I pray that we come to value each and every human for who they are, not what they are, or what they can produce.
I pray for the day when a person’s race, gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation does not limit their place/roles in life.
I pray that we come to learn that so many should not be hungry, thirsty or homeless when a few have more than they could use in a multitude of lifetimes. Read the rest of this entry »
Outsized would have described my Uncle Sam, Irene’s husband. He had an outsized personality, and he was prone to tell outsized tales of questionable veracity. He was physically a big man. I do not know what his height was, but he always seemed taller than my 187 centimeters. He was a man who loved eat, and his weight showed it. He was just a big man.
Although I never thought about them, he had one physical characteristic that apparently bothered him. It was his ears. They did not quite stick out 90 degrees from his head, but they were definitely more of an obtuse angle than the usual acute.
My cousin Perry inherited his ears. When Perry was 9, 10, 11, somewhere along in there, he had plastic surgery to go from obtuse to angular in the pinna department. Shortly after the operation he and his mother, my aunt, were visiting at our Grandmother’s house.
Hope you have a good day off September 3rd!
This is a presentation that I wrote for the beginning Spanish class I am taking. I am not sure how this sounds to Latin ear, but I suspect like a fifth grader’s report. I’m just now learning to use past tenses. I’ve discovered that Spanish has at least two while in English, if it is past it is past.
Yo tengo mucho interés en este personaje histórico, porque su hermana, Hanna, es mi abuela hace seis generaciones.
Él tiene tumbas de los estados de Missouri y Kentucky, y ambos de los estados afirmaran que está enterrado allí.
Él nació en 1734 (mil setecientos treinta y cuatro) en el condado de Berks de la colonia de Pensilvana. Sus padres eran cuáqueros. Una de sus hijas se casó con un hombre que no estuvo cuáqueros. Porque del matrimonio fue una controversia en la comunidad de cuáqueros. Se desilusionó con la religión. Él paró a ir a la iglesia. Sin embargo consideraba sí mismo un cristiano todavía y bautizó a todos sus hijos.
Él había poca educación formal. Read the rest of this entry »
Now That’s Rich – New York Times op-ed piece by Paul Krugman
From the article:
“We need to pinch pennies these days. Don’t you know we have a budget deficit? For months that has been the word from Republicans and conservative Democrats, who have rejected every suggestion that we do more to avoid deep cuts in public services and help the ailing economy.
But these same politicians are eager to cut checks averaging $3 million Read the rest of this entry »
Is Your Favorite Ice Cream Made With Monsanto’s Artificial Hormones? – Huffington Post Article
Why my title? It is a quick synopsis of the article by John Robbins in Huffington Posts. Basically rBGH, artificial growth hormone that is so prevalent in our milk supply was developed, pushed through FDA approval, and promoted by Monsanto Chemicals. One of the effects in cows of rBGH is increased IGF-1 in their milk. Monsanto’s own research showed Read the rest of this entry »
Rosemary was two-thyming Basil? Many folks were wondering how sage this was.
Lessons From the Egg Recall: Cheap Food Makes You Sick – Huffington Post Article
I moved to cage free and preferably free range eggs a while back. I’ve given up mayonnaise because the eggs in it come from such places. While the eggs are pasteurized it would be an economic vote for such places as the Iowa factory farms producing the tainted eggs to buy such a product.
And eggs are not the only cheap food that has a high cost. Just about all the meat (chicken, turkey, beef, and pork) in the supermarkets of this country comes from industrialized farms. It has been well documented why these are not good places, and definitely not good places to get the food that nourishes your body. As much as I love a good steak, I cannot in good conscience eat one anymore.
This is a capitalistic society. Dollars are economic votes. Is seemingly cheap more important than the environment, the workers in such places, the animals welfare, or if self interest motivates, your health? Is it really ethical to sustain such places with your continued participation by buying their product? Unfortunately, for so many of these corporate operations, the bottom line is what matters. It should be different, but they only change when they see their bottom lines headed the wrong way.
How are you voting?
Winter's Bone
I was curious when scanning the local theater offerings to find a movie that was not on my radar. Reading the first few lines of the synopsis, I became curiouser and curiouser. The film was shot in Southwest Missouri, directed by a woman and winner at Sundance. My hubby, being of a good nature, often lets me drag him to the latest movie that I want to see. But he does tend to like little known, artsy and foreign films. We have an agreement that certain percentage of rentals must be in English.
Another story for the grandkids…about grandkids.
When my son was around 3 or so we were all at my mother’s house for dinner. My mother is very strict about manners and all the grandkids knew that unquestionably. They all tried their darnedest (at least at that point in their young lives) to avoid a run in with Grandma about manners. My son burps, and we all look at him expecting an “excuse me”. He looks back at us and says, “It was the burp bird in my pocket.” What you do after that?
We did not know it then, but that incidence was a good foreshadowing of my son’s future personality.
Fast forward 30 some odd years, Read the rest of this entry »
In 1973 I had moved back to Oklahoma from Rhode Island for various reasons. The primary one was that my father (and family) had been transferred overseas several months earlier. This left little ole lonesome me all alone in big ole Rhode Island. I decided to move to where I had some relatives. Shortly after arriving there I found a job working in the warehouse of Coburn Optical.
After dropping out of college I had spent almost two years working in an injection molding factory. Combine that with time working in a warehouse, and I was more than ready to improve my lot. I went back to school, Read the rest of this entry »
