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Our Daily Thread 9-26-14

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

Today’s header photo is from Cheryl.

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On this day in 1777 Philadelphia was occupied by British troops.

In 1918, during World War I, the Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began. It was the final Allied offensive on the western front. 

In 1955 the New York Stock Exchange suffered its worst decline since 1929 when the word was released concerning U.S. President Eisenhower’s heart attack. 

In 1964 “Gilligan’s Island” premiered on CBS-TV. 

And in 1969 “The Brady Bunch” series premiered on ABC-TV. 

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Quote of the Day

“Home is where one starts from.”

T. S. Eliot

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 Today is George Gershwin’s birthday. From Erik Reischl, who I believe is the gentleman on piano.

And it’s also Marty Robbins’.

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Anyone have a QoD?

52 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-26-14”

  1. Good morning from Atlanta!

    The dinner fundraiser last night was great! Everyone at our table had a wonderful time except for when one lady choked on her food and the lady beside her knew how to do the Heimlech (sp?) to expel what caused the problem. Just added a little somerhing extra to the evening. The evening was about spiritual lives saved and we saw how quickly something can happen in the physical realm that adds to the urgency of being spiritually saved.

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  4. Now the new photo is up. We are doing the food chain. Yesterday, cats that would eat birds, and today bird eating flower seed pod. Tomorrow the ground swallows up fallen seed which will produce the plants that feed the birds that feed the cats. And the cycle goes on…

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  5. Plus, I’m a little behind this morning because I stayed up late watching sports. First Derek Jeter’s final home game, which was a 😦 and 🙂 at the same time.

    And I kept flipping to another channel where I got to watch the Giants beat up on the Redskins. 🙂

    It was a good night for NY sports fans. 🙂

    Sorry Linda. 🙂 But at least you guys are goin’ to the playoffs. 😦

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  10. Good morning, Janice! I posted on yesterday’s thread around 4:30 my time (I think). My MIL was admitted to the hospital yesterday with pneumonia. While I was at hospital with her, Becca came down with the vomit virus. Connie is also quite sick with an upper respiratory infection, though she valiantly watched Becca for me yesterday, anyway. MIL was so weak, she fell out of bed Wednesday night, cut her arm on the nightstand, and couldn’t get up. Her friend found her at 7:30 and took her to ER. I met them there. Doctors are concerned about a spot on her lung. There is a strong possibility the cancer has now metastasized to her lung. She cannot have anymore radiation, due to previous treatments. As most of you know, she was diagnosed with melanoma that had metastasized to the brain about three years ago. Her best friend said she’s been exhibiting signs the tumors have grown again. Hubby will have a chance to speak with oncologist tonight. Please pray for her and for my husband, Scott. He lost his Dad to the same disease ten years ago this Thanksgiving. It’s hard.

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  11. I got up this morning and dragged myself to work. I couldn’t take another day of lolling about. I told my boss I am here as long as it lasts.
    I have a wonderful CD of music by the young woman you recently died of cancer. She gives her story of her battle with cancer and the peace she has even though she knows she will be leaving her husband and two young children behind. When I figure out how to upload music to YouTube I will share it with you. Simply Beautiful.

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  12. AJ, some are suggesting the pitch was a “gimme.” May or may not be true, but either way, I have to admit it was a cool ending. And if it was, great – it was a gracious thing to do.

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  13. From Julie Andrews and the sound of music in the Austrian alps, my daughter and friend have plunged, probably right now, into the Dachau Concentration Camp:

    “The atmosphere is very unsettling,solemn and odd. I feel like I’m on edge being here. It was so serene and quiet in this little town, that it is hard to believe the mass deaths that occurred just around the corner. The people are almost too friendly and helpful around here. It was odd being at the Palace grounds; they were so beautiful and yet such ugly crimes happened just a few kilometers to the west.

    ” If we were anywhere else I would call this town cute, but it has an odd feeling to it. The dreary weather certainly isn’t helping matters. It drizzled off and on earlier this afternoon and made staying inside with a hot cup of tea much more appealing. Pray for us as we embark into the Concentration Detention Center tomorrow.”

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  14. Anon @ 10:18
    The same thing is happening, in different forms, elsewhere in the world.
    It’s an evil world out there.
    I am thankful that I was born in America.
    Lots of our young folks don’t understand that, I’m afraid.

    In America, the main issue seems to be cyber bullying.
    We have to have something to campaign against.
    That and global warming.

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  15. Anyone who has spent time watching birds would recognize how amazing it is that two birds could be on the same small flower with neither of them getting pecked. These are young goldfinches, and goldfinches are flocking birds. (Their “personal space” is less than for other birds.) But this is still amazingly close, and I was surprised. I suspect it’s because they’re young, possibly siblings. It seems to take a while for birds to pick up on the idea that they can chase other birds away. The bird at right was on the next flower, but then flew to this one. I got several shots before it flew away to a different flower, but there was no animosity between the two while they were both on it.

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  16. Chas, and sometimes I think our very affluence and relative security has produced a weakness in our collective and individual character, at least in the post WWII generations. We’ve (generally) been protected in the west from so much of the world’s turmoil, disease and intense poverty.

    I fostered an interesting back-and-forth discussion about global warming on FB last week, based on an article I posted here as well. There are definitely some “true believers” who really bristle at the very notion that some of the projections may be overstated.

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  18. Hey, I asked the other day but didn’t get any answers. Does anyone know what the flower in my gravatar is? I saw a lot of them in a field outside our hotel in Grand Rapids last week, nearly all of them blooming in a circle as shown here. (A few specimens only had small numbers of flowers, two or three, and those were of course not in a circle. But 90% of them were in a circle.) I’m googling it but can’t find even a hint of what it might be. It could be an escaped cultivated flower, but is probably a wildflower.

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  19. Linda,

    Of course they are. There are always Yankee haters spouting some nonsense or other. In their weak minds did Robertson intentionally blow a 3 run lead in the 9th as part of the conspiracy too? 😆

    And I’d ask them if the first at bat was a “gimmie’ too, because Jeter accounted for the first 2 runs as well.

    And if I were an O’s fan, I’d be insulted if someone suggested my team and closer would throw a game like that. especially when they’re fighting for home field advantage throughout the playoffs.

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  22. Mumsee’s being coy? Imagine that.

    Annms, lots going on with you, prayers — and cheryl, how’s your family status, I recall you had several issues you all were dealing with at once.

    I had a strange and somehow disturbing conversation yesterday with a fellow reporter in the newsroom, it stemmed from a call we’d gotten from one of our communities regarding problems with coyotes (which seems to be a growing concern).

    When I expressed sympathy for residents dealing with the animals, my colleague said something to the effect that it’s all the problem of humans, if only they would stop breeding (and he was really dead serious). Then another reporter chimed in, offering agreement with him, saying the world is simply overpopulated with people and that was the root of every problem.

    So interesting when I hear those kinds of views seriously put forth — if only it weren’t for people, the planet would be such a wonderful place.

    🙄 🙄

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  24. Donna, thanks for asking. My father-in-law is back home, and they’ve done some tweaks that should result in greater health and safety. My girls’ other grandfather died early yesterday morning. He has been in poor condition for several years, so the girls don’t really know him well.

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  25. Donna, the irony of the “humans are overbreeding” argument is that it is at odds with the “survival of the fittest” doctrine they say they believe. Hey, we’re at the top of the food chain, so we should be able to breed all we want, even if it hurts everyone else, right? 🙄

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  27. Chas said, “It’s Friday! You know what that means?” Yes, Chas. It means it’s the day forthe funnies. Or, as last week, the “not-so-funnies”.

    Anyone remember how I got started posting a link to the WORLD Magazine political cartoons? I think it’s because one of the former moderators at the old site stopped doing so, and other people couldn’t figure out how to find them. So I started posting the link as a convenience, then some expected me to do it. Oh, well. About the only time I am missed are the days I either forget or am too busy to post them. Unless it’s football season.

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  28. Has anybody seen Peter L lately?

    Sorry, Donna, I was out walking a couple of my dogs. We went about three miles this morning.

    Cheryl, I suggested Trapper’s Tea.

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  30. Thanks, Mumsee. The flowers look similar, but it looks like trapper’s tea is more of a shrub. (I only showed the flower head, so it’s hard to tell, but the plant just grew individually like annual wildflowers.)

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  33. That is an excellent QOD. What exactly is the real charging you for participating on this site? Or are you one of the folk he pays for your contributions?

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  34. Thanks for the Gershwin! He loved clarinets and wrote one of the UCLA fight songs. He’s very popular at my house! 🙂

    Dachau was the worst place I’d ever visited until I went to Budapest’s House of Terror. Here’s a post I wrote about the experience: http://michelleule.com/2011/04/15/travelers-tales-budapests-house-of-terror/

    The first shock I got was when I picked up the camera to take a photo of the building outside. It has two large black canopies sticking out of the top. I didn’t think much of it until I looked through the view finder and discovered the holes in the canopy formed letters spelling out a black shadow on the building: TERROR.

    I was so startled I nearly dropped the camera.

    If good ‘ol Rick Steves hadn’t told me it was a place not to be missed, I would have skipped it.

    Once through, I sat in the cafeteria and sobbed. Absolutely grueling emotionally.

    We’ll see what Carolyn says about Dachau when she gets home tomorrow night.

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  35. The problem with the rpopulation?
    I read somewhere that the population of the world during the time of the Roman Empire was about 200 million. That’s when 90% of the people were slaves of some sort.

    Peter’s stipend for the football pool is twice that of the Friday Funnies.
    But he gives it all the Democratic Senatorial campaign.
    Except for the portion that goes to the winner of the pool.
    😉

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  38. I said all the money you get from the football pool.
    I give them all the money I get for working for the Lions.
    And I’ll pledge all my lottery winnings.
    (I need to be careful, I may find a ticket somewhere.)

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  40. Wishing that I could take you all with me this morning as I fly out to Kar Kar island, just north of Madang, for a Bible dedication. It will also include audibibles and a free phone app that lets you hear the verse being read while it is highlighted on your phone’s screen. I will return this afternoon. Flying in a Kodiak.

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  47. Is Cameron the one who is married to the APC pastor?. I think I remember them.
    I think the girl lived. Is she still OK?

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  52. Chas, yes, that’s her. And her little girl is adorable. I hadn’t seen where she was expecting twins, that is such great news.

    I love seeing Tess, Cowboy — and Annie the cat all in the backyard at the same time, just hanging out in their own little spaces.

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