Povey Prattle

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Read it: For the fruit of all creation, thanks be to God. gifts bestowed on every nation, thanks be to God. For the plowing, sowing, reaping, silent growth while we are sleeping, future needs in earth's safekeeping, thanks be to God. In the just reward of labor, God's will is done. In the help we give our neighbor, God's will is done. In our worldwide task of caring for the hungry and despairing, in the harvests we are sharing, God's will is done. For the harvests of the Spirit, thanks be to God. For the good we all inherit, thanks be to God. For the wonders that astound us, for the truths that still confound us, most of all that love has found us, thanks be to God. (A hymn by the late Fred Pratt Green, a Methodist Minister in England) Sing it https://youtu.be/0He7zI7kasE

William the Conqueror set a curfew (from the French  couvre-feu  or cover fire) at 8:00 p.m., which was widely adopted across medieval Europe.  Though this was ostensibly imposed to prevent fires from catching while people slept, those who will have read "William I – 1066   by Eleanor Farjeon" will recall that it was more likely about preventing candlelit late-night public plotting.

Let's be clear about this. 1. The current expressions  of xenophobia, paranoia, fear-mongering, ill-informed, anti-immigrant, Islam hating, Islam fearing, Mexican hating, deceitful pronouncements by "would be"   presidential candidates in the U.S.A. will bring about  nothing that is good . It will bring about  much which is  bad . 2.  This vile rhetoric, especially as espoused by Mr. Donald Trump and Dr, Ben Carson (both Republicans) is tacitly supported by the silence of "would be" Democratic presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, Silence = Complicity. 3. My beloved native land (The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) is also in the grip of unthinking xenophobia, anti-immigrant, anti-Islam rhetoric. 4. If (in the U.S.A.) your main source of news is Fox News, CNN, or CNBC  do understand that you are being fed a dangerous diet of Islamaphobia and anti immigrant rhetoric,  much of w...

.. at parking in the marked spaces in parking lots.  It's often the case that we do not move forward enough, and that we park at strange angles which take up the whole of one parking spot, and a bit of another. We always fail the validation test.