Good Morning!
Today’s header photo is from Cheryl.
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On this day in 1611 English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers.
In 1807 British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
In 1870 Congress created the Department of Justice.
In 1933 Germany became a one political party country when Hitler banned parties other than the Nazis.
And in 1944 President Franklin Roosevelt signed the “GI Bill of Rights” to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
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Quote of the Day
“Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.”
Brit Hume
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Today is Kris Kristofferson’s birthday.
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Wandering Views 
Good morning! First.
Today’s header photo: a juvenile mockingbird I watched in Chattanooga. Isn’t he cute? I love mockingbirds and rarely see them here, so they are a treat when I venture down South. I’ve probably seen juveniles before, but never knowingly.
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AJ, any idea what year Kris Kristofferson told his “Why Me Lord” story (first video)? When we were college students in 1983, we were on a CCC Spring Break outreach at Daytona Beach. One of my roommates approached a man playing his guitar on the beach. It was Kris Kristofferson. When my roommate asked him about having a personal relationship with Christ, Kris replied, “That’s not for me.”
I just wonder how real his conversion experience was, which is why I am curious about the date when he shared that story. Anyway, the song has great words…
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There is a back story to the relationship between Kris Krostofferson and Johnny Cash. It was told once in a tribute to Johnny Cash. I used to HATE the song, Sunday Morning Coming Down, but the last few times I have heard it, I am beginning to soften towards it.
Yesterday afternoon I took Lulabelle for a walk. We both enjoyed it. She tried to start out straining against the least but I just stopped and turned my back to her. It wasn’t perfect but it was definitely progress.
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Tychicus 1972
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Me_(Kris_Kristofferson_song)
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Kim: I wasn’t looking so much for when the song was recorded, but rather when that video (above) was made, when Kris told the story.
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Tychicus,
From what I see on Amazon the video and show it was performed in was recorded in May 2007.
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Oh. I misunderstood.
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Christian unity: http://www.reformation21.org/blog/2015/06/reflections-from-an-ame-prayer.php
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I understand that Kristofferson once taught English at West Point.
An Army captain.
On a tour of Nashville, the guide took us by the home of Johnny and June Cash. He told us that Kris Kristofferson invaded the compound by landing his helicopter there and making Johnny hear “Sunday Morning Coming Down” It was evidently written for Johnny Cash. But I think Kristofferson does it better. He sounds like a drunk on the song.
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That was an interesting testimony. Reminds me somewhat of mine. I didn’t grow up in church. I attended SS at Trinity Methodist when we lived in Charleston. But while I was in the AF, at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Miss. My parents (entire family) were saved and joined North Charleston Church of God. I went home for the holidays, Christmas 1949, and on New Years day, 1950 we attended a Sunday Night Service. They always give an invitation and at the urging of my sister’s boy friend (she never married him), I went forward and “prayed through”. (Whatever that meant.) I really didn’t understand it all.
I tried to be a good guy after that, and attended the base chapel. But my personal life was worse than before. Though I never got into trouble and only got really drunk once. Seems the Lord was keeping me out of trouble.
Much later, after I was discharged and my second year at Carolina, a guy named Al Tolley asked if I were a Christian. I assured him that I was. He said, “Great!” and invited me to the meetings of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship.
Still a long story, but that eventually led to a total commitment to Christ.
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Kristofferson always sounded drunk when he sang.
Another hot, muggy morning in the Middle Mississippi Valley. And it’s lawn mowing day.
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Lawn mowing day for me too. And It’s supposed to get back up to 90 today.
Kristofferson mentioned Connie Smith. That is also an interesting story. Just repeating what I heard Jerry Gray say on WAMU in Washington when he had a country music program some time ago. He was about to play a Connie Smith hymn.
“Connie Smith had a difficult life, three failed marriages, attempted suicide, but she was counseled by Rev. Jimmy Snow who ministers to the Opry stars. She trusted Christ and turned her life around. So, now she includes a religious song on every album she makes.”
Those are approximately the words Jerry said. Connie Smith is now married to Marty Stuart and they have a TV program on Saturday nights. Jimmy Snow, BTW is the son of Hank Snow.
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And just to continue the Country Music Incest. Marty Stuart was one upon a time the son in law of Johnny and June.
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Because I am this type of person …
I stopped by the Piggly Wiggly this morning to pick up air condition filters for a listing I inherited over the weekend before I met the cleaning crew to get an estimate on cleaning 7000SF of single family residence!!!!
The check out clerk was a black woman and we were chatting. I asked her if I could ask a sensitive question. I asked how she felt about how Charleston had handled everything after the shooting last week. She told me all that rioting and stuff serviced no purpose and she was proud of how everyone in Charleston had come together. Then she said what I have heard most. If you can’t forgive him, how can you be forgiven? God can bring peace. We further discussed how this white man intended to start a race war and it has had the opposite effect.
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Has anyone heard from KBells lately?
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Weekend rants, we need to be praying for her. I don’t know the details, but God does.
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No lawn mowing for me in the past two weeks. I am down to maybe two more mowings this year. The grass is not growing but the weeds are sticking up their flowers and seeds. Now I just have animals and plants to water and weed. And some children to homeschool and train up in the way they should go.
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My husband and I had free tickets to the Ryman one day, (supposed to be backstage passes, too, but it was too small to hold all the musicians, let alone us!) when in walked Connie Smith. For a moment I thought she was going to sit with us, since the seats were quite full. She had a space a few rows up, though. Love those stories, Chas.
I like the song, “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” because it so clearly shows the loneliness of that kind of lifestyle compared to those in church. That is one well written song.
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I was at a rummage sale in TN when I heard one woman tell another that it was a Mockingbird making the sounds we heard. I had never seen one before. Nice photo.
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Friday was lawn mowing day. But it rained. So then Saturday was, and it rained again. Next up, Sunday was, but it was Father’s Day and it’s illegal to mow on Father’s Day. So now it looks like Monday is, unless I can find another excuse…. 😆
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“Wet grass doesn’t cut well”? My husband uses that one quite often. 🙂 It IS raining here, so neither the deck sealing or mowing will be happening. Plenty other things to do, however.
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Out here in drought-choked L.A. there’s no lawn and no lawn mowing. 🙂
We’re headed up to 79 today, and dry — and there is a rather large fire raging in the San Bernardino mountains to the northeast of us.
Cute bird.
Let’s hope the peace endures in Charleston & elsewhere. Interesting, because I think some of the unbelieving population are more interested in carrying on the rage, but they’ve been silenced or at least muted by the Christian response.
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Mockingbirds are funny. One used to always build her next in the tree next to the driveway. My dad had a cat that acted like a dog. The cat’s name was Sam. The mockingbird used to “dive bomb” the cat whenever she had eggs in the next or babies. They can make almost any sound.
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I have seen mocking birds and robins gang up on a cat to drive it away.
Don’t cut wet grass! It’s dangerous because it’s slippery. The grass doesn’t like it and it clogs the mower.
My guideline: If the front wheel of the mower is wet, I don’t cut it.
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Don’t worry, Chas, I won’t cut the front wheel of the mower ;). But if I wait until the grass is dry it would be a foot tall! The city (and neighbors) wouldn’t like that.
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I think one difference in the reaction to Charleston and the Ferguson and Baltimore shootings was the place and shooter. Charleston was in a church and the shooter was a known racist. The other places it was white policemen on the street. Church people are more likely to respond peacefully than those on the street.
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We have birds fighting all over the place here. The turkeys are out walking their babies and the blackbirds attack. The guineas get too close to the nest and the swallows attack. The children get too close to the nest and the hummingbirds attack. The cat is always attacked. The rabbits are also. Maybe the rabbits would be happier back in their cages, but I don’t think so. They come hopping up to get petted and fed treats by the nine year old. What a bizarre world.
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“What a bizarre world.”
Mumsee just made the quote of the day..
I never could get away with nothing with a teacher around.
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saw three woodpeckers peacefully feeding at the feeder here yesterday, all at the same time.
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I thought I would share something my priest shared this morning from the Anglican’s in South Carolina
http://treadinggrain.com/2015/an-exhortation-clergy-st-andrews/
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Tears in my eyes from watching the March on the Charleston bridge. Quote from William Faulkner : in the south, the past isn’t dead. It’s barely in the past.
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