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Our Daily Thread 6-11-14

Good Morning!

On this day in 1895 Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile. 

In 1910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born. He was the French underwater explorer that invented the Aqua-Lung diving apparatus. 

In 1930 William Beebe dove to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda. He used a diving chamber called a bathysphere.

In 1937 Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a purge of Red Army generals. 

And in 1973, after a ruling by the Justice Department of the State of Pennsylvania, women were licensed to box or wrestle.

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Quote of the Day

“I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.”

Julia Margaret Cameron

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Today is composer Richard Georg Strauss’ birthday.

And it’s Hazel Scott’s too.

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Anyone have a QoD?

129 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-11-14”

  2. oh, my, this is a quiet thread this morning/evening.
    Morning Ann and Aj.
    Getting late here with four days left of Kinder. Pray for creative ideas to keep them occupied and learning.
    Quints are in Brisbane and arrive here on Friday.
    Van has a new battery and is running again.

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  4. Have a good night, Jo. Good morning, Ann, Janice and AJ.

    Hard to know at which volume to set the Strauss video. 😉 Very soft softs and loud louds, and you never know when it’s going to switch from one to the other. (Well, maybe if I had been more familiar with the piece, I would have known, but not knowing was part of the fun!)

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  5. I don’t understand the quote.
    I thought I was going to hear Rhapsody in Blue. But that must have been the name of the movie. I think I saw that when I was a kid.
    Gershwin introduced a new kind of music, called jazz.

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  7. Isn’t it an eagle? (Not wearing my glasses).

    One of my Alaskan outlaws tells about traveling to Washington D C with a group of men to pray. As they stood on the Capitol steps a bald eagle flew around the dome.

    He saw that as God’s amen. 🙂

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  8. Those look similar to the hawks, called kites here, that we have around our playground. They are always looking for leftover food.
    Couldn’t sleep with this itchy rash on my neck. Time to try again. The class will not understand a sleepy teacher.

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  10. 6Arrows, EVERY kid in America does NOT have ADD nor ADHD. They are just kids who need to get out on a playground and burn off all that energy that is wasted on the young. They need to be challenged. They are smart and they are bored.

    SOME kids in America DO have ADD or ADHD. When I read this article I could have been reading about my nephew. There used to be an ad on TV about some sort of miracle mop that you mop up any mess or spill. Nephew poured cooking oil, flour, sugar, milk, and a whole host of other messy things on the kitchen floor, they tried out his mother’s string mop. Obviously it wouldn’t get up the mess. When she found him in the kitchen she was so livid that the only thing she could do was pick him up by his shoulders and plop him down outside. She said if she had laid a hand on him she would have beaten him. His explanation was that he wanted to know if he should get her the miracle mop for Mother’s Day.
    I have experienced him on Ritalin and not on Ritalin. We ALL prefer him to be medicated. His mother tried vitamins, minerals, diet and everything else suggested.

    I taught school for a while. I think some of the drugs the parents took probably has caused some of these problems. I look back on my own school career and was probably ADD. I spent a whole lot of time standing in a corner or standing in the hall. My homework was always a sloppy mess. I have taken Adderol myself. I can focus and get a whole lot done, otherwise my brain drifts. I am an adult and have learned to compensate. It has caused me a lot of problems over the years career wise.

    My final thought on the issue is that if you have tried everything else FIRST and there is still a problem, investigate it further. If you and several professionals feel the child would be better off on medicine than DO IT. If your child were diabetic would you refuse him insulin?

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  11. The thing that stood out to me was the boy’s apparent lack of male role models. He has none in the home, as his mother has a female partner, he likely has few to none at school, as early elementary education is dominated by women (and it is known that the principal, the substitute teacher mentioned, and the psychologist who tried to test him, all of whom found him rude, defiant, obnoxious, etc., are women).

    The one male that is mentioned in the article, the man at the car wash, said of the boy, “‘This kid has the best manners of any kid I know,’ he said. ‘We love him around here.'”

    I’m inclined to believe that a lot of this boy’s acting out is due to a lack of men in his life. He seemed to turn into a different boy, one not ruled by anger and defiance, when he was able to spend time with that man at the car wash. But the rest of his world (and especially his home life) appears to be largely dominated by women.

    Children need both men and women, especially a mother and a father who will invest in them.

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  13. Kim, I completely agree with this: “They are just kids who need to get out on a playground and burn off all that energy that is wasted on the young. They need to be challenged. They are smart and they are bored.” I think you’re right on the mark saying that.

    I should point out I’m not considering this (medicating any of my children — I don’t believe they need it), but found it both an interesting read and also a disturbing one, in a way, being written by a woman with a female partner, describing her son. To me, when God’s design for the family is subverted (a child having two “moms” and no dad, or vice versa), there are going to be issues.

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  14. Sorry, Mumsee, I’m not sure what you mean by “I do”. Do you mean that you do medicate some of your children, or you do have some thoughts on the article, or something else? Forgive me for being dense. 😉

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  15. It’s a falcon of some sort. Peregrine? Beautiful.
    Maybe the quote is from a painter or a photographer who finally got their first digital camera?

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  16. Mothers nurture and protect. They put their wings around their babies and keep them safe. They are the defenders of their precious angles.
    Fathers kick them out of the nest, tell them to fly and be free, to suck it up and deal.

    How is that for tying in all the bird photos with the QOD?

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  17. Only in the cosmic mix up that made me a white woman with a black woman’s body, I also got the gene that tries to make baby birds independent of me. Backfired.

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  21. You asked if anybody had thoughts, I do but wanted to finish fuming first. If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.

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  22. “I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.”

    Julia Margaret Cameron

    Let me “explain” the quote.

    Julia (her name above is a link) was a photographer. Since it was the 1800’s, she didn’t receive her first camera until the age of 48. She longed to capture the beauty of life that she saw with her eyes thru her camera. She spent the rest of her life doing so, and at the end of her life she thought she had fulfilled that wish. Here’s more, from the link above.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Margaret_Cameron

    “Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle; 11 June 1815 – 26 January 1879) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for photographs with Arthurian and other legendary or heroic themes.”

    “In 1863, when Cameron was 48 years old, her daughter gave her a camera as a present, thereby starting her career as a photographer. Within a year, Cameron became a member of the Photographic Societies of London and Scotland. In her photography, Cameron strove to capture beauty. She wrote, “I longed to arrest all the beauty that came before me and at length the longing has been satisfied.”[4]

    Lord Tennyson, her neighbour on the Isle of Wight, often brought friends to see the photographer and her works.

    At the time, photography was a labour-intensive art that also was highly dependent upon crucial timing. Sometimes Cameron was obsessive about her new occupation, with subjects sitting for countless exposures in the blinding light as she laboriously coated, exposed, and processed each wet plate. The results were, in fact, unconventional in their intimacy and their particular visual habit of created blur through both long exposures, where the subject moved and by leaving the lens intentionally out of focus. Other photographers strove for vastly different applications. This led some of her contemporaries to complain and even ridicule the work, but her friends and family were supportive, and she was one of the most prolific and advanced of amateurs in her time. Her enthusiasm for her craft meant that her children and others sometimes tired of her endless photographing, but it also left us with some of the best of records of her children and of the many notable figures of the time who visited her.”

    Make sense now? 🙂

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  23. Makes sense now.
    Notice how the old portraits show a man/woman sitting and looking somber.
    I often wondered the reason, but discovered that it used to take a long time for the exposure and people couldn’t hold a smile that long. It looked, rather, like a grimace.

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  24. Thanks for the backstory on the quote AJ. Photography is truly an amazing development, being able to freeze and capture for posterity everything from the beauty of nature to history itself.

    I’ve overslept and gotta run. I’m faced with writing just the kind of story today that I detest — an internal row going on in a small city government I don’t cover very often (but should probably be covering more). 😦

    I sat through more than 2 hours of video from the last council meeting on my computer at my desk yesterday, bored to tears while taking notes the whole time. Today I need to figure out how to interpret and write it all.

    Crying.

    We have a cooper’s hawk who shows up in our neighborhood this time of year. He flies and cries loudly, going from a tree across the street to a tree or power line just beyond my back fence, so he’s always flying almost directly overhead, yelling the whole time. It lends a nice touch to my evenings on the patio (where lately I’ve been doing more journaling with my Bible).

    But I told Annie it’s a good thing she’s not any smaller than she is.

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  25. At the office today and had the usual meal at the Mexican restaurant. They did not give me extra beans, but the chalupa had enough on it to mix with the rice. It was a good filling meal. Then co-worker stopped at Krispy Kreme doughnuts and bought a box for the office. I had two so I am one stuffed and sleepy office mate today.

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  26. Thanks for clarifying, Mumsee. I was pretty sure that’s what you meant, that you had thoughts on the article, but I second-guessed myself.

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  30. Bosley is happy to have me back at home finally. I did not intend to go to the office today, but husband left something at home that he needed so I carried it to him. We spent some time after lunch trying to get a shingles shot for me. CVS does not give them and Aetna won’t pay for Kroger to give it. So we did running around for nothing.

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  31. Chas @ 11:46- Notice how the old portraits show a man/woman sitting and looking somber.
    I often wondered the reason, but discovered that it used to take a long time for the exposure and people couldn’t hold a smile that long. It looked, rather, like a grimace.

    That is part of it. The exposure time varied depending on ambient light. D3 and I got our picture taken the old fashioned way once at a Civil War reenactment. It was called tin-type. Though the entire process took about 20 minutes for the chemicals to work on the tin, it took only 15 seconds of exposure time because there was a lot of light (daytime/partly cloudy/outdoors). The photographer explained that people didn’t smile in photos because they thought they should be serious and not show emotion. So the somberness is not so much because of how long it took, but the belief in those days that one should not show as much emotion.

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  33. You may remember that this past weekend on Rants & Raves I mentioned that Lee had to go in to see the doctor who prescribed the med he is on for his prostate cancer, & that an office visit costs $545 (I think I said $500 even).

    Well, Lee saw him today. Because Lee explained to him that we self-pay, the doctor did not charge him for the office visit! Praising God!

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  50. I like rain on a metal roof, too, which we now have instead of shingles.

    Won’t there be some surprised East Coasters who have already gone to bed who might wake up and find we might have taken it to 100 again!

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  58. Keeping going in running is a good thing. When I used to run longer distances, I’d head out from home and do pretty well, but when I would turn around to head back, I’d find all kinds of reasons to stop, and start, and stop, and…

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  67. I got the dreaded “You are posting too quickly. Slow down.”

    Do you suppose AJ is hiding behind a curtain saying, “You are posting too quickly. Slow down. The Real AJ has spoken!”

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  80. We had four cats here for a while. Then 2nd Arrow moved out and took Cat #3 with her. Later she took Cat #1. Then #1 died last December, and she took Cat #2, so we were down to only one, Cat #4, which we still have. Then Cat #2 died a couple months ago, and now she has a new cat to keep Cat #3 company.

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  84. Putting beloved pets down is hard. Second Arrow especially grieved when she had to put down Cat #1. Cat #2 died while she was at work one night, which wasn’t easy, either, but she knew it might be coming (it was the night before she was going to have that one put down).

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  102. One of the many pets someone gave us. A large fish in an aquarium. Generally, in aquariums, they tend to be about six inches long, I think, but Hal is closer to fourteen inches. Which is why we never invite the real to our house.

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  107. What happened to night-owl Cheryl? She married a man who isn’t a night owl, and has a hard time staying up till our compromise bedtime of 11:00. So he often gets tucked in and I get back up for a little while, but I try to go to bed before midnight even then.

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  109. That yapamom sure can talk. Glad to see you are ok, six arrows, I was a bit concerned when you disappeared in the cloud of dust.

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  114. You can see I’m not good at multi-tasking, otherwise I could have chatted here and on the phone.

    Congratulations, Yapamom! 😉

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  120. I can’t believe we topped that one right the next day!

    This is where my mom would say, “Talk in the morning, girls!”

    To which my sisters and I would reply, “There’s nothing to talk about in the morning!” 🙂

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  122. Well, hubby just got home from work a few minutes ago, so I’m going to talk to him now, and then head off to bed. Good night, Yapamom.

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  124. But it does sound like a good idea to get off here, so that we can do other nighttime work that needs to be done. Thank you for running with me tonight, 6 Arrows.

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  128. Wow! I am impressed by the runners who jog the blog. I missed all the fun. Maybe I have found the time of evening or morning when everyone is occupied by sleep or day activities.

    One of the office clients told me that people who have cats don’t have blood pressure problems. Well, I don’t know about that. Everytime Bosley messes with the blinds I think she raises my blood pressure. Tonight I taped the wands (that control opening and shutting of the slats) to the window frame. Now I am hearing alternative cat noises in the night. I’m thinking it’s time for some earplugs.

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  129. wow, between leaving for work and coming home, there have been 100 comments!
    Thanks to whoever was praying for me.
    I asked my aide to do PE today, but she wasn’t feeling well. So I took them outside for the last 20 minutes or so. I didn’t have an idea in my head besides maybe run around the lower field. We got to the foot of our stairs and I said, okay, climb that ladder, run across the swinging bridge, climb into the tree house, then come down the spiral staircase, go hand by hand over the jungle gym, run across the large tires and through the tunnel then climb the rope. After that we took over the preschool playground for a while as they go home at noon. The class was so joyful and I rejoiced in the answer to prayer.

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