Famous
First Words: Recognising
the potential of the current situation --IRA statement declaring an
indefinite ceasefire pending further peace negotiations.
August
is Get Ready for Kindergarten Month! What's the best place to
grow flowers at school? Kindergarden / I think I need a new
kindergarten teacher. Miss Smith doesn't even know her colors. She
had to ask the class to name them for her.
..........In
the misty morning fog..........Van Morrison …..Brown Eyed Girl
...each
war carries within itself, the war which will answer it. Each war is
answered by another war, until everything is destroyed...That is why
I’m so wholeheartedly for a radical end to the madness.
--Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945, Germany)
It
is a gray Friday morning. The not quite quarter moon shines brightly
as clouds float slowly across its face covering and uncovering it
like cosmic peek-a-boo. That same breeze lightly moves the very tops
of the very tallest trees but swishes the willow branches into a
graceful morning dance. The constantly moving clouds prolong the
sense of twilight and lend a air of mystery to the yard. The 70°F
temperature is perfect against the face and wispy wind kisses the
cheek and moves on. Puck sits in the doorway growling a little under
his breath. Perhaps he is practicing in case a real danger shows up.
The house and world are quiet; birds are still abed, I guess,
sleeping through the gloom or intimidated by Puck fierceness. The
occasional car motor drives by at a distance. Puck and I go out and
stand for a while on the patio. The world smells of dampness but it
doesn't not threaten rain. We take in great gulps of damp (82%
relative humidity) air and feel invigorated. But the coffee is ready
and I am ready for it. So we return indoors and fill our mouths with
sweet tartness and fill my mind with thoughts of you. Goooooooood
Morning, world !!
Hope
your weekend is simple and sweet, ePistliers.
What
flies around the kindergarten room at night? The Alpha-bat / I am a
never-tiring, awe-inspiring, early-rising, always-smiling,
mentor-guiding, knowledge-providing, education-loving, Kindergarten
Teacher.
..........Clean
water for to quench my thirst..........Van Morrison …..Sweet Thing
Trivia
Questions: Good-bye to Henry the VIII!
^
So, how many of his wives can you name?
^^
The numbers – how many were executed, divorced, out lived him?
^^^
Know which wives produced which heirs?
^^^^
How many of the 6 were actually crowned queen?
^^^^^
How did Henry get to be Supreme Head of the Church of England,
anyway?
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: I wanted to go
jogging but Proverbs 28:1 says “The wicked run when no one is
chasing them.” So there's that...
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
37%
of librarians can successfully judge a book by its cover.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Son:
I
won a prize in kindergarten today. The teacher asked me how many legs
a hippopotamus had. I said three. Father:
Three?
How on earth did you win the prize? Son:
I
came the closest.
..........We
were born before the wind..........Van Morrison …..Into the Mystic
Moonbeam:
Establishing
lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep
us out of war.
--Maria Montessori
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Dorood –
Persian aka Farsi
https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Throw
kindness around like confetti.
Week
of the Week: It's Be Kind to Humankind
Week (8/25-31) –I am not mean before I've had coffee; I'm just
selective with my kindness.
How
do you think my first day of kindergarten went? They didn't even
have wi-fi. / If you think my hands are full you should see my heart.
--Kindergarten teacher
..........You
can't stop us on the road to freedom..........Van Morrison …..Tupelo
Honey
^
1) Catherine of Aragon, 2) Anne Boleyn, 3) Jane Seymour, 4) Anne of
Cleves, 5) Catherine Howard, and 6) Catherine Parr.
Almanac:
It is Friday, August 31, 2018. The moon will be last quarter on
Monday and is in Taurus. It is Love Litigating
Lawyers Day and National Trail Mix Day. In Afghanistan
it is Pashtunistan Day and in Malaysia they celebrate Malaysia Day
(1957). Finally in Trinidad & Tobago it is Independence Day
(1962).
Among
those born on this day were Maria Montessori
(1870), Frederic March (1897), Arthur Godfrey (1903), William Saroyan
(1908), Alan Jay Lerner (1918), Buddy Hackett (1924), Dan Rather
(1931), Eldridge Cleaver (1935), Itzhak Perlman (1945), Van Morrison
(1945) and Richard Gere (1949).
On
August thirty-first Henry VIII was excommunicated (1535), the first
US tennis championships were held (1881), and Solidarity union was
founded in Poland (1980).
Night
Sky, 8/31:
Look
for bright Vega passing the zenith as twilight fades out, if you live
in the world's mid-northern latitudes. Vega goes right through
your
zenith if you're at latitude 39° north (near Baltimore, Kansas City,
Lake Tahoe, Sendai, Beijing, Athens, Lisbon).
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
Dragon Con (8/20-9/2, Atlanta, GA) We are the largest multi-media,
popular culture convention focusing on science fiction & fantasy,
gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the universe.
http://dragoncon.org/
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
World Congress on Computer Science, Machine learning and Big data
analytics. (8/30-31, Dubai, UAE)
https://computer-science.enggconferences.com/
This
Week: Saturday, September 1 –
Calendar Adjustment Day & National No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day
Sunday,
September 2 – Bowling League Day & V-J Day
Night
Sky, 9/2 :
As twilight fades, spot Venus very low in the
west-southwest. Upper right of it by just 1.3° is Spica, a
1st-magnitude star but less than 1% as bright as Venus. Can you see
Spica naked-eye through the twilight? They're about a finger-width at
arm's length apart. Or, try binoculars.
Monday,
September 3 – Labor Day
Tuesday,
September 4 – Newspaper Carrier Day & Another Look
Unlimited Day
Night
Sky, 9/4:
After dark the Great Square of Pegasus looms up in the east,
balancing on one corner. Its stars are only 2nd and 3rd magnitude.
Extending leftward from the Square's left corner is the main line of
the constellation Andromeda. It's made of three stars (including the
corner) that are about as bright as the others forming the Square.
Wednesday,
September 5 – Be Late For Something Day & Jury Rights
Day
Thursday,
September 6 – National Lazy Mom Day
..........Got
the moon above your head and the road beneath your feet..........Van
Morrison …..Gypsy
^^
Anne Boleyn (2) & Catherine Howard (5) were executed. 4 were
divorced or annulled, Catherine of Aragon (2), Anne of Cleves (4),
Anne Boleyn (2) and Catherine Howard (5). Catherine Parr (6) lived a
year after Henry died.
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The only person Trump ever
hired who was actually qualified to do their job was Stormy Daniels.
--Submitted by vr of 66
Moonbeam:
The
greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not
necessarily require happiness.
--William Saroyan
Late
Night Snacks: Everyone's on vacation Classic Late Night… New
Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was spotted singing and dancing at a Bruce
Springsteen concert. Then Christie tried to crowd surf and killed
nine people. --Conan O'Brien 8/31/16 / According to a new poll,
Hillary Clinton has lost a third of her supporters in Iowa since May.
There's still debate as to whether she lost them or just deleted them
from her database. --Jimmy Fallon 8/31/15 / The three crew members
on the international space station may leave early because a rocket
bringing supplies crashed. They have some food left, but it’s all
in the mini-bar, and that’s really expensive in space. --Jay Leon
8/31/11 / The CIA is hoping Moammar Gadhafi’s weapons don’t fall
into the wrong hands. Weren’t they already in the wrong hands?
--David Letterman 8/31/11 / New York is facing an infestation of
disgusting and impossible-to-kill pests. That’s right, the cast of
“Jersey Shore” is in town. --Craig Ferguson 8/31/10
If
you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‘our’ country, let it
be understood, soberly and rationally between us, that you are
fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure
benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share; but not
to gratify my instincts, or protect either myself or my country. For,
the outside will say, in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a
woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world...
--Virginia Woolf
A
police officer came to my house and asked me where I was between 5 &
6. I said, Kindergarten. / I've got one tough kindergarten teacher.
You have to check your cell phones at the door.
..........Turn
up your radio and let me hear the song..........Van Morrison
…..Caravan
^^^
Catherine of Aragon (1) was mother to Mary I aka Bloody Mary
(1553-1558), Anne Boleyn (2) was mother to Elizabeth I (1558-1603),
and Jane Seymour (3) was mother to Edward VI (1547-1553).
Worthless
Fact of the Week: The inaugural US
National Tennis Championship took place August 31, 1881 at the
Newport Casino in Newport, RI. The
first edition was won by Richard Sears of Boston, MA who went on to
win seven consecutive singles titles.
Women's championships did not begin until 1887.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The
only thing left to decide about Trump is do we try him as an adult?
--Michael Moore
Weird
Word of the Week: Coddiwomple – To travel purposefully
toward an as-yet-unknown destination. (English Slang)
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Keep shower curtains sliding easily. Apply a thin coat of Vaseline
Petroleum Jelly to the curtain rod.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/vaseline.html
I've
been coming to kindergarten everyday now for two weeks. When do I
get paid?
...........Dig
your Charlie Parker..........Van Morrison …..The Eternal Kansas
City
^^^^
2 of Henry's wives were crowned queen: Catherine of Aragon and Anne
Boleyn.
Grammar
Joke of the Week: A
misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye
named Ralph.
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I am
convinced that every time a sock goes missing from the dryer, it
comes back as an extra tupperware lid. --Submitted by rhb of ks
Pseudo-Science
on the Internet of the Week:
Timelines ...Time travel in popular film and tv... All your
favorite time travel time lines in colorful curves from Information
is Beautiful.
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/timelines-time-travel-in-popular-film-and-tv/
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck scratching his head in case of the Puzzled
Persian.
Kindergarten
teachers, come December, it really is just crowd control. / For
kindergarten teachers, the month of August is just one long Sunday
night.
..........take
away my trouble, take away my grief..........Van Morrison …..Crazy
Love
^^^^^
Henry
was given the authority to suppress monasteries in England and Wales
by the Act
of Supremacy,
passed by Parliament in 1534, which made him Supreme
Head
of
the Church in England, thus separating England from Papal authority,
and by the First
Suppression Act(1536)
and the Second
Suppression Act
(1539).
Month
of the Week: September is College
Savings Month --Did
you hear about the banker who was recently arrested for embezzling
$100,000 to pay for his daughter's college education? As
the policeman, who also had a daughter in college, was leading him
away in handcuffs, he said to the banker, "I have just one
question for you. Where were you going to get the rest of the money?"
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Just
for the record. I don't want Trump at my funeral, either. --Roy
Zimmerman
Shameless
Promotion of the Week:
Roy Zimmerman will be at Unity of Lawrence (900 Madeline Lane) on
9/11 with his Rize Up tour. Starts at 7:30 pm. ($20 or what you can
afford). Buy War Toys for Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSAa86KuXVY
Today's
Peace of History, August
31, 1994: The
Irish Republican Army (IRA) declared a permanent and "complete
cessation of military operations" after 25 years of bombing and
3000 deaths.
All
right, nobody leaves this classroom until we find the top to this
gluestick! / I frequently use my teacher voice outside the classroom,
randomly and unintentionally.
..........The
queen of hearts still making tarts..........Van Morrison …..Raglan
Road
Masthead
of the Week:
Friday ePistle August 31, 2018, Elementary ePistle. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Peace, Laughs, and the ABCs. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511
Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam:
The price of hating other human beings in loving oneself less.
--Eldridge Cleaver
Cost
of War:
As
of 8/30/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,851,150,451,487.
As
of 8/23/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,849,170,607,358.
As
of 8/30/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $846,985,674,952.
As
of 8/23/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $845,640,156,279.
As
of 8/30/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $614,138,910,877.
As
of 8/23/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $612,747,785,570.
As
of 8/30/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $295,281,589,194.
As
of 8/23/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $294,897,162,728.
As
of 8/30/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,607,857,365,422.
As
of 8/16/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,596,872,233,132.
Women
are not at the peace table. We are not there where our commitment to
peace, our capacities to find solutions through dialogue, debate, our
sensitivities to human needs, human rights are sorely needed.
Therefore, we still must press - from the outside...Feminists can
make clear that one does not have to agree with the political or
economic systems of a country in order to like and understand its
people. --Margarita Chant Papandreous
..........Well,
my mama said there'll be days like this..........Van Morrison
…..Days Like This
Kindergarten
Teacher Nightmare: Tying a wet shoelace when it has not been raining.
/ You can't scare me. I teach kindergarten.
Famous
Last Words: I'll be seeing you. --Arthur Godfrey's last radio
show 1972
May
Peace be your teacher
And
Joy your subject
prairie
mama
christine
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