Sharing is not something that comes naturally to human beings, so I want to commend my grandchildren for their graciousness in sharing their colds with Granddad. I now realize that yucky feeling that was creeping over me Monday night was a harbinger of things to come.Cold notwithstanding, I installed the first of the two stained glass windows today. I brought home the frame I made on-site yesterday so I could paint it this morning, and then went over this afternoon to attach the window to the frame and the frame to the railing. I meant to take my camera along but forgot. It really does look pretty sharp in that location and she's thrilled.
I think I'm her new BFF. She told me today she was going to miss me when we got all the projects done.
When I was a teen, Mad Magazine was a must-read, and also disallowed at my house. I remember reading issues from time to time but I don't remember where I got them. Probably from my older brother. He was a real radical.
One of the key features of every issue was the fold-over. My friend Sherry sent me this link that presents some of the best fold-overs from years gone by. They're presented as Flash Media so you can do the fold-over using your mouse.
God's creative work is amazing in its beauty. But one wonders what he was thinking when he got to this one:
Sorry if this post is link heavy, but I found this one and will be going back. I'm NOT old enough to remember radio shows, but this site has all of the original radio episodes of Dragnet. At the top of the page you'll see a link chain that will allow you to work backwards and listen to other vintage radio shows, including Amos and Andy.Dragnet
I decided a long time ago that parting shots are cheap shots. So I've tried to resist the temptation to "vent" at the end of a relationship, whether it was personal or professional. An exit interview is one thing, and even then words must be chosen carefully and the word "constructive" should govern what's said. When breakups happen, emotions almost always run deep and strong. But IMHO the urge to express even justified anger has more to do with selfish motives like revenge that with anything consistent with edification.
I don't know the man, but I'm guessing former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has a different perspective on things.
As a lead-in to Sunday's Foundations lesson we talked about the meaning of words. Some are general and some are what's called "technical terms." For example, "pole" is a broad term referring to any tall and generally cylindrical object. "Mast" is a technical term describing a pole designed or intended to support a sail.
Consider the difference between "box" and "coffin" as another example of the difference.
One of the issues now before our country is the meaning of the word "marriage." Is it a broad, general term describing the union between two individuals? Or is it a technical term restricted to an exclusive relationship between one man and one woman?
Two events serve to bring this question to the fore. One is the recent decision by the California Supreme Court to overturn the referendum that defined marriage in that narrow sense. The other is the practices of the FLDS sect in Texas.
What's interesting is that in the case of CA, the proponents of gay marriage argue that the term should be given its broader definition. The members of the FLDS have taken a more nuanced approach. They've carefully avoided using the word marriage for any of the unions after the first one between a male member and subsequent "wives." They figure if they don't call the relationship between a man and woman number three a "marriage" then it can't be illegal.
Words are important and need to be used with care. It's not just a matter of grammar, it can be an issue of right and wrong.
Virtually every child who died in China's earthquake was an only child. Most of those children died in school buildings that collapsed. Not surprisingly, parents, whose shock has turned to anger, are beginning to direct that anger toward the government, that they hold responsible for restricting them to one child and allowing shoddy construction of those schools.
Maybe you've read that the Chinese have, for centuries, considered earthquakes a harbinger of change in governmental leadership. Mao's death roughly coincided with a major earthquake.
If there are governmental changes this earthquake could indeed play a major role.
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