I was watching the Corner DJ YouTube Memory Lane video featuring music from 1975, and this album cover showed up during the playing of Bad Company’s “Shooting Star”. I suddenly remembered that the opposing sides of a die always add up to 7. Spiritually, that’s significant.
Do you see why?
I caught a glimpse of an image on Facebook this morning which I’d never seen before. It was a closeup of the head of a sunflower which is made up of a series of five-petaled flowers developing over the growing season of the plant. How did I miss that?
Symbolically, this represents humanity both individually and collectively.
This other image from Facebook seems to show sunflowers at sunset, when, in fact, it must be sunrise, because the sunflowers are facing in the wrong direction: they always face the sun. Hmm, eh?
I wanted to focus on the upcoming midterm elections in the United States. Michael J. Fox’ quote came up. On the surface, every midterm election is a referendum of the ruling government at the time. In fact, if memory serves me, Biden’s people were worried about a rising Red Tide that didn’t materialize. That’s the warning here. Everyone is predicting a Democratic resurgence; after all, Trump’s approval rating (according to the polls) has dipped to the lowest of any president. But what if that just motivates Trump voters to stick with their preferred political party come November? When Michael said that optimism was a political act, it struck me that the ‘war’ against Iran is being spoken of by Trump’s minions as if it’s being won, every day. It’s an ‘act’, folks. Trump is a firm believer in the Power of Positive Thinking. If you say something often enough, truly believing it will happen, your optimistic point-of-view will win.
Yes, my prostate has early stages of cancer in three of the 12 samples taken during the biopsy.
This is a slow growing type of cancer. In fact, my doctor in Barrie thought something may be up with my prostate three years ago. She was going to send my file to a specialist, but nothing ever came of that referral. In 10 to 15 years, some symptoms may show themselves, but ‘something’ else could get me before then. I can have radiation but that sometimes causes more problems than it cures.
Nothing is written in stone, so we’ll take it one day at a time. Bless.
No. It’s much more than that. Americans are afraid of China getting their foot in their economy through the ‘backdoor’ route. Trying to restrict who Canada trades with is a tactic to ‘protect’ their own industries.
Canada will never become the 51st states, although there are hints that maybe Alberta might. We’ll see.
I’ve had this book in my Kindle collection for about 10 years. It’s a fantasy, to be sure, but it does open the door to the idea that she was one of the first Christians. Strange, right? The letter featured in the following YouTube video is also a fantasy:
This is no different than the gospels written decades after the events of 30 AD by scholarly Greek authors, hiding behind disciples’ names. We take it on faith to be a true accounting of the events. But, realistically, none of the stories are ‘real’, but they are legendary.
Sometimes, the Truth seeps through the myth-making.
Sometimes, you can’t discredit something, especially when it makes better sense than your belief system.
The inscription above Jesus’ head on his cross was written in three languages: Latin, Greek and Hebrew. The Latin title shouldn’t have bothered the Jewish authorities, because their “King” was being removed from the world stage. But if the Hebrew version reflected the unspoken “Divine Name” of God, that would be a step too far.
I can see why that message was encoded in the title: it really is a ‘satire’ written for the Romans.
I don’t suppose that anyone on this side of the Pond will know about this comedy show on the BBC. What surprised me was the fact that you can watch all its seasons on Prime Video. Really…
The title of this post comes from one character’s repeated line:
It’s an extended French farce of the French Resistance during WWII trying to repatriate British airmen who have been shot down over German-occupied French territory. The language difficulties take front and centre, and the extreme lengths that Rene will go to fulfill his role as the owner/operator of a French cafe/bistro, while coordinating the rescue missions are hilarious. Plus, he’s having an affair with one of the waitresses under the very nose of his wife. I laugh every time I watch an episode: I watched the first two last night.
The show was created by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd. Familiar names, I thought. What else did they do?
Of course! This show was a bit closer to home for me since I worked in men’s wear for three years in the early 1970’s. This one is a bit more representative of the sexist culture that existed in the UK when I oved to England in 1985. Definitely not PC. But for the sake of humour, it follows the music hall/vaudeville style of dialog that entertained people for the first half of the 20th century: innuendo.
Turns out you need a Britbox subscription to be able to watch the episodes on Prime Video. However, there is one special that is available:
The film is not very good. The team from Grace Brothers vacations in Spain at “Costa Plonka”. The best part is played by the manager of the resort: Andrew Sachs, who is probably more famous as Manuel in “Fawlty Towers”. If you haven’t anything much to do for 90 minutes, the film is an easy diversion.
There, you’ve been served!
People are so clever. Obviously, I’ve been around so long that I’ve never needed an acronym to remember what the Great Lakes are called. It’s the same for most Canadians. Americans have a little different point of view. It’s hard to remember that.
Oh, well.
I was up when the lunar eclipse was at its most total for those of us in the eastern half of Canada. But I didn’t see it because we were under a cloud at the time (which is accurate at many levels).
My Ascendant is within 3° of the event chart’s Part of Fortune. But beyond that, this lunar eclipse has nothing much to do with me. Then, with the tariff war suddenly coming to my mind, I compared the creation charts for the United States and Canada. It reveals a great deal (forgive the nonsensical pun).
Hmm
Interesting, no?
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