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Some people celebrate today, some people mourn.
Some see a new beginning, some see the beginning of the end.
While some think everything will be all right now, others are quaking in their shoes.
The news media, sensing ratings and thus money and power, feeds into the frenzy, tries to pry the divide wider and wider.
Many no longer talk about the issues, they simply scream, trying to drown out every other voice, and working together to come up with solutions becomes impossible.
It breaks my heart to see the wedge politics causes in our society today.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Wedge.
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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!
A fence from our extra long walk with Mr. Cal a while back.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
How do I let you
talk me into such bonehead
stunts as this one here
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You better hand me a helmet
and keep your turns really slow
'cause if you forget I'm back here,
over I'm going to go!
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I know we're desperate
to keep moving costs down,
but if this doesn't work,
I'll feel like a real clown.
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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home - Forever hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful Sweetie again agreed to sing in the Christmas Cantata at church. He's not a fan of cantatas, but they need a deep bass and he's it, so he's doing it.
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A message for Ms. Ellen of 15andmeowing, your site wouldn't even work for me Tuesday, and now won't let me comment as it won't verify I am human. It won't even let me "like" your posts, so please know i'm reading but won't be able to comment unless i can figure out what's wrong.
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Today is:
Commemoration Day -- Tunisia
Day of Accord and Reconciliation -- Russia (formerly Great October Socialist Revolution Day, with the date determined by the Gregorian Calendar)
Feast of Blessed John Duns Scotus (the Subtle Doctor, known for merging the views from many philosophies)
Dunce Day -- from the word Dunse, a name for the followers of the philosophy of John Duns Scotus
Feast of Stolen Fire -- find it listed on several sites, but none have any background; maybe celebrate that Prometheus stole fire for us?
International Stout Day https://stoutday.com/
International Tongue Twister Day -- internet generated
Men Make Dinner Day -- BBQ is not allowed, but you can go to menmakedinnerday.com for ideas
National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
October Revolution Day -- Belarus; Kyrgyzstan (also called Days of History and Memory); Transdniestria
St. Florentius' Day (Patron against gall stones, ruptures)
St. Willibrord's Day (Patron of epileptics; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Utrecht, Netherlands; against convulsions, epilepsy)
Thanksgiving Day -- Liberia
Anniversary Today:
The Old Stoughton Musical Society, the oldest choral society in the US, is founded, 1786
Birthdays Today:
Jeremy London, 1972
Keith Lockhart, 1959
Joni Mitchell, 1943
Johnny Rivers, 1942
Barry Newman, 1938
Joan Sutherland, 1926
Al Hirt, 1922
Billy Graham, 1918
Albert Camus, 1913
Dean Jagger, 1903
Leon Trotsky, 1879
Madame Marie Curie, 1867
Captain James Cook, 1728
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"America Hurrah"(van Itallie play), 1966
"Face the Nation"(TV), 1954
"Buck Rogers in the 25th Century"(Radio),1932
The Republican Elephant, as drawn by T. Nast in Harper's Weekly, 1874
"The Conscious Lovers"(Steele play), 1722
The Oxford Gazette(first edition), 1665 (Now The London Gazette)
Today in History:
The oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, the Ensisheim Meteorite, strikes around noon in a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France, 1492
Pierre Gassendi observes the transit of Mercury as predicted by Kepler, 1631
Anne Htchinson is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a heretic, 1637
The first edition of the "London Gazette", the oldest surviving journal, is published, 1665
Lewis and Clark first sight the Pacific Ocean, 1805
The first Thomas Nast cartoon depicting the Republican Party Elephant is published, 1874
Edward Bouchet becomes the first black to receive a PhD from a US college (Yale), 1876
Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, 1893
The first air freight shipment is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse (from Dayton, Ohio to Columbus, Ohio), 1910
Mao Tse Tung proclaims the "Chinese People's Republic", 1931
Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City, 1933
Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city, 1967
Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States, 1989
Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland, 1990
NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor, 1996
U.S. voters in the state of Massachusetts approve a referendum legalizing the use of medical marijuana; Colorado and Washington approve the legalization of recreational use of the drug, 2012
Sierra Leone is declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (death toll 4,000), 2015
Extreme smog in Delhi, India, leads Indian Medical Association to declare "a state of medical emergency", 2017
The world's oldest figurative painting of an animal, at least 40,000 years old, is identified in Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave, Borneo, 2018
Queen Elizabeth II confirms that she is no longer buying any clothing that contains real fur, 2019
Chinese taikonaut Wang Yaping becomes the first Chinese female to walk in space, completing a 6 hour space walk as part of the Shenzhou 13 mission, 2021
Divide and conquer... them still using that old recipe... because it works.
ReplyDeleteOh that image and your poem, what a crazy stunt, I hope they made it safely to where they were going.
ReplyDeleteI was very sad last night when I heard the election results on the TV news, I muted the volume so I wouldn't have to hear T's voice and carried on washing up my dishes.
Those were fun poems! Only in Canada, eh?? LOL!
ReplyDeleteI am having the same issue with Ellen's blog as well. Doesn't matter what browser I use...
And did Cal want to take a swim when he saw the pool?
ReplyDeleteThe world would be a better and happier place if the news media would stop with all their crazy hype about nothing and start reporting good uplifting news, not always gloom and doom.
ReplyDeleteBread and circuses. That's apparently all the world wants.
ReplyDeleteThat was the perfect story and yes, it's sad with all the yelling and not listening to each other. Fun poem and a perfect low note thankful. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteA timely tale indeed. Politics, the great divider.
ReplyDeleteThanks for lifting the mood with your brilliant little poems - there's no way I'd stand there!
Love your poem - and wonder just where they were going.
ReplyDeleteLoathe partisan politics. We are all human after all.
agree
ReplyDelete(but you want to know what makes me totally crazy about the modern world? gummies. for some reason some marketing folks have convinced everyone that people want vitamins and such in this form. ok... but then one day I saw an announcement... LifeSavers are now being sold as... gummies! (no, I did not make that up)
Wow those two are an accident waiting to happen - I like your poems.
ReplyDeleteElections and media ... the less said, the better.
Your story is right on. I'm still numb.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad the election is over. The divide is so deep, I don't know how we'll ever fix it. That fence is nice, but I would love to jump in that pool.
ReplyDeleteIt is sad how divided our country is. Great poem. Thank you for the sweet message. I am sorry my blog was having technical troubles. It is all set now. XO
ReplyDeleteMom says it is time for everyone to heed the wisdom of the Serenity Prayer.
ReplyDeleteWe thought your poem was great, and that guy was already a clown for even trying to do such a silly thing.
Kudos to Sweetie - a deep male voice in the choir is always impressive.
We think Ms. Ellen's blog is working properly now. She has been trying to get her web host to fix it.
Woos - Misty and Timber
I cannot even speak about it so thank you for your Six.
ReplyDeleteThat is very generous of Sweetie.
Chaplin: "What are they transporting in that fridge? Do you think it might be cat food ... ?"
ReplyDeleteLot’s hope something gets better...
ReplyDeleteLove the poem, though!
Turn off your tv and radio, don't open your news paper. Don't let "them" mess with you.
ReplyDeleteLook out of the window, go out of the house and meet with people. Try to be a good neighbour, a good husband or wife, a member of community, contribute to the community you live in.
Don't waste your energy on something, somebody you can't change. Don't give the government, the politicians more than they deserve. They don't deserve as much as they think they do.
I'm deeply concerned about the course of the western world, but thankfully, there is another half, a big half - this is mathematically possible - that contributes to the world too.
All the best
Regula
Your Six is absolutely perfect for this highly tense time. We can only hope that the wedge dissolves.
ReplyDeleteMew mew mew Hammock Kitty iss ADOORBSS Miss Mimi!! Wee loved yore poe-em two!!! Wee happy to come see all of youss' an hope thingss are goin well. Thanx fore ore purrayerss...BellaSita Seezure-free 20 days today! Mee furry happy (so iss shee!)
ReplyDelete***nose kissess*** BellaDharma an {{{hugss}}} BellaSita Mum
Oh how I love your poem! It's exactly what I had in my head when I first saw the photo....LOL. People really can come up with the craziest ideas and this one is a recipe for disaster if ever there was one! Thanks for having fun with us Mimi!
ReplyDeleteHugs, Pam and Teddy
OMC we're MOLling all over, that was a real fun poem, Mimi😹😹Extra Pawkisses🐾😽💞
ReplyDeletefun poetry and great fence photo and post ~ thanks, hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good heatlh, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores
aka (A Creative Harbor)
It's as if critical thinking and respect for another's humanity has completely left the planet. We also need better role models.
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