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Our Daily Thread 3-21-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1788 almost the entire city of New Orleans, LA, was destroyed by fire.

In 1851 the Yosemite Valley was discovered in California.

In 1965 more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began a march from Selma to Montgomery, AL.

And in 1980, on the TV show “Dallas”, J.R. Ewing was shot.

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Quote of the Day

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

C. S. Lewis

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Who has a QoD for us today?

49 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-21-13”

  1. 😦 We had snow in Hendersonville last night.
    Only about half an inch. Schools are on two hour delay.
    It’s 24.1 degrees outside. You wouldn’t think it’s spring.

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  2. I clicked on “Liked” above. What is the significance of that?
    Do I get an “attaboy” or something?
    Off to breakfast, take out the trash and read the paper.
    See you later.

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  3. Good Morning all. I don’t have much to say this morning except that you never know how something you say or do is going to effect someone else.
    I have experienced push back from some of the agents at work. One of the new agents has told me to keep him loaded up. He didnt’ care what the property was, he just wanted to be busy. Tuesday he went and showed a $70K lot on Cotton Bayou that will never be more than a place to park and store a boat in a boathouse that has been “grandfathered” in.
    I was talking to Cal about how refreshing it was for someone to jump right on something even if it wasn’t in the money making price range. Cal suggested I let the agent know so I sent him an email telling him about it and that I appreciated him. A few minutes later I got a reply telling me I couldn’t have known how much he needed that right then and he appreciated me taking the time to tell him. I printed the email off and hung it on my cork board so when I am feeling discouraged I can take a look at it. (My office would be about the size of a modest walk in closet so don’t think I am getting big headed and self important here) 😉

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  8. Out on my deck, I see about two inches of snow. It’s beautiful out there, as long as I don’t have to shovel it. It was slippery going out to take trash and get the paper.

    The big headlines on the sports page are, “HHS’ Rogers prepares to join Greenville Titans”, and “East’s Harris Commits”. Harris will play for Emory and Henry. The front page story is about the annual Hendersonville Egg Standing Contest on Main Street. Seems that the vernal equinox is the only day of the year when an egg will stand on it’s end. Over 100 eggs didn’t tip over.
    I didn’t know that. I still don’t know if it’s true nor why that would be.

    I’m not making fun of it. I love it. So much different from the Washington Post. I do not take The Times-News to learn what Obama is doing in Israel.

    Today, we have ten minutes more of daylight than dark. i.e. Sunrise to sunset is longer. I didn’t think there would be that much difference. I figured a couple of minutes on each side for maybe four more minutes of daylight.

    I still don’t know the significance of “Like”.

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  9. Possible Question of the Day:
    If you live near a college campus, do you ever go to the events they have on campus such as music, art exhibits, museums, literary events, sports events, etc.?

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  10. We live near a number of large universities so there are always events coming up that look like they would be fun to attend if we had the time. We have been to some of the classical music performances, to the Carlos museum at Emory, and to some Shakespeare plays at Ogelthorpe University (they have the Georgia Shakespeare Theater). A number of years back we heard an author speak at Agnes Scott College. If we had the time there would probably be an event every day of the week that we could attend at all the colleges and universities around us.

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  11. QoD: I went to a concert by the Vienna Boys Choir at the York Campus of Penn State last week. (They were wonderful, of course, but sang almost nothing in English and don’t keep boys whose voices have changed so everything pretty much sounded the same; truth be told, I’d much rather listen to the wonderful Maryland State Boychoir; I was also surprised that they don’t travel with an accompianist – the director played the piano and directed at the same time)

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  12. QoD: Janice’s comment reminded me that a couple of years ago I heard Amy Tan speak at Stephenson University. She was fantastic.

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  13. Years ago, a woman told me that universities in small cities provide the culture and entertainment for the city. In large cities, the city provides culture and entertainment for the university.
    It was a long time ago, but I noticed that Purdue had more plays, concerts and such than U. of South Carolina had when I was there.

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  14. Like Linda we have some large universities here and many junior colleges. We attend some sporting events at SDSU, some plays and art shows at UCSD, a debate at USD, a choir festival at Point Loma Nazarene and poetry readings and anything Richard Lederer speaks on–especially adverbs–at the junior colleges.

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  16. This morning on the way to school there was a message from a friend. Her older daughter is in college. Yesterday her boyfriend OD’ed on heroin. This is so sad on so many levels. Please pray for all effected by this. I was telling my coworker about it when I got to work and started crying. I didn’t even know the boy.

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  17. I appreciated the video, since it is something I probably would not ordinarily have seen on my own.

    KimH, that is sad.

    We only have junior colleges near by, but we do take in events at both of them, from time to time. Community plays are done there and we have gone to those with our own children participating or even when no one we ‘know’ is in them. We do have three larger universities just over an hour away. We have gone to events at the one we attended, but we don’t do it often.

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  18. Good morning…Kim, that broke my heart to read about the boy od’ing on drugs…the question of why always hits my brain upon learning of such heartbreaking situation…prayers for your friend’s daughter…I’m certain she is asking the why question as well….
    We live about 45 minutes to an hour away from Colorado College, the Fine Arts Center, the Pikes Peak Center…and we live that far away from downtown Denver….but, we usually choose to stay in the forest….I do attend the Ballet Society performances when my friend’s daughter is performing…and if there is something of particular interest at the event center, I have been known to make the effort to drive into town…but, for the most part…we like the quiet of the forest…no traffic…no crowds…

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  20. The bickering around here. Well, not actually bickering, it is just that the eleven year olds and six and five do not agree. Each one wants to be the one who gets to do the dishes. I have to remember who gets to do them when. Today it is the five year old. She convinced the fifteen year old to leave them all for her to do. I love my life.

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  23. My guess is the children want to do the dishes because Mumsee has a good reward system or perhaps if they don’t do them they get a worse assignment. Mumsee is a smart Mum, see?

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  25. I think Mumsee’s a regular Tom Sawyer when it comes to getting everyone around her to do the dishes, whitewash the fences …

    I picture her sitting at the kitchen table, feet up, taking loud bites out of a crunchy red apple as they all scurry around her with brooms and dishrags and such.

    Or maybe she’s eating a box of bonbons today.

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  26. When we lived near a university I was either an employee or student. We occasionally went to cultural events, but I did go to most of the football games since the university ID card gave one free admission.

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  27. Nice video. We frequently recite the Apostles Creed at church, beginning with the elder’s prompt of “Christians, What do you believe?”

    “I believe … ”

    I was thinking about the weakening of our more contemporary churches in our age and it occurred to me that along with downplaying the regular and frequent observance of the sacraments, churches that virtually abandon (or ignore, at any rate) the ancient creeds and confessions is a factor.

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  28. Kim, your story so reminds me of something from my college days that I do not talk about much. When I went to Georgia Southern I knew few people, but there was one friend from high school (and elementary school) who was in my dorm. We did not really hang out in the same circles. I mostly got to know country girls through my roommate who was from a small town nearby. I also dated some of the people she introduced me to. My friend got in with a different group. Unlike my group, some of her friends were doing drugs. Sometimes she would come to my dorm room after a date on the weekend. Our college was a suitcase college meaning those who did not live far from school would go home on the weekend so my roommate was gone. My friend would come into my room to wind down by talking while she came down from her high from whatever. One night she came in and said her boyfriend who was dealing drugs wanted her to try heroin. She was smoking a cigarette when she told me that. My immediate response was to say “No!” About that time an ash came off of her cigarette and floated in the air. It was curled up in the form of a hook. I said, “What is that?” And she said something like, “It looks like a hook. I think my dead grandfather is trying to tell me something.” She moved backward away from it and it floated in the air current toward her, and she caught it in her hand and it dissolved. I still do not know if she did try it. I use to get chills when I would tell that occurance to anyone. It seemed so unreal. Unfortunately a few years after college graduation and a divorce that friend did commit suicide.

    I am sorry that you are suffering along with all the others over this bad thing that has happened. It is a tragedy what drugs can do to the ones involved with them and to their loved ones who watch all the devastation.

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  30. Around here it’s Lafayette and Lehigh. Both are pretty liberal so about the only thing worth going to either for is sports. It is the oldest running rivalry in college football. Plus Lafayette is pretty good at basketball, and has been to the NCAA tournament a few times. But that’s about all.

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  32. Does taking your daughter out to lunch on “Parents’ Day” at her college count? Otherwise we haven’t attended any college events, though my husband loves to watch IU basketball on TV, and my in-laws were thrilled to meet Cody Zeller and shake his hand when they were on campus for some reason a few months ago.

    Just got back from a trip down South (Tennessee and Alabama) where I was amazed to find spring had barely begun (daffodils are in bloom, a month later than I begin to look for them, and tulip trees and a few others are blossoming–I expected to see those things anywhere between Valentine’s Day and March 1; in my eight years living down there, only once was it mid-March before they came out)–so what does that mean for how long we will have to wait for spring?! There are snowflakes in the air now. . . .

    But it was very nice to get down there, to see friends and also see my sister’s family (whom I haven’t seen since my wedding). Got to see cormorants and wild pelicans, and also saw courting turkeys–all of those new experiences. And was reminded why Alabama and Kentucky are both on my list of “worst drivers in the nation,” but the horn works and we survived.

    But life continues to be super busy, with several projects to work on, so I still won’t be around here much for the next couple of months.

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  33. They just opened the fantastic Green Music Hall at Sonoma State. We’ve yet to go but friends have told us how wonderful it is.

    It should be. It may bankrupt the school . . .

    We almost scored tickets last weekend but there’s hope for the future. It’s only been open a couple months.

    When I was in college, my roommate and I used to talk about how fun it would be to attend all the events, but we never had time because of all our schoolwork! 🙂

    Funny how life gets.

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  36. Squirrel. Oh yes. How real-to-life was that scene? 🙂 Great animated film. They have a whole section of Disneyland’s California Adventure set up paying homage to parts of that movie.

    Just got back from my teeth cleaning, feels good — and I vowed again to do better at flossing. “Yeah,” the tooth cleaning fairy lady wielding sharp pointy instruments said. “I’ve heard that before.”

    She was telling me that she and her husband (who recently retired from his position as manager of one of our large local pharmacies in town) got a call the other day from their medicare supplement insurance to let them know the cost was set to jump in April — and some things would no longer be covered; a result of the national health care apparently.

    She also told me their nephew, an attorney, is working on the Lindsay Lohan defense team.

    And she and her husband get 3 days of free gym use under some medicare plan.

    “mfg, Mmmmm, uh-huh” I mumbled periodically, drooling.

    You get to listen to a lot of stories when you’re getting your teeth cleaned. But you can’t say too much back.

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  40. Just popping in to let everyone know I haven’t been banned…yet.

    AJ, nice video today, but, hey, IT’S J.S. BACH’S BIRTHDAY!!

    Now I’m going to get banned for yelling at the blog owner. 😉

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  42. BTW, AJ, I am serious about that video you put up today. It’s more than nice; it was very moving, and seeing the children in it brought me to tears.

    Lovely choice of music. Truly. 🙂

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  43. Second Arrow will be back again tomorrow for part of the day. She’s on spring break this week and was here from Sunday night through Tuesday morning, but had to work later Tuesday, and Wednesday and Thursday (in her city of residence while in college a couple hours away). She’s got the day off tomorrow, and is visiting a former coworker in the morning, and will be here in the afternoon, then will head back out as she has to be back at work Saturday at 6:00 a.m.

    Hard to keep up with that girl!

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  44. Hubby’s sinus and ear infections are improved some, and he plans to go back to work tomorrow. Thanks to all of you who have been praying.

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  46. Hmm, I am still here. After my TIA a week ago, I saw a substitute doctor today.

    After I got a warning, I am still on WV. If I were a bad person, I would say that it is hard for me to tell the difference between “insulting God,” and “burning a Koran,” but I would never say such a thing. God might strike me with a full stroke instead of a tiny stroke as he did on the Ides of March. I’ve told everyone I know to call 911 if I am acting weirdly (as there is a three hour of window of opportunity) when they can perhaps save what little remains of my quickly deteriorating brain. However, as I have been acting weirdly all my life, there is little hope. I am reminded of Dorothy Parker’s joke about “silent” Calvin Coolidge.

    “Coolidge is dead,” someone told Parker.

    “How can they tell,” she quipped.

    I guess you had to be there. Anyone here know, without looking it up (I had to) when Coolidge cooled forever?

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  47. I think mumsee would probably like this. Posted tonight by a friend on FB:

    “You know your kid is goofy when during his classroom’s oral presentation on the state of Idaho he chants out, ‘I say Ida’ and then when he points to the class they respond in unison, ‘Ho!’

    ” … His teacher said this chant went on for about 20 seconds.

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