Famous First Words: What
hath God wrought? --first telegraph
message
May is Homeschooling Awareness
Month. --You can tell if people are home schooled if you ask them what grade
they are in and they aren't sure ... if they call their pajamas school uniforms.
..........Yes, and how many
years can a mountain exist.........Bob Dylan
.....Blowin' in the Wind
Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first
beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the diversity, the greater the
perfection. --Thomas Berry
It is a cloudy Friday morning. The sky is completed covered with a thick
layer of gray without seam or texture.
The sidewalk is streaked with twigs and straw and small decorative
gravel that was left by water thickly and rapidly answering gravity's call to
the wetlands. Each tree and clump of
grass hides diamond raindrops at the tip of each leaf and the underside of each
branch. The air is filled with the feel ...humidity and a need for extra power
to take in enough oxygen... and smell of dampness ... soaked soil, damp cement,
tattered flowers. Puck loudly stops 2
rabbits in their tracks; rabbits, no doubt, headed for the grounds beneath the
feeders or the neighbor's garden. But we
are safe from them for now and only have to endure Puck's sharp, angry voice in
return.** Birds are out in surround-sound
greeting the sunless dawn and assessing last night's storms. There is no wind left over but the cool (61°F)
still begins to seep into the body and we retreat to warmth and light and sweetened,
creamy Moose Munch. What a morning, huh?
** The joys of dog ownership; he should watch
it, it Hug Your Cat Day.
Hope your weekend passes all the standard
tests, ePistliers.
The worst thing about
homeschooling - made fun of the teacher, grounded for life. The best thing about homeschooling - everyone
made the cheerleading squad.
..........Where the winds hit
heavy on the borderline.........Bob Dylan
.....Girl of the North Country
Trivia Questions: Happy Birthday, Dashiell !
^ Any idea where Dashiell Hammett was born?
^^ What do you know about Hammett's wife
and children?
^^^ Do you know where he's buried?
^^^ Do you know where he's buried?
^^^^ Hammett wrote 4 screenplays, how many
can you name?
^^^^^ He wrote 5
novels, how many can you name?
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
82% of libraries use pages ripped out of #50shades instead of paper towels in
the break room. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts&ref=br_tf
Moonbeam: The past resembles the future more than
one drop of water resembles another.
--Ibn Khaldun
Sending your child to public
school to learn about socialization is like sending them to the candy store to
learn about nutrition. --Brenda Rufener
..........I've stepped in the
middle of seven sad forests.........Bob Dylan
.....A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Something to Think About of the
Week: The
design of the mandala is supposed to be visually appealing so as to absorb the
mind in such a way that irritating thoughts are unable to get through and a
spiritual essence surrounds the individual observing the mandala, which in turn
allows the individual a higher consciousness or awareness, almost as though
being hypnotized.
Big Hello Correction: Last week the hello was mckcm which is
from the language of Efik spoken in Nigeria.
I failed to mention the language which is so like elfish. Sorry.
Big Hello: Hej - Elfdalian (Sweden) ~~Another actual elf language
Week of the Week: National Backyard Games Week
(May 23-30) --Seriously, the Olympic badminton players were apparently trying
to lose on purpose. But really, if you
trained day and night for 4 years to be in the Olympics for badminton, in a way
haven't you already lost? --Conan
O'Brien
Quote of the Week: Solutions nearly always come from the
direction you least expect, which means there’s no point trying to look in that
direction because it won’t be coming from there. --Douglas Adams (For Towel Day, May 25th)
Five minutes after Mindy died
trying, Brice finally understood fractions. / My grandmother wanted me to have
an education, so she kept me out of school.
--Margaret Mead
..........I'm a thinking and
a wonderin' walking down the road.........Bob Dylan .....Don't Think Twice
^ Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born in St.
Mary's County, Maryland, MD
Almanac: It is Friday, May 27,
2016. The moon will be last quarter on
Sunday and is in Aquarius. It is Cellophane
Tape Day. Nigeria celebrates Children's
Day. In Turkey they remember Freedom
& Constitution Day (1960, 1961).
Because it is the 4th Friday it is also Heat Awareness Day and National
Title Track Day. Because it is the
Friday before Memorial Day it is Don't Fry Day (see also Heat Awareness Day). Finally
because it is the last Friday it is Hug Your Cat Day.
Among
those born on this day were Ibn Khaldun (1332), Bonaventura Furlanetto (1738),
Francis Beaufort (1774), Cornelius Vandrebilt (1794), Amelia Bloomer (1818),
Julia Ward Howe (1819), Henry Wylde (1822), Josef Joachim Raff (1822), Wild
Bill Hickok (James Butler, 1837), Blind Tom Bethune (1849), Arnold Bennett
(1867), Louis Durey (888), Dashiell Hammett (1894), John Douglas Cockroft
(1897), Hubert Humphrey and Vincent Price (1911), John Cheever (1912), Sam
Snead (1912), Herman Wouk (1915), Henry Kissinger (1923), John Barth (1930),
Harlan Ellison (1934), Lee Meriwether (1935), Louis Gossett Jr. (1936), Rene
Koering (1940), and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (1948).
On May
twenty-seventh Denmark and Sweden signed a ceasefire (1660), McLean patented
his piano (1796), Samuel Morse completed the first telegraph line (1844), the
first Preakness Stakes was run (Survivor, 1873), bubonic plague broke out in
San Francisco (1907), Afghanistan achieved sovereignty (1921), Austria banned
the Communist Party (1933), the Federal Securities Act was signed (1933), the
golden gate bridge was dedicated (1937), the US forbade racial discrimination
in the war industry (1943), Huis Clos premiered (1944), the first black
light was sold (1961), Kennedy announced the US goal to reach the moon (1961),
Bob Dylan released Free Wheelin (1963), construction began on Disney
World (1969), Trujillo became president of Colombia (1990), and Solzhenitsyn
returned to Russia (1994).
Tonight's Sky: visible Planets -- Morning... Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Evening... Jupiter, Mercury.
This Week: Saturday, May 28
- International Jazz Day and Sierra Club Day
Sunday, May 29 - Learn About Composting Day and Put a
Pillow on Your Fridge Day
Monday, May 30 - Mint Julep Day and Memorial Day
Night
Sky, May 30: Mars makes it
closest approach to Earth for the year.
Tuesday, May 31 - World No-Tobacco Day
Wednesday, June 1 - Oscar the Grouch Day and National Go
Barefoot Day
Thursday, June 2
- Leave the Office Early Day and National Bubba Day
Lecture in the car on the way
to a play date with other homeschooled children: Now don't mention that we
didn't get up till 9:30 or that your little brother can't read...or that we buy
our bread from a store...or Disney movies...and whatever you do, try not to say
the words Batman or Power Rangers...and for goodness sakes try to act SMART!!!
..........Two men died 'neath
the Mississippi moon.........Bob Dylan
.....Oxford Town
^^ Hammett spent time in the Army hospital
where he met Josephine Dolan, whom he married.
They had two daughters, Mary Jane and Josephine. Health Services nurses informed Dolan that
due to Hammett's TB, she and the children should not live with him full-time.
Dolan rented a home in San Francisco where Hammett would visit on weekends. The
marriage soon fell apart, but he continued to financially support his wife and
daughters with the income he made from his writing.
Moonbeam: Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is
not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence
indicate possession. --Julia Ward Howe
Art Exhibit of the Week: This week Marilyn (the Bread Ladye) and I
went to the Nelson-Atkins Museum (KCMO) to see the exhibit Reflecting Class in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer. She summed it up quite well, " Wow, those
Dutch painters painted SO well!" The exhibit is all Dutch painters, some I'd
heard of some I hadn't. I am still
reflecting but I have some gossip and a few stray facts. There are 67 dogs and 1 cat (or 66 dogs and 2
cat, with one figure it's hard to tell) total in all the pictures. The Netherlands in the 1600s was protestant
and therefore allowed women to serve in political office and in commerce. But the famous "Dutch Masters"
painting of a bunch of men sitting around a table is because the women had
their pictures painted separately from the men.
So the city council portrait is two - one for the men and one for the
women.
I loved all of it...even the table
cloths. Gossip: The exhibit opened in Boston and KC is the
only other museum to display it. Boston
had a second Vermeer but the Louvre wouldn't let it be gone that long and
Boston had a third Rembrandt which the Queen Elizabeth wanted back. It was the director (or curator or some other
title) who suggested the exhibit to the woman in Boston and that's why KC got
it, we think. Sunday is the last
day. http://www.nelson-atkins.org/art/exhibitions/rembrandt-vermeer/
Late Night Snacks: The Wall Street Journal just reported
that America has a surplus of cheese and that every person in the country would
have to eat an extra three pounds of cheese this year to get rid of it. So the
next time the pizza guy judges you for ordering extra cheese, just say,
"I'm doing this for America."
--Jimmy Fallon / Now, some car companies might focus on making cars that
don't hit people. Not Google. No way. So if one of these cars hits you, you
will be spread-eagled, stuck to the hood as the car slowly rolls to a halt,
because that was the problem with getting hit by a car before: It just wasn't
embarrassing enough. --James Corden /
The National Parks Service is so desperate for cash that they just announced
that, for the first time, they are going to solicit corporate sponsorship.
Pretty soon, those sequoias could be brought to you by Viagra. Remember, if
your redwood lasts more than 2,000 years, call your lumberjack! --Stephen Colbert / American Express is suing
Charlie Sheen for an unpaid credit card balance of over $200,000. How did he
blow that much money? Oh, right. Answered my own question. --Seth Meyers
We live now in a global
village and we are in one single family.
It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different
places around the world and to live together in peace. --Jackie Chan
There's no such thing as an
atheist homeschooler...after a week, students, teachers and the family cat are crying out to
God.
..........Please don't take
away my highway shoes.........Bob Dylan
.....Down the Highway
^^^ As a veteran of two wars, Hammett was
buried at Arlington National Cemetery (Section 12 Site 508).
Worthless Fact of the Week: Approximately 1.3 million cats are
adopted from shelters each year. Hug
Your Cat Day !!
Weird Word of the Week: Jafaikan - a new multicultural dialect in
London. It is a blend of Jamacian and
African. http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-jaf1.htm
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Polish Furniture. Spam purportedly makes
good furniture polish, according to the New
York Times Magazine. http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/spam.html
...because I have seen the
village and I don't want it raising my children. / I am not talking to myself;
I'm having a parent teacher conference.
...........Is just lookin'
for a needle that is lost in the sand.........Bob Dylan .....Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance
^^^^ Screenplays by Hammett include After the Thin Man, Shadow of the Thin Man,
The Glass Key, and Watch on the
Rhine.
Word Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Advertising - the action of calling
something to the attention of the public especially by paid announcements. Measure
for Measure Act V Scene I (Duke
Vincentio)
Puck the Brave Episode of the Week: Here's our fearless Puck scanning the
skies in the case of Yossarian's Yoranian.
For homeschooled families you can call your family reunions high school reunions on odd numbered years.
..........Gal, where you been
so long.........Bob Dylan .....Corrina,
Corrina
^^^^^ Hammett's novels are Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key and The Thin Man.
Month of the Week: May is National Barbeque
Month --Experience is simply the name we give our barbeque mistakes. --Oscar Wilde
Famous Kansans: Samuel Wendell Williston was born in
Boston (1851) but raised in the Kansas territory. He was the first to propose that birds
developed flight cursorially (by running), rather than arboreally (by leaping
from tree to tree). http://www.jstor.org/stable/30063514?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Today's Peace of History May 27,
1940: The US Supreme Court ruled a
sit-down strike was not a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act even if it
interfered with interstate commerce. The
Court said that if the strike were found to be a restraint of trade, then
“practically every strike in modern industry would be brought within the
jurisdiction of the federal courts under the Sherman Act.”
When Johnny misbehaved at
home school, his mother sent him to Public School for a 3 day suspension.
..........Like Judas of
old, you lie and deceive.........Bob
Dylan ......Masters of War
Science Fiction Convention of the
Week: 47: ConQuest Prime - May
27-29, KCMO Sheraton KC Hotel at Crown Center.
http://www.conquestkc.org/ ~~Where The Bull Really Flies !
Week of the Week Too: Old Fashioned Player Piano Weekend (May
27-29) --He would make a good lamp post if he'd weather better and didn't have
to eat. --Kurt Vonnegut Player
Piano
Moonbeam: It will not do to say that it is out of
woman's sphere to assist in making laws, for it that were so, then it should be
also out of her sphere to submit to them.
--Amelia Bloomer
Cost of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 5/26/16: $737,690,673,879.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 5/19/16: $737,012,219,977.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 5/26/16: $819,491,988,384.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 5/19/16: $819,472,157,518.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 5/26/16: $9,758,740,289.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 5/19/16: $9,654,461,708.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 5/26/16: $120,493,873,983.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 5/12/16: $119,913,597,604.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 5/26/16: $1,690,348,362,810.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 5/19/16: $1,688,931,333,101.
Let us have but one end in
view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in
consideration of language, nationality, or religion. --John Comenius
..........Oh, there ain't no
use in me workin' alla time.........Bob Dylan
.....I Shall Be Free
The only thing you absolutely
have to know is the location of the library.
--Albert Einstein . / Warning!! Unsocialized Homeschooler Communicate at your own risk!
Famous Last Words: 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1265. --Securities Act of 1933
May Peace be your curriculum
And Joy your text book
prairie mama
christine
