Good Morning!
It’s finally Friday! 🙂
On this day in 1859 the Philadelphia Athletics were formally organized to play the game of Town Ball.
In 1884 Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patented “flaked cereal.”
In 1889 devastation struck Johnstown, PA. More than 2,200 people died after the South Fork Dam collapsed.
In 1913 the 17th Amendment went into effect. It provided for popular election of Senators.
In 1929 in Beverly, MA, the first U.S. born reindeer were born.
In 1962 Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel for his actions in the Nazi Holocaust.
In 1970 an earthquake in Peru killed tens of thousands of people.
And in 1974 Israel and Syria signed an agreement on the Golan Heights.
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Quote of the Day
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
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Sometimes the music choice is really easy, like today. 🙂
It’s Mr. Bach’s birthday, so here’s the Cello Song, with 7 more cellos. 🙂 From ThePianoGuys
It’s also Johnny Paycheck’s.
And also, Peter Yarrow, from this trio.
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Anyone have a QoD for us?
Wandering Views 
I am a relative-of-a-relative of the Kelloggs. They are an interesting bunch of people.
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Country music lost part of it’s soul when they got rid of steel guitars.
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Today might me a music share dat. I thought of this as a good example of a country song. It will supply the emotion…you supply the tears.
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Welcome to Friday, it is almost over here. On to Saturday….
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Good morning everyone.
It’s Friday! You know what that means?
It means that if you have something that needs to get done in May, you’d better get to it.
6 Arrows said yesterday that I said “ouch” when she stepped on my toe. I don’t remember the event, but I still have a sore toe.
I have a rant & rave for tomorrow, if I don’t forget it.
For me, it’s the sameol for today, Y already and lions later.
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I personally would like to see the repeal of the 17th amendment and once again have Senators chosen by the State Legislatures.
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Testing
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It works!
You can’t have country without a steel guitar. You can have bluegrass, but not country.
Yes, bluegrass is country, but in another genre.
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Since we are reminiscing over country music, I thought I would share this video of my favorite song from Charlie Pride. ( He’s part Choctaw Indian, don’t you know. )
http://youtu.be/zTkFlGRo9M4
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Yesterday I held Oswald Chambers’ Bible and leafed through it, looking at his meticulously written notes.
I played my fingers across the keys of the typewriter on which Mu Utmost for His Highest was written.
Today, I’ll be reading through the files. The pictures nearly did me in yesterday (I took 400 photos of items with my IPad). An awe-filled opportunity I am so very thankful and honored to have.
Ciao.
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I agree, Drivesguy. Anymore, popular election reminds me of school class elections- they have turned into popularity contests.
And since it’s Friday, here are your funnies. Someone else may need to do the honors for the next week or two, as I might not have computer access.
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Bote to Karen O- If you are interested in meeting up with Mrs L and I while we are in your area, we’ll be staying at the Altnaveigh Inn in Storrs. You could probably leave me a message under my user name, as there are only two guest rooms and I doubt someone else named “Peter L” would be there at the same time. It looks like Friday or Saturday we’ll be free.
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I agree that popular elections anymore produce disappointment. But I’m not sure I’d trust our politicians to elect other politicians. ??? 😉
michelle, what a great experience, I saw the photo of Oswald’s Bible with handwritten notes in it that you posted on FB yesterday.
Yep, tomorrow is June. I was thinking this morning that the year is still young. But then it dawned on me that it’s actually almost halfway over.
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That picture of Obama standing in the rain with the Marine corporal holding the umberalla has become a characature of Obama.
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I think Obama hasn’t a clue. I used to think the was not dumb, but evil. Now I’m beginning to think he’s both. He’s a good campaigner, that’s all.
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My family got to meet Charley Pride, but I am sure I have over told that story. 😉 He seems like a really nice man.
My husband used to sing “Country Bumpkin”, but he sings less today and plays his fiddle more. I miss the singing.
At the last show ‘jam’ I attended, there was both a steel guitar and a dobro and they were played one right after another. I would have preferred the steel guitar featured on some songs and the dobro on others. The proper term for dobro would be resonator guitar, I guess, since this one is not an official Dobro. I hear this one played about once a week. The musician is very good, as is the steel guitar player, but I do not find them easy to listen to one right after another. It creates a dissonance I don’t care for.
Country music pretty much isn’t ‘country’ anymore, at any rate.
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As far as elections go, we have so many ignorant people who will vote by the 20 sound bites or on who ‘gives’ them more. It does not bode well for the future, but as a Christian, I believe there is always hope.
I talked to a woman yesterday who has pretty much gambled all her money away. She knows she will need to live in subsidized housing soon. She complained that the rooms in one place are way too small for her. She will get claustrophobia. Then she complained of another subsidized place, because it has mostly families. Families mean children and children are noisy. Children should never live in apartments, according to this woman. The government should build homes for anyone with children, because otherwise they bother the residents without children. Did I mention that the first thing she complained about was that she has to pay to much in taxes and she has no idea why ‘they’ should need so much money. This was also a woman who did not know it was a presidential election year in the October before the election!
She also complained about the subsidized apartment of the man who was with her. His kitchen had way too little storage. He simply could not fit in all the food stuffs he gets from the food shelf. He complained they give him too many vegetables. On and on the complaint went. This man has not worked from his twenties and is now in his sixties. He has never lacked for health care or his basic needs in all that time. Yet, ‘they’ never do enough or good enough for either or these people.
If it were not for the Lord, I would have no hope. I meet way too many people like this.
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If you try to point out the common sense of personal responsibility to these people you become their focus of complaint 😉
Wow, Michelle, can you give us a note or two?
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Everybody needs to read 6 Arrows post toward the end of yesterday. Wow! So sweet. So touching. So how it is. Blessings to all here and thanks again, AJ, the real one!
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Yes, happy blog anniversary 6 arrows! And I’m also glad Jo managed to track us down. And AJ, you’re a prince of a lifeboat captain. We made it to our very own far-away island without capsizing.
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She complained…She also complained…He complained…
Sounds like a real happy couple-NOT! Some people are just not content unless they are complaining. 😦
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Country music:
This is the essence of country music.
If you wonder what Country is, this is it.
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Enjoying all the music here today. 🙂
Chas @ 08:34:32 “6 Arrows said yesterday that I said “ouch” when she stepped on my toe. I don’t remember the event, but I still have a sore toe.” LOL! Sorry about that toe…I have big feet. 😉
Janice @ 11:23:09 Thanks for your kind words. I second-guess just about everything I write — I’m always afraid I might be saying something stupid, or offending someone somewhere…you know, stepping on toes. 😉 Chas is good about letting me know when I have 😆
Donna: Thanks for the anniversary wishes 🙂
Jo: Happy Saturday! 🙂
And about the Friday funnies (thank you, Peter, BTW): I think my favorite was the “Scandalabra” on the grand piano. (Of course!) 🙂
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My post looks like it should have been on Rants and Raves. But I’ll probably not get to R&R this weekend, as we have two graduations to go to tomorrow (one fairly far away) and a wedding on Sunday (also a fair distance from us).
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Yes, Peter L, complaining is in all the verses and the chorus is all about how ‘they’ should do something. It takes a lot of prayer to resist singing along. It puts me in mind of the Israelites in the desert.
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I checked out from the library yesterday what looks to be a very interesting read: What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster, by Jonathan V. Last, senior writer at the Weekly Standard. From the dust jacket notes:
“Look around you and think for a minute: Is America too crowded?
For years, we have been warned about the looming danger of overpopulation: people jostling for space on a planet that’s busting at the seams and running out of oil and food and land and everything else.
It’s all bunk. The “population bomb” never exploded. Instead, statistics from around the world make clear that since the 1970s, we’ve been facing exactly the opposite problem: people are having too few babies…”
It goes on to say how the world’s population will peak and then start to shrink before the end of the century; how it’s already begun in some countries (in Japan there are more adult diapers purchased than baby diapers, and in Italy there are already more deaths than births every year, for example); how this trend toward population implosion is coming to America, too, and is, in fact, already here in a way, with some middle-class Americans having their own, informal one-child policy these days. If it weren’t for immigration over the last 30 or so years, the U.S. would be on the verge of shrinking, also.
Here’s a short video with the author asking, “How did we wind up in a place where no first-world nation is able to replace itself?”
A brief but interesting look…
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The rains have come. It has been dry and sunny up until this evening. At sunset the wind blew dark clouds in and everything took on a dark red hue. After dark, I walked from one building to another under a dome of sky that was lit all around with flashes of silent lightening. It was eerie. Just now, the rain started, and never has rain come down harder in my experience. Our roof is only corrugate metal lined by thin foil insulation, and the noise is deafening. It literally makes my ears ring.
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Yesterday I stood in the Special Collections Reading Room at Wheaton College and leafed through Oswald Chambers’ Bible. I struggled to wrap my brain around holding the VERY book that has changed my life by its influences on the thinking and teaching of Chambers 100 years ago.
Tears in my eyes.
Today, Archivist Keith Call handed me a letter from Madeleine L’Engle’s correspondence.
I held in my hands a letter I wrote her when I was 21.
Madeleine had saved my letter, along with a copy of her response.
Tears.
In a life rich with experiences, gifts and blessings, I don’t know where to put my emotions today.
I’ll be blogging about it all soon.
Thanks, Keith; thanks, Madeleine; all thanks be to God.
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Wow Michelle! She saved YOUR letter! All I have ever done is read her books. It was kept in her collection. Are you going to share with us what your wrote to her and her response?
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Wow, Michelle what a special experience. To view a collection that you are a part of. Two of my daughters went to Wheaton and I made sure that all of the kids went with me to see C. S. Lewis’ wardrobe
Thanks 6 arrows, I am having a restful Saturday. Need to get over to school later and get organized for the last 11 days.
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So, Michelle, why are you in the Chicago area?
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Return of the tornadoes in Oklahoma:
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