a military shower which is both frugal and good environmental practice. For the uninitiated, here's how: Turn the water on and get all wet. This time of year, I don't even use hot water, as it is coming up from the ground lukewarm. Once wet, turn off the water. Scrub yourself. Wash hair. Turn water back on. Rinse off. This practice saves amazing amounts of water. A regular shower uses 60 gallons; a military shower uses 3. You get just as clean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">5. I put a bucket in the bath to catch the running shower water and used for a few flushes. Why pay for something you let run down the drain?</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/03/17/the-incredibly-stupid-way-that-america-wastes-1-trillion-gallons-of-water-each-year/?utm_term=.bea016f5555c"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Washington Post Water Wasted</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I said, "Um do you have a call to make? You're standing on my cell phone."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bruce, who I did not notice come in to the room said,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Yes, I need to call for take out because neither of the two of you have put breakfast in my dish." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is her "Give the dog some food" face.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934367491176096556.post-56164376932318845302017-07-17T04:44:00.000-07:002017-07-17T04:44:58.558-07:00Radium Girls - A Book Review<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Radium Girls is a difficult book to read at times, but completely worthwhile. The author, Kate Moore, researched extensively in writing this book and it shows. I defy you to put it down once you begin reading. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One can barely comprehend the hubris and callousness of an industry which knew its workers were being harmed terribly by industrial materials, but did nothing to protect them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Radium girls worked in factories painting watch faces with radium to make them glow in the dark. The young woman were trained to make a point in the paint brush with their tongues. Around and around they went on each watch face, over and over again, all day long. Each time the paintbrush was dipped, the girls ingested deadly radium.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Early on, companies like the U.S. Radium Corporation did not know that the radium paint was harming these young women. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Radium was first touted as a healthful substance. As unbelievable as it seems today, one could purchase radium toothpaste, radium drinks, radium face cream and other radium-laced products. Yikes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The danger soon became clear, but the companies continued to hire young women and continued to use the radium paint which they knew to be exceptionally dangerous. Companies denied the truth they knew and refused to pay damages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not surprisingly, the problems seen first occurred in the women's mouths. One of the first Radium Girls described in Kate Moore's fascinating and very well written book consulted a dentist. The radium damage was so severe that when the dentist pulled her tooth, her jaw bone came out with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Every woman should read this book which provides an astonishing look at the treatment of females in the work place in the past. Along with abuses of mine, garment, and textile workers, this is a part of our past would should not be forgotten. Do these girls (actually women) receive justice? You'll have to read to find out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To learn more:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/12/28/373510029/saved-by-a-bad-taste-one-of-the-last-radium-girls-dies-at-107">Interview with the last Radium Girl</a></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/radium-girls-kate-moore/515685/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Interview with Kate Moore Author of Radium Girls</span></a><br />
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/Thanks to National Public Radio (NPR) for the historic picture of Radium Girls featured above.<br />
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Thanks to MentalFlosscom for the old radium toothpaste ad.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934367491176096556.post-44611672783177806952017-07-16T14:45:00.001-07:002017-07-16T14:45:34.750-07:00My Cousin Arline Lost in Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gosh but doing ancestral research can get frustrating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is my cousin (3x removed) Arline McCullough Rondeau. I was told that she died very young and that her family loved her dearly. A very nice distant relative on Ancestry.com provided me with her picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can find scant information about her, my great grandmother Ella's cousin. She was a stenographer and then a clerk at The Travelers Insurance Company. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Arline is in the Hartford City Directory records until 1926, still with her maiden name. I recognize the East Hartford homes in the background of this photo and the general area of the city where such houses are located.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Clearly this is Arline's wedding photo when she married Philippe Rondeau. He was a dough boy who served in World War One as a sergeant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I love her flapper era dress and hat and her pensive face looking back at me through the years and years between us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Who were you Arline? Were you mad for love for Philippe and waiting to have a wedding lunch or dinner with your family? Did you enjoy your job at the Travelers? Did you take the street car to work, your smart shoes tapping along the sidewalk as you exited? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Did you make a good New England boiled dinner? Was Charlie Chaplain your favorite movie star? Did you have to give up your job because you married? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When did you die and why are no death records available? Why is there no account of you in any U.S. newspaper? You survived the Great Flu pandemic only to die soon after with your information buried so deep in the records that I cannot find you.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934367491176096556.post-74184256551415919902017-07-15T08:47:00.001-07:002017-07-15T08:47:37.057-07:00NYC Roof Top Cottage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are many amazing things in the City That Never Sleeps. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This adorable cottage looks like many cedar shake clad summer places I saw as a kid at the Connecticut Shore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There's one catch, which you can see on the extreme right-hand side of the picture above. This sweet little cottage is on top of a New York City building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This place is breathtaking. Check out the listing on Apartment Therapy's website below:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Learn more here:</span><br />
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