Good morning from Janice in Atlanta. I am still awakening from yesterday.
My friend had to deliver the sweetest dog to a family at a mountain lake house. We had a great day for our little trip. I knew a few places for us to stop for food and fun. I brought home some peaches, pumpkin bread, fried peach pies, and a very small German chocolate cake (the cake to freeze for a surprise for son when we see him next time).
While traveling we saw a sign that quoted Mark 8:14which I had also read as part of my online Bible study early yesterday.
In the verse, Jesus says to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod. On the billboard the words Pharisees and Herod were crossed out and replaced with preachers and politicians.
When I go through the WP reader app I see the names of commenters but when I look at the stie through Google I do not see commenter’s names. I will now try the site through Edge and see what it looks like.
Edge search engine show this site under atlaq.com but when I tried to open it the message said it was not found. Hmmm . . . maybe someone else might try another search engine?
A California nightmare
But fidelity to a community and a place does mean something
~ California’s population dropped for the third year in a row. For a state that had only known the up and up, this was big news in 2020, and the trend has been holding. The primary reason? Californians moving out of state.
Headlines about California these days reflect the state’s decline. San Francisco loses retail stores downtown, and then some. Human feces on the street is common there, as are overdose deaths. A friend was staying at a hotel in San Francisco last month and was witness overnight to a man screaming, just screaming, outside his hotel window. The man wasn’t being hurt. He was just screaming on and on for no apparent reason. California dreaming? More like nightmares. …
… It makes sense to move out of California, especially for families with children—and many are. Everything from housing to school choice to taxes to affordability to traffic to crime—really, everything but the weather—suggests that such a move is a sane choice. But for those who stay here in California, not least due to fidelity to church community, vocation, friends, and neighborhood, how shall we live?
There is something to be said of California’s being a harbinger of things to come in America. So, if we Christians in California get a front-porch view of Rome starting to burn, surely faithfulness and strong communities of faith are paramount. This is where the otherness, that strangeness of our faith, is embodied robustly, vibrantly, and cheerfully in community with the old and the young all living it out. … ~
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Wandering Views 
AJ here.
OK, the problem seems to be happening to numerous WordPress blogs. (All?)
So until WordPress fixes it, you’ll have to put your name at the top like I did.
Sorry.
Technology is great, when it works properly. 🙂
Off for treatment #5….
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Peter posted this on yesterday’s because I was slow this AM.
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AJ must be sleeping in today.
So I’ll post the Friday Funnies here.
I’ll be gone the rest of the day traveling. See you this evening! Maybe by then we’ll have our names back.
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Good morning from Janice in Atlanta. I am still awakening from yesterday.
My friend had to deliver the sweetest dog to a family at a mountain lake house. We had a great day for our little trip. I knew a few places for us to stop for food and fun. I brought home some peaches, pumpkin bread, fried peach pies, and a very small German chocolate cake (the cake to freeze for a surprise for son when we see him next time).
While traveling we saw a sign that quoted Mark 8:14which I had also read as part of my online Bible study early yesterday.
In the verse, Jesus says to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod. On the billboard the words Pharisees and Herod were crossed out and replaced with preachers and politicians.
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When I go through the WP reader app I see the names of commenters but when I look at the stie through Google I do not see commenter’s names. I will now try the site through Edge and see what it looks like.
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Edge search engine show this site under atlaq.com but when I tried to open it the message said it was not found. Hmmm . . . maybe someone else might try another search engine?
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Morning! It’s a very foggy morning in this forest.
Praying g do it you this morning Aj❣️
A most lovely photo up there…I so miss seeing those bright red feathers flitting to and fro….
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Praying for you … what in the world did I type the first time!!????😳
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It’s weird that when you look at who liked a comment the names show up just fine.
I got an email back from WP that they are aware and working to fix it.
Which sounds like “please hold, your call is important to us…”
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Kevin B here.
Janice, I tried Edge, Firefox, and Chrome, and they’re all the same.
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mumsee says,
Good morning all. I hope your days are going as well as mine is.
This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. John 17:3
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Those that are signed in still have your picture showing so don’t need names. I touched a couple of pictures and it showed me who it was.
A good day with the littles yesterday. They loved going to the pool and I read them some good books while they were coloring
Jo
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Good afternoon, everyone!
Prayers for you AJ that all goes well and your treatment today accomplishes it’s purpose .
Debra
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The names are back!
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An interesting World Magazine opinion column:
https://wng.org/opinions/a-california-nightmare-1688678204?mkt_tok=NzEwLVFSUi0yMDkAAAGMz_O-UBkO48qV-Dx4qz6lXkS_43tbkFyFrPqc5WnK8uflFFVdmHoJhfuz_XlwhfpqotutQ7Ya4PIgFbt1nnLJ0uhK-YsxoYC_9qmWAzx_Ww
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A California nightmare
But fidelity to a community and a place does mean something
~ California’s population dropped for the third year in a row. For a state that had only known the up and up, this was big news in 2020, and the trend has been holding. The primary reason? Californians moving out of state.
Headlines about California these days reflect the state’s decline. San Francisco loses retail stores downtown, and then some. Human feces on the street is common there, as are overdose deaths. A friend was staying at a hotel in San Francisco last month and was witness overnight to a man screaming, just screaming, outside his hotel window. The man wasn’t being hurt. He was just screaming on and on for no apparent reason. California dreaming? More like nightmares. …
… It makes sense to move out of California, especially for families with children—and many are. Everything from housing to school choice to taxes to affordability to traffic to crime—really, everything but the weather—suggests that such a move is a sane choice. But for those who stay here in California, not least due to fidelity to church community, vocation, friends, and neighborhood, how shall we live?
There is something to be said of California’s being a harbinger of things to come in America. So, if we Christians in California get a front-porch view of Rome starting to burn, surely faithfulness and strong communities of faith are paramount. This is where the otherness, that strangeness of our faith, is embodied robustly, vibrantly, and cheerfully in community with the old and the young all living it out. … ~
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I appreciated World’s take.
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