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    Talk Talk

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    Conversations. Sometimes it’s too much, sometimes too little, formal, informal, clumsy, artificial, with another word: difficult. Let’s practice, Shall we? #253 Someone is on the bus. The guy beside them fidgets the whole time with an irritating tinkling bangle while telling them, it seems, their entire life story, including very personal things. It’s time to pop in the earbuds. When it’s time to get off the bus, the talker has disappeared and the strange bangle is now on th
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 08 Apr 2022

April 8th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Buddha's Birthday, also known as Hana Matsuri, "Flower Festival" (Japan) Christian feast day: Anne Ayres (Episcopal Church (USA)) Constantina Julie Billiart of Namur Perpetuus Walter of Pontoise William Augustus Muhlenberg (Episcopal Church (USA)) April 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Earliest da
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progressive rock

Lessons of Music

Rush was a band that got me in trouble.   Back in the mid to late 70s, my parents didn't really care what I listened to. We were far enough apart, and my stereo modest, using headphones my noise was never a nuisance. I think they actually liked some of my Yes.   The problem I had was when we had a revival preacher that was a real fire breather who preached about the devil, all of his works and his cunning snares for youth. Of course, it was this album that caused our conflict.
Relationships

Beloved

I sit in the waiting room. Waiting for him; my beloved.  I wonder about this word, so I decide to look it up. I look up its origins: late Middle English: past participle of obsolete belove ‘be pleasing’ and later 'love'. Interesting. We know it means love, dear, dearest, most loved.  John, in his epistles, addresses his disciples as 'beloved'. Jesus Christ is the beloved son of God. To me, it is a word with deeper meaning than love. It describes a love that is of the soul; of
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 07 Apr 2022

April 7th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast days: Aibert of Crespin Blessed Alexander Rawlins Blessed Edward Oldcorne and Blessed Ralph Ashley Blessed Notker the Stammerer Brynach Hegesippus Henry Walpole Hermann Joseph Jean-Baptiste de La Salle Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (Eastern Orthodox Church, Episcop
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Stinky Nature

As anyone who read my last entry knows, I like to work out. It's something calming, something I control, and it is therapeutic in ways nothing else is in my life. So during today's lunchtime, I strolled out past our garden to our garage. I offhandedly noted that Kevin had been working on the garden, and caught the barest scent of the chicken manure he'd used in his raised beds. No biggie. It wasn't too bad, and I was raised on a farm - I had smelled far worse. I started my workout in our de
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 06 Apr 2022

April 6th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Chakri Day, commemorating the establishment of the Chakri dynasty. (Thailand) Christian feast day: Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach (Lutheran Church). Brychan Eutychius of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox Church) Marcellinus of Carthage Pope Sixtus I April 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) International Day of
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How I discovered Can

How I discovered Can   My discovery of the Krautrock band Can was one of the more improbable bits of serendipity to fall in my lap. The improbability of a German Experimental Band's music and a Mississippi teenager crossing paths had to have been quite low.   In the 70s my family would drive into Jackson, Mississippi on weekends to shop at a big store on highway 80. It was a big, day long event not to be missed.  Just around the corner from the strip mall was Be-Bop Record Shop-
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 05 Apr 2022

April 5th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Albert of Montecorvino Derfel Gadarn Æthelburh of Kent Gerald of Sauve-Majeure Juliana of Liège Maria Crescentia Höss Blessed Mariano de la Mata Pandita Mary Ramabai (Episcopal Church (USA)) Ruadhán of Lorrha Vincent Ferrer April 5 (Eastern Ort
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 04 Apr 2022

April 4th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Children's Day (Hong Kong, Taiwan) Christian feast day: Benedict the Moor Gaetano Catanoso Isidore of Seville Martin Luther King Jr. (Episcopal Church (USA)) Reginald Heber (Anglican Church of Canada) Tigernach of Clones April 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Independence Day, celebrates the indep
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 03 Apr 2022

April 3rd 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Agape, Chionia, and Irene Burgundofara Luigi Scrosoppi Richard of Chichester April 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)   Observances National Chocolate Mousse Day World Aquatic Animal Day Geologists’ Day National Find a Rainbow Day Fish Fingers and Custard Day National Tweed Day Independent Artist Day™ N
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 02 Apr 2022

April 2nd 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Abundius of Como[40] Amphianus of Lycia[41] Æbbe the Younger[42] Bronach of Glen-Seichis (Irish martyrology)[43] Francis of Paola[44] Francisco Coll Guitart[45] Henry Budd (Anglican Church of Canada)[46] Nicetius of Lyon[47] Pedro Calungsod[48] Theodosia of
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 01 Apr 2022

April 1st 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Cellach of Armagh Hugh of Grenoble Frederick Denison Maurice (Episcopal Church (USA)) Mary of Egypt Melito of Sardis Nuno Álvares Pereira Tewdrig Theodora Walric, abbot of Leuconay April 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Iranian Islamic Republic
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My Life and Times

Stuff in my life lately.

***Warning: This is a bit of mess. It's rather like the head it came out of. Just be glad you don't live here full time.   So, i've been away for a while. i'd pop in here and there but i found i just couldn't be here for any length of time. There's a lot of sadness here for me.  Things have happened. People deciding things about me, without discussion. Deciding things about me for reasons i'll never understand. And as is normal online, they can just stomp out of the room rather th
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 31 Mar 2022

March 31st 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Cesar Chavez Day (United States) Christian feast day Abdas of Susa Acathius of Melitene (Eastern Orthodox Church) Anesius and companions Benjamin Balbina John Donne (Anglican Communion, Lutheran) March 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis (Azerbaijan) Freedom D
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 30 Mar 2022

March 30th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Blessed Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy Blessed Maria Restituta Kafka John Climacus Mamertinus of Auxerre Quirinus of Neuss Thomas Son Chasuhn, Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy (part of The Korean Martyrs) Tola of Clonard March 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Land Day (Palest
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 29 Mar 2022

March 29th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Berthold Eustace of Luxeuil Gwladys Gwynllyw[17] Hans Nielsen Hauge (Lutheran) John Keble (commemoration, Anglicanism) March 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Boganda Day (Central African Republic) Commemoration of the 1947 Rebellion (Madagascar) National Vietnam War
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 28 Mar 2022

March 28th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Priscus[149] Pope Sixtus III[150] March 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Serfs Emancipation Day (Tibet)[151] Teachers' Day (Czech Republic[32] and Slovakia)[152]   Observances National Black Forest Cake Day National Weed Appreciation Day Respect Your Cat Day National Triglycerides Day Se
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 27 Mar 2022

March 27th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Alexander, a Pannonian soldier, martyred in 3rd century. Amador of Portugal Augusta of Treviso Charles Henry Brent (Episcopal Church (USA)) Gelasius, Archbishop of Armagh John of Egypt Philetus Romulus of Nîmes, a Benedictine abbot, martyred c. 730. Rupert of Salzburg
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 26 Mar 2022

March 26th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast days: Castulus Emmanuel and companions Felicitas Harriet Monsell (Church of England) Larissa Ludger Richard Allen (Episcopal Church (USA)) March 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Independence Day and National Day (Bangladesh), celebrates the declaration of independence from
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Blog

Aging My Way

I think I've done it. After literally years of tinkering and trying different workouts, this week is the first time since I've turned forty that I've managed to work out five days in the same week, and not ended up with aching joints. My workout of choice had always been weightlifting. I love lifting so much. Change is dramatic, and you get out of it what you put in. There's nothing easy, and you have to push past your notions of what you can do. It's absolutely a mental challenge as well a
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 25 Mar 2022

March 25th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Anniversary of the Arengo and the Feast of the Militants (San Marino) Christian feast days: March 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Christian Saints' days Ælfwold II of Sherborne Barontius and Desiderius Blessed Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas Omelyan Kovch (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church) Dismas, the "Good Thi
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 24 Mar 2022

March 24th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Catherine of Vadstena Hildelith of Barking Mac Cairthinn of Clogher Óscar Romero (Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism) Paul Couturier (Church of England) Walter Hilton (Church of England) March 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 23 Mar 2022

March 23rd 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Gregory the Illuminator (Episcopal Church) Gwinear Joseph Oriol Ottone Frangipane Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès (Maronite Church) Turibius of Mogrovejo Victorian, Frumentius and Companions March 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of Hungarian-Polish Friendship (Hunga
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