Is this real life in 2025?

 

From Phoenix AZ

What do you feel about all this? It makes me sad.

Great respect for a spiritual leader who believes and practices peace.

A picnic table waaay up there flung by flood waters of the Haw River in North Carolina (near Durham). Posted to Facebook on July 16, so it occurred the week before, when several days of flash floods happened (about the same time as New Jersey, New York City, Texas 2nd or 3rd version).

I won't say anything about the flooding in western North Carolina last fall.

I'm watching daily the fires in Colorado and Arizona and Utah and New Mexico on an app called "Watch Duty." My son in southwestern CO is dealing with lots of smoke where he lives...but fortunately no fires.

And the good news for today?

Meet 5 month old Cal and his mom, Alice. They were staff at the chiropractor's office this week. Did I mention how much better my neck is feeling? Now I do have to treat it by lying on a rolled up hand towel daily. There's nothing harder for me to do than lie still doing nothing. So I checked out an audio book!

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And a note: and don't miss the update at the end!!

Posted information from the Writer's Almanac - usually something I would believe to be factual. However July 16 is the birth anniversary of 2 people that are listed.

First is the woman whose religion I was raised in, so I do know her publications.

Birth anniversary of:

"religious leader and writer Mary Baker Eddy, born in Bow, New Hampshire (1821). As a child, she suffered from a spinal ailment and spent much of her life preoccupied by issues of health.

...She turned to the New Testament and was suddenly healed, which led her to discover what she later called Christian Science, or the "superiority of spiritual over physical power."

In 1875, she set down her principles in a voluminous work called "Science and Health, WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES", and in 1876 founded the Christian Science Association."

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Then the Writer's Almanac posted:

"It's the birthday of playwright Tony Kushner, born in New York City (1956). He's best known for his two-part play Angels in America (1991). He has written many plays since then, including ... 'The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism WITH A KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES' (2009)."

WHAT?

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I don't know Kushner's plays, but Mary Baker Eddy's book was "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES." (See photo below)

Boy oh boy, did they mangle that one! (but keep reading to the comment update!)

Later that day my son, Marty, commented to my Facebook post with this photo.

Wikipedia says this:

The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures is a 2009 play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The title was inspired by George Bernard Shaw's The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism and Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Plot: 

The play looks at the life of a 20th-century thinker, retired longshoreman Gus Marcantonio, who is feeling confused and defeated by the 21st century. In summer 2007, his sister, who has been staying with him for a year, invites Gus's three children (who in turn bring along spouses, ex-spouses, lovers and more) to a most unusual family reunion in their Brooklyn brownstone

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So actually anybody could write a key to the scriptures.

It reminds me of how sitting on our community porch I'll usually be surrounded by talk of how the current climate crisis events of floods, fires etc. were all forecast in the Bible, and where and how. I usually just get up and leave. I've studied the Bible, with and without Mrs. Eddy's "Key to the Scriptures," and I'll prefer to not discuss it with my neighbors. Somehow science is still very important to me.

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Medical issues float around this body. It just changes focus like the days with storms, or dry hot, or hot  humid. I'm so glad I can see specialists as well as have a general practitioner to hopefully orchestrate all the others.