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Our Daily Thread 6-17-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1775 the British took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.

In 1837 Charles Goodyear received his first patent.

In 1856 the Republican Party opened its first national convention in Philadelphia.

In 1872 George M. Hoover began selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas. The town had been dry up until this point.

In 1876 General George Crook’s command was attacked and defeated on the Rosebud River by 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Crazy Horse.

In 1885 the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.

In 1928 Amelia Earhart began the flight that made her the  first woman to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

In 1950 Dr. Richard H. Lawler performed the first kidney transplant in a 45-minute operation in Chicago, IL.

And in 1963 the U.S. Supreme Court banned the required reading of the Lord’s prayer and Bible in public schools.

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Quote of the Day

“I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.”

Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky

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Stravinsky had a point. 🙂

It’s also the birthday of one of my favorites. Here’s just one of his #1’s. And this one was written by former Beach Boy Bruce Johnston.

If you need a lounge singer, Barry’s the man. 🙂

We’ll let Eric Clapton introduce the next one. It’s this guy’s birthday too.

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Anyone have a QoD?

47 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-17-13”

  1. about time y’all arrived on Monday. It has been a very long day as it’s our last full day of kinder. I have been printing pictures to give the kids tomorrow. Took some cute class pictures today, but with nineteen kids there is someone doing something in each one. Oh, well

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  2. What are some funny sayings you know/use/or rember from childhood and what do they mean?

    I’ve about had a lipful of____ I’ve had enough and am going to do something about it..
    Lay in the cut. Wait for someone to make a mistake or take satisfaction when something happens to him.
    Pick up your marbles and go home.

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  3. The last one, about marbles, is the only one I’ve heard.
    “Fish or cut bait is one I’ve heard.” There’s an obscene version of that.
    “ants in your pants: is another.
    Everyone seems slow getting started. That isn’t an old saying.

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  4. Old sayings: When my friends and I were learning to drive stick shift, of course we would grind the gears. My friend’s dad would say: “Grind me a pound!”

    “If it’s good for the goose it’s good for the gander.”

    “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.” (I had to have that one explained to me when I was older.)

    Back to giving cave tours today. Hope I’m in good shape as I am scheduled for the longer cave, which means walking four miles total for the day. We went for a 3.5 mile hike the other day, so at least I’m not totally unprepared.

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  5. my dad had so many sayings: Daylight in the swamp. which is how he woke us in the morning. We ended up giving him t-shirts with all his sayings and hung them around the house at the get together when he died.
    Time for sleep so I will be ready for the last day. Good night all.

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  6. Good Morning!
    “hotter than a flitter” “shoot fire and indigo” “go red up the table” “get your butt in a sling” “I’m so dry I could spit cotton”…..yep…I come from an interesting bunch! 🙂

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  7. But you’re okay, right? 🙂

    9 people at our house now, though Stargazer is decamping to an astro-physics conference in Australia this afternoon. Cooking, cleaning, laundry, baby rocking, box packing, kid chasing, oh, and I do have a book to write . . .

    Two men working for their international companies at opposite ends of the house (on different internet streams!), one student preparing for Thursday’s MCAT and the rest of us are headed to VBS. I’m going to work after that.

    Craziness incarnate–I’ve loaded and unloaded the dishwasher on average 3 times a day over the weekend–and I’m a lot more sympathetic to Karen O!

    And I have a lot more things to pray about every morning/evening when I’m not sleeping. 🙂

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  9. And if all of that isn’t enough, there’s the auxiliary stuff (including final galley edits due this morning on The Gold Rush Christmas), which on Saturday morning started with an hour-long Skype call to encourage H in Sicily (more on that story when it transpires. Please pray for her), and ended at nearly midnight with an hour-long FB chat with a long lost friend whose son/daughter is a transgendered lesbian about to have surgery.

    That was tricky.

    And gave me more to pray for. This is the second person I’ve known to go from male to female–both young men in their late 20s. I’m not sure what to think beyond the obvious: we all need to be loved for who we are, not what we are and our task as Christians is to remember Jesus loves us all. Oswald Chambers this morning reminded me we let the judging go to God. In fact he said it beautifully at http://www.utmost.org:

    Judge not, that you be not judged —Matthew 7:1

    Jesus’ instructions with regard to judging others is very simply put; He says, “Don’t.” The average Christian is the most piercingly critical individual known. Criticism is one of the ordinary activities of people, but in the spiritual realm nothing is accomplished by it. The effect of criticism is the dividing up of the strengths of the one being criticized. The Holy Spirit is the only one in the proper position to criticize, and He alone is able to show what is wrong without hurting and wounding. It is impossible to enter into fellowship with God when you are in a critical mood. Criticism serves to make you harsh, vindictive, and cruel, and leaves you with the soothing and flattering idea that you are somehow superior to others. Jesus says that as His disciple you should cultivate a temperament that is never critical. This will not happen quickly but must be developed over a span of time. You must constantly beware of anything that causes you to think of yourself as a superior person.

    There is no escaping the penetrating search of my life by Jesus. If I see the little speck in your eye, it means that I have a plank of timber in my own (see Matthew 7:3-5). Every wrong thing that I see in you, God finds in me. Every time I judge, I condemn myself (see Romans 2:17-24). Stop having a measuring stick for other people. There is always at least one more fact, which we know nothing about, in every person’s situation. The first thing God does is to give us a thorough spiritual cleaning. After that, there is no possibility of pride remaining in us. I have never met a person I could despair of, or lose all hope for, after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

    I’m off! The car needs to be smogged, too! 🙂

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  11. I’m sure you’ve all heard “Back to the salt mines” or “Another day, another dollar.” (I’m guessing the latter probably was originally “…another dime.”)

    Mom always said “Home again, home again, jiggedy jig” when we’d arrive home from being out for a while.

    When I was a little girl, my dad & I had a bedtime routine. As he was leaving my room, he’d say “See you in the morning!” My line back to him was “Thanks for the warning!”

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  13. One of our la tv news helicopter jockeys recently announced he would “become” a woman.

    We live in a very confused generation. 😦 And since the confusion is now receiving society’s general assent, I think we can probably expect for the confusion to rise, affecting more and more families.

    I’m off to a news conference at the port today announcing details of a new marine research center to be built on the waterfront. It’ll probably be one of the last official appearances in our area of the outgoing la mayor.

    Port guy emailed some of the details to me in advance just a little while ago, so I’m trying to write up what I can in advance.

    I remember my dad always saying “It’s 6 of one, half a dozen of another.” Or this: “It’s better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.” 🙂

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  15. QoD:
    “Take it with a grain of salt.” Don’t take it seriously.

    “I’m not swallowing it.” I don’t believe it.

    “He/she drives like Jehu.” II Kings 9:20 “The driving is like the driving of Jehu… for he drives furiously.”

    “So, the band played and the mouse ran down the bunghole.” The conversation just went nowhere.

    “Off to your flea box.” Go to bed. It was my maternal grandfather’s saying and my mother once used it in front of her mother-in-law, who was horrified as she didn’t think it polite to mention vermin.

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  16. Ha, roscuro reminded me of another one of ours — “Don’t let the bedbugs bite.” I never knew what “bed bugs” were, but my parents grew up in a time when they did.

    Of course, it’s not so quaint-sounding anymore, with the recent resurgence of bed bug outbreaks! 😮

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  17. Our bedtime ritual was to kiss Mom and Dad goodnight, then say “good night sleep tight don’t let the bed bugs bite”….sounds awful nowadays now doesn’t it!? And you better believe those beds were given a thorough going over when we stayed at the hotel during evacuation…I also read reviews before checking in…all checked out ok…”clean as a whistle”…now where did that phrase come from?! We are getting some rain storms right now…even a tad bit of hail…the lightening makes me nervous..but, so far…it’s all good….

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  18. We say, “Good night” give them a kiss, and then “I love you, say good night to Jesus, don’t bite the bed bugs.” The female eleven year old always tells me how many bugs she bit the night before.

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  19. 🙂

    We don’t mention bugs here. My daughter isn’t a fan. Doing so at bedtime would be counter-productive. But she is called Doodle Bug by me all the time, and doesn’t seem to mind. Go figure.

    Hey “Go Figure” is one right? 🙂
    And NancyJill’s “It’s all Good” is too. 🙂

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  20. One home where I babysat had a tradition I thought I’d steal for my own children someday: When I kissed the little boy good night, he said, “Now rub it in . . . now the other side . . . now rub it in.” It seemed so sweet to “rub in” a kiss!

    My husband uses certain phrases but imitating the voice of the person (actor, artist, etc.) with whom he associates the term. The one that comes to mind is “There’s more than half a dozen ways to skin a cat.”

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  21. Good night,
    Sleep tight,
    Don’t let the bed bugs bite
    But is they do
    Beat ’em with a shoe
    ‘Til they’re black and blue

    Describing someone as “mealy-mouthed” meaning various things from they are a suck up to any number of other bad things.

    Then you should always remember that a dog that will bring a bone will tote a bone…don’t trust a gossip

    You could just tell someone how the cow ate the cabbage and give them a real tongue lashing.

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  22. Here’s a bird that swore at me for several minutes while I took his photo. I’ve always wanted a good photo of a mockingbird (one of my very favorite birds), and my sister’s yard had a lot of them. We woke every morning to birdsong. My sister doesn’t have internet, and so every couple days we took the laptop to a McDonald’s, and bought hot-fudge sundaes for ourselves and whichever child had come with us, and checked our e-mail.

    One day we drove around the building because there wasn’t a parking space in the shade on our first pass. I saw that the back of the McDonald’s was heavily wooded, and thought ah, prime mockingbird territory! We didn’t have any nephews with us, so while my husband did some research (trying to find a new lawn tractor for my sister’s acreage), I excused myself to look for mockingbirds with my camera. And this fellow obliged. Only, instead of singing for me, or flying and letting me see his beautiful flight, he swore at me. This was the only “angry” photo I got, but he did alarm calls for several minutes, so I think he must have had a nest in the shrubbery below. Notice that his “third eyelid” is closed, so you can’t see his amber eyes all that well–the sort of detail I’ve never gotten in my bird photos before. (Hopefully the “detail” will show up on this small reproduction, or at least if you click on it to see a larger image.)

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  25. QoD: It’s always fun until someone gets hurt – then it’s a hockey game!

    Kim’s sleep tight poem was used in our home as well only it was “if they do, paint your shoe black and blue”

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  30. Give ’em an in inch and they’ll take a mile.
    It ain’t over till the fat lady sings.

    I’m sure there are lots more, but I can’t think of them right now.

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  31. “If you don’t stop doing that, I’m going to rip your arm off & beat you with the bloody end!” My mom.

    I must have been a good kid, because I still have both my arms. I have no idea where she got such a gruesome threat from, but I knew she was “kidding”. (But I obeyed pretty quick anyway!)

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  32. AJ, cool Stravinsky video with the score of the music. Whoo whee, following along on the fast movements was quite the experience! Who needs coffee when you can have a Stravinsky score flying at the speed of sound. 🙂

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  37. Sometimes when I mess up what I’m trying to say, & one of my girls or my hubby corrects me, instead of “I meant to say that!” I say, “I demented to say that!”

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  38. My siblings and I would ride our bikes on our grandparents’ blacktop driveway (unlike ours, which was crushed rock). We loved to raise our hands in the air and call out, “Look! No hands!” To which Grandpa would respond, “Look no hands, look no teeth!” 😀

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  41. “The hurrieder I go, the behinder I get.”

    6 arrows, that reminded me of a wall plaque my aunt had hanging in her kitchen with that saying on it. I thought it was so funny (I used to go to their place for lunch sometimes as my elementary school was across the street from where they lived).

    🙂

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  42. I always thought that was a funny one, too, Donna. 🙂

    My grandparents who lived in town had their phone on a small writing desk, and next to the phone I remember there was a notepad with a little humorous line something like, “Six months ago I didn’t even know how to spel collidge student. Now I are one!” 😀

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  43. As an addendum to my post @ 22:16:33, I should say that my siblings and I all have all our teeth. 😉 (And the baby ones didn’t get knocked out prematurely!)

    And that reminds me that my grandma next door would always say, “I should say so,” when something happened that could be expected. 🙂

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  45. I can hear my mom saying about now, “Talk in the morning, girls.”

    To which I’ll just give what was our standard reply: “There’s nothing to talk about in the morning!”

    Ah, well, might as well go to sleep anyway; I’m just talking to myself. 😉

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