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Our Daily Thread 5-20-15

Good Morning!

On this day in 1830 the fountain pen was patented by H.D. Hyde.

In 1861, during the American Civil War, the capital of the Confederacy was moved from Montgomery, AL, to Richmond, VA.

In 1916 Norman Rockwell’s first cover on “The Saturday Evening Post” appeared.

And in 1961 a white mob attacked the Freedom Riders in Montgomery, AL.

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Quote of the Day

“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.”

John Burroughs

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Today is Vic Ames’ birthday.

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Anyone have a QoD?

40 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-20-15”

  4. Donna: 🙂
    I have this policy, I heard from someone, “Never give your credit card number over the phone unless you have originated the call”. I observe this even when I know it’s legit. Like when the USC Alumni assn. calls. I still have them send out a letter.

    What’s a “slug-a-bed”?
    In Virginia, I always thought a cardinal against the snow was pretty. I don’t see it much here.

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  5. Chas, that is a term my mom used to use, for people who were lazy and staying in bed too long. I guess instead of punching a time clock, they were still punching their pillow.

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  6. Any word on the MRI Mumsee?

    Cheryl, yesterday, mentioned that two white guys in a “Black History” course changed the atmosphere in the class.
    I may have told you this before, but I was mentioning to Katie, one of my co-workers, that a bunch of guys might be talking. When a woman, any woman, comes in, it changes the conversation. Even if it isn’t vulgar, it changes things.
    Katie said it’s the same with women. A man joint the group and “it upgrades the conversation”.
    I suppose a transgendered person could fit into any group.
    Or maybe none.

    We have some black ladies in our SS department. A black man is a deacon. But most blacks prefer Main Street Baptist Church. I don’t know how many white people go there.

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  8. MRI’s are both done. We may get results today or tomorrow. Still no word on the seven vials of blood, perhaps we will hear on them as well soon.

    We did receive a phone call yesterday to let us know we needed to be in Boise yesterday for the presurgery appt but as it is not easy to get seven children situated in four hours for the next forty eight hours, we got the appt changed until next week.

    Speaking of our next door babysitter, from the time they called the ambulance until she returned home with a stent in place was sixteen hours. Kind of amazing. She plans to be back to helping out today, even more amazing. But we might not let her get too involved. We were planning on her to watch the thirteen year old again for the ten days we would be gone for the second surgery. I don’t know what we are doing now.

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  9. Slug-a-bed is here! So what’s up, everybody??

    I see that Christmas is coming! Yay.

    Chas, I have caller ID on my landline (which I hardly ever use anyway) so I don’t even answer calls that aren’t from a friend (and most of the calls on that phone now are “marketing” types). They rarely leave messages but when they do I quickly just erase them without listening as I run through them every few days or so.

    My cell is now my main # pretty much, especially since the reception has improved inside my house over the past few years.

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  10. We had LinkedIn training yesterday at work. I’m on LinkedIn but always just thought of it as a job posting site that I might need someday. But apparently journalists can hunt down sources & story ideas there, so the training focused a lot on how to do that. They also gave us a free, one-year “premium” account upgrade for attending.

    I have to get to the lens crafters today, my glasses are whacky and every time I drop them the left lens pops out — which I then can’t really get put back in just right. My world’s all catywampus.

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  11. (still drinking coffee)

    I read recently where cancer has overtaken heart disease as the leading cause of death now in the U.S. But I think a lot of that is probably due to our advances in treating heart problems when (and even before) they happen. Amazing. Glad to hear mumsee’s neighbor is back in swing so quickly.

    Takes a breath.

    OK, going to get more coffee now …

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  12. Chas, I don’t know that I would say the presence of one man “upgrades” the conversation. It is true that men (no average) talk about deeper subjects than women (on average). But men have plenty of conversations about trivial things like sports. I personally was raised by a mom who disliked small talk (and so I never learned to do it well) and with a family full of brothers who like to debate and discuss deep subjects and who don’t like sports. So if the conversation ends up being about sports or music or movies, I’ll edge out of it, but if it’s on theology or literature, I’m likely to stay in. We have one daughter with whom my husband talks about movies, one with whom he talks about sports, and with both conversations at about the five-minute mark I quietly leave the room and go find something more useful. But one of those daughters also eagerly talks about theology, and the other one willingly does so.

    So the conversations I most enjoy are deeper than those that men hold (on average), and thus I can’t say I’ve had the experience that when a man comes along the conversation deepens. In my own personal experience, I can talk deeply with one woman or sometimes with two women, but a group of women is unlikely to be deep. But I can also talk deeply in a mixed group, and I can’t think of any conversation more enjoyable than a mixed group of five to eight people who know each other well and can comfortably talk on anything from casual stuff to deep stuff. I experienced that weekly in Nashville (prayer meeting) and I miss it, though I have experienced it some here.

    That’s one of the greatest pleasures of attending a PCA church–that many of the women will be educated in theology and interested in it, and the overall conversation level is far more interesting. And the mixed conversations, the women are likely to be bringing up theology, and are very welcome to do so. It’s one reason I think it’s rather odd that our reputation is “anti-woman.” In reality, in no other mixed-sex setting have I ever felt as welcome as in a group in a PCA church.

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  14. Donna- I’m on LinkedIn, but only use it for the Spanish teacher groups.

    Speaking of teaching: 🎇🎇🎇🎇 Only 5 more days of school!!!!! 🎇🎇🎇🎇

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  15. Refilled.

    Small talk anyone!!?

    But I love theology, too!

    I had unusual dreams last night about my former dogs, so vivid. …

    Our summer intern started this week — she grew up in one of our beach cities but now attends Georgetown — so we’re thrilled to have the added help in the newsroom. I’m amazed, though, that young people are still majoring in journalism.

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  17. Although, Donna, I do wonder how often you’re dropping these glasses, why you are doing so, and whether additional coffee will make the issue better or worse.

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  23. Cheryl, 11:09 — “I can’t think of any conversation more enjoyable than a mixed group of five to eight people who know each other well and can comfortably talk on anything from casual stuff to deep stuff.”

    That’s why I love being in my friend’s Sunday morning ladies Bible study. There are about half a dozen of us, sometimes a little more, and we talk about so many things (well, and study the Bible, of course, too). 🙂 I missed being in the group when I was going to a different Bible study (the one for 7th graders and their parents, from September to May, and the next year, when they were 8th graders). Fourth Arrow (8th grade) is confirmed now, so that student/parent study is finished, and I am happy to be back in my friend’s study. So much smaller and more intimate, and we don’t adopt a timeline for getting through the study. I’m glad we don’t, as we are free to dig into other related parts of scripture, without the sense of having to hurry up and cover a certain amount of material in a certain length of time.

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  25. Kim walked into a 7:45 meeting AT 7:45, then she sat in on accountability and marketing with a commercial agent. (This guy really just wants someone to do the work for him and let him collect the commission). I told Guy afterward he may as well have gone outside and talked to a tree. I put together some marketing flyers and several other things then Guy, Junior, and I went to lunch. I just finished up writing a commercial land listing agreement and finding 7500 to 20000Sf of warehouse space. Guy left the office and I had a moment to pop in and check on all of you.
    Oh! I have also tried to hunt down the contact at a bank who just foreclosed on a hotel.

    I really should go to Gulf Shores and “knock on doors” to lease a retail center we have listed, but it looks like I am not going to make it again today.

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  26. Well, I forgot to switch from yesterday’s Our Daily Thread to today’s, so I will copy the comments I made this morning over there to here. 🙂

    ~~~Yesterday, a couple people mentioned that Heidi looks like a happy dog. I forgot to mention that that was Heidi’s mellow face. When she’s happy or excited, her eyes are open wider, & her ears perk up some.

    Happy or mellow, she is a cutie, & a sweetie. And she is so patient with Forrest.~~~

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  27. And…

    ~~~ 😦 Hate to see or hear fellow believers being unloving & rude. A friend of ours (in real life & on Facebook) had posted something about people not obeying God’s laws, so they also won’t obey man’s laws, & mentioned something about illegal immigrants. His “friend” asked, “What did God say about illegal immigrants? Are they allowed in heaven?”

    Our friend rudely began his reply with, “Wow are you a fool!” I cringed when I read that.~~~

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  28. Now I see he deleted that comment & wrote something else. That’s good, but I wonder how many people saw the first one. Although the second one is better, it still is kind of prickly. He tends to be that way.

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  29. Not to start another end times thread, but thoughts on this?

    http://www.christianpost.com/news/anne-graham-lotz-return-of-jesus-in-the-rapture-will-occur-during-my-lifetime-139361/

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    In continuing with a warning she gave last week on her website that God will soon unleash his judgment upon America, Billy Graham’s 66-year-old daughter, Anne Graham Lotz, further clarified on Wednesday that biblical signs are indicating that the rapture will occur during her lifetime.

    Lotz, who turns 67 on Thursday, previously proclaimed by citing the book of Joel that God’s judgement upon America is “going to be ugly.” In a Wednesday Interview with CBN News, she explained that all the signs that the book of Joel points out as “birth pains” directly preceding the Day of the Lord have come to fruition.
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  30. The Bible clearly states that Jesus will return like a thief in the night—all the predictions in the world cannot make it so.
    Live like it is happening this afternoon and don’t worry about it otherwise. The early Christians (first generation) thought he was returning in their lifetimes. The “Shakers” believed he was returning in their lifetimes.

    This is the sort of stuff that scared the be jeebers out of me when I was a child.

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  31. I have never seen Dave Letterman.
    I have never seen Jay Leno.
    I have never seen Johnny Carson.
    j reckon I’m just out of it.
    Have I missed anything? I have seen clips on other shows. I never thought I missed something.

    I have a deck on the back of my house. It’s about 24 feet off the ground.
    I have a rain gutter over part of it that is attached to the house.
    I have a metal hook that is about two feet long hanging from the rain gutter.
    I also have an extension, about six incher, of twisted clothes hanger that fits the opening.
    The opening is the place where the humming bird feeder hangs.
    I have a humming bird feeder that has sugar water it in.
    How those black ants can find that concoction is beyond me.

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  32. 6 Arrows, the one element that sounds like it is “missing” in your Bible study is that it isn’t a mixed-gender group. Now, I’m not one of those women who says I’d rather talk to men than to women, but if I’m going to be in a group of people, give me a mixed group any day. I’m sure there exists a group of women who can go deep, but I’ve never been in a group of women who goes as deep as a mixed group. (Though I’ve been in one-on-one conversations with several women whose conversation does so.)

    Kim, did you see I answered your question late on yesterday’s thread?

    Jesus’ return “in our lifetime”: After Dad died, Mom expressed surprise at his death, because he looked forward to the rapture so much, she was sure he would be in it. (He died nearly 31 years ago.) Dad once said rather decisively, “You kids may die, but you won’t die of old age.” Well, my oldest brother is now about five years younger than Dad lived to be, so . . . you gotta think back to the apostle writing “we who are alive and remain . . .” We’re supposed to think, “It might be today.” We’re not supposed to say, “It will be in this time period.”

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  33. We should not be advertising the timing of the return of Christ. No one knows. The important section of the dissertation of Matthew 24 is the parables at the end, in Ch. 24 & 25. That is “WATCH”
    A had a pastor in Indiana, who was about my age now. He was looking for the imminent return of Christ. “No pain of death, no suffering. Just the glorious promise.” Christ didn’t return daring his lifetime.
    My father was looking for the return of Christ. He died before it happened.
    A lady who taught Revelation for the ladies in FBCH was looking for the imminent return of Christ. “Before we finish this lesson” He hasn’t come yet.

    But when the time of reckoning comes for those people, they will discover that they were doing the right thing. That is, Living as if they had to answer to the Lord before this day ends.

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  36. Cheryl, I rarely have opportunity for mixed-group conversation (face-to-face, that is) except in some Bible studies I’ve been in at church, which have been fairly large groups, maybe 25-50 people. My husband rarely has time for socializing, so most of the social opportunities I have are among women only, so I can’t really compare the depth of conversation in a small group of women versus a small mixed group. All I know is that we’ve gone much deeper in groups of women under, say, 10 or 12 present at most, than in larger mixed-group settings.

    We do, of course, have a mixed-group setting right here on the blog, and sometimes have some deep discussions, as you know, with both women and men participating. I enjoy that, but I don’t have anything like that in my local world. really, other than large-group mixed Bible studies, which tend to be dominated by the extroverts. (At least I think they are. Maybe there are some introverts speaking up in those settings, but I know, as an introvert, I am more uncomfortable speaking up in a group [verbally] than I am “speaking up” [in writing], like I do here.)

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  37. Happy mama, Stargazer has decided he can just as easily apply for work from our guest room as from the hot desert of New Mexico. One of my chicks will be back the end of June.

    Just in time. I’ve got yard work someone needs to do . . . 🙂

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  39. Two couples from our church, friends of ours, have been doing a once-a-week, in-home Bible study for many years now. At least I think they still are. They invited my husband and me to join them at one point, but since they meet on a weekday evening, and hubby works second shift, that doesn’t work for us. It does sound like they have some very deep, beneficial discussions. I think I would enjoy being a part of a small, mixed group like that, but I wouldn’t go by myself. If it met at a time hubby could attend, I would strongly consider asking him if he’d like to go.

    I have an idea a small, mixed group (especially those particular friends) wouldn’t be as likely as some of the women’s groups I’ve been a part of to stray off-topic. 😉 It’s sometimes a little too easy to start yakkity-yakking about peripheral issues. 🙂

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  40. No piano lessons next week. (I take off two weeks in the spring, around Easter and Memorial Day.) That means it is 13 days from now until the students begin to return.

    My piano studio, otherwise known as my living room, will tomorrow get TRASHED!! 😯

    I’ve been waiting for an extended period of time with no one coming to the house (that I know of) when I can throw myself wholeheartedly into the next phase of following the KonMari method — tackling the books. The living room is really about the only open area where I can take all our books and categorize them by Keep, Toss, or Give, then sort the keepers and get them organized well enough that it is easy to find those valuable gems that bring us joy. (As well as items that are useful for our home education, which volumes would also, hopefully, give us joy.) 🙂

    I’m hoping we’ll be able to get those books off the living room floor in much less than 13 days! 😛 And, yeah, I know, you’re wondering why they all have to go on the floor. Because it’s never worked for me to just pull them off the shelf, or out of storage tubs, or out from under beds, and decide, one by one, keep it, throw it, or give it away. I give up way before I’m done. I think seeing that big mess on the floor will motivate me to get the job done, and since I won’t want to take the time to put everything back, it will be much easier for me to say, no, we don’t really need that, and it just gets in the way of finding the true treasures.

    But I digress, answering a question you may not even be asking 😉

    There are other categories of items in our house to go through, too, so once the books are done (and all the clothes before them, which project is almost complete now), we’ll move on to other things, like educational supplies, I’m thinking. Those are scattered in so many areas of the house, parts of sets separated from each other because children like to repurpose items. (Think: cuisenaire rods become the “parking lot” lines, which separate one space for a toy vehicle from another. Etc.)

    Tomorrow’s our media fast day, so I’m hoping to get a good start on the project, without being distracted by online business. I should really extend the fast until my schedule sort of returns to normal the first week of June. So if you don’t see me around here for a couple weeks, that’s where I be — trashing my house before transforming it to something pleasurable everywhere I look.

    Well, several places I look, anyway 🙂 It would take me months, not weeks, to get the whole thing taken care of.

    Later, all!

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