25 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 2-18-16”

  1. Good day, AJ and all. I was up with a sick little one from around 3:00 until a bit past 5:30. I just dozed off, and woke up again, came here to check on things, and maybe am first if no one’s snuck in ahead of me with all my typing. 😉

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  4. Good morning!
    6Arrows: I’m sorry one of your darlings is sick — hopefully y’all can nap later.

    I learned last night that my sister is coming home 3/27. She’s traveling by herself, coming primarily to get their house ready to put on the market. They’ve had renters the whole time they’ve been in Africa, but feel it’d be prudent to sell now. Anyway, we’re going to go to Bandera for Easter so I can spend some time with my big sissy.

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  5. Gorgeous shot, sigh. Home.

    Raining in northern CA.

    14 hours at the keyboard yesterday. Debating whether or not to put in four more this morning or go to the gym and have a normal morning.

    I have 40 minutes to decide. I think I’ll pray. The rest of the weekend is play!

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  6. Very interesting shot of that hoop. We use to play HORSE with a basketball and hoop, but I do not even remember now how it was played.

    Sorry to hear of the illness, Annms. Glad to hear you will see your sister(s).

    I went outside this morning while it was was still dark because I had some dry cat food to throw out. I looked up in the sky and said to myself and God that it’s a beautiful day. Then I felt silly because it was still dark since I had said day. But the air felt just right and birds were singing, and I could feel sunshine on its way even though I could not see it.

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  7. Well, Michelle, I have heard of bed sores, but 14 hours in the chair could cause chair sores. What kind of desk chair do you have?

    I have a tall backed nicely padded black leather desk chair that I do not sit often enough in. I am working out a new schedule with blocks of time for activities instead of being so haphazard. The tricky part will be telling folks I will only be available to talk during certain times. Of course, Miss Bosley can talk to me any time she has the urge.

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  8. Good Morning All. I am off to the company awards luncheon today. I will be hearing Dr, Kevin Elko speak. He is supposed to be the motivational mastermind behind Alabama football. We shall see.
    I had the perfect outfit put together to wear but it is cooler today than it was supposed to be so I had to go dig a sweater out of the donation box to wear one last time. 😉

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  9. Nice photo, Donna. It’s a rare sunny winter day here in SE Michigan but only 15F. February is the time of year when I most miss California. After three months of cold and mostly gray skies, the longing for blue sky, mountains, green trees, and flowers becomes more acute.

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  11. Thanks, Ann. And wonderful to hear that you’ll get to spend time with your sister!

    I don’t have a Question of the Day, but it seems that header is begging for a Caption of the Day.

    Just don’t ask me what it is. Maybe after I get a little more sleep I might be able to think of something. 😉

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  12. I knew michelle would like that one. 🙂

    Our very famous basketball court is located in what’s called Angels Gate Park in San Pedro (which is part of the city of L.A. — all the property there used to be Fort MacArthur, a U.S. coastal Army base complete with underground tunnels and big gun batteries (pointed toward the ocean for coastal defense). There’s a military museum on the property now with a pretty impressive collection of memorabilia, including WWII-era jeeps, photos, uniforms. They’re currently restoring the historic WWII outdoor swimming pool that was used to entertain troops with synchronized swimmers. The pool also has a view of the ocean.

    Some of the guys developed a road show play called “Hey Rookie” which toured other local bases and so the pool is called the “Hey Rookie” Pool. Actor Sterling Holloway was one of the young soldiers involved.

    There are still WWII barracks there — which also turn up in movies and TV shows, I saw a Criminal Minds rerun recently that was shot there a few years ago.

    The land was deeded over to the city some time ago (1970s?) and now is a park with spectacular views, popular spot for picnics, kite flying — and basketball. South Korea gave the U.S. a large “friendship” bell that’s also there, not far from the basketball court.

    That’s Catalina Island on the left horizon. The Port of LA entrance also would be the left (or east) of that shot which is facing southwest.

    The basketball court has popped up on TV and movie screens from time to time and almost always has a few folks shooting hoops or playing an actual game — while enjoying one of the best views ever. 🙂

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  13. From the fort mac museum site:

    The Fort MacArthur Museum is dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the history of Fort MacArthur, a U.S. Army post which guarded the Los Angeles harbor from 1914 to 1974. The Museum was established in 1985, and it is housed in the corridors and galleries of historic Battery Osgood-Farley. The Fort MacArthur Reservations hold an important collection of historical structures which were part of the U.S. Army’s role in the defense of the American continental coastline from invasion. These structures clearly trace the development of American coastal defenses, from the all big gun era of the turn of the century to the missile era of today.

    The rooms, galleries and corridors of the Museum contain a variety of exhibits and displays which include: the history of Los Angeles harbor defenses, home-front activities in the greater Los Angeles area during the World Wars, Civil Defense, American Pacific Theater military campaigns, early American Air Defenses and the important role of Los Angeles as a military port for both the Army and the Navy.

    http://www.ftmac.org

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  15. This is for Michelle, recalling a post from early January/late December you put up about where some of the manger scene traditions came from: I’ve been reading, off and on, the writings of the early church fathers on my e-reader, since one can now download older translations of them that are in the public domain. I was reading the works of the early church apologist, Justin Martyr. Justin Martyr lived from approximately 110-165 A.D., so may well have come in contact with those who knew the apostles, as the Apostle John was probably writing up into the 90’s A.D. Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho is fascinating, because it is the form of a dialogue to a Jewish philosopher in which Justin uses the Old Testament to show that Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God. He points out many prophecies and figures of Christ that most of us know about, and then some ones which had not before occurred to me, such as how Moses giving Oshea, who would lead Israel to the Promised Land, the name of Joshua (Yeshua) was a foreshadowing of how the Christ would be called Jesus (Yeshua). One of the things he touches on was how the appearance of the Magi, and while speaking of it, he says this:

    But when the Child was born in Bethlehem, since Joseph could not find a lodging in that village, he took up his quarters in a certain cave near the village; and while they were there Mary brought forth the Christ and placed Him in a manger, and here the Magi who came from Arabia found Him.

    Link: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_I/Dialogue_with_Trypho
    This I found interesting because it shows that very early on there was an understanding that the Magi came to the birthplace of Jesus, rather than a later dwelling in Bethlehem. It has occurred to me for several years that there is no real reason to think that Joseph and Mary remained in Bethlehem any longer than was necessary for the days of her purification. The killing of the children of two years and under was more Herod making sure than an indication of the age of Jesus at the time of the coming of the Magi. Just thought it would interest you.

    It is very encouraging to read these early writers, if for no other reason than the testimony they bear to the authority of Scripture. I have come across skeptics who claim the cannon of Scripture was not set until the Council of Nicea in the 320’s, but Justin Martyr even in that quote, is citing both Luke and Matthew as authoritative sources. Thus far in the Dialogue, while most of the Scripture he uses is from the Old Testament, he has quoted from at least three of the Gospels (some of his quotes regarding the death of Christ occur in all four) including the Gospel of John as if they were equal in authority to the Old Testament writers, as well as from Paul’s Epistles and the Book of Revelation. That last is pretty special, because I have long come across those who claim that the author and the canonicity of Revelation were in dispute for centuries, yet Justin Martyr, who was only a generation removed from John, directly attributes his quote of Revelation to the Apostle John and speaks about how the spirit of prophecy was given to the apostle as it was to the OT prophets. Reading that kind of makes one wonder how much these so called scholars that make these skeptical claims have studied.

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  18. For 6 and any other fans of classical and/or film music:

    I learned about leitmotifs as done by Wagner when I studied Music History as part of my Conservatory exams, and I had recognised the technique when I heard The Lord of the Rings score; but I didn’t know if anyone else had 🙂

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  21. Excellent, Roscuro! Thank you. 🙂 I know my teenaged piano student who loves to compose will be inspired by that. I just sent a link to that video to her mom, and she is excited to pass it along to her daughter.

    (I had to kind of chuckle, though, at the narrator’s pronunciation of Richard Wagner’s first name, around a minute and a half in.) 🙂

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  22. Well, Chas, for mine someone can say, “Miss Bosley seemed to like her so I guess she was ok.” 🙂

    I found the wandering father cat out by where I put that dried cat food this morning. Miss Bosley always wants her food fresh from the bag every few hours. Daddycat thinks Boz’s leftovers are great. That’s the difference between an indoor and outdoor cat. Not having to exert the energy of a hunt, Daddycat considers easy to get food to be excellent food.

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  23. Noooooo. We’re in mourning. 😦

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    WASHINGTON (AP) — Meteorologists see signs that the super El Nino is weakening ever so slightly, but they caution months will pass before people in the Americas will feel it.

    The World Meteorological Organization said Thursday that El Nino has passed its peak based on specific temperature, wind, and atmospheric pressure conditions. …
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  25. Donna does that mean CO will actually have a real Spring during Spring months with no wet heavy snow which causes the pine boughs to snap? We have had extreme winds today and will have tomorrow…I thought the wind would blow Paul’s truck off of Monument Hill…scary! (The Ikea sign in S Denver blew over onto the interstate evidently…closed the SB lanes….that must have been exciting….yikes!

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