57 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 7-21-16”

  5. Good morning. The dogs and I are enjoying having the back door open. They have been out and had breakfast. I am still on my first cup of coffee.
    I live the peacefulness of right now before all the noise of the day starts

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  6. Ah summer. The grass at the new house needs cut, but it’s too hot and it’s that tall because we’ve been busier than a realtor in a low interest rate market. (I used that comparison since Kim’s post is the last one before mine.)

    How about this for a QoD: what comparisons can you make based on our vocations? Use another person’s without intentionally offending (which none of us do anyway).

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  8. Secret Agent Man. They’ve given you a number. And taken away your name.

    (Or taken away your picture)

    Song from the 1960s. 🙂

    We had an unpleasantly warm night here, my house was still in the 80s at almost midnight, tossed and turned, thought I’d never get to sleep. I finally turned the biggest fan I own right on me (on highest setting) and managed to fall asleep.

    This is the first weekday morning in a while that no workers are coming. I was hoping to oil down my old wood patio table and chairs on Saturday, along with paying a visit to the paint store (and I have a casserole to make for church this weekend), but Carol’s going through another rough patch, there’s an issue (as usual) with finances and money that she apparently already owes the friend from church who so generously took her onto her family phone plan. I really want to be there to listen and pray & help (NOT financially, though), but she doesn’t quite grasp that Saturday is my only day to do much of anything.

    So I told her I could come early but that I absolutely could not stay long. We’ll return her 25 library books (apparently her residence administrators are cracking down on people who have too much “stuff” in their rooms right now and Carol more than qualifies). We can find time to talk while doing that, but then I really will need to get back home.

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  11. Yes, wonderful header!

    Some days I feel more tired than the retired (does that count, Peter). Last night I struggled with a little piece of flash fiction until 2 a.m. trying to get it right.

    What does retired mean anyways, besides having left one’s final place of employment with receipt of monthly income promised? Seems there would be a better word than retired to describe that situation. Just thinking how everyone is changing the names of traditional statuses.

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  12. Secret Agent Man is now playing in my mind. Now it just switched over to 007 James Bond theme. What a lively mashup, action packed, and moving on to the Rocky theme song. I am ready for anything now!

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  13. 🙂

    Love the 007 theme, I have a mix of that on one of the movie score CDs I listen to sometimes in the Jeep. Appropriate music especially when driving through downtown LA and Hollywood.

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  14. If you hear AJ screaming, it’s because I just flooded his inbox with more Florida pix (and a few butterfly pix taken in my backyard a couple of days ago).

    Sorry, AJ. I think that’s it on the Florida ones.

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  18. QOD: I hope this doesn’t offend or sound like bragging, but I am very blessed in my vocation. I work from home doing something that I love and am well-suited for due to a combination of writing skills and 40+ years of technical experience, and twice a month they send me money (quite a lot) for doing it. I am two years past my retirement age but will continue on as long as it’s still fun.

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  21. Thank you for the pic compliments.

    That was the first pic I got of the heron. I saw him thru the bushes as I approached the pond. I didn’t know if I’d spook him, so I took this one so if I did, I’d have at least one shot. I thought the shot thru the leaves was pretty cool too.

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  22. If you hear of a small southern woman in a small southern town having a complete come apart and “going postal” you can all be interviewed and make the same comment–“She seemed like a good person. This is shocking.”
    Paul watches CNN. He doesn’t watch it so much as he has it on as background while he does other things. I can hear it from here. I have heard all I want to hear from “talking heads” about the convention. I am tired of people telling me what I should think. I am tired of media bias. I can’t wait to see the slobbering messes they make of themselves fawning over HRC. I don’t like any choice for POTUS this year. I have decided to focus on who will pick members of the Supreme Court.
    I asked him to please turn it to C-SPAN where he could get the raw footage and decide for himself.
    I want to stick my head in the sand until Thanksgiving.

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  24. Donna: steady and loyal and caring: news reporter, specializing in animals.
    Kim: deeply caring, deeply invested in relationships, interested in people and their lives: real estate.
    Linda: steady and wise, able to think things through: technology.

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  25. Considering the former business owner is still working part-time in Art’s business and she will probably be 88 this year, I think that gives a clue as to how hard it is to stop working in a small business once you have clients that depend on you. Art and I never talk about retirement unless it is related to other people we know.

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  27. Okay, Peter, another try. With the showers we’ve had lately our grass desperately needs to be mowed, but it’s too muggy, too hot, and we are busier than an understaffed news office when a big story breaks.

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  30. Kim, 10:45, with all you had going in your life, I was just happy to see you at all. (And all the times that I thought I wouldn’t be able to go at all, either because my husband thought he probably wouldn’t go or because he thought we might have a pastor by then and he’d travel with our pastor and we wives would stay home.)

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  33. I think Peter’s question means coming up with metaphors like the one he used: “busier than a realtor in a low interest rate market.”

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  37. Peter, looming deadlines don’t aid comprehension; they aid speed. 😉

    When I was a college student working on yearbook, I found a mini poster that I found hilarious, and I bought it and put it in our office. I wish I remember the way it was worded, but it was something about how as the deadline approaches, what once looked like a mediocre idea worthy of rejection now looks brilliant.

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  41. Well, I’m glad you all figured out Peter’s question by the time I got here, because I was as bemused as a teacher with a class full of adolescents. My brain was as blank as the manuscript of an author with writer’s block, since I was feeling as tired as a journalist with a midnight deadline. My thoughts were as disorderly as a book that hasn’t been edited, and I almost decided to be like a retiree going golfing and leave the task of answering to others. However, my brain kicked in at the last minute, like a realtor’s closing deal. I was able to recover my thoughts the way a tax agency recovers your taxes, and arrange them in writing the way a homemaker arranges a house.

    That’s all I can manage…

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  42. 6, to answer about what pieces I’m playing, I have to do two pieces, “different in tempo and character.” I played the Presto from Bach’s Violin Sonata No.1 for my last exam (over 10 years ago now), and I have kept it up since, so I think I will play that for the fast piece. I can’t play it this well though:

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  50. Well, folks, I’m going to have to abstain from answering the QoD. My brain is dust from looking yesterday through dusty files in the department of redundancy department file dust. 😉

    Roscuro, I really like the Bach. Good for you keeping that up over the years. The other two are nice, too. Are you leaning toward one or the other of the last two for your slower piece?

    Classical Minnesota Public Radio had that Star War’s-playing duo clip up on their website earlier this week. Fun to listen to.

    Third Arrow and I are preparing for an all-duet piano show in October. One of the pieces will be themes from another John Williams movie: ET. That will probably be our second number, preceded by Hava Nagila and followed by Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. We also want to perform a duet composed by a friend who writes piano music, and who is published by Alfred. She wrote a piano four-hands piece called “High Five,” and the performers periodically high-five each other during the piece.

    Shh, don’t tell anyone, but the directions on the bottom of the last page of music say to do one last high five as the performers leave the stage. She’s fun like that, and I’m sure the friendly audience we get in our small-town venue will get a little chuckle out of it. 😉

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  51. 6, the Chanson has been polished more, since I played it for a recital once (with myself, recorded, as accompanist). However, this may be my chance to finally polish the Berceuse. I’m not certain that I’ll have an accompanist and the Berceuse’s accompaniment is minimal, while the Chanson has more exchange between the piano and violin.

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  52. I was wondering that very thing, Roscuro, whether you would play accompanied or not in the Faure or Elgar. I was thinking the former stands alone better than the latter, for the reasons you mention, if you won’t have an accompanist.

    I’d be thrilled to be your accompanist if we weren’t in different countries. 🙂

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  53. Who would have thought. If the freezer starts roaring, if you take the cover off the thing in the back of the freezer, you may find the fan had fallen off. And when you replace it, the roar stops. I don’t know if that means the freezer is fixed but it is not roaring so for now, it is working.

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  54. This morning, we received the startling news that our pastor is resigning. When I say startling, I mean there was no hint of this last Sunday, and next Sunday will be the pastor’s last Sunday to preach. No, it isn’t a matter of church discipline, but something to do with a family situation (what exactly, we do not know). So once again, our little church is cast adrift. I have no idea what will happen next and neither does anyone else.

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  55. Car needs a new battery, but the one they had the posts were too big” hoping a part comes today, but friends mentioned that the starter was also having problems
    Got a ride up from market

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  56. I see several good comparative metaphors, though I admit I should have explained it better, like a cartographer explaining the legend on a map of the moon.

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