Zion Is All Prepared
For my BIG 75 He is not sure about these birthday glasses. What a gorgeous face! (jmp 26th May 1944 - 26th May 2019)
Posts
It's Not About the Barbecue dammit.
Monday 27th May 2019. Memorial Day (U.S.A.) (with thanks to Karen N, Chris G, Mark D, and Mitch H who reminded me of some important truths) Memorial Day is an official U.S. Federal Holiday. It's a day off work for some (but not for those who work in retail or in hospitality). In the colder northern States it's reckoned to be the start of the summer barbecue season - just another holiday. But it's not about the barbecue dammit! Here's what it is about Memorial Day (first known as Decoration Day - when the graves of those killed in the Civil War were decorated);was popularly known as Memorial Day; and later given that name by official acts of first the State of New York, and later the Federal Government (1967). The first Memorial Day (as officially recognised by the U.S. Congress) took place in Waterloo, N.Y. in 1866. A Waterloo Pharmacist said that it was all very well to celebrate th...
The most dangerous verse in the Bible
Genesis 1:26-28 King James Version (KJV) 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. I am reading a biography of William Tecumseh Sherman ( "Fierce Patriot. The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman" Robert L O'Connell, Random House, 2015). Many Americans will have heard of Sherman: brilliant Union Army General, hater and subsequent scourger of the Confederacy, despiser of American Indians (he wanted them eliminated), disdainer of Negro (the word used then) s laves and former slaves - he was at best a reluctant abolitionist. What many do not know is that he was the government appointed "commander in chief" for the construction of the trans-continental railroad. He faced major obstacles includ...
The Povey Connection. Some fine members of my family who have birthdays in May.
7th Evelyn Maud dec'd (my mother) 8th Richard (my nephew) 19th Sarah (Sally) dec'd (my "Nanny", the only grandparent I knew.) She was born when Victoria was Queen. 21st Imogen (my niece) 21st Stuart (my nephew in law) 22nd Sam (my nephew) 26th Elizabeth Anne (my twin sister)
Early Morning Light, 19th May 2019
The early morning light is tender. Photo's taken between 6:15 and 7:15 a.m., one at Bayfront Park, the others at Arlington Park. "I'm walking with Zion, beautiful, beautiful Zion" Never seen one here. Spanish Moss looking like an outdoors Chihuly.
U.K. Tory Party Leadership - After Theresa May Walks The Plank, Or Is Stabbed In The Back, Or BOTH
Who would you choose? There is a wee hint as to my preference. Bonobo No Bo Jo