Bookish Christian wife photographing vintage America & old cars. '40s-donning old movie fan. 100% old-fashioned & likes Detroit hockey. #BeautyMatters.
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May 27
Miss Slim hopes you like the first patriotic decorations added to the coop this year. ๐บ๐ธ
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"On second thought, I guess I do like to brag. 'Cause I'm mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag."
Happy Flag Day my fellow Americans ๐บ๐ธ
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THE VIDEO: Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 passes over the Tunkhannock Viaduct.
A 1.2-million-pound steam legend crossing one of the largest concrete railroad viaducts ever built. Nicholson, Pennsylvania delivered an unforgettable scene today.
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Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.
The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.
The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.
Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.
"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.
It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.
"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.
I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.
In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.
And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.
You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.
The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.
I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.
Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.
"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.
Discipline is a journey.
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Jun 12
โThe Star Spangled Bannerโ โ Edward Moran
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May 27
Miss Slim hopes you like the first patriotic decorations added to the coop this year. ๐บ๐ธ
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Jun 12
Sugar, an American Dominique hen, heartily approves of the additional patriotic decorations springing up on the Farmlet. ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ
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Jun 11
Maybe, just maybe, we shouldnโt let people with a propensity to decapitate others into our countries.
A Scandicci, FI una donna tedesca di 44 anni รจ stata trovata decapitata. E' stato fermato un immigrato senza fissa dimora di origine nordafricana, con precedenti. Gli inquirenti hanno sequestrato un machete, e un coltello. Colpa degli Italiani che non sono inclusivi.
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"The singers were dwelling on one of those low, dying chords, which the ear devours with such greedy rapture, as if conscious that it is about to lose them, when a cry, that seemed neither human nor earthly, rose...
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"...in the outward air, penetrating not only the recesses of the cavern, but to the inmost hearts of all who heard it."
James Fenimore Cooper, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
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Great video from Matt in Jackson, TN! An ominous shelf cloud rolls over the fields ahead of approaching storms, captured right from the combine harvester. Thanks for sharing! #TNwx #YallSquad
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Jun 13
โHe has given us a Saviour who ever lives to make intercession for transgressors. What a blessing is this. So long as we sin we have an advocate to plead for us! He has set up a mercy-seat for us for all times, and to it we may go as often as we will.โ
โ C.H. Spurgeon
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Jun 12
Flags of the 1st Regiment California Volunteer Infantry
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I'll tell you what, I am not messing around with "all-natural" citronella and herbs insect repellent today. It's Cutter for me, thanks.
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My brakes went out on the way home from the pharmacy, but God protected me, other drivers, even my car and the shrubbery beside the road. Also had a good chat with one of my favorite neighbors when he picked me up to take me home.
Whew!
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Jun 12
I seem to be having an allergic reaction to something. The hospital is pretty far away. Your prayers would be appreciated!
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Thank you everyone. I am doing a little better and am back home. Thank you again!
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"Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating."
It's true.
(Biscuits and gravy are one of those dishes I miss most! Grits, too.)
cc @SinclairArt
USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.
I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.
In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.
"Is itโฆ finished?" I asked, carefully.
"Honey, that's what it looks like."
The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."
I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.
I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.
It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain โ THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool โ and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.
"Well?" the waitress asked.
"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."
"Everybody does, hon."
Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.
Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.
I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.
It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.
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Jun 13
Heading home. Thank you for all your prayers and responses (a few more prayers might not hurt, though). ๐บ๐ค
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Jun 13
URGENT PRAYER REQUEST: I am in Moneta (near Roanoke), Virginia, to preach the 20th church anniversary of Troy Keaton and the Eastlake Community Church. The service was in a tent on campus, with close to 1,000 attendees. Ten minutes into the service, a sudden, severe weather event pulled the support poles out of the ground and blew the tent off. One of the elders of the church went to be with Jesus, and several others were seriously injured. Please pray for Pastor Troy, Eastlake Church, and this community - that the hope of our risen Savior would be theirs in abundance during this crisis.
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Jun 13
Doing well, considering. A 1% of the population reaction! You are all so special for knowing me. ;)
Thank you for your prayers! ๐บ
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I seem to be having an allergic reaction to something. The hospital is pretty far away. Your prayers would be appreciated!
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