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Our Daily Thread 7-1-15

Good Morning!

The last 2 days we had the duck, duck part, so now it’s the goose’s turn. Or geese/goslings in this case….

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On this day in 1847 the U.S. Post Office issued its first adhesive stamps.

In 1863, during the Civil War, the first day’s fighting at Gettysburg began.

In 1867 Canada became an independent dominion.

In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his “Rough Riders” waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba.

And in 1961 the first community air-raid shelter was built. The shelter in Boise, ID had a capacity of 1,000 people and family memberships sold for $100.

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Quote of the Day, since it’s her birthday and we were discussing her character yesterday…..

“Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.”

Olivia De Havilland

(Melanie Hamilton in Gone with the Wind)

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 Readers choice for music today. So what’ll it be?

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Anyone have a QoD?

59 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 7-1-15”

  9. I didn’t get to participate much yesterday but I was thinking about Scarlett O’Hara this morning. The four main characters were exaggerations of each. Scharlett was the villainess to a degree but she was the oldest daughter of a rough, poor Irishman who made it in America. There were no sons. She filled the male heir role and she was the one who loved Tara and would have done anything to save it. Those were not qualities that were valued in a woman of that time. Melanie was the good woman to the extreme. The dynamic was that each of them had the partner best suited to them and didn’t realize it until it was almost too late or in the case of Scarlett too late. I am sure that a more literary person can break down these characters and tell us more of what I am trying to say.
    So along those lines to celebrate the love of the land….

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  10. Good Morning….July already?! No plans other than a drive to see my husband run another 100 miler….I’ll be in a hotel and spending a couple days with the grandchildren while he and my daughter and SIL are out on the trails 🙂

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  11. The most significant part of GWTW is Rhett Butler’s last line.
    “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damm.” That opened the Overton Window to cursing in the movies.. A harmless comment, appropriate in the context, By now, profanity is almost obligatory.

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  17. Thank you, and Happy Canada Day to Kare and any other Canadian readers who happen to be lurking.

    Olivia de Havilland is my favourite cinematic actress. She had a wide range and played her roles convincingly, whether as the beautiful Maid Marian in ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’ or the dowdy, mentally ill housewife in ‘The Snake Pit’ or the ruthless villainess in ‘Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte’. On YouTube, there is a little known B List film called ‘Dark Mirror’ in which she plays identical twins, one good and one bad. The whole point of the film is which is which, and she manages to convey that through very subtle changes of expression and tone.

    It’s a hard choice what music to play! Should I go folk with Stan Rogers or Gordon Lightfoot or classical Canadian? Well, to start, I used to play this piece by Canadian composer Claude Champagne on the violin. This is the orchestral version:

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  18. No special plans for July. Today will be celebrated in the usual way – sparklers on the lawn for the little folk. There’s a friend’s wedding coming up which I am to play for. Also, my father is to have his operation this month. My mother came very well through the biopsy, by the way.

    More music – this time from Canadian composer Srul Irving-Glick:

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  19. Lee has taken Forrest for a little “road trip” for a while. He’ll find things for them to do while they’re out, including getting lunch somewhere, & then ending up picking up Auntie Chrissy.

    So grateful for some peace & quiet for a while on a day I’m supposed to be babysitting.

    I used my day off yesterday to work on a long-neglected cleaning project that was even more time-consuming than I’d expected. But I was so pleased when it was finally finished.

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  20. Olivia de Havilland is still alive, at 99 years old. Her sister, Joan Fontaine, died at 96 in December of 2013. I always thought it sad that they had such a feud between them.

    One of my favorite Olivia de Havilland movies was The Heiress.

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  23. We have too many plans for July. 😦 Most will be fun, but it seems like they pile up. We just had one thing drop for one day and then asked by someone else for that day. Then after agreeing to check with my husband’s music group if they can be there, I found out my granddaughter will be in a state softball tourney the same day. No doubt where I would like to be.

    We also have one of two family reunions. It will be the last big family reunion that many of the older generation will be there. One of my oldest uncles was asked to speak at a VA center grand opening. He was the one was a POW. I would like to go, but will have to see if the timing works out, since we have company coming.

    I am not sure if it is my imaginations, but it seemed summers used to be more relaxing.

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  24. We have a gathering at my sister-in-law’s house July 4, but other than that and some lesser things I’m not sure.

    This morning I woke from a dream that I was facing persecution, along with maybe hundreds of other people. My sister was there and one of my brothers was there initially, and I didn’t know who else was present, but somehow (in the way that happens in dreams) I knew that they had figured out we were all Christians and somehow manipulated us all to move into this particular apartment complex. My sister and I were heading back home, and some trucks came down the road and deliberately crashed into and smashed every car parked on the street. Not understanding what was going on, we entered the corridor to go to our apartment, thinking we would be safe (and in the dream my own car was in a garage, so it wouldn’t have been hit, but I thought maybe my sister’s was), but someone was there watching for each of us. We were told matter-of-factly that they had already killed one of our people.

    Minutes later my sister left, and I thought I might be able to too, so I slipped out, but found out they were in fact watching for anyone to leave, and it wasn’t possible to get away. A woman came after me and quietly grabbed hold of me. I wondered how widely this trap was known, how much it might be approved, and how far they would go.

    My mind was racing in the dream, and I was praying that God would grant me the grace to stand firm no matter what happened. Then I started talking to the woman who was keeping me captive, and I told her that her position was actually worse than mine, and I started telling her about Christ, and I told her she couldn’t do anything to me unless God allowed it. But even as I said it, I knew that she hadn’t actually even done anything to me yet, and again I prayed silently that God would help me bear up under it, that He would give me a chance to escape this if it was His will, but to endure if that was His will.

    And then I woke in my own bed with a real sense of “Wow, that was intense.” In the dream I stayed calm, but was aware I was in grave danger. It was a great relief to wake up and be in my own bed.

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  25. Our roof is looking really bad right now, so July plans will revolve around that. At this point I don’t know what to do, but we can’t wait much longer.

    Friend’s daughter got same-sex married on Monday. Life goes on.

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  26. Busy couple weeks ahead for me, too – Friday is a day off but I’ll be meeting up with my former pastor and his wife at Norma’s house in the morning (he’s the executor of her estate) to help sort and get ready for the eventual estate sale.

    Then in the afternoon I have to head up to Hollywood to take Carol shopping and get her phone renewed for another month. We have to figure out a way to do this so she doesn’t go without phone service for the first couple days of the month (as she doesn’t have a debit card so she’s got to wait for me to take her to the store). Seems like we could at least get it to go from say the 5th to the 5th every month (instead of the 1st to the 1st?).

    The week after is 2 memorials, one for a dog park friend another for Norma (and I still need to get that Monday off to get to that, or at least the first part of that Monday, maybe I can do half a vacation day). We’re so short-handed anymore that getting time off is like pulling teeth.

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  27. My other plans for July are reading and reviewing books, and revising articles.
    Also, still working on downsizing. Got rid of breadmaker and related books this week.

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  28. Scary dream, Cheryl — I doubt we’ll see that in our lifetime in the states, but people certainly are facing it now in other countries.

    Discouraging times in many ways, especially since Christians have always had it so easy here.

    We’re rather disliked nowadays, I’m quickly gathering. 🙂

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  29. July 4 we generally have an open picnic for whomever. Usually have between six and fifty six people join us but it is all good because they bring food and chairs. We have lots of water. But this year, our fourth son’s sister is getting married so we will be going to the wedding with the side benefit of meeting son’s mother! Unless eighth son’s behavior continues to be negative, in which case we will stay home and not have a picnic either.

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  36. I’m just home from our vacation at the lake. Very hot, but the house was air conditioned. I mostly read and cooked. I’d forgotten, I don’t know why, how loud five young children can be. 🙂

    I’m headed back east soon to visit my dear friends in CT for 48 hours and will get to see our pastor before he moves away. I’m thankful. Thence to Wheaton for a week in the library. I’ve been given an opportunity to come up with a proposal for a biography of Biddy Chambers. I just need to find the hook and if there’s sufficient material–David McCasland feels, understandably, that he covered her life very well in his Oswald Chambers biography.

    I think there’s room for more, the question though, is what type of biography. The answer is whispering, but I haven’t figured it out yet. 🙂 Of course, I’m going through all his research at Wheaton, so who knows?

    Other than that, a fancy wedding at the end of August in LA. Virginia turned out to be way too expensive a trip so no DC friend sightings again this year. 😦 Other than on Facebook. 🙂

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  37. Yes, Peter, those are Canada geese. Our friends to the north have been extremely generous with how many of their birds they have let us have.

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  38. Kim, there is a lot of wisdom in your link. I do not believe, however, that no one reads or learns from provocative posts. I have sometimes been quite surprised at those who have liked a post. Sometimes I have also been amazed at those who nitpick or are offended. At least, I am made aware of how someone may take something. I also can clarify what was shared. Nevertheless, discernment is so important, whether on fb or in person.

    Those Canada geese are very messy. No fun to have too many anywhere.

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  40. Peter – That seems to us to lovingly & simply explain the issue. But sadly, many gays would still be offended by that, because it dares to say that homosexuality is a result of sin, & not their God-given identity. I have read that if you don’t fully accept them as homosexuals (or transgender people or whatever), then you don’t really love them. 😦

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  44. Kim – That article talks about not walking into traps. That is a lesson I have learned, for the most part. 🙂

    YF shared a couple posts asking why Christians make such a big deal about homosexuality when adultery “made the top 10!” Of course, I know the answer is that adulterers don’t argue in favor of their sin or have “Adulterer Pride” marches. But I also know that no matter how cautiously I could make that point, she (or one of her friends) would come back with “So you think gays are sinners?!” or some such thing. It is definitely a trap.

    (And besides, I’m not supposed to be commenting on her posts anymore anyway.)

    I’m going to read the rest of that Facebook Rules series.

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  45. Kim, thanks for the link — I shared it among my ‘select’ FB friends as it really speaks to our role as Christians on social media (although there’s some wisdom for nonchirstians as well).

    I don’t mind educated and thoughtful attempts to discuss an issue that may be controversial.

    What I dislike and have grown tired of (because I see SO MUCH of it) are the drive-by, poster-style, in-your-face snarky statements that clearly invite no disagreement. They’re scoldings, basically. And some very smart people do that, which always amazes me. 😦

    I posted a link on the politics thread that I think clearly outlines what was so bothersome about that rainbow-lit White House that made so many of us uneasy.

    Linda!

    Let me know your status

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  46. I have over 500 Facebook “friends” I wouldn’t discuss politics with most of them if I saw them in person so why waste my breath so to speak on line ?

    I Learned a long time ago that saying “You may be right” is sometimes prefer able to explain to them why they are wrong.

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  47. I don’t care if they are from Canada, Canadian geese make a mess in my favorite park and they used to pick on my poor blind dog.

    Still, it’s interesting to watch and hear them fly by . . . oh, Canada!

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  48. I just remembered, we were in Canada on July 1, 1981. My adorable little boy was toddling around in Ottawa–isn’t that the capital?–and the tour guide gave him a cute little Canadian flag pin which perfectly matched his red sweater. He wore it for years and I’m smiling, myself, right now, remembering it.

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  51. Canada may have given us a lot of geese (too many around here), but it has also given permission to hunters in the US to kill as many as possible since the geese are tearing up the tundra.

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  54. Thanks, Roscuro, and happy Canada Day to you, too!

    Smoke is thick and heavy outside as we now have smoke from more local fires – very acrid. 😦

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  55. I’m careful also about talking politics with people I don’t know well (though it amazes me how many folks will just launch into a political/partisan tirade with you, say at the dog park, assuming (apparently) that you are in full agreement with them of course! Uh-huh, head nods, follow on my part — once, when someone really kind of pushed me in a corner via an outright question, I just said quietly, “Well, I’m probably a little more conservative than you are.” 🙂

    when you live in an area where most folks are politically one way or the other (here it’s liberal), people just assume you’re part of the group think.

    Uh-huh. Head nod. Mmm. It’s an art I’ve honed rather well. 🙂

    Took Linda to the beach. I’m not back at work and she’s gone back to the pier to get some stuff for the grandkids. 🙂 (Plus she has to kill some time before hitting our rush-hour freeways.) Good visit, although our beach today looked rather gray and gloomy.

    Usually this time of year it’s a brilliant, postcard blue, matching the cloudless sky.

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  57. Haha.

    Well, I did embarrass Linda by setting off the Jeep’s car alarm after we parked — and being unable to know how to turn it off.

    I noticed her drifting away from me, ever so nonchalantly, in an “I-don’t-know-her” stroll, gazing out at the gray sea, as I pleaded with a stranger for help amid the incessant noise and stares of passers-by.

    HONK. HONK. HONK. HONK. HONK.

    Can’t take me anywhere.

    Hey, Cheryl, remember how long it took me to find that dog park and how many U-turns I pulled? Fun ride, huh?

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