Today's quotes:
President Obama said, "Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11."
When we dumb ourselves down, we sell ourselves short and lose an opportunity to shed light where it is needed.
We’re a nation hungry for more joy: Because we’re starving from a lack of gratitude. |
BRENÉ BROWN |
"No. One China."
I think No. stands for Number, but it's always written "No. One." I got the wonderful Tofu Homestyle, and today the stir-fry had a great selection of veggies. Some days it's just broccoli. Not much tofu so far, and I will have left overs for another meal sometime.
The photos above the counter are barely discernable, but my dish isn't up there anyway. It's on the menu, but I never remember the number. And the fastest way to order is by phone. So when I arrived in their parking lot on the east side of Black Mountain, known as the Trucker's Supply parking lot, I called in my order. It used to be the Food Lion parking lot, and a few old timers still say that!
"15 minutes" she said.
So I went inside in 10 minutes, because the hot sun was turning my car into a sauna.
They don't air condition, but now that the counter has plastic all across it, the waiting area (used to be about 6 tables there) is cooler than in the car. And of course she packed up my lunch and took my money through the passthrough door, and put the bag through the other passthrough door. No problem. I was the only one in a mask in the waiting room. I was glad of it, with the 4 burly men waiting on the other side of the small room.
But they've (the owners) even put plastic on the cat, which originally was to be rubbed for luck, I think.
Today's quote:
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light. |
DR. ALBERT SCHWEITZER |
Today's quote:
These huge kalanchoes now sit by my steps. Obviously Miracle-grow makes big leaves grow!
I think I'll have to bring these inside for winter time. But now is the glorious end of summer, beginning of fall. I like it very much.
Sleeping with the windows open again. Ah. Woke up to no mountains showing because of the fog. But only in the 50s outside. I waited till the 70s showed in the sunshine to walk to where I had to park up the long hill yesterday, to drive my car back down to near my home...so I could load it with a cart full of my laundry. These tiny apartments don't include laundry facilities, and I choose to go to a laundromat rather than use the small machines they have here at Blue Ridge Apartments laundry room. I can put all my clothes, sheets and towels in one machine which handles 30 pounds of laundry there, and the big drier is done in 30 minutes! So I'm trying to psych myself up to going and doing it! And I must remind myself each time I get out of the car to put my mask on!
On another topic, one that deals with a political event in Texas, I hope anyone who reads this who lives in Texas will make efforts to get this law changed! Here's a description by NPR about the new anti-abortion law and the vigilantism that it promotes with a $10,000 bonus. Texas Law that Bans Abortion in 2021
Today's quote:
Being aware of the connection between all things can help you in terms of the broader effect you may be creating.
I somehow thought I dropped my phone when backing my desk chair up. Then I couldn't find it anywhere, so got down and looked under the couch. Nope. Now how do I get up from the floor? I must have remembered wrong, cause next thing I knew I was tumbled over on my back with my feet in the air. That didn't hurt, just surprised. But after crawling over to a chair, using elbows on its seat and then getting my feet under me, I saw I'd scraped my knee, and was getting a big bruise all across my left foot...the top of it. But nothing was bleeding, nor swollen. And I could walk. Whew. The phone was over on the table after all that!
I keep wondering how I got up from helping my neighbor out on the sidewalk when she fell last week. Somehow getting up wasn't a problem then! I was up and gone as soon as the EMT's got there. Wish they'd stayed around to help me get up this morning. Oh well. I see I need to practice using the lifting Barbara muscles these days!
Today's quote:
For though my faith is not yours and your faith is not mine, if we each are free to light our own flame, together we can banish some of the darkness of the world. |
RABBI LORD JONATHAN SACKS |
A grocery store packet of 6 colorful roses...
I like that they come as buds...sitting on my bedside table...
It takes a person of great heart to see…the wisdom the elders have to offer, and so serve them out of gratitude for the life they have passed on to us. |
KENT NERBURN |
Tai Rogers was born on this date forty two years ago.
I'm so very proud of him!
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| I couldn't have asked for a more loving son |
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| Then off to Eckerd College to prove college kids are really a bunch of nuts/er nerds/er brilliant young people! |
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| Yes, a college trip to Machu Pichu, Peru |
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| Tai and his dear one, Kendra in 2015 |
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| You'd have to ask him more about his love of the outdoors! |
Love the archaeological postings on facebook...
Perhaps the earliest example of domed architecture, the mammoth huts found in Mezhyrich, Ukraine, could be up to 25,000 years old. “Mammoth House” as shown at the “Frozen Woolly Mammoth Yuka Exhibit” in Yokoyama, Japan in Summer 2013. Photo: NANDARO/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/CC BY-SA 3.0
Huts built from mammoth bones found along the Dniepr river valley of Ukraine (and also at locations in Moravia, Czech Republic, and in southern Poland) may be the earliest structures built by prehistoric man, and thus the earliest examples of architecture
Just look at these mamouth bone huts from the Ukrain.
“They are composed of several hundred bones and tusks arranged in a rough circle, between 6 and 10 m (20 and 33 ft) in diameter. A hearth typically lies near the center of the former dwelling, and stone tools and other debris are scattered within and outside the structure. Large pits filled with stone tools, bone fragments and ash have been found near the houses."
“Considerable effort must have been required to assemble these structures. Even in a dry state, large mammoth bones weigh hundreds of pounds. It has been suggested that the bones and tusks were recovered from hunting episodes in which entire herds of adult mammoth and their young were slaughtered. A more likely explanation is that they were gathered from natural accumulations of bones perhaps at the mouths of streams and gullies near the sites. The primary purpose of the mammoth-bone dwellings which were presumably covered with animal skins, was probably shelter from extreme cold and high winds. Some archaeologists, impressed with the size and appearance of the structures, have argued that they also possess religious or social significance. The have been described as the earliest examples of ‘monumental architecture’ as evidence of increased social complexity and status differentiation during the final phase of the Ice Age.” (Paul G. Bahn (ed) 100 Great Archaeological Discoveries [1995] 54-55)
Thanks to EARTHLYMISSION.COM
Today's quote:
The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves. |
BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST |
It is far too easy to discourage, all too easy to criticize, to complain, to rebuke. Let us try instead to see even a small amount of good in a person and concentrate on that. Let us be quicker to praise than to find fault. Let us be quicker to thank others than to complain. |
DESMOND TUTU |
Happy September.
I'm walking again in the mornings. We have some leaves along the driveway and sidewalks already.
Since it will be close to 90 later on, and we often have evening showers...getting up to walk early is the best choice around!
Today's quote:
Often, the colors we like best are the colors we most need in our lives and provide us with subtle vibrational help.
