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Our Daily Thread 11-26-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1716 the first lion to be exhibited in America went on display in Boston, MA. 

In 1789  President Washington set aside this day to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.

In 1922, in Egypt, Howard Carter peered into the tomb of King Tutankhamen.

In 1940 the Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto.

In 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. In 1939 Roosevelt had signed a bill that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November.

In 1943 the HMT Rohna was sunk by a guided missile. The German missile attack led to the death of 1,015 U.S. troops.

And in 1973 Rose Mary Woods told a federal court that she was responsible for the 18-1/2 minute gap in a key Watergate tape.  Woods was President Nixon’s personal secretary.

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Quote of the Day

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” 🙂

Charles M. Schulz

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Today is Michael Omartian’s birthday. I must confess ignorance here, I had no idea who he was. I must say, it’s certainly a unique style. 🙂

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Today would be Robert Gerard Goulet’s birthday.

The man can sing. His wife Vera Goulet has a channel devoted to his music if you’re interested.

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And I thought about playing this last week on the anniversary of it’s debut, but I didn’t because today was his birthday. Also, I figured I’d save it until this week because it reminds me of Thanksgiving even though it’s a Halloween special. 🙂

From PeanutsOnLine

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Anyone have a QoD for us today?

40 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-26-13”

  1. Charles Schulz understood those of us who live over here!!! Nice quote
    Feeling very full of pumpkin pie as we had a Thanksgiving potluck tonight. Lots of torrential rain in the last day. The covered walkway between my classroom (and preschool and grade 1) and the office/rest of the school has flooded and filled with mud a couple of times. I walk very carefully through the mud and water. Also the sinkhole on the playground that we had repaired, reappeared today.

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  2. I always associate Goulet with Camelot. Timely given all the focus on JFK this week.

    Morning of rain and chill here. Put some trash out this morning and was glad to be able to come back in a warm house. It’s a day to remember the homeless, hungry and cold.

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  5. Time for bed in Ukarumpa.
    Finished doing all the monthly transfers for the English Service offering. A very generous group here.
    Good Night All from those of us close to Australia, the day has gone well.

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  6. We’re expecting it later this morning Chas. Yay.

    Jo,

    I’m making 2 more pumpkin pies today. 🙂

    Janice,

    I thought of using something from Camelot for that reason, but I like the other too. 🙂
    so here ya’ go.

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  7. We will be out on the slick roads in a little while. At least traffic will be light with many people off work. Yesterday around 8 a.m. we went to Sam’s Club before going to work. We were surprised that traffic in that direction was as light as on a Sunday go to church morn.

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  8. The Kid is claiming he wants to Homeschool. I honestly believe he wouldn’t like it. I’ve explained to him that it doesn’t mean staying home and watching TV. I’d do it before sending him to public school. They we are zoned for is awful.

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  9. Janice,

    I can’t speak for homeschooling Moms, but this homeschooling Dad doesn’t want a pity party. He just wishes some people would keep their uninformed and ugly comments to themselves. 😯

    But ignorance is bliss, and apparently it makes them say stupid stuff too. 🙂

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  10. If you hadn’t heard of Micheal Omartian, you obviously did not listen to Christian contemporary music in its early days. Those were the days of The 2nd Chapter of Acts, Chuck Girard, Phil Keaggy, the various Maranatha bands. The days when, at the religious radio station where I worked, we could not play any music with electric guitars until after 10:00PM when all the little old ladies went to bed and wouldn’t be listening.

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  12. Karen, I don’t know if I will get back until much later today. I wasn’t trying to be un-Christian like in my response to you last night. The book I recommended to you was recommended to me by a Christian Therapist and is written by Christian authors and based on the Bible.

    There just comes a time when someone continues to hurt you that you have to detach from that person. I liken it to slamming your hand in a door over and over and over,
    I have shared some of the hurts I have had. I tend to try to laugh my way through the pain. Today, I choose happiness and I choose to hold some people at a distance.

    I hope this makes sense to you.

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  14. Peter,

    Before my time.

    Janice,

    Yes, her husband.

    And to be clear, my comment on homeschooling wasn’t referring to the situation mentioned yesterday. I recently had a similar experience with someone who was clueless about it, yet still managed to have what she considered an informed opinion on the matter. I set her straight though. 😉

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  15. People seem to fall into the love or hate opinion about homeschool. And even some homeschoolers who have a lot going for them can be judgemental about others who are going through suffering times.

    I was wondering if homeschool dads get the same grief as the moms.

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  16. Yep. We do. 😦

    What I’ve discovered though is that most are just parroting the talking points of Dems and public school educators. The woman who made the comments to me (mostly the lack of proper socialization argument) just repeated what she’d heard. After she met my daughter and talked with her, she seemed to come around. She thought my daughter seemed very mature for her age (she is) and saw that she got along fine with other kids.

    When we discussed, along with her husband, all the stuff kids learn at school that parents wish they didn’t, she saw clearly part of the reason we chose to homeschool. Most are ignorant of the homeschool groups and resources in the area as well. I think we changed her opinion on the matter. All she needed was someone she knew to use as an actual example, rather than just a made up strawman that only exists in the mind of anti-homeschoolers. Reality tends to do that to people with an open mind.

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  17. Perceptions about home schooling reminds me of the opening snippet of that 2004 movie “Mean Girls” — the main character (Lindsay Lohan) had to transfer into a public high school after her archeologist parents homeschooled her while traveling the world. I actually winced when I saw it, but it’s probably how some people still view home schooling.

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  19. Spent time last night (for a story) at the new donated Catholic Worker dinner spot in town — it’s a small space but it’s warm and indoors and the food is freshly prepared (they used to serve dinner outdoors at one of the local parks). Last night the place was packed with homeless men and women. Their shopping carts and bikes, piled high with all their belongings, sat just outside the door. Such a hard road out there for so many people. 😦

    On another note I was awake from about 2:30-4:30, read the Bible (Romans and Mark) and listened to all those strange sounds coming up from the working port which runs 24 hours, ships arriving and leaving, being unloaded. Some of the sounds are almost musical and I always find myself wondering exactly what’s making those particular sounds. …

    And the harbor sea lions have been quite active lately as well, barking away. 🙂

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  25. I was wondering if homeschool dads get the same grief as the moms.

    Yes, especially when the dad is a public school teacher. My brother-in-law, my brother and I have all had our detractors on the job. In fact, I part of the reason I didn’t get one job was because I homeschooled.

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  27. Husband was hired by a nearby school district as the technology director. They knew he homeschooled his children and hoped he would change his mind. He saw the state of the school and chose to continue to homeschool. He brought in a million dollars (that is a huge amount to that school district) and got computers all over the school and he lost his job because he did not value education. Hmmm, all four bio children got a minimum of a four year degree, most of the adopted children get proficient on their yearly ps testing…. I can see how they get that. Not.

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  28. In my school-teaching years (mid-80’s to early-90’s), there were children attending two of the three schools where I worked who had previously been homeschooled. Two teachers in particular spoke with disdain about those children and their previous schooling. Petty things like they don’t know how to line up like the other children do. Or they’re cocky when they get an answer right, etc. (No, they weren’t; they had a confidence about them that a lot of other students lacked, but they didn’t flaunt it like these teachers suggested. I was the music teacher and had every elementary student every year in all those schools, so I know.) In one of those families of former homeschoolers, the children’s dad taught at the school. That didn’t stop the detractors, as Peter L pointed out above.

    I’ll have to say, though, that all of my former colleagues with whom I have spoken about my now being a homeschooling mom have been very positive and encouraging to me about it. I’m sure there are some others who do not approve, or wouldn’t if they knew, but I don’t really care. I don’t answer to them.

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  29. I am so glad that I did not have to homeschool my children. Not that I think homeschooling is bad, I know many children who were homeschooled and are the nicest people (and well educated to boot). I had horrible PMS when the kids were younger and it would not have been good for them to be home. I am so thankful for the Christians teachers who taught for low, low wages as they deemed it a mission to children. My kids turned out great and my friends’ homeschooled kids are turning out great as well. I admire greatly all those who are able to homeschool their children.

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  30. And I am so glad I was blessed to live where I could homeschool my children and was able to do so. In fact, I am glad that the states sending us children were able to see beyond their own rules and make exception so our last three were not required to go, but it was an option. It was definitely something that slowed the bonding process (irreparably in one case) so it was nice to not have to go through that.

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  31. Kim – Yes, that made sense to me. Although I am very sad about them pretty much cutting me out of their lives, I must admit that I am glad we won’t be seeing them for Thanksgiving. SIL’s comment coming soon after Niece blocking me on Facebook has me feeling that I don’t want to even see them.

    You know what’s nuts? If we got together, I would feel a sense of shame, knowing that they look down on me & think poorly of some of my values. I know I have nothing to be ashamed of, but I know that’s how I would feel if I saw them.

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  36. Donna, those maps were hilarious. I laughed till I cried. Boy, did the Midwest ever get butchered! Or maybe I’m just more sensitive to that. 😉

    AJ, great avatar! You and your wife make a very nice-looking couple. 🙂

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  40. For those who shop amazon, their “Black Friday” sale is 30% off a book (up to a $10 discount). Use BOOKDEAL in the space for gift cards and codes. I just finished my Christmas shopping!

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