“Solvitur Ambulando” – It is solved by walking, Montreat Conference Center, FPC:
I am at Montreat enjoining the FPC Community and the friendship and hospitality of Linda.
We ventured out for a labyrinth walk at the Montreat Reservoir and while journeying the labyrinth it began to rain … then pour. It stopped by the time we completed our walk …
A great walk despite of the weather.
“Solvitur Ambulando” – It is solved by walking, 2012 Labyrinth Walks, Myers Park Baptist Church-Charlotte NC, Autumnal Equinox Labyrinth Walk: 
“Solvitur Ambulando” – It is solved by walking, 2012 Labyrinth Walks, Myers Park Baptist Church-Charlotte NC:
I am back at MPBC, my other “Old Friend.”. The full Chartres are definitely my favorites.
This morning I feel like am interloper. I am sneaking in a visit on the labyrinth before the congregation arrives for Sunday School and Worship. I am in workout clothes, not worship clothes.
I will continue my meditation on ancestral/generational blessings (and curses).
In the book “Labyrinths from the Outside In,” I turn carelessly to the section on seasons which does nothing for me and then find the section on Rosh Hdashanah. I like its instruction … And will use it this week.
Thoughts of my sister and Rudyard Kipling’s ” If”:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Blessings on this cool fall-like morning. I hear the birds and the acorns and a few dogs and the squeak of my sneakers on the newly restored labyrinth surface.
9.16.12
“Solvitur Ambulando” – It is solved by walking, Hobart Park-Davidson College-Davidson NC, kith/kin:
I had an excuse to travel to Davidson so I dragged my friend Allison along for the ride.
I took no pictures. But if I had it would have been of Allison ringing the Asian bell.
We talked about the concept of generational blessings which we disagreed on … But now I have a new research project.
Blessings!
9.14.12
#FMSphotoaday, Panthers:
9. “something you do most weekends”
Well, I watch football against my will … Well, not against my will. If the Panthers are away, I am at home on the sofa; if Panthers are at home, Bank of America Stadium, row 5.
My funny friend asked if I wanted her to take a picture of me sleeping. Zzzzzzzz
#FMSphotoaday
Being Green, Viral, FaceBook: This one hit home …
Being Green
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.”
The young clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment f
or future generations.”
She was right — our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truely recycled.
But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But too bad we didn’t do the green thing back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that young lady is right; we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she’s right; we didn’t have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn’t have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person.
We don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to piss us off.
The White House, FLOTUS, Kids’ State Dinner, Kudos:
The challenge: Come up with a healthy lunch recipe that includes all the food groups and tastes delicious. The reward: a once-in-a-lifetime trip to our nation’s capital to attend a Kids’ “State Dinner” at the White House, hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama. More than 1,200 creative junior chefs ages 8 to 12 submitted recipes for Epicurious’s first-ever Healthy Lunchtime Challenge contest, and on August 20, 2012, we met the 54 talented winners from across the American states and territories.
via The Healthy Lunchtime Challenge and Kids’ State Dinner at Epicurious.com.
Bookstores: Interesting! Flavorwire » 10 Awesome Bookstores Repurposed from Unused Structures.
News, Public Safety: Speed Limit Hits 85 MPH on Texas Highway – WSJ.com.
American Chef Corps: i like this … wouldn’t it be a great job for a recent grad.
Clinton is enlisting top-rated chefs from across the nation to join an effort to forge cultural exchanges over the dining table worldwide.
On Friday, more than 80 chefs are being inducted into the first American Chef Corps. These food experts could help the State Department prepare meals for visiting dignitaries, travel to U.S. embassies abroad for educational programs with foreign audiences or host culinary experts from around the world in their U.S. kitchens.
via State Department Enlists 1st American Chef Corps To Serve As Culinary Diplomats.
HOPE, law, criminal law: Stupid …
A New York judge has sentenced artist Shepard Fairey to two years of probation and 300 hours of community service for lying and destroying evidence relevant to the Associated Press’ complaint that he’d used one of its images of Barack Obama as the basis for his iconic “HOPE” poster. Fairey admitted in 2009 he’d “submitted false images and deleted others in the legal proceedings.” He pleaded guilty to criminal contempt in February.
via Shepard Fairey gets probation for actions in AP photo case | Poynter..
culture, women’s movement: The end of men?
The result, Ms. Rosin painstakingly shows, is virtually a reversal of the psychological landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. Then, men wondered why they should give up freedom and sex for marriage, child care and the burden of financial responsibility; now it is women asking that question. Then, men complained of clinging, freeloading wives; now Ms. Rosin hears repeatedly from women that, in the words of one executive, women should “be very careful about marrying freeloading, bloodsucking parasites.” Then, it was women who tamped down their aspirations, knowing the objective unlikelihood of attaining them; now it’s the men who have “fear of success” and a “why bother?” attitude. Then, if women had casual sex it was to keep the guy happy; now many have casual sex for their own pleasure and to keep from being derailed from their career goals with something “serious.”
TS Eliot, poetry: Just liked this one …
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T. S. Eliot in Four Quartets
via I said to my soul, be still and wait without… • literary jukebox.
Things to Ponder:
“To the dumb question ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?”
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“Generating interesting connections between disparate subjects is what makes art so fascinating to create and to view . . . we are forced to contemplate a new, higher pattern that binds lower ones together.”
ObamaCare, US:
As the country ages and more than 30 million new patients enter the health care system under the Affordable Care Act, experts predict that soon, there won’t be enough doctors for everyone who wants to see one—a shortage of 90,000 doctors by 2020, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. To meet the demand, a surging class of almost-but-not-quite-doctors known as physician assistants, are stepping up to fill the M.D.’s shoes.
movies, film and lit: Any you’d like to see?
Still, there are a few literary big-hitters that have yet to make their way to film. Franzen’s “The Corrections” is a prime example – although the National Book Award-winning novel was optioned by Scott Rudin, HBO announced in May of this year that they wouldn’t turn the pilot until a full series.
Downton Abbey:
“Downton Abbey” fans, there’s a new trailer for season 3, which airs on television soon in the U.K. but doesn’t hit these shores until January.via New ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 3 Trailer Arrives – Speakeasy – WSJ.
Oprah, Twitter, quotes:
“All things are lessons that God would have us learn”. Such a great teaching if you look at your whole life that way.#SuperSoulSunday
Wonderful, but sentimental day with my mom and sister. We visited the cemetery and shared a few laughs with my dad. He would have been 85 yesterday. Then we enjoyed a glass of wine and dinner (where the congealed salad of the day was orange) with the Lenbrook Ladies and concluded the evening with BINGO and now I get to watch the DNC on the Telly. 🙂
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