Famous
First Words: In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
--The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Happy
International Day of Peace!!! In Jerusalem, a female CNN journalist
heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Wailing
Wall to pray, twice a day, everyday, for a long, long time. So she
went to check it out. She went to the Wailing Wall and there he was!
She watched him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to
leave, she approached him for an interview. "I'm Rebekah Smith
from CNN. Sir, how long have you been coming to the wall and
praying?" "For about 60 years." "60 years! That's
amazing! What do you pray for?" "I pray for peace between
the Christians, Jews and the Muslims. I pray for all the hatred to
stop and I pray for all our children to grow up in safety and
friendship." "How do you feel after doing this for 60
years?" "Like I'm talking to a damned wall."
..........I'm
in the middle without any plans.........Alice Cooper …..I'm
Eighteen
World
Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity – it is
up to each and every one of us to make this a reality.
It
is a cloudy Friday morning. The sky is morphing from gray,
rainy-looking lumps and rolls through slate gray and featureless to
fluffy, friendly puffs. The wind too switches between strong and
northerly to gentle and refreshing. The 64°F is nearly perfect. The
ground and the patio are wet from last night's rain and smell of damp
concrete and moist soil. The short green lawn is scattered with
yellow willow leaves. A squirrel makes its silent way across the top
of the neighbor's privacy fence to Bruno's yard and so down to the
stand of cottonwoods at the end of the block; with each gust of wind
the tall and stately trees sound like cats playing with gift wrap. I
swallow a sip of warm, sweetened decaf and let it wash slowly down my
throat. It is the last and my cup is empty. It is time to go inside.
Puck greets me at the backdoor and goes out as I enter. One
minute...I'll fill my cup again and we can talk.
Hope
your weekend is peaceful and serene, ePistliers.
I
think that world peace can only be achieved if everyone learns to
laugh at themselves./ Headline: War Dims Hope for Peace
..........Another
junkie plan pushing dope for the man.........Curtis Mayfield
…..Freedie's Dead
Trivia
Questions: Good-bye, Nathan Hale.
^
What rank did Hale hold in the Continental Army?
^^
Where was Hale born and raised?
^^^
What was Hale's job for the army?
^^^^
When was Hale caught by the British?
^^^^^
How do we know about his most famous quote?
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: I bought a new
pair of shoes with Memory Foam insoles, so I will no longer forget
why I walked into the kitchen.
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
14%
of public library employees are only there so they can get the
bestsellers before everyone else
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
If
you could chose between World Peace & Bill Gates' fortune, what
color would your Lamborghini be? / “If
we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world
peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would be until the
looting started.”
..........Bo
Diddley caught a nanny goat.........Bo Diddley …..Bo Diddley
Moonbeam:
If we don't end war, war will end us. --H.G. Wells
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Cześć -
Polish https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: A man
goes to a funeral and asks the widow if he can say a word. The widow
agrees, and the man says : Plethora. The woman says “Thanks, that
means a lot.”
Week
of the Week: Tolkien Week (/16-22) --A
hobbit was terribly overweight, so her doctor put her on a diet. "I
want you to eat regularly for 2 days, then skip a day, and repeat
this procedure for 2 weeks. The next time I see you, you’ll have
lost at least 5 pounds." When the hobbit returned, she shocked
the doctor by losing nearly 20 pounds. "Why, that’s amazing!"
the doctor said, "Did you follow my instructions?" The
hobbit nodded. "I’ll tell you though, I thought I was going to
drop dead that 3rd day." "from hunger you mean?" "No
from skipping."
Let
us love the world to peaces. / Peace is that brief glorious moment in
history when everybody stands around reloading.
..........Blowing
through the jasmine in my mind........Seals & Crofts …..Summer
Breeze
^
Nathan
Hale was a captain in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War.
Almanac:
It is Friday, September 21, 2018. The moon will be full (Harvest) on
Monday and is in Aquarius. It is World Gratitude
Day, National POW/MIA Recognition Day, and World's Alzheimer's Day.
In Malta they celebrate Independence Day
(1964) and in the Philippines it is Thanksgiving.
Among
those born on this day were Frederick III (1415), H.G. Wells
(1866), Larry Hagman (1931), Melvin Van Peebles (1932), Henry Gibson
(1935), Fannie Flagg (1944), Stephen King (1947) and Bill Murray
(1950).
On
September twenty-first Nathan Hale was hanged (1776), Moroni
first appeared to Joseph Smith (1832), The
Hobbit
was published (1937), the submarine Nautilus
was commissioned (1954), ABC's In
Concert debuted
(1973), the first female was appointed to the Supreme Court (Sandra
O'Connor, 1981) and NASA launched the Galaxy-C (1984).
Night
Sky, 9/21:
The
closing days of summer (the equinox is tomorrow) always find the
Sagittarius Teapot moving west of south during evening and tipping
increasingly far over to the right, as if pouring out the last of
summer.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
Random Fandom Convention 2018: (Big Rapids, MI) ..family friendly
comic con style event...
https://www.upcomingcons.com/upcomingcons/29104-Random-Fandom-Con
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
Plastic Surgery Review (9/21-24, Chicago, IL)
https://www.osler.org/product/plastic-surgery-review-sept-21-24-2018-chicago/
This
Week: Saturday, September 22 –
Batman Day & Car Free Day & Hobbit Day
Night
Sky, 9/22: The
September equinox occurs at 9:54 pm Eastern Daylight Time, when the
Sun crosses the equator heading south for the season. This moment
marks the beginning of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. And the Sun
sets almost exactly due west.
Sunday,
September 23- National Snack Stick Day & Teal Talk Day
Monday,
September 24 – Punctuation Day & Family Day
Night
Sky, 9/24: Venus shines very low in the west-southwest in the
evening twilight. Jupiter is to the lower right of Venus and is
brighter. About an hour after dark Mars can be seen in the south.
It's a tad brighter than Sirius. Saturn glows yellow in the south at
dusk. Uranus is near the Aries-Pisces border also in the evening.
Neptune rises late in the east south-east. Mercury is currently
hidden.
Tuesday,
September 25 – National Tune-Up Day & National Voter
Registration Day
Wednesday,
September 26 – Johnny Appleseed Day & School Backpack
Awareness Day
Thursday,
September 27 – Ancestor Appreciation Day & Remember Me
Thursday
I
wish for world peace...oh, and bigger boobs. Phoebe Friends
..........Pussyfootin'
around till the break of dawn.........Alice Cooper …..Gutter Cat
vs. The Jets
^^
Nathan
Hale grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Yale College in 1773.
He began a career as a teacher, but when the War for Independence
heated up in 1775, Hale accepted a commission as a lieutenant in the
army .
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I want to be 14 again so I
can ruin my life differently. I have new ideas.
Moonbeam:
The ones who hurt the most always say the least. --Fannie Flagg
Late
Night Snacks: This Trump administration has
really given us an exciting look at what the government could be if
it were run by a wealthy 12-year-old. --Jimmy Kimmel / Journalist Bob
Woodward's new book detailing life within the Trump administration
sold more than 750,000 copies in its first day of release. I guess it
was pretty smart of him to call the book "Harry Potter and the
Toupee of Doom." --Seth Meyers / According to one excerpt,
Donald Trump suggested that the government should just "print
more money." Oh, OK, I'm starting to realize why Trump's casinos
went bankrupt. If you think Drumpf's economic ideas are crazy, you
should hear Trump's plan for global warming. He thinks the government
should just make more ice cubes. --James Corden / Kanye West said
that Kim Kardashian is actually enrolled in law school. When he found
out, President Trump said, "I want to change my Supreme Court
nominee. Can we do that now? Is it too late?" --Jimmy Fallon /
The Russia investigation is still marching on, and today there's big
news about Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort. Rumors are
Manafort is in talks with the special counsel's office about a
possible plea deal. Yes, the man Trump called brave for not turning
state's evidence is now flipping like a gymnast making pancakes on a
trampoline. --Stephen Colbert
Not
So Late Night Snacks: It's Bob Woodward's book
titled Fear -
which is both what it is about and what it causes-- is already a
huge best seller despite there being no real surprises in it. That
makes it a perfect book club book. You can totally get away only
pretending you read it. --Peter Sagal Wait,
Wait, Don't Tell Me
Not
a minute, not an hour. Let's promise ourselves to be in peace during
the whole day. Feel it and offer it to your world.
If
the whole world smoked a joint at the same time, there would be World
Peace for at least two hours. / For anyone wanting a better world,
Peace, Rights, Sustainability...
..........I've
chased a rainbow down a one-way street dead end.........John Prine
…..Illegal Smile
^^^
Hale
served at Boston and then New York, where he volunteered to go behind
British lines to gather intelligence.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: At
present, more than 82,000 Americans remain missing from WWII, the
Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Gulf Wars/other
conflicts. Out of the 82,000 missing, 75% of the losses are located
in the Indo-Pacific, and over 41,000 of the missing are presumed lost
at sea (ie ship losses, known aircraft water losses, etc.).
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I'm
“use the lighted magnifying glass attached to the desk to read the
instructions on the paint can” years old. --Submitted by dr of oh
Weird
Word of the Week:
Abacot - “the
name of an ancient cap of state worn by the kings of England, the
upper part whereof was in the form of a double crown”.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-aba1.htm
~~I tried to find a picture of this hat but when I searched images
for abacot – pictures of ducks came up. There may be a portrait of
Henry IV with an abacot, but I'm not sure.
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp02141/king-henry-iv
the second image down.
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Prevent outdoor light bulbs from sticking in fixtures. To make
removal easy, rub a thin coast of Vaseline Petroleum Jelly on the
threads before inserting the bulbs.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/vaseline.html
According
to Mel Gibson: The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the
world. I didn't know “W” was Jewish. --Ingrid Rice / Leaders
start wars, People stop wars.
...........No
more pencils no more books.........Alice Cooper …..School's Out
^^^^
He
was captured by the British on 21 September 1776 and immediately
admitted that he was spying for General Washington.
Grammar
Joke of the Week: A
gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week :
Binge watching is great until you run out of the show and have to
start watching it weekly like some sort of medieval peasant.
Peace
Games on the Internet of the Week:
Darfur Is Dying:
Players
must keep their refugee camp going despite the threat of the militia
in this game that teaches about the plight of the 2.5 million
refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan.
http://www.darfurisdying.com/
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck in consultation with partner, Justice, and
field operative, Bruno, in the case of the Running Russian.
United
Nations: You Wanna Peace of Me? / Either we end war or war will end
us.
..........want
some coke, have some weed.........Curtis Mayfield …..Pusherman
^^^^^
“I
only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”
Nathan
Hale’s famous last words comes by way of a memoir by his friend,
William Hull, who reported the famous last words as told to him by a
British engineer who spoke with Hale, Captain John Montresor.
Month
of the Week: September is Healthy Aging
Month –True story: When my aunt Vera was around 80 years old my
mother called her and asked how she was doing. Aunt Vera answered
“I'm the healthiest son-of-a-bitch you know”. She lived another
10 years or so to prove it.
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The
consensus of the latest polls is that 100% of Americans think 50% of
Americans have lost their minds.
Max
picture of the Week:
Local
Peace News of the Week: Tomorrow –
Saturday, September 22 – The Lawrence Peace Community is planting a
Peace Pole in South Park (1141 Massachusetts). It is a replacement
pole for the one that had been standing in the park but was damaged
and falling over. The planting ceremony is at noon. The weather is
predicted to be beautiful. It will be planted somewhere near the
garden west of the gazebo – exact locations were still being
negotiated last I checked in. It should be a pleasant and peaceful
time; if you're in town, come on down.
Today's
Peace of History: September 21st (since 1982): The
International Day of Peace was established by United Nations
resolution in 1981 and first celebrated in 1982 (then as the 3rd
Tuesday of the month). Events are planned all over the world to
promote peace and make it more visible.
If
women rules the world, there would be no wars...just a bunch of
countries not talking to each other. --Chris Rock / A Russian
nuclear missile has been lost at sea. The story was reported in the
kids' magazine, "Sleep Well, Children!"
..........Ugly
Ole mojo, where you bin.........Bo Diddley …..Diddley itis
Masthead
of the Week:
Friday ePistle September 21, 2018, ePistle Accord. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Love Laughs and Peace. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800
Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS 66046
Moonbeam:
Books are a uniquely portable magic. --Stephen King
Cost
of War:
As
of 9/20/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,855,108,818,518.
As
of 9/13/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,857,014,170,231.
As
of 9/20/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $850,970,654,874.
As
of 9/13/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $849,675,969,719.
As
of 9/20/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $619,448,909,576.
As
of 9/13/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $617,821,049,576.
As
of 9/20/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $296,420,189,677.
As
of 9/13/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $296,050,219,390.
As
of 9/20/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,623,855,256,191.
As
of 9/13/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,618,656,878,258.
On
International Day of Peace...Let's unite together...to make a
peaceful world!
..........Heavenly
songbird, we were so wrong.........Seals & Crofts …..Hummingbird
(Most
of today's songs are from the original In Concert program on
ABC in 1973. It was taped on 9/21 and aired in November of that
year.)
The
peace making meeting scheduled for today has been canceled due to a
conflict. / President Trump met with the
President of South Korea to discuss North Korea. The meeting
consisted of five minutes about nuclear weapons, and 90 minutes of
Trump saying, "So wait – which Korea are you again?
Famous
Last Words: Human
rights are everyone's rights. --US
International Day of Peace Website
May
Peace give you hugs
And
Joy give you kisses
prairie
mama
christine
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