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Our Daily Thread 11-22-14

Good Morning!

Welcome to the weekend! 🙂

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On this day in 1718 English pirate Edward Teach (a.k.a. “Blackbeard”) was killed during a battle off the coast of North Carolina. 

In 1910 Arthur F. Knight patented a steel shaft to replace wood shafts in golf clubs. 

In 1942, during World War II, the Battle of Stalingrad began. 

And in 1963 President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, TX. Texas Governor John B. Connally was also seriously wounded.

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Quote of the Day

“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

John F. Kennedy

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 Today is Wilhelm Friedemann Bach’s birthday.

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Anyone have a QoD?

28 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-22-14”

  5. She has me all stretched out now cleaning up for all her family and ours getting ready for the annual Christmas dinner here next Saturday.
    There is a rim around the living room that hasn’t been dusted since last year.
    I’m sure none on you relate to that.

    It is also an opportunity to decide what is and what isn’t junk.

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  6. I slept in until almost 9 this morning. I feel so rested …

    I’ll have to check out the rants and raves, glad you remembered your rant you’d alluded to a few days ago, Chas. Sometimes we wind up forgetting them!

    The Thanksgiving story I’m having to write is on cultivating more year-round gratitude. So I’m trying also for some personal application as I research, interview & write. 🙂

    But I seem to still have a few rants bubbling up in me.

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  9. OK. The maternal grandmother, Oma, sent me the details. ERH arrived at 11:52PM last night weighing in at a whopping 9lb 10oz. All are doing well. Happy Thanksgving!

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  10. Emelia Rose- Such an old-fashioned, Southern-sounding name. I like some of the old names like Emelia. I also like some of the modern, creative names, but not the tendency to use last names for girls like Madison or McKenzie. Taylor is another one, since it is used for both boys and girls.

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  11. Unfortunately, she’ll probably spend her life spelling her first name. I know from personal experience. 😦

    Take a look at the Ann Voskamp book, One Thousand Gifts, Donna, or read a little about it. Voskamp has a widely popular blog that is all about giving thanks. Or at least it used to be.

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  12. Just in from the Kids Korner ministry operated in conjunction with our twice a month food basket. We gave out turkeys today and 80 bags of food. 25 children colored pictures, ate crackers, drank juice and some heard me read Eric Metaxas’ Squanto and Thanksgiving.

    What I found interesting, just interesting nothing more, is that out of 25 kids 10 and under, 21 of them were boys.

    We’ll have eight children at Thanksgiving: six girls and two boys. I just think the unbalance is curious.

    Writing day. My husband had a brilliant idea for me to incorporate . . . if I get many more brilliant ideas I’m not sure I’ll ever finish!

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  13. Elvera has gone through life spelling her name. They still mispronounce it (Elvira). They remember the song. A guy at church used to call her “Elvira” intentionally when the song came out.

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  14. I went to school with a girl whose last name was Reagan. This was in the 1970s and her family called it Ree-gen. I suspect by now some of them have given up and accepted Ray-gun.

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  15. michelle, I already ‘found’ her — and when I ordered the book on Kindle I was informed by Amazon that I already had it. sheesh. Must have ordered it a year ago but never downloaded it.

    anyway, am now looking at her blog & FB page as well, may try to connect with her for a phone interview (as well as others from a more secular perspective). If I can’t connect with her, will still use her in the article & hyperlink to her site.

    Also found a rabbi & Muslim site on gratitude

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  20. And for a head shake of despair:

    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/11/is-there-any-hope-for-our-civilization.php

    ” … [UCLA], which trumpets its ‘social-justice’ mission at every opportunity, is a cauldron of simmering racial tensions. Students specializing in ‘critical race theory’—an intellectually vacuous import from law schools—play the race card incessantly against their fellow students and their professors, leading to an atmosphere of nervous self-censorship. Foreign students are particularly shell-shocked by the school’s climate. ‘The Asians are just terrified,’ says a recent graduate. ‘They walk into this hyper-racialized environment and have no idea what’s going on. Their attitude in class is: ‘I don’t want to talk. Please don’t make me talk!’”

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  21. Our preacher said that every Sunday morning, he asks himself two questions.
    * Do i believe what I’m going to preach?
    * Do the people need to hear this?

    I have asked myself the last question recently when teaching the class. “Do those guys need to hear this?” Sometimes, the answer is “no.” It makes it difficult to prepare a lesson. I never had that problem in Virginia where I was teaching young guys with careers and families.

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  22. When I was at UCLA in the dark age, not long after Angela Davis left, the Daily Bruin was marched on by a group of Latino teaching assistants. They burned a Daily Bruin in front of our office and we were evacuated. It’s a real shame . . .

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