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ART:
In my cover page I refer to a drawing accepted (confiscated, but proud) into U of MO’s permanent collection that went on tour. Also, it was in Drawing I I think. Luckily, I took a photo before it left. I believe it was a 5-minute conte on newsprint:
Current:
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| Small 4 x 6” oil, entrance to Garden of the Gods |
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| 11 x 14” oil, Lakes Park, Fort Myers |
OTHER ART:
My Matisse selfie?
OTHER’S ART:Missouri’s own THB
FLORIDA:
I wanna go, meet me there?
One night walk
Another night, another walk
What is it? No emblems, at my tire shop.
Did not know he was in town😅
LISTENING:
Don’t like his politics but love these two songs, Country Girl has a sensitivity
Link to Country Girl
If you picture the story one of the saddest songs, so much heartache for friends, family, band mates…
It is live, acoustic. Not sure if it is tuned in E, but watch his fingering. Great stuff.
Just learned of the song by Cracker
First is a live version
Next is a studio cut, you will want to wear headphones to capture it all.
READING: from Memorial Day weekend - the opposite of Kamala’s “Have a fun weekend” Tweet…
He was getting old and paunchy
And his hair was falling fast,
And he sat around the Legion,
Telling stories of the past.
Of a war that he once fought in
And the deeds that he had done,
In his exploits with his buddies;
They were heroes, every one.
And 'tho sometimes to his neighbors
All his buddies listened quietly
For they knew where of he spoke.
But we'll hear his tales no longer,
For ol' Joe has passed away,
And the world's a little poorer
For a Veteran died today.
He won't be mourned by many,
Just his children and his wife.
For he lived an ordinary,
He held a job and raised a family,
Going quietly on his way;
And the world won't note his passing,
'Tho a Veteran died today.
When politicians leave this earth,
Their bodies lie in state,
While thousands note their passing,
And proclaim that they were great.
Papers tell of their life stories
From the time that they were young,
But the passing of a Veteran
Goes unnoticed, and unsung.
Is the greatest contribution
To the welfare of our land,
Some jerk who breaks his promise
Who in times of war and strife,
Goes off to serve his country
And the style in which he lives,
Are often disproportionate,
To the service that he gives.
While the ordinary Veteran,
And perhaps a pension, small.
It is not the politicians
With their compromise and ploys,
Who won for us the freedom
That our country now enjoys.
Should you find yourself in danger,
With your enemies at hand,
Would you really want some cop-out,
With his ever-waffling stand?
Or would you want a Veteran
His home, his country, his kin,
Who would fight until the end.
He was just a common Veteran,
And his ranks are growing thin,
But his presence should remind us
We may need his likes again.
For when countries are in conflict,
We find the Veteran's part,
Is to clean up all the troubles
That the politicians start.
If we cannot do him honor
While he’s here to hear the praise,
Then at least let’s give him homage
At the ending of his days.
Perhaps just a simple headline
In the paper that might say:
“OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING,
A VETERAN DIED TODAY."
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“I like a good story, and I also like staring at the sea. Do I have to chose between the two?” David Byrne
“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest things without it.” Carl Jung
And, John Steinbeck as quoted: “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” I guess for better or worse😬
LISTENING: Whoops, this should go to LISTENING up above, oh well…
HUMOR:
Oh Babylon Bee……😂
I love how in scary movies the person walks into a house and yells out “HELLO?”
As if the killer is going to be like “Yeah, I’m in the kitchen, want a sandwich?”
I used to go out with a homeless girl. Yeah, it was great because after sex, I could drop her off anywhere.”
?Can you use a joint account with your girlfriend to purchase weed?
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This happened to me many times because I wouldn’t cover MY nose…
I FIND THIS INTERESTING:
During the last three SCOTUS hearings we kept hearing from the liberals of the pending End Of The World…however,
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Is Biden Henry VIII? St. Thomas More
His belief that no lay ruler has jurisdiction over the church of Christ cost Thomas More his life.
Beheaded on Tower Hill, London, July 6, 1535, he steadfastly refused to approve Henry VIII's divorce and remarriage and establishment of the Church of England.
Described as "a man for all seasons," More was a literary scholar, eminent lawyer, gentleman, father of four children and chancellor of England. An intensely spiritual man, he would not support the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon in order to marry Anne Boleyn. Nor would he acknowledge Henry as supreme head of the church in England, breaking with Rome and denying the pope as head.
More was committed to the Tower of London to await trial for treason: not swearing to the Act of Succession and the Oath of Supremacy. Upon conviction, More declared he had all the councils of Christendom and not just the council of one realm to support him in the decision of his conscience.
Four hundred years later, in 1935, Thomas More was canonized a saint of God. Few saints are more relevant to our time. In fact, in 2000, Pope John Paul II named him patron of political leaders. The supreme diplomat and counselor, Thomas More did not compromise his own moral values in order to please the king, knowing that true allegiance to authority is not blind acceptance of everything that authority wants. Henry himself realized this and tried desperately to win his chancellor to his side because he knew More was a man whose approval counted, a man whose personal integrity no one questioned. But when Thomas resigned as chancellor, unable to approve the two matters that meant most to Henry, the king felt he had to get rid of Thomas.
Excerpted from Saint of the Day, Leonard Foley, O.F.M.
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For 20 years, Vicki Burbach had committed to daily spiritual reading, while admitting that “some days have gone better than others.” But she notes: “I’ve learned some basic things, such as how hard it is to make the time for spiritual reading, but how good it makes me feel when I’ve done it — kind of like jogging for the soul. I’ve also noticed that spiritual reading is better for my psyche than any motivational book. It helps me to grow in faith and to deepen my relationship with God, which in turn has strengthened every other area of my life.”
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From Bishop Barron:
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MEMORIAL OF SAINT ALOYSIUS GONZAGA, RELIGIOUS |
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Friends, the story at the heart of our Gospel for today is the storm at sea. Karl Barth said that the stormy waters in all of these cases stands for das Nichtige, "the nothing," that which stands opposed to God’s creative intentions, difficulties both interior and exterior, difficulties physical, psychological, and spiritual.
The disciples in the boat are, as I’ve often said, evocative of the Church, making its way through time and space. And those waters are symbolic of everything that besets the members of the Church. To stay within the emotional space of the story, this must have been a terrible storm, to have terrified experienced sailors. This is no small problem, no minor difficulty.
Do you know the de profundis prayer? It comes from Psalm 130: "Out of the depths, I call to you, Lord. Lord, hear my cry!" It is the prayer we should offer at the darkest times of life, when we find ourselves lost and in the shadow of death, when, in our desperation, we feel utterly incapable of helping ourselves.
And, Mark 4 35-41
Friends, Jesus’ parable in today’s Gospel is one of the most psychologically and spiritually insightful remarks in the New Testament. Let’s face it: a favorite pastime of most human beings is criticism of others.
We delight in pointing out the shortcomings, moral failings, and annoying tendencies of our neighbors. This is, of course, a function of pride and egotism: the more I put someone else down, the more elevated I feel.
But it is also, oddly, a magnificent means of turning a mirror on ourselves, to see what usually remains unseen. Why, we ought to ask, do we find precisely this sin of others particularly annoying? Why does that trait or sin of a confrere especially gall us?
Undoubtedly, Jesus implies, because it reminds us of a similar failing in ourselves. I remember a retreat director asking each of us to call to mind a person that we found hard to take and then to recount in detail the characteristics that made the person so obnoxious to us. Then he recommended that we go back to our room and ask God to forgive those same faults in ourselves. His words were as unnerving and as illuminating as these words of Jesus. |
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Georgia, vote, MLB All-Starr game move, etc. Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock and likely Democratic nominee for governor Stacey Abrams have suddenly remembered they actually have to face voters in 2022, so they decided to lie about their past positions on voter identification.
Abrams couldn’t even go two months in between her lie and her own opposition to voter ID. After objecting to voter ID requirements as recently as April, she now says it is a fallacy of GOP talking points and that “no one has ever objected” to voter ID requirements.
Meanwhile, Warnock
toldNBC News he has “never been opposed to voter ID,” and he didn’t know anybody who is opposed to it either. That would be
news to the Raphael Warnock of 2012, 2015, or 2016. Most notably, Warnock considered voter ID requirements to be a "poll tax" in 2012. Earlier this year, he opposed Georgia’s election reform bill, as did Abrams, on the grounds it makes it more difficult to vote in the state (which was not true).
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Fathers…
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How about you go first and I‘ll follow - not
BELOW THE FOLD: WARNING:
FROM CatholicVote.org:
Everyone was too quick to cave in to the premise that was e shouldn’t weaponize the Eucharist. Yes we should. The sacrificed Lamb is the ultimate conquerer of evil. (Bold is mine) Absolutely wield it against the architects of the industrial-scale murder. Lift high the cross. Charge.
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I think, The truth might very well divide. Life interrupted before birth has to stop, if nowhere else, in the land of Life Liberty and Happiness.
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😳 DRAG QUEENS ON MILITARY BASE The Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada recently hosted a drag queen show at one of its on-base dining and entertainment clubs. Nellis Air Force Base confirmed the event in a statement to Breitbart News: “The event was sponsored by a private organization and provided an opportunity for attendees to learn more about the history and significance of drag performance art within the LGBT+ community.”
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I'm over 70 and I'm Tired (True Story check it out)
I'm 70
Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired.
I'm tired of being told
that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.
I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers;" of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery;" of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Sharia law tells them to.
I'm tired of being told that, out of "tolerance for other cultures," we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America and Canada, while no American nor Canadian group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance..
I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off?
I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.
I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.
Yes, I'm damn tired. But I'm also glad to be 70. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughters and grandsons.
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. ***** ****************************************** |
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Why on earth… if you want to support the loser, send a check, but why show up at a $10,000 fund raiser with the press? Did you see that his youngest daughter declared herself a Demi sexual😳 What???
Mainline Florida by Clapton: Link to Mainline Florida. 
My Matisse selfie?
I wanna go, meet me there?
One night walk
What is it? No emblems, at my tire shop.
Did not know he was in town😅
Oh Babylon Bee……😂
How about you go first and I‘ll follow - not
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