Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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Amen! Thank you.
This verse reminded me of another treasured verse in Jeremiah.
Your words were found, and I ate them,
and your words became to me a joy
and the delight of my heart,
for I am called by your name,
O Lord, God of hosts.
Jer 15:16 ESV
Garrison, I wanted to post this tomorrow.
Morning Ya’ll 🙂
Good morning, jay 🙂
Howdy Garrison 🙂
Goood morning jay!!!
Looks like you started a theme of sorts today 😂
Have a good one today Jay!!
Howdy FC Bless your heart
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May I do a big group GOOD MORNING to three fellow branch dwellers without whom this Tree would look pretty bare.
Blessings to you, Mr jay, Garrison, and Cat. Hoping Tue day is kind to each one of you🙏😘
Maidin Mhaith Betsy your wise words on this branch are most comforting. May your days be Blessed always
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Thank you for the smile you gave me, sir💖
Morning Bet! Another busy day for me. Maybe I’ll catch up this afternoon. ❤️😍
Be well, my dear brother…it seems those days not busy have been a rarity. You should just put those skates on permanently😉😘
LOL! Maybe ought to buy a pair of rollerblades. 😘
Have a little window here while on the reclining bike for 30 minutes. Then weights work out and then off to the races.
Roller blades would work…as long as you wear all the protective pads for unfortunate spills. Go get em!!😘
Good morning, Bet. 🙂
😘!!!
Good morning Cat! 💜
Good Morning grandpa 💜
Did M ever read my reply to the ribeye post?
Good morning jay!
Howdy Gramps 🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸
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So far, so good. Tomorrow, the rest of the story …
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I’m taking away a very hopeful message from your sanguine looking moggy, Leon. May it be so.🙏
(Don’t forget…moggy is what we called our beloved feline companions in Wales💕)
God’s beauty has healing qualities
Poised pensively
positively
prayerful
Have a really good day, Leon❣️
Good morning Patience! ❤️
It is; thanks 😎
Have a gleeful day, Pa❣️❣️
Good morning, Patience and Ma🤗🤗 All His blessings to you both😘
Thank you 💖
Wishing you a lovely day with bountiful blessings, Betsy.🍀
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Merci! Seeing your lovely hospitable cuppa tells me it’s time for another…A little earlier than I normally do, but rules are made to be broken, right?😉
Prayers up, Leon. 🙏🏻
One more . . .
Hi garrison! ❤️
Mornin’ Cat. I so enjoyed hearing Manuel’s playing of Scarlatti that I thought it was worth posting another evening/morning of his music. . . 🙂
Awww shucks Garrison 🥰
A second good morning to you, Garrison. What’s to say? Lovely, peaceful, calming, sublime…feel free to add your own descriptive. 😘
…aaaaaaand there went October…
Hi, Bet . . . Please see above. 🙂
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Howdy Garrison!
Mornin’ Gramps! 🙂
These were wonderful!
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Good day, Garrison😎.
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Parents are 100 Percent Qualified to Homeschool Their Children
The core of the propaganda against home schooling is the idea that parents are unqualified to teach their kids. After all, public school teachers are required to have a degree and license.
If teachers really are uniquely qualified, it doesn’t show: public schools have only gotten worse since I exited their grip. American children routinely perform below grade level in reading and math. And the left-wing agenda of many schools is on full display as education officials force radical race and gender ideology into the classroom.
But whatever a parent’s reasons for considering homeschooling—religion, academics, school environment, or something else—parents are qualified to teach their kids.
There’s continuing debate about whether homeschoolers perform better academically than children in conventional schools. But the data are clear: 78 percent of peer-reviewed studies show that homeschoolers academically outperform students in typical schools.
https://intellectualtakeout.org/2022/10/parent-qualified-home-school-child/
Would venture a guess and say that students’ grades in rural schools have been relatively stable compared to falling aptitude test scores in big city schools over the past 40 years.
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We didn’t get our triplets cell phones until they were teenagers. What is wrong with people?! And no one is allowed to have a cell phone at our table, no matter who they are.
Same for the grands here.
Yet my former SIL swears that home schooled kids “seem dumb” to her. I always wondered why she thought herself qualified to make that judgment.
Good morning, Liz. It does beg the question.
My life lessons and experiences educated me far, far more than all the years I spent in the system, including my university degree. My father generously funded that degree, and I am grateful for it.
But if someone said to me you can have that diploma or your decades of actual education, I’d not deliberate even half a second.
My daughter’s triplets plus one fared better and learned more in their homeschool environment while those schools were closed during the lockdowns. After they were back in school, she became a science teacher at their school, teaching and taking all the tests for her certification at the same time. Two years after, she was chosen Teacher of The Year.
They have moved this year…I don’t know what the schools are like but I guarantee she will assess. My hope is she and her husband will decide to pick up that homeschooling that so benefited their four.
Another benefit is that if they are home-schooled they wont be so exposed to the latest flu or plague.
Or the RSV which seems to be rampant…so right.
In the past, a lot of home-schooled kids did not get much socialization learning – they learned content in isolation. So, they seemed awkward interacting with others. Since the China flu, however, parents are creating home-schooling groups for daily learning. That should help.
My experience was not so much of homeschoolers being “awkward”, rather that they tended to behave as one would expect from adults instead of being “silly”.
In the 1970s I was working at a small private school when a fourth grader from Alaska came in. She had been homeschooled. When I met her I thought she might be one of the mothers (she was already starting adolescent physical changes). She came across as mature, calm and “equal” instead of the giggly child act that many kids have
During the Covid Hoax I know one Mom with 2 elementary school girls.
She said after participating with them in their online classes and basically homeschooling them…..
She was never sending them to public schools again.
Another Mom with twin 4th grade boys wound up putting them into a parochial school-she refused to play “the mask game”.
I believe that Covid kickstarted the move from public schools.
Good.
This statistic is several years old. Western Washington is supposed to be 33% home &private schooled, my wife is involved with the private school our kids attended and it grew 40% this year.
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Agreed. Homeschooled 3.
We are now…14 year old adopted great nephew.
I think one of the pressures of our society is that we “need” two incomes to “make it”.
Lord! Have mercy. Please. ✝️
Designed that way, Frank…anything that could be done to disrupt the nuclear family. Need two incomes to survive? Leave it to someone else, possibly the state, to rear your children for a great part of the day. Lucky those parents who had their parents to help out. We did for our daughter…A gift for her, the grands…and a blessing for us. Not everyone has that option I am well aware.
Most of the national Scripps spelling bee finalists for years have been home-schooled children.
Amen. Thank you 🙏.
I’ve been surveying my life asking for “fresh oil” so to speak. Revival.
How much persecution do I face? Smirk.
I’m sure I’d suffer more if I boldly shared my faith more as in the devotional above. I’m moving in that direction.
I’d rather be known more as one characterized as loving people and getting the gospel out, than one who is constantly “talking politics” while angry. I’m moving in that direction.
I’m praying for revival for myself and revival in our land.
“Fresh oil. Fresh oil.” ✝️
Love your post Frank. I’m borrowing your prayer, for my own revival.
“..loving people and getting the gospel out, than…constantly talking politics while angry..”
Praise the Lord always. God bless you all.
I have been doing all three things lately. Our RINO state senator put a local amendment on our ballot in our rural county. It adds 15 mils to the school board part of our property taxes. The problem is he did not put the additional mils added on the ballot. We don’t have a local newspaper, so I have been going to ALL the churches in our area – giving them sample ballots from the probate office, and asking them to get the word out to their church members…. Especially those on fixed incomes or persons struggling financially right now. The average salary in our county is $60,000 per year. I can’t bear to think of my neighbors not knowing the numbers and voting for something that will hurt them more in these times.
So, i am talking politics – but with love, not angrily.
Lord love you for stepping up. What an incompetent , not fit for purpose oaf your RINO rep is. But then I think that pejorative applies to all RINOs, not just yours.
Good morning, Frank. It is always a good thing to self assess, especially when it comes to our souls and spiritual well being. But rather than a “yearly review”, I seem to be doing it every day.
And per Cat’s Chambers post today, I am constantly being molded and shaped. Or as I often think, my Father reviewing must write in my book…”A work in progress, much more to be done.”
And to that I ask for His continued, as you so eloquently say, application of more “oil”.
Blessings to you as always, my dear brother…
As the world spins out of control, in preparation for the rise of the Antichrist in the middle east, I find myself moving in the same direction.
Netanyahu has just been returned to office in Israel this evening.
A tribute to Loretta Lynn from Lukas Nelson, Willie’s son with Loretta’s grandaughter, Emmy Russell. Lukas sounds just like his famous father.
Some scoff at the term Transhumanism. Here is a lecture by Chuck Missler that hits many notes you can check out:
peter green/fleetwood mac : Man of the World
peter green/splinter group /33 years later:
Hi dreamboat!!
Never heard this before!!
Thanks ❤️
hello ♥️, and you’re welcome..
-the moon is a harsh mistress
For All Souls Day…..
Thank you for sharing!
What a great setting for it to be played.
I can only imagine how the sound moved through the mountains and canyons there.
I love to listen to Amazing Grace on the bagpipes…even though I always cry.
Having lived south but of Scotland for a long time, those bagpipes and drums really do speak to KY heaet. That it is Amazing Grace he is playing, well…they speak louder.🙏
…my heart….you know who I’m blaming for that mistake…that’s right…autocorrect, my archenemy.
November 1 Oswald Chambers
“You Are Not Your Own”
Do you not know that…you are not your own? —1 Corinthians 6:19
There is no such thing as a private life, or a place to hide in this world, for a man or woman who is intimately aware of and shares in the sufferings of Jesus Christ. God divides the private life of His saints and makes it a highway for the world on one hand and for Himself on the other. No human being can stand that unless he is identified with Jesus Christ. We are not sanctified for ourselves. We are called into intimacy with the gospel, and things happen that appear to have nothing to do with us. But God is getting us into fellowship with Himself. Let Him have His way. If you refuse, you will be of no value to God in His redemptive work in the world, but will be a hindrance and a stumbling block.
The first thing God does is get us grounded on strong reality and truth. He does this until our cares for ourselves individually have been brought into submission to His way for the purpose of His redemption. Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The life of Abraham is an illustration of two things: of unreserved surrender to God, and of God’s complete possession of a child of His for His own highest end.
https://utmost.org/you-are-not-your-own/
If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?
Guessing God’s got to break some eggs for the perfect omelette?
Have a blessed day treepers!!! ✝️
Mornin Cat!
– eggs on onions sauté d in butter & olive oil
Morning patience!!
Smells yummy 😋
I’ll take some leftover ribeye strips in my omelette, please. ❤️😍
01 November 2021 Pat Martino [Azzara], American jazz guitarist (DownBeat Guitar Player of the Year, 2004), dies of chronic respiratory disorder at 77
01 November 2017 Katie Lee, American folk singer, environmentalist and author (Colorado River Songs), dies at 98
01 November 2016 (Martin) “Bap” Kennedy, Irish singer-songwriter (“Moonlight Kiss”; “Sailor’s Revenge”), dies of pancreatic cancer at 54
01 November 2008 Nathaniel Mayer, American R&B singer (“Village of Love”; “Leave Me Alone”), dies after multiple strokes at 64
01 November 2008 Jimmy Carl Black [Inkanish], American rock drummer (Mothers Of Invention, 1965-69; Muffin Men, 1993-2008), dies of lung cancer at 70
01 November 2004 Terry Knight, American rock producer and singer (Grand Funk Railroad), murdered by his daughter’s boyfriend defending her during a domestic dispute at 61
01 November 1990 Ray Pohlman, American session upright and electric bass guitarist and arranger (The Wrecking Crew), and jazz guitarist, dies of heart failure at 60
01 November 1986 Sippie Wallace [Beulah Belle Thomas], American blues singer (“Women Be Wise”) dies on her 88th birthday
Good Morning magic!!
I hope you don’t mind if I balance sippie’s advice to women with some
November 1
MORNING
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. Prov. 8:34
Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us. Psa. 123:2
A continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee. Exo. 29:42
In all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. Exo. 20:24
Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Matt. 18:20
The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John 4:23, 24
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit. Eph. 6:18
Pray without ceasing. I Thess. 5:17
EVENING
His name shall be called Counsellor. Isa. 9:6
The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the LORD. And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD. Isa. 11:2, 3
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man. O ye simple, understand wisdom: and ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. Prov. 8:1, 4-6, 14
The LORD of hosts … is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. Isa. 28:29
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. James 1:5
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Prov. 3:5, 6
J. Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/11/1101.html
Amen 🙏
Good MAGA morning!
Goood morning catus!!
Great start to the day!!!
Have a blessed day ❤️
Not for me you’re not, Flyover.
We have Sirius XM and on November 5 will begin almost two months of beautiful Christmas music in all its forms. The Channel is terribly misnamed…Holiday Pops. I don’t know who came up with that misnomer.
Oratorios, cantatas, traditional music from other countries, joyous, uplifting, sublime… most I’ve come to know well, but every year there are new discoveries to marvel over. We really do look forward to this every year…
No, never too early for me.
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Magnificent
~thanks …. ahhhh
“Ridin’ like ’em ancient Romans?
Two great horsemen making it look easy…..
Ben Johnson was always favorite “horsemen” in old westerns .. remember that scene 😀👍
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Many of the same faces in John Wayne’s movies, especially Carey, Johnson and McLaughlin
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Amen!
The 50th Psalm
Septuagint
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great of Bithynia (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
From Small Compline
Rejoice Virgin Theotokos, Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, for thou hast borne the Savior of our souls. (Thrice)
Tuesday of the 21st Week of the Epistles
Holy Prophet Joel (+ 800 B.C.)
Saint Frideswide of Oxford, Abbess (+ ca. 735)
First Translation of the Holy Relics (in 1187) of Saint John, founder of the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria (+ 946)
Glorification (1964) of Saint John of Kronstadt the Wonderworker (+ 1908)
Holy New Hieromartyr Sergei (Pokrovsky) of Kaluga (+ 1937)
October 19th- Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
November 1st – civil or commercial or calendar
Saints of God pray for us!
Mornin’ all.
I watched this over and over
Good morning all.
Walked in the door at 23:00 last night from the three stop milk run up Chicago way. Stops were Peru, Ottawa, and Lockport, IL.
Today at 11:00 I depart with a Nestles load of Boost for Breinigsville, PA. Drop the loaded trailer there where ever they tell me and then hook to an empty and pull out into the Bull Pen to take a 10 hour break. Tomorrow I pickup components for automobile parts in Phillipsburg and Ridgeway, PA then take them to the terminal at Vandalia, OH. IF I have the hours to get home, which is doubtful, I will then hook to whatever trailer they tell me to and bring that back to Anderson.
Odds are though I will probably take another break at Vandalia before either coming home or getting assigned another load.
This is always a very busy time of the year and I expect to be kept hopping until about 7 to 10 days before Christmas.
Hope you all have a wonderful day.
I enjoy your road reports as much as your comments on military history and the weather.
Keep’m coming.
Have a great day yourself. Today is the first day of the rest of your life!
Be safe, rah! 🙏🏻
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PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
Good morning, duchess. My day starts so much better for your beautiful Scripture postings. Thank you.🙏😘
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.
AMEN.
Verse of the Day for Tuesday, November 1, 2022
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“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
John 15:13 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Amen!!🙏
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
In case you didn’t notice. Winter Park just opened a couple lifts and it open for skiing the earliest it has ever been during it’s 87 year history. Two other major ski resorts are open for business already also.
ha ha. doc and i got rid of our colorado map books – we were trying to figure out if Winter Park snow will drain into the platte (mississippi) or the colorado rivers (lake mead)
just little mind games. too many years since we lived in colorado (left in 1989) and already we forgot.
What i remember most about driving in those beautiful mountains = every curve you went around presented a new, spectacularl vista. And they were not just curves – the went up and down. Steep descents were s turns in the road carved out of the sides of mountains.
Lots of ‘easterners’ hated driving in the mountains – because the edge of the road often went DOWN steep and far down. They’d huddle up next to the driver in absolute terror.
ah, the good old days
Nova Scotia TV keeping Gaelic alive in better days.
Happy Tuesday treepers!!
Am I the only one that played this and got a big grin? Supposedly raises the dopamine brain levels. 🤷♀️
Name of group-Infected mushroom- spitfire.
( this kind of “mushroom” feral likes) 😂
Here’s where I found it, should anyone be interested. There’s lots of different genres, couple classical ones too, I think.
Flavourwire says get you high… I prefer makes you happy 🤷♀️
https://www.flavorwire.com/141457/10-songs-that-will-get-you-high-according-to-science
Life is hard people. And you have to work. It is not fair!
Check out this Starbucks employee who started wailing on the floor because work is hard
Oh, the humanity!
Phflipper!!! I sent that to all three of my teenage grands. The twin 17 year old young men (I almost said “boys”….they’re not that any more) both work for a well known burger eatery in our town. So school, then work, perhaps 4 days a week, including Friday nights which are football nights of course here in Texas.
Which means the crowds come in fast and furious after the game. Which means busy, busy, busy until well after closing time. One of my grandlads flips the burgers and sets up the plates. Lately for lack of staff, he is by his lonesome in the kitchen, run off his feet.
And so reliable are he and his brother, that both are allowed to finish and close. Additionally, they are saving, not spending, there wages.
I am so proud of them…no complaints from either about being tired, or stressed, or not managed. As they both said, ” Well, they pay us to show up.” Nope…they have a sense of responsibility. And best yet, their already good grades are getting even better, despite working long after school and weekend hours. Does correlation equal causation? In this case I do believe it does.
Life is going to deal out some pretty rough cards for this boy in the video. I hope he is capable of doing a 180 before long.
(sorry for all the bragging…but it is proof positive for us that they were listening while I had them captive in the car on all those long gone school runs. I am grateful)
…or is causation correlation…I always get that one back to front…
My granddad was a man of few words and when I did something prompting that certain look from him I knew not to do it again. My dad had the same look and I learned early.
I just can not wrap my mind around the individuals crying over co-workers not showing up for their shifts. Suck it up buttercup and shine, show your employer what you are made of – in his case not made of – goodness.
Reading about your grandkids is very encouraging. You should be proud!
My sister allowed my nephew to make his choices growing up and when he did she pushed him to follow through on everything he choose to do. Quitting wasn’t an option, ever and the result has been nothing short of phenomenal accomplishments and character.
In that video, what in the world can cause such weakness? I have no other words to describe it.
My dad had the same look as your grandad and your dad. In fact I’m now remembering it, and I feel that frisson of what would come if I saw it…
No physical retribution…just an unspoken message of “I am disappointed in what you have done.” Once seen never forgotten, and always felt deeply.
I am sure your sister and I would get along well. Kids have to learn about choice making. We start early with small ones, such as letting them decide what outfit to wear to school (within reason, of course) and as they grow, move on to other more consequential choices.
She is right. Whatever that may be, following through is required. Wise woman.
And to that end, life has put some interesting detours in my way. Ones I had not planned for in the way I saw that life playing out. Eventually one of those unforeseen routes placed us just up the street from my daughter and her then husband and their three. All was well in their lives, and I told her when we moved so close, if she needed me, I was here…if not, then I wouldn’t be camped out on her doorstep.
But as in my life, hers veered off into detours of its own, so that our proximity to her has been a true gift for us all…her, us, and our grands. We have been able to pass on what we know, what we have learned in our long lives, what we know is right, true, and moral.
And that look your grandad had? I have one as well, which all three have seen.
I actually feel sorry for that lad in that video. Perhaps he’ll be fortunate enough to make the acquaintance of someone who truly cares for him enough to deliver some truths which one day may cause him to look back and wonder that he ever filmed such a pathetic portrait of his younger self.
Stranger things have happened. We’ll hope for that for him.
Blessings to you, Phflipper😊
It’s starting to look like current Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro will cross the Rubicon. Alea Iacta Est.
Just saw a report that the truckers blocking the roads in Brazil in protest of a rigged election have been joined by the police. Now there’s something one never sees. It’s going to get brutal.
See Pepe Escobar’s explanatory article on the Saker for a better understanding of who’s who in this Brazilian Game of Thrones.
https://thesaker.is/
This is the main link. His article appears twice…once at the top and once in the Commentary section.
Comments are interesting as well.
It’s a new month, and this is my first “poor taste” post for November. Dedicated to the Pelosi family. Stop! Hammer time!
Amen.
Amen…
Amen🙏
We won’t know apparently until Thursday, but at this moment Netanyahu’s party has secured the majority in the Israel government, making him Prime Minister once more. May it be so.🙏
Amen.
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Amen.
Any news on the new Treehouse payment gateway ?
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.