The other day a Pennsylvania couple was arrested. Seems their ten-year-old daughter was in a cage in the back of their pickup and they were driving along on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.The couple explained this away: "She wanted to be with her dog. She plays with him in there all the time."As it works out, the dog was in the cage too.That's legal and even desirable. The dog in the cage, that is.What isn't legal, as the Carlson couple now know, is to lock your child in a cage in the back of the pickup with ...
Let it be known that I am not a doctor and in no way qualified to give out medical advise. What I can do, though, is share some interesting tid bits with you.Today's tid bit is from a magazine I never read before and may never read again. The magazine is called 'What Doctors Don't Tell You' which is apparently quite a bit. However, in an article called 'The gain without the pain' we are advised that walking gives us as many if not more benefits than does running.I'm all for that.Here's what I learned. Wa...
We fly the flags and we sing the songs for all of our fallen."No Man's Land" is a song written in 1976 by Scottish-Austrian singer-songwriter Eric Bogle about a young man who died at the age of nineteen in World War I. In his words, It's a song that was written about the military cemeteries in Flanders and Northern France. In 1976 my wife and I went to three or four of those military cemeteries and saw all the young solders."According to the song and the grave stone, Willie McBride died when he was ninet...
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE This week’s Torah portion Behaa’lot’kha (Num. 8:1 – 12:16) has many remarkable events, but perhaps none more remarkable than Aaron’s and Miriam’s confrontation with their brother, Moses. They speak against Moses because he married a Cushite woman. God’s anger is stirred against Aaron and Mir...
On this day in 1886 Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented a carbonated beverage that would later be named Coca-Cola. On this infamous day, Dr. Pemberton carried a jug of his 'stuff' down the street to Jacobs' Pharmacy and asked the folks there to sample it. They pronounced it 'excellent'. The pharmacy started selling it for five cents a glass as a soda fountain drink. Customers declared the drink to be both "Delicious and Refreshing." The good doctor's creativity went beyond liquid concoctions into advertisi...
First the fires came. Friday afternoon a fast moving brush fire broke out near our home. Even Saturday the mountain now blackened by fire continued to smolder and fire fighters worked their hoses with water pumped from a major street. This morning we woke up to rain. It had rained all night and continued to rain throughout today. Nature has at the very least a sense of humor and possibly even a sense of irony. Had the rains come Friday morning the fire would never have started. Always mud slides come aft...
So here it is the first day of the month of May and life begins again. The fruit tree bears sweet fruit, the blossoms fill the air with fragrance and hope looks out of its dark hole to take a tentative look around.
Which is why we do pointless things - to give us a false sense of progress. We can't tolerate not knowing what will happen next so we do 'stuff' to keep uncertainty at bay. But, I'm finding out that its okay to wait. Sometimes in the silence of inactivity amazing things happen.
The narrative of the children of Israel in the wilderness, portrayed in the books of Exodus and Numbers, are interrupted by the book of Leviticus, which gives us the details of the rituals of the Tabernacle – the types of sacrifices and how they are to be offered, the garb of the priests, and, as we saw last week, how the people were to purify themselves after childbirth or illness. This week’s Torah portion is another double one, Acharei Mot (Lev. 16:1-18:30) and Kedoshim, (Lev. 19:1 – 20:27). Kedoshim ...
