
Granddaughter Monday pic
Heart-melt….from the granddaughter, via her Mommy.(More below, with captions. Click title of post to see them on the post’s dedicated page)
Heart-melt….from the granddaughter, via her Mommy.(More below, with captions. Click title of post to see them on the post’s dedicated page)
““Screw COVID. I went to Sturgis,” read one t-shirt from the rally, where overwhelming support for President Trump was the norm. ” https://www.motherjones.com/…/sturgis-motorcycle-rally-is-n… How pathetically stupid, and alarmingly evil. What **I** want is king. How dare you threaten to take that away!
So spot on as to the problem with “identity theology” , which doesn’t bother with the right question. It focuses instead on “correctness” as something one “owns” and others don’t. It’s failure to ask about how our neighbor is affected , and neglected, is what makes it a doorway to hate, which is born out of ignorance of the neighbor’s Continue Reading
Granddaughter Gabriella, born August 21, 2020, 7:40 pm CDT in Murfreesboro, TN, video taken Aug.23 approx 3:30 pm CDT youtu.be/HRGI4rt3qJ4
My son Brian and his little Gabriella, born 7:40 pm CDT, Murfreesboro, TN:(shared just minutes ago by Gabrielle’s mom, Brandy)
Question: Can institutions of *higher learning*, ya know, LEARN? University of Alabama reports more than 500 confirmed COVID-19 cases https://www.al.com/news/2020/08/university-of-alabama-reports-more-than-500-confirmed-covid-19-cases.html
My college days and Facebook friend Toby Roberts made a comment that sent me into a reply that I want to share as a post: Toby: Does the virus not like weddings? Actually, it LOVES weddings. Me: And they are happening, weekend after weekend, all summer, right across the street from me and unavoidably reminding me of the utter senselessness of clinging Continue Reading
I posted yesterday about another wedding about to happen. Well, it did, and it was just like the others: 40-50 people, exhibiting ZERO caution about distancing, or masks, laughing and screaming, singing, indoors for hours, and topping it off with a bride-groom procession between lines of people on both sides, maskless, shoulder to shoulder, out the front door and into Continue Reading
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/21/forced_school_reopenings_amid_pandemic
This is perhaps the scariest aspect of this whole pandemic for me, as I have family members involved in education, and am a lifelong devotee to quality and meaning and means of education. This push to “re-open” education is a carbon copy of the prior craze to “re-open America” and “get back to normal”. We are seeing dire consequences of Continue Reading
Trump Administration again tries to “bully” and retaliate, sending Michael Cohen back to prison from home confinement after he hesitated in signing a condition to his home confinement that he NOT publish his book or speak up about what is in it, or speak negatively about Trump. Federal judge says , in no uncertain terms, SHOVE IT. You cannot do Continue Reading