#Honey Robert Moses

[blurban-form]

Honey’s City

In the episode S1E17, “Calypso”, during a typical school day, Calypso encourages Honey to keep working on her model city (so that it’s worthy of a gnome being granted to it) and this is the end result, a model city that appears to be designed specifically for mothers with young children.

Honey the Master Planner

One last thing: Compare/contrast Honey’s modelled city to what Bluey and Bingo have put together in “Duck Cake”.

Bluey/Bingo’s development is less harmonious overall. Plus it’s in the way so it needs to go!

[robertmatejcek]

Glitchy Apiary - mixed media - robert matejcek - 2023

Gob Bluth: “Bzzz! We'll see who brings in more honey.”

- Will Arnett - Arrested Development

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[zooterchet]

My Arch-Nemesis (Jaw Bone)

Three times, I achieve at a college program, then Ben Affleck boots me.

For the next Ben Affleck, in Good Will Hunting.

Economics, Pre-Law, Literature.

Three programs. Commodities firm negotiation, law library research, and comic book script.

I'm out of money, I can't afford it anymore.

I like my cigarettes, my cigars, my beer, and my whiskey.

My porn, my escorts, and my dominatrixes.

My bacon, my veal, and my chocolate.

Cigarettes were invented to be able to smoke safely, with a cotton filter, so you could survive opium withdrawal.

Cigars were invented with a tobacco leaf, as a test of character, to see if you'd deconstruct something more valuable and prestigious consumed as designed.

Beer is the invention of the Hapsburgs, from Babylonian grappa, that later transitioned to Greece as honey-wine, mead. Austrians created ale, a warm bred beer from particular hops made for it, later transitioning to lager, kept in cold casks in mountain caves in Germany, and then the famous India Pale Ale, during the occupation of India by Britain, with particular hops and barleys, made to survive the long voyage with some shelf life overseas; now the source of micro-brewing, the invention, such as the famous Harpoon IPA, brewed with Adelweisse in New England greenhouses, the entire point of the Stockbridge program at UMass-Amherst, in the 1920s, that founded the university.

Whiskey was invented by the family of Robert the Bruce, when they were in Arabia, as "scotch", the name for the Red Sea's marsh, that Moses led the Hebrews through, to trick the Egyptian armies into thinking that the Pharaoh was defeated in taking the economics culture of the Hittites out of Egypt, for later conquest (the concept of extortion being illegal, through the Hebrew language making it impossible to draft or conscript without the extorting individual receiving backwards information through the basic concept of trade with currency, the gold stolen).

Pornography is how you avoid being a pedophile, unless you're a homosexual looking, then you hide your porn stash, and it becomes a security obsession, leading to the incarceration or harm led to anyone challenging your wife, husband, or financial interest of race of seized legacy presuming leadership.

Escorts are women that aren't necessarily prostitutes, but are attracted to you for business, with sex in the side as your feather in the hat, often for payment for special trinkets sold to her; a way to distribute your work into the community, on an exponent, to profit someone else, the art of social leadership.

Dominatrixes are how the poor have sex, the middle to lower middle to poor classes, 62 percent of the country, besides gays and transgenders, that cater to the rich, abusive trust fund kids or kids in power, homosexual sex natural to them, besides the claustrophobic fear of sex with an ambitious individual, someone who wants to make themselves into something, from nothing, a permanent character trait; a murderer once broken of opportunity.

Bacon was bred by a Paleolith, Ching-tze of Taiwan, to be an animal that naturally betrays other pigs, saying 'hell', the origin of the term, a threat of someone else suffering for their own convenience, producing humans as animals that are soft, non-threatening, pass their bowels easily and smoothly, achieve currency from other such humans, are a natural aphrodesiac to be around, and whenever they betray, they congregate with each other, in pens, fenced in spaces, just like eating pig itself gets you to do; bacon is the best part of the pig, the skin thickened to invent surgery and economics and sales, by observation of the slaughter.

Veal is tashim, an Indian product from the subcontinent used to feed prisoners a final meal, making them out their sins upon the community so they'd remember the convict's deeds, regardless of what they learned, a history lesson to those watching as to the absolution of man's debts; reversing the system of Chinese law under Mo Zi, that of a system of traps with minor offenses from educational programs and animated art encouraging misdemeanors, for questioning the social status quo; instead, veal encourages you to analyze the system around the individual consuming it, the errors in others having led to the veal diner's behavior.

Chocolate is a poor man's punishment for stealing a wife, in South American culture, the origin of cocoa, and chocolate was created through the Ord Dracul, the chocolatiers, deciding that this product was the superior candy, hence chocolate bears the name from Gilgamesh. Chocolate replicates desire, born from the desire to have hard sex with a woman as impregnating her, or in a woman, the desire to sexually gratiate a man to have a child, eating it together a perverse conversation of unlawful carnal knowledge, into the secrets of others, the education of the tricks and traps of the society of the nobles and petty rich.

[punkscowardschampions]

Names & Faces & BDays

Family

Sue Bevan- Sarah Lancashire- Tess’ Maternal Grandmother- 1939

Bill Baker- N/A- Tess’ Maternal Grandfather- 1934

John Vickers- Matt King- Tess’ Father- 1939-1995

Megan Baker- Erin Doherty- Tess’ Mother- 1959-1981

Kayleigh Baker-Barnett- Victoria Smurfit- Tess’ (M) Auntie- 1962

Bill Baker Jnr- Michael Fassbender- Tess’ (M) Uncle- 1963

Sarah Ahmed- Joanne Froggatt- Tess’ (M) Auntie- 1966

Peter Baker- Marc Warren- Tess’ (M) Uncle- 1968

Chantelle Baker-Barnett- April Pearson- Tess’ Cousin- 1981

Masood Ahmed- Dev Patel- Tess’ Cousin- 1989

Tamwar Ahmed- Avan Jogia- Tess’ Cousin- 1991

Jasminder Ahmed- Anaya Kolvanker- Tess’ Cousin- 1997

Honey Baker- Morgana Davies- Tess’ Cousin- 1999

Daisy Baker- Alyvia Alyn-Lind- Tess’ Cousin- 2001

Poppy Baker- Hattie Gotobed- Tess’ Cousin- 2002

Brendan McKenna- Tom Hardy- Fearghal’s Father- 1942-2003

Brigid McKenna- Orla Brady- Fearghal’s Mother- 1944-2004

Diarmaid McKenna- Cillian Murphy- Fearghal’s Brother- 1962-1990

Angela McKenna- Susan Lynch- Diarmaid’s Wife

Donal McKenna- James Norton- Fearghal’s Brother- 1967-1990

Mary McKenna- Rita Simons- Donal’s Wife

Tara McKenna- Saoirse Ronan- Fearghal’s Sister- 1972

Kaitlin McKenna- Jessica Barden- Fearghal’s Twin- 07/08/1976

Samson Kalu- John Boyega- Kaitlin’s Husband

Eoin McKenna- Charlie Hunnam- Fearghal’s Brother- 1978

Maria McKenna- Cristina Brondo- Eoin’s Wife

Aislinn McKenna- Evanna Lynch- Fearghal’s Sister- 1980

Paddy McKenna- Harris Dickinson- Fearghal’s Brother- 1985

Natsumi McKenna- Shiori Kutsuna- Paddy’s Wife

Eddie McKenna- Finn Cole- Fearghal’s Brother- 1989

Niamh McKenna- Orla Gartland- Fearghal’s Sister- 1991

Sophia Garcia- Ana De Armas- Niamh’s Wife

Brendan McKenna Jnr- Jody Lantham- Diarmaid’s son- 1984

Aidan McKenna- Jack McMullen- Diarmaid’s son- 1985

Cillian McKenna- Johnny Bennett- Diarmaid’s son- 1987

Kearney McKenna- Adam Long- Diarmaid’s son- 1989

Bronagh McKenna- Tilly Keeper- Donal’s Daughter- 1987

Ferdia McKenna- Joe Cole- Donal’s Son- 1989

Malachi Kalu- Franz Drameh- Kaitlin’s Son- 1993

Lee McKenna- Danny Walters- Eoin’s Son- 1998

Liam McKenna- Harry Kirton- Eoin’s Son- 1999

Aoife McKenna- Aisling Franciosi- Eoin’s Daughter- 2009

Caoimhe McKenna- Sophie Borja- Eoin’s Daughter- 2009

Ruari Murphy- Cameron Monaghan- Aislinn’s Son- 1999

Niall Murphy- Gabriel Basso- Aislinn’s Son- 2002

Lennox McKenna- Ezra Miller- Paddy’s Son- 2017

Marvin McKenna- George Miller- Paddy’s Son- 2017

Liv O’Connell- Annes Elwy- Eddie’s Daughter- 2034

Gen One

Tess Vickers- Lily Loveless- 19/11/1976- Scorpio

Fearghal McKenna- Jack O’Connell- 07/08/1976- Leo

Kathryn Houghton- Vega Essermeant- Beeline’s Maternal Auntie- 29/12/1975- Capricorn

Natasha Houghton- Elizabeth McLaughlin - Beeline’s Mother- 17/03/1977- Pisces- 11/11/2000- 23 years old

Admir Dervishi- Azim Osmani- Beeline’s Father- 02/05/1975- Taurus- 11/11/2000- 25 years old

Reb Parry- Meg Donnelly- 

Gen Two

Ronnie Olufemi- Ruby Tandoh- 09/06/1991- Gemini

Joe Mckenna- Anton Yelchin- 01/01/1995- Capricorn

Fraze McKenna- Will Poulter- 30/04/1996- Taurus

Ray Mckenna- Milly Alcock- 30/04/1996- Taurus- 26/07/2009- 13 years old

Bea Dervishi- Moya Palk- 15/06/1996- Gemini

Tommy McKenna- Bertie Gilbert- 26/12/1998- Capricorn

Ali McKenna- Dakota Fanning- 13/02/2000- Aquarius

Ro Dervishi- Emma Roberts- 11/11/2000- Scorpio- 17/11/2030- 30 years old

Ronan O’Shaughnessy-Jeremy Allen White- 31/08/2000- Virgo

Bartley O’Shaughnessy- Miles Teller- 14/11/1999- Scorpio

Johnny O'Shaughnessy- Frank Dillane- 23/02/1996- Pisces

Moses O’Shaughnessy- Thomas Doherty- 30/09/1997- Libra- 

Caleb Cavante- Jaden Smith- 06/12/1999- Sagittarius

Meena Goldsmith- Daphne Groenveld- 17/10/2000- Libra

Carly Walsh- Elizabeth Olsen- 11/06/2000- Gemini- 24/04/2014- 13 years old

Rocky McKenna- Josh O’Connor- 01/04/2009- Aries

Gen Three

Django Walsh- Toby Wallace- 30/03/2014- Aries

Una Gallagher - Jenna Ortega- 26/07/2014- Leo- 22/07/2030- 15 years old

Buster McKenna- Justin Crichlow- 31/10/2016- Scorpio*

Nancy McKenna- Lucy Boynton- 31/10/2016- Scorpio*

Rio Cavante- Antonia Thomas- 03/12/2016- Sagittarius

Liam Foley- Jacob Elordi- 26/08/2017- Virgo

Edie O’Shaughnessy- Billie Eilish- 27/10/2017- Scorpio

Grace Cavante- Sammi Maria- 13/10/2021- Libra

Janis Cavante- Ella-Rae Smith- 13/10/2021- Libra

Ava McKenna- Jessica Alexander- 27/05/2022- Gemini*

Junior O’Shaughnessy - Ethan Cutkosky- 13/08/2023- Leo

James Pemberton-Howard- Nicholas Hoult- 16/01/2017- Capricorn

Chloe Woodall-James- Holliday Grainger

Teddy Pemberton-Howard- Lucky Blue Smith

Gia Pemberton-Howard- Gemma Ward

Jimmy Taylor- Nico Mirallegro- 08/09/2021- Virgo

Casey Taylor- Brenton Thwaites- 25/03/2024- Aries

Gen Four

Violette Rose Borello-Agosti - Bailee Madison- 14/11/2030- Scorpio*

Mattie Pemberton-Howard- Kristine Froseth- 28/08/2035- Virgo

Fi Caldwell- Thea Sofie Loch Naess- 13/12/2038-  Sagittarius

Dolly-Blossom Farrington-Stone- Imogen King- 31/12/2039- Capricorn

Lulu-Bloom Farrington-Stone- Abigail Cowen - 31/12/2039- Capricorn

Hathor McKenna- Adwoa Aboah- 20/06/2040- Gemini

Sekhmet McKenna- Khadijha Red Thunder- 20/06/2040- Gemini

Adonis Saint McKenna- Younes Kahlaoui - 26/02/2042- Pisces

Tansy Pemberton-Howard- Lottie Moss- 2041

Maggie O’Shaughnessy- Ella Purnell- 17/09/2031- Virgo

Amber Jackson- Zoe Kravitz- 23/11/2031- Scorpio-Sagittarius Cusp

Bobby Taylor- Fernando Lindez- 01/07/2032- Cancer

Cosmo Cavante- Arjan Van Hesteren- 23/08/2032- Leo-Virgo Cusp

Sylvie McKenna- Romi van Renterghem- 2032 ish

Jake Cohen- Timothee Chalamet- 2032 ish

Callum Quinn- Charlie Gillespie- 2034 ish

Margot McKenna- Camille Jansen- 2034 ish

Dash Cavante- Nayleye Junior Dolmans- 20/01/2034- Capricorn-Aquarius Cusp

Lux Abernathy- Hunter Schafer- 20/03/2034- Pisces-Aries Cusp

Jac Taylor- Alycia Debnam Carey- 17/09/2046- Virgo

Jameson Taylor- Iris Law- 21/06/2047- Gemini-Cancer Cusp

Savannah Moore- Laura Harrier- 12/05/2047- Taurus

[strwbrymoonchild]

The Albums That Got Us Through 2020

We’ll save you the soliloquy, and get right to it: (skip to the bottom for the full playlist)

LaChelle’s Picks

Overture x Gaidaa

“Sonically, this album was very cathartic. Gaidaa’s songwriting is so imaginative and authentic, and I really love it when her voice hits those lush lower notes, her tone is like butter.”

Favorite tracks: Falling higher, Still Water, I Like Trouble

2. Rose in The Dark x Cleo Sol

“The timeless musicality and vocals are very reminiscent of some of my favorite classic soul artists like Angela Bofill, and Patrice Rushen but sound refreshing all the same. I would love to hear this project live but you know... COVID.”

Favorite tracks: When I’m In Your Arms, Why Don’t You, Rose in The Dark

3 & 4. Untiled (Black is) / Untitled (Rise) x Sault

“I can’t think of any projects more timely for this year than these two albums. They spoke to Black pain, weariness, and resilience in a way that felt mores insightful than preachy. A lot of the drums used on this project had an ancestral feel to them and the use of strings was extremely effective in giving it cinematic energy. The interludes also spoke to the difficult emotions many Black people grappled with this year while maintaining a musically rich sound.”

Favorite Tracks: Hard Life, Wildfires, Sorry Ain’t Enough, Why We Cry Why We Die, Free, Uncomfortable

5. The Angel You Don’t Know x Amaarae

“I first discovered Amaarae as a featured artist on one of my favorite music submissions of the year ‘NASA’ by Rvdical The Kid. I became entrenched upon my first listen to her first full-length project which is a mixture of afro-fusion, R&B, electronic, alté, and alternative hip hop. I love her animated voice and how effortlessly she glides over the track. I enjoy artists who can fuse multiple genres together and make them sound like a whole new sound”

Favorite Tracks: Fancy, Feel A Way, Céline

6. Last Year Was Weird, Vol 2. x Tkay Maidza

“This album had a lot of surprises on it. It’s a mixture of fun-loving R&B, raging nu-metal, and 808 thumping house tracks. While there’s not much fusion in the array of genres, I appreciate her ability to showcase her eclectic range.”

Favorite tracks: Shook, 24K, Don’t Call Again

7. Honey For Wounds x Ego Ella May

“This is a great self-love soundtrack. The pensiveness of this album is tempered by Ego Ella May’s jazzy vocals and even-keeled instrumentation. A very relaxing vibe to listen to during downtime or moments of solitude.”

Favorite tracks: Girls Don’t Always Sing About Boys, Table For One, Song For Bobby

8. Jaguar x Victoria Monét

“This album is oozing with sensuality, sexuality, and confidence. I love the lush vocal arrangements and the production which taps into nostalgia without being lazy or gimmicky. If you're feeling insecure, put on some lingerie, pour a glass of wine, turn this album on and you'll be feeling like a Savage Fenty brand ambassador”

Favorite tracks: Moment, Touch Me, Go There With You

9. Extra, Extra! x Lou Phelps

“ My boyfriend who is a Kaytranada fanboy put me onto this album. Haven’t heard a hip hop EP with such a fun, laid back like this in a minute. Lou’s big bro Kaytranada came through with the dancey vibes but you also get a bit of that classic boom bap energy that an old head like me loves”

Favorite tracks: Party in LA, Nike Shoe Box, Smiling

Dorian’s Picks

Pulp (Director’s Cut) x Ambré

"Ambré takes you deep into her world with sounds of a sweet lullaby, and a pulp garden full of hallucinating trips on a journey towards discovering love, vulnerability, and purpose. Overdosing on ‘Pulp’ has become a nightly ritual for me, no surprise as to why Ambré is my top artist of 2020."

Favorite tracks: free drugs, LUCIADA(EGODEATH), gucci slides

2. A Written Testimony x Jay Electronica

Jay Electronica's debut album, once heralded a myth by many, has finally seen the light of day, 10 years later. It sounds godly, rich in ancestral wisdom, paralleled with classic Hov features throughout. This album to me raps a soulful tune of Black enlightenment, and feels like a really lavish ode to the Nation of Islam.

Favorite tracks: Universal Soldier, Flux Capacitor, The Blinding

3. In Search of Lost Time x Protoje

"The Jamaican OG delivers a sonically wise lesson on life, what it means to live in our truths and light in search of happiness and prosperity as a free spirit. This album at many times served as a soundtrack to my life, a saving grace from my own insecurities and struggles amidst a very unsettling year."

Favorite tracks: In Bloom, Deliverance, Like Royalty

4. I Shine, U Shine x RIMON

"Amsterdam-based artist RIMON delivered a sonically pleasing project shortlisted with a blend of melancholy neo-soul/R&B influenced melodies. This project evokes raw relatable emotions and centers the beauty of the imperfect for full display. With each listen the lyrics pierced my heart and filled my memory of love lost and love found."

Favorite tracks: Out Of My Way, Got My Back, Downtown

5. Note to Self x Jah9

"Jah9's Note to Self, is a call to channel your divine form. Reggae has long been a genre that speaks to a higher force and existence. With the wild year we experienced, this project served as a guideline on how to battle those inner demons and live life to your fullest potential through faith."

Favorite tracks: Love Has Found I, Ma'at, New Race

6. SuperGood x Duckwrth

"The title is self-explanatory. Duckwrth gave us all that we deserved and dropped a bomb ass feel-good record. SuperGood gave me all the contemporary neo-funk grooves I've come to love about Duckwrth. Listening to this project made it easy to tune out all the noise of 2020 and just dance my sorrows away."

Favorite tracks: Quick, Coming Closer, Super Bounce

7. B7 x Brandy

"Brandy, now indie and seasoned in the industry, answers to no one and that's made clear with her experimental R&B sounds on B7. This project is fearless and sounds so different from previous Brandy albums, but delivers in that same angelic aesthetic and powerhouse vocals we've come to love. B7 is criminally underrated in my opinion and will stand the test of time. "

Favorite tracks: Rather Be, Borderline, Say Something

8. It Is What It Is x Thundercat

"Thundercat delivers another soothing jazzy-bassline record. This album feels cathartic, experiential in a sense, almost as if I'm listening to a score from an intergalactic movie set in some futuristic utopia. Best enjoyed with a spliff and/or glass of wine."

Favorite tracks: Black Qualls, DragonBall Durag, Unrequited Love

9. The ExPerience x Lila Iké

"This captivating debut EP from rising reggae siren Lila Iké will make anyone a believer. Her journey is compelling, spiritually guided, a modern tale of romance - the highs and lows of navigating young love. The way Lila belts out these reggae-R&B infused chunes pon ya head top is mesmerizing and sets the standard for Jamaica's new generation"

Favorite tracks: Forget Me, Where I'm Coming From, Thy Will

10. grae x Moses Sumney

“‘grae’, a two part album, explores the complexities of identity. Moses Sumney never quite submits to the boundaries society aims to box us in. ‘grae’ is undefined in sound, Moses gracefully flows from one end of the artistic spectrum to another without landing anywhere too long. What I love most about listening to this album besides Mose's falsetto is the high level of self-awareness, the screams of escapism, and determination to exist in free agency. "

Favorite tracks: Cut Me, Polly, Lucky Me

Rachel’s Picks

Instrospection x UMI

“After another year with no new SZA album, discovering UMI was a godsend. Her voice has that same angelic raspiness and lyrics that sit with you long after the first listen. What sets her and this record apart is how UMI’s lyrics recognize her own faults and the faults of others in a way that is so graceful that it never comes across as self-deprecating or accusatory. Listening to Introspection, you can’t help but introspect your life the way UMI does on this album.”

Favorite tracks: Introspection, Open Up, Pretty Girl hi!

2. Girlhood x Girlhood

“This electropop duo’s vocalist, Tessa Cavanna, has a voice reminiscent of the late artists Amy Winehouse and Sharon Jones, and with their neo-soul, 90’s inspired sound being so colorful, it’s impossible to get sick of listening to this album.”

Favorite tracks: Keep On, It Might Take a Woman, My Boy

3. Who Cares? x Abby Jasmine

“Released during the reclusive days of stay-at-home orders, Jasmine’s tracks on her sophomore album made me nostalgic for parties that were once filled with smoke, close friends, and good music. Her brutally honest lyrics, progressive production, and her overall confidence were comforting during a year of instability and empty dancefloors.”

Favorite tracks: Stay With Me, Artificial Lover, Groovy

4. Texas Sun x Khruangbin & Leon Bridges

“Two Texan artists came together and were able to use Bridge’s soulful and textured tone and the fluidity of the psychedelic-funk trio Khruangbin's sound, to create a desolate Texas landscape. Listening to the EP feels like driving with all the windows rolled down, feeling the sun’s heat on your skin.”

Favorite tracks: Texas Sun, Midnight, C-Side

5. They Call Me Disco x Ric Wilson & Terrace Martin

“In a year of so much grief, it is refreshing to hear music that sounds like it was as fun to make as it was to listen to. Wilson and Martin’s rhythmically dynamic collaboration prefaced a summer filled with social media’s fascination and nostalgia for the glittery freeness of the 70’s while still fitting into their respective genres of hip-hop and R&B.”

Favorite track: Don’t Kill the Wave, Move Like This, Chicago Bae

Lionnal’s Picks

Dinner Party x Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper. 9th Wonder, & Kamasi Washington

"These Four legendary musicians came together and gave us an album full of beautiful vocals over smooth, jazzy, soul instrumentals."

Favorite tracks: Freeze Tag, LUV U, Love You Bad

2. Burden of Proof x Benny The Butcher

"This album feels like a vintage east coast rap album. Hit-Boy’s luxury production matched with Benny’s grimey delivery is everything a classic rap fan would ever need."

Favorite tracks: One Way Flight, Burden of Proof, War Paint

3. Sin Miedo x Kali Uchis

"I didn’t know how I would take to an album primarily in Spanish, but Kali’s intoxicating and seductive vibe still found a way to draw me in."

Favorite tracks: Telepatia, //aguardiente y limón %ᵕ‿‿ᵕ%, Quiero Sentirme Bien

4. Fuck The World x Brent Fayaiz

"Brent Faiyaz’s personality is what makes this album so great. His cool and confident approach to tracks make for a unique spin on modern R&B and it’s honestly very refreshing."

Favorite tracks: Clouded, Been Away, Let Me Know

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[sandeepmaheshwaritips-blog]

Best Motivational Quotes to Overcome Anxiety and Depression

Moving statements and motivational quotes to overcome anxiety and depression have a stunning capacity to change the manner in which we feel about existence. This is the reason I find them so intriguing and significant on our ways to progress.

So what's their mystery?

The manner in which you contemplate yourself, including your convictions and assumptions regarding what is workable for you, decides everything that transpires.

To be successful, you have to use each day as an opportunity to grow, to find purpose in life, to be better, to get a little bit closer to your goals. It might sound like an impossible thing or a lot of work—and with a busy schedule, next to impractical. But the best part is, the more you get the results, the more you’ll want to work hard, the higher you’ll want to reach. So as long as you have the hunger for success, you will always have the power within you to achieve it.

You have full oversight over just a single thing known to mankind — your reasoning – and that is the place inspirational statements come in!

Everybody needs a little motivation now and again.

Regardless of whether you're experiencing a separation, you've recently lost your employment, or you just woke up feeling a little shaky toward the beginning of today—we've all had nowadays.

I've assembled a rundown of probably the best-overcome anxiety and depression quotes so you can begin the year by assuming responsibility for your considerations, thinking emphatically and defining new objectives.

Dont Forget to read the best Dalai Lama Quotes and Sayings to bring a positive change in your life.

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Suess

Motivational and Inspirational Quotes

“I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.” —Doug Hutchison

"I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama

“Feelings don’t try to kill you, even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You’re responsible for its consequences, you’re responsible for treating it. But…you’re not responsible for causing it. You’re not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumor.”  ― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon

“Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca

“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, “Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?” To which the man responded, “That’s your worry.”  ― Max Lucado

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” —Dolly Parton

“Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can.” — Hillary Clinton

“Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” — Ashton Kutcher

“Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.” — Kevin Hart

“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” — Kobe Bryant

“I like criticism. It makes you strong.” — LeBron James

“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” ― George Clooney

“Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.” — Celine Dion

“Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.” — John F. Kennedy

“Live for each second without hesitation.” — Elton John

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein

“Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Helen Keller

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs

“My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”— Lao-Tze

“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.” — Helen Keller

“The healthiest response to life is joy.” — Deepak Chopra

“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” — Lillian Dickson

“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love.” — Wordsworth

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” ― Robert Frost

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll

“Keep calm and carry on.” — Winston Churchill

“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” — Jack Kerouac

“Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo

“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” — Marilyn Monroe

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” — Stephen Hawking

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The greatest pleasure of life is love.” — Euripides

“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” — Grandma Moses

“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” — Kevin Kruse

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth

“I’ve spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won’t leave, and fearing that it’s a matter of time before they figure me out and go.”  ― Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford

“In order to write about life first you must live it.”– Ernest Hemingway

“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”– Frank Sinatra

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”– Thomas A. Edison

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”– Babe Ruth

“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith

“Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” – (Attributed to various sources)

“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”– Soren Kierkegaard

“To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self.”   ― Søren Kierkegaard

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey

“The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.”   ― Rick Warren, The Purpose of Christmas

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs

Thank you for giving your time to read these beautiful inspirational and motivational quotes about anxiety and depression. Stay connected for more.

Source: Best Motivational Quotes to Overcome Anxiety and Depression

[slapmeagain-blog]

COVID-19 LIFE

18 May 2020

How can it be 12 days since I last posted?  It must be the distraction of improving weather, the amount of time I am spending on the garden, and getting ready to enjoy the outdoor season: bringing all the outdoor furniture up from the basement, cleaning the porch, patio and deck, putting covers back on all the cushions, moving all the plants that have been hibernating in the sun room out of doors; ferns for the urns on the front steps, and hanging from hooks above the balustrades on the porch, potted palms next to the wooden furniture facing Pearl street.  There are the big self-watering planters filled with semi-tropicals on the deck off the sun room and the giant urns on the blue-stone patio.  New plantings in the bare spots in the flowers beds, potting a new lime tree, an on-going losing battle with crabgrass and other unworthy competitors to my lawn.  I could have a booth selling dandelion leaves for salad at the Wall Street farmer’s market on Saturday morning if I had the time.  Re-seeding bare patches under the copper beech tree and the corner near the vegetable patch, seeding herbs and greens in tiny compostable pots that have to be misted twice a day.  Cutting away dead leaves and growth from everything and moving the potted plants from beneath the living room windows to their appointed positions out of doors.  Ahh....

The weather had been so cool, damp and dreary, that I had to take matters into my own hands and say enough is enough, that it was about time we moved from bare hints of spring to full on spring mode on May 14th, mainly to keep Marco from packing his bags and moving back to Tuscany, where temperatures are already well into the high seventies and eighties.  Temperatures here rose as ordered.  We hit 80 a couple of days ago which has delayed Marco’s imminent migration.  I even enjoyed a pitcher of iced tea!

Meanwhile, in the wider world, 90,000 Americans are dead, and there have been 1,400,000 confirmed cases of the virus. 36,000,000 Americans have filed unemployment claims (Marco and I are not eligible) and armed civilian militia have overrun the Michigan state  legislature and shut down Oregon’s demanding that the governments re-open the economies. Who are these people?  They are clearly a small but vocal minority of the disparate groups of supremacists, right wing Christians, and hard line second amendment defenders who are being encouraged by the man in the white house (note to my great-grandchildren: many people in these times refuse to even speak the name of the current resident of the White House.  Something we borrowed as a form of protest from the Harry Potter novel series where people were afraid to even mention the name of the antagonist -- Voldemort.)  We’re not ‘afraid’ to mention his name, we just feel that he shouldn’t be given any form of legitimacy, not as a man, and certainly not at as a president.

Closer to home, here in Kingston, NY, a barber in a hipster-retro shop on John Street, has been cutting hair on the sly, in defiance of the shutdown, and has been diagnosed with the virus.  Officials are searching for anyone who might have had their haircut by him (eye roll). On the brighter side, Liberato (Marco’s niece's fiance was finally able to legally open his brand spanking new barber shop in San Querico (Tuscany) this week and is booked solid for two weeks -- 97 appointments.  It’s curious that the Kingston barber made international headlines.  We heard about it from as far afield as Siena (IT) and Geneva (CH, not NY!)  Most people are taking the shutdown seriously, but many are not, and it’s a very divisive topic.  One security guard was shot, in Michigan, for telling a customer to put on a mask or leave the store.  Another liquor store owner in Flint (Michigan clearly has anger management issues) was shot in the ankle for the same reason.  Many people feel that the lock down is a useless exercise, that we should just open up and get it over with.  It’s not killing as many as we thought it might, and cases have started to fall off in the worst hit places.  But the whole point was to ‘flatten the curve’ to prevent the health care system from getting overwhelmed and to protect the vulnerable.  That part has worked.  So where do you begin, and how much is enough, to get the economy started again without creating new spikes and hot-spots of the disease and risk overwhelming the hospitals?  The scientists argue that it can’t be done safely until we have tested most of the population to get a handle on how many people have already had it.  Supposedly, 60% is a magic number for ‘herd immunity,’ above which the virus will slowly die out because it can’t sustain itself in a smaller pool, but that assumes that once you’ve had it, you are immune.  The jury is still out on that.  So much information, so little reliability.  Example: Marco read in the Italian press today that the US had come up with a vaccine and was testing it.  Here, however, the medical professionals are saying we are at least a year, maybe two, away from a vaccine.  It’s no wonder people are acting crazy.  Anyone can  pretty much find someone out there who is saying exactly the thing that appeals to their fears and some of us act on those fears, with the encouragement of the 12-year old in chief, who says he is now taking hydroychloroquine, the efficacy of which is questionable and is said to have potentially harmful side effects.  A couple of months ago, a couple in Arizona took it after he touted it.  The husband died and the wife was hospitalized in serious condition.  Well, let’s hope he manages to kill or incapacitate himself soon.

That’s plenty on that topic.  I don’t know if it is because we are safely ensconced in Kingston in a big house surrounded by lawns and stone walls and flowers that I don’t feel particularly under threat by the virus.  But at the same time, I don’t feel the loss of human contact (other than with Cole, Ashe and Carter and the hugs). My time is my own, and I’m enjoying finding ways to fill it -- cooking, reading, planning for reopening my hospitality locations, gardening, studying, watching movies....  My biggest fears, really, are economic.  When this is over, what will my investments be worth, what will the townhouse in Brooklyn be worth, how will I support myself, help Marco, and leave something to my son and grand kids when I go?  Up until now those were not serious issues for me. 

 I do miss eating out in places where I know people or places where the food is particularly transcendent, but cooking at home and really investing in keeping food interesting, has been a pleasant challenge.  And as I settle in to lock down -- it’s been two months now -- I find I am seeking less amusement in martinis, mushrooms, and space cookies, and more in reading, writing, studying and cooking and actually having a schedule for those activities.  I also love the efficiency of online visual visits, both personal and for study and business.  I’m staying in closer contact with so many of my friends than I did before lockdown.  We have a call tonight at 7 p.m. with Joe and Vicki in LA which I am looking forward to, and we are doing a weekly family call on Sundays with the kids, Roy and CT in Hawaii, Maud in Brooklyn, Hedy and Firth and M and me here in Kingston.  

Hawaii, by the way, is pretty safe.  And here, in Ulster County, we’ve had fewer than 40 deaths and 1500 cases.  And considering how many people like me have fled from the city to Kingston, I’m surprised it’s not higher.  East Hampton, for example, was a hot spot because of all the rich NYC types that have homes there and left the city.  Sorry, sorry.  I promised to stop.  Times article says that wealthier neighborhoods in NYC have lost 40% of their population!  I’m so glad the kids are at our place to keep an eye on things.  And Marco’s finding a rhythm, too.  Check it out.

I finally plodded though to the end of Thomas Campanella’s book, “Brooklyn: The Once and Future City”.  It was very, very informative, even if many parts of it would be far more interesting to civic planners and architects than to casual readers, but it really did put a lot in perspective on Brooklyn’s economic and social trajectory through nearly 300 years with some interesting segues into geological formations that impact the place still today.  Sadly, as interesting and appealing a place as Brooklyn is, very little scholarly work has been done on it’s history.  Until very recently, the focus has always been on Manhattan.  It did correct a number of my own misconceptions.  Importantly, despite the fact that Robert Moses was not thrilled at the design for the proposed Dodger Stadium at the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, it doesn’t appear that he, on his own, could have stopped it.  Research suggests that it was the disappearing fan base (fleeing the crime-ridden city in the 50s and 60s) that made the move to LA more an economic decision than has otherwise been speculated.  And I’m no fan of Robert Moses. The study group, in the end, actually wanted to put the stadium complex in Park Slope, bordered by Sterling, Bergen, Vanderbilt and Boerum Place.  What a disaster that would have been on so many levels!!  Not the least of which would have been the United Jet that crashed in that spot in 1960. And the Weisberg’s wouldn’t have been my neighbors for 34 years because their house would have been razed.

Other non-essential slightly amusing details. Deer ‘resistant’ plants are not deer ‘proof’.  And our herd doesn’t seem to be made up of fussy eaters. So, we are frustrated by the number of our plants that are being ravaged.  Apparently, based on an internet search, Marco has discovered that piss and cayenne pepper are good home garden deer deterrents!  Well...  I am putting it to the test with a mixture of BOTH.  I’ll keep you posted on results.  (I won’t go into detail on how the mixture is obtained/prepared, interesting as it may be.)  Hungry?  Peanut butter, honey and banana -- not since I was 10 years old.  Think I’ll write a kids’ Covid cookbook!

[cars-lovin-gal]

Cars Land Music Loop

I put together a list of all the music played on Radiator Springs Main Street in Cars Land (& also in the same order that they’re played there) & have also provided links so you can listen to them on YouTube because a few aren’t on Spotify. So for those of you who have been & want to reminisce, or if you have always wanted to go & want to imagine being there, if you like listening to Disney park music loops, or even if you just like rock & roll music…enjoy!

Route 66- Chuck Berry

V-8 Ford Blues- Mose Allison

Hot Rod Man- Tex Rubinowitz

Little Forty Ford- Leon Smith

Road Runner- Bo Diddley

409- The Quads

Let’s Go For A Ride- The Collegians

Welcome to Radiator Springs- Joe Louis Walker

Ride on Josephine- George Thorogood & the Destroyers

Big Green Car- Jimmy Carroll

Hot Rod is Her Name- Tom Tall & Ginny Wright

Automobiles- The Spaniels

Ford V-8- Honey Boy Allen

Mustang Sally- Wilson Pickett

Maybellene- Chuck Berry

Coupe de Ville Baby- Vernon Green & the Medallions

Hot Rod- The Collins Kids

Led Sled- Danny Freeman

Cruisin’- Gene Vincent & his Blue Caps

No Particular Place to Go- Chuck Berry

Bring My Cadillac Back- Baker Knight & the Knightmares

Key to the Highway- Little Walter

Hot Rod Queen- Deke Dickerson & the Eccofonics

Rocket 88- Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats

Draggin’- Curtis Godman

One Piece at a Time- Johnny Cash

Stand on It- Mel McDaniel

Built For Speed- Stray Cats

Fastest Short in Town- Robert A. Irvine & The Kentucky Colonels

Rocking Little Roadster- Fred Mollin & The Blue Sea Band feat. Gunnar Nelson

Hot Rod Lincoln- Johnny Bond

Twin Pipes & Pin Stripes- Sammy Masters

You Can’t Catch Me- Chuck Berry

Spinout- Elvis Presley

My Mustang Ford- Chuck Berry

The Phantom Dragster- The Bobby Fuller Four

Flat Tire- The Del Vikings

Black & White Thunderbird- Fred Mollin & The Blue Sea Band

My Old Car- Fred Mollin & The Blue Sea Band feat. Johnny Neel

Pink Cadillac- Sammy Masters & His Rocking Rhythms

My White Convertible- The Hall Brothers

Loud Mufflers- Robert Williams & The Groovers

Six Days on the Road- Dave Dudley

Hotrod Gang- Stray Cats

Pontiac Blues- Sonny Boy Williamson

Green Onions- Booker T. & The MG’s

Freeway of Love- Aretha Franklin

Radiator Rock- Joe Louis Walker

Ride on Josephine- Bo Diddley

Wheels- The Flying Burrito Brothers

V-8 Ford Boogie- Eleven Hundred Springs

Go Champ Go- The Champs

Dear Dad- Chuck Berry

Hot Rod Susie- The Manin Brothers

I Want to be Your Driver- Chuck Berry

Mustang Sally & GTO- John Lee Hooker

From a Buick 6- Bob Dylan

Cadillac- Bo Diddley

Hot Rodder’s Lament- Deke Dickerson & The Ecco-fonics

Hardtop Race- George Stogner

Slow Down “GTO”- Joe Louis Walker

King of the Road- Roger Miller

Peroxide Blonde & Hopped Up Model Ford- Jumpin’ Gene Simmons

I’ve Been Everywhere- Hank Snow

Push Button Automobile- Vernon Green & The Medallions

Motor Head Baby- Johnny “Guitar” Watson

Look at that Cadillac- Stray Cats

Sh-Boom- The Chords

[bandstolookup]

* SLOWhite

* Mattiel

* Margaret Glaspy

* Mariachi El Bronx

* Midlake

* Mike Gordon

* Natalie Prass

* Nick Hakim

* Nilüfer Yanya

* Okkervil River

* Old 97's

* Phish

* the weeks

* Primus

* Rayland Baxter

* Rhett Miller

* Rodrigo y Gabriela

* Stonefield

* SOJA

* Temples

* Trey Anastasio

* Trixie Mattel

* Two Gallants

* Vusi Mahlasela

* grecco

* maniac butcher

* 36

* the nukeproofs

* 311

* Agents of Good Roots

* Alberta Cross

* A Band of Bees

* Danny Barnes

* The Belle Brigade

* Brendan Benson

* Carl Broemel

* John Butler Trio

* Crowded House (North America)

* Dawes

* Everest

* Fiction Family

* The Fireman (North America)

* Lindsay Fuller

* Gogol Bordello

* Gomez

* Gov't Mule

* David Gray (North America)

* Patty Griffin

* Hey Rosetta!

* Jem

* Jovanotti

* Kaiser Chiefs

* Ben Kweller

* Bobby Long

* Kopecky (formerly Kopecky Family Band)

* Liz Phair

* North Mississippi Allstars

* Old Crow Medicine Show

* Orbital

* Mike Doughty

* Signal Hill Transmission

* Stars

* Sun Club

* thelman.

* Umphrey's McGee

* Warren Haynes

* The Whigs

* life without buildings

* photonak music

* Chris Whitley

* Widespread Panic

Aspera The Besnard Lakes Bevel Black Mountain Bon Iver

S. Carey The Cave Singers Company Robert Creeley The Curious Digit

Cut Worms Tim Darcy Dasher The Dead C Alex Delivery

Diana Dinosaur Jr. Dirty Faces Julie Doiron Drunk

Foxygen Fuck Gayngs Gordi Simon Joyner

Ladyhawk Lia Ices Lightning Dust Lonnie Holley The Lord Dog Bird

Love Life Manishevitz Briana Marela Midnight Sister Minus Story

Monroe Mustang Moonface Moonface and Siinai Moses Sumney Nad Navillus

Nagisa ni te Nap Eyes Odawas Okkervil River Angel Olsen

Oneida Parker Paul Parts & Labor Peter Wolf Crier Patrick Phelan

Pink Mountaintops Preoccupations Pterodactyl Trevor Sensor Sinoia Caves

The Skygreen Leopards Small Black South Spokane Stigma Rock Unit

Sunset Rubdown Supreme Dicks Swan Lake The Union of a Man and a Woman Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Sharon Van Etten Volcano Choir Sarah White Wilderness Wolf People

Women Jamila Woods Richard Youngs Okay Kaya

ross wilson

wythersnake

duwap kaine

young thug

tommy brunett

keel

blackoutboyz

vicke blanka

safia

a$ap mob

boy better know

bob bunce

stone love

rebel love

a$ap yams

bobby shmurda

yung mensa

yung woods

cold sweat

max small

youngiin

lil batboi

tchaki

odeine

yung taco

jay cobain

medicine wheel

shadow of intent

trevor strnad

santa fe klan

people who could fly

hunt the dinosaur

young m.a

rose funeral

t3r elemento

bad omens

kou

boris the blade

josh a

ryan browne

iamjakehill

through the eyes of the dead

dirty audio

tucker kreway

bailo

sex deth

callum higby

inferi

the eye of jupiter

shrine of malice

alrt

brvmes

barilan

custo

satøs

mom n dad

esper

revel

sabroi

monolith

jezabel

soren

krischvn

tom barber

any given day

mick gordon

shoreline mafia

i killed everyone

blunt boyz

tigger tape

kinggkabbage

fitfully unruly

SR

phil ochs

rist rockets

spirit of the beehive

twelve foot ninja

zombie nation

michael seyer

tyler okun

charlie burg

the licks

gnaw their tongues

london symphony orchestra

kings college choir

rixe

the band apart

luiz bonfa

hombres g

nasty c

anthony wilkerson

project pegasus

life kit

callout cisco

black honey

quando rondo

amanda malela

joel mbenza

breadwinna gdog

lil poppa

popcaan

benny the butcher

rj payne

françoise hardy

sam feldt

trapwithwest

flatbush zombies

habstrakt

baroness

oh paris

shihad

super cruel

* 10,000 Maniacs

* Overlake

* Architecture in Helsinki

* Eszter Balint

* Otis Ball

* Richard Barone

* Luka Bloom

* liberace

* new love

* the early november

* ohio players

* green slime

* Adrian Borland

* Birdie Busch

* Burnside Project

* Greg Camp

* Vinicius Cantuária

* Alex Chilton

* Chocolate USA

* Edwyn Collins

* The songs of Elvis Costello

* Diego Cortez

* Evan Dando

* Brian Dewan

* The Divine Comedy

* Disco Inferno

* DJ Spooky

* Drink Me

* Bill Drummond

* El Ten Eleven

* The Embarrassment

* Emperor X

* Eros and the Eschaton

* Esquivel

* Ezra Furman

* The Feelies

* The Front Bottoms

* The Glands

* Glass Eye

* Greenhouse 27

* Petra Haden

* Happyness

* Harvest Ministers

* Juliana Hatfield

* Richard Hawley

* Health & Happiness Show

* Michael Hearst

* Hem

* Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey

* Hotel Lights

* Hot Lava

* The Individuals

* Jenifer Jackson

* Kate Jacobs

* Mason Jennings

* overneath

* Darren Jessee

* Freedy Johnston

* gizzle

* Joy Zipper

* The Langley Schools Music Project

* Arto Lindsay

* Lonesome Val

* Lotus Lounge

* Lullaby for the Working Class

* Mad Happy

* Hannah Marcus

* Chris Mars

* pushing veronica

* stimuli

* defer dolls

* cunthunt777

* soul coughing

* gláss

* phantom ships

* reuben knights

* attack attack

* bronson ellery

* freshman 15

* eric slick

* etienne sin

* alesana

* liberty lush

* terminal choice

* psychosexual

* ashland high

* spasm

* scotty malcolm

* freedom fry

* the slackers

* repult

* the fivers

* majorasmirage

* stablemate

* rich brian

* muo duo

* all get out

* the golden god

* nothing

Brokencyde

* jesus piece

* LD 50

* hed pe

* Mary Lee's Corvette

* Mayday

* Shannon McArdle

* Kathy McCarty

* The Mendoza Line

* Mensclub

* Miracle Room

* The Moms

* Mono Puff

* Country Dick Montana

* R. Stevie Moore & Jason Falkner

* Mosquitos

* Of Montreal

* Oppenheimer

* The Ordinaires

* Outrageous Cherry

* Overlake

* The Paranoid Style

* Poi Dog Pondering

* Professor & Maryann

* Puffy AmiYumi

* The Scene Is Now

* The Sharp Things

* Shirk Circus

* Shrimp Boat

* ruen brothers

* isao tomita

* athletic progression

* Epic Soundtracks

* Standard Fare

* Starling Electric

* The Slip

* The Spinto Band

* The Swales

* They Might Be Giants

* isaiah rashad

* Tindersticks

* Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players

* Trembling Blue Stars

* Wallmen

* Yo La Tengo

shockone

sub urban

halestorm

s1mba

josh groban

danny worsnop

missy elliot

parting gift

harper finn

marina diamandis

maisie peters

k.d. lang

jxn

morgan evans

alain landry

the v.i.p.'s

all the young

nasty cherry

matoma

no comply

lukas graham

nomad

kehlani

cloud castle lake

hartley

years since the storm

perto

kita alexander

drag me out

l devine

far

lara andallo

pvris

moby

rita ora

you&me

r3hab

rico nasty

lil jaye

de la soul

thom yorke

jason hook

kid atum

laura marling

claudia alende

the young love scene

east av3

VÉRITÉ

frank carter and the rattlesnakes

just dust

jordan suaste

marika hackman

karen cowley

the barking dogs

little simz

eco$ystem

naked eyes

alec benjamin

employed to serve

jimmy gnecco

orchestral manoeuvres in the dark

ours

daddy issues

paul hartnoll

joseph arthur

flagship

hearts & hands

mestis

orbital

kyle nicolaides

robert smith

reuben hollebon

david gray

incredible' me

spring tigers

the catholic comb

beyond broken

love thy brother

mark joseph

margolnick

jay dref

norman pain

roshambo

pritam mandal

zack lopez

betty who

kim petras

neneh cherry

bladee

bonesteel

faouzia

aretha franklin

ali gatie

kira kosarin

longview

grandma

anitta

ashley mcbryde

feki

nita straus

nerina pallot

mona

galxara

griff

glades

golden features

ava max

shoot the girl first

lisa heller

fran mahema

bbg smokey

bbg baby joe

blake shelton

ani difranco

longwave

built on secrets

dead silence hides my cries

vanna

horseneck

breland

whosah

alec bathgate

fire from the gods

jonathan davis

the brunettes

wilderado

galactic empire

bryce vine

busby marou

glimmers

cool rainbows

dead posey

criselda

ben lee

juliet simms

cecily

the gladeyes

edmund cake

little pictures

charlie puth

lee mckinney

the nudie suits

chase zera

bouncing souls

bury tomorrow

chon

romeo

pie warmer

a bullet for pretty boy

the crimson armada

pikachunes

cher

casino madrid

client liaison

for the fallen dreams

adestria

jesse mccartney

the reduction agents

steven wilson

close to home

through fire

evan brewer

in motive

riot ron

the ruby suns

scott mannion

starbenders

t.r.a.m.

sallies

jetty bones

shaft

oceano

veil of maya

sheep, dog & wolf

rah rah

shogu tokumaru

mark morton

dave hause

CHAPEL

placebo

ella mai

amber mark

melii

mike will made it

moneybagg yo

mura masa

mustard

billy raffoul

justin rarri

raye

dylan schneider

smino

somi

stunna 4 vegas

summer walker

jessie ware

wes period

wifisfuneral

kris wu

le butcherettes

the tokey tones

social animals

champ (local)

dilettante

voom

secret band

overlook (local)

minor poet

4 non blondes

+44

4th avenue jones

AB logic

AFI

agnes

akinyele

akira the don

white laces

manatree

doll baby

marmaduke duke

wet wings

damien rice

american nightmare

angels & airwaves

birdy

big baby

opin

all

audio push

...And you will know us by the trail of dead

alessandro safina

bad4good

ashlee simpson

ali lohan

the brill

bahari

bilal

billy blue

mekong xpress

big bad voodoo daddy

blackstreet

black tide

bobby creekwater

the briefs

basement jaxx

brutal juice

blaqk audio

bubba sparxxx

jaira burns

calvin jeremy

colette carr

cashis

cassie

claw hammer

clique girlz

cinema bizarre

charles hamilton

charlotte sometimes

chauncey black

colorhaus

chris cornell

crookers

chris rock

chester french

cindy gomez

danny!

chris rhea

days of the new

daz dillinger

deep blue something

depswa

deshawn piper

dave hawthorn

disco curtis

the diplomats

dragpipe

dredg

dj am

dawn robinson

dan talevski

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mortimer

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Things We’ve Yelled About This Episode #25

D&D

Avatar Last Airbender RPG

The McElroys (podcasters, of MBMBAM fame)

The Adventure Zone (podcast)

The Witch Is Dead (one page rpg)

Honey Heist (one page rpg)

Wheel of Time (2021-?) trailer

Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson

Cosmere, Brandon Sanderson

Merlin (2008-2012)

RP accent (wiki)

Babelfish; Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (wiki)

Moses

Robert Jordan

Agatha Christie

Beowulf

Beowulf Dragonslayer comics (wiki)

Joke Rowling (support trans rights here: Gendered Intelligence, TransgenderNI, Mermaids)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Joke Rowling

Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown

Twilight, Stephanie Meyer

Supernatural (2005-2020)

The secret good Twilight that lives in our heads (cf. the secret good Supernatural that lives in our heads. I think the phrasing of this is maybe owed to The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home, Welcome To Nightvale?)

The Bella gaslighting history conspiracy theory post can be found here

Midnight Sun, Stephanie Meyer

George R. R. Martin

Clash of Kings, George R. R. Martin

Red Wedding, Game of Thrones S3E09

“No George, you can't imagine hobbits having sex“ post is here

The original George R. R. Martin quote can be found here

The God-Punchers - explanatory post here

Temeraire, Naomi Novik

Will Laurence, Temeraire, Tenzing Tharkay; the Temeraire series, Naomi Novik

Autostraddle

The House on the Cerulean Sea, T. J. Klune

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Natasha Pulley

Conspiracy of Truths, Alexandra Rowland

Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik

The Sabbath, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying, Marie Kondo

Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson

Noughts and Crosses, Malorie Blackman

Castiel; Supernatural (2005-2020)

Bunter; Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, Dorothy L. Sayers

Willikins; Vimes books, Discworld, Terry Pratchett

Tortoise Om; Small Gods, Terry Pratchett

Vetinari, Drumknott; Discworld, Terry Pratchett

David Mitchell Would I Lie To You pencil stealing bit (youtube)

Persuasion, Jane Austen

The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien

The Emperor's Soul, Brandon Sanderson

The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo, Zen Cho

Lirael, Garth Nix

Abhorsen, Garth Nix

Terry Pratchett

Discworld

Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Good Omens (2019-?)

Hogfather, Terry Pratchett

Death; Discworld, Terry Pratchett

American Gods, Neil Gaiman

American Gods (2017-2021)

Stardust, Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess

Stardust (2007)

Sixth of the Dusk, Brandon Sanderson

White Sand, Brandon Sanderson

Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson

His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman

His Dark Materials (2019-?)

Iorek Byrnison, His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman

Daemons; His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman (wiki)

The X-Men films

X-Men: First Class (2011)

David Tennant (imdb)

Michael Sheen (imdb)

Rosamund Pike (imdb)

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Gone Girl (2014)

Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

The North Remembers, Queenofhades (ao3)

Eragon, Christopher Paolini

Eragon (2006)

Beowulf (2007)

The Watch (2020-) (extremely loosely based on the Vimes/Watch sequence of Discworld, Terry Pratchett)

Neil Gaiman's opinions on the watch series here

Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008)

The Last Airbender (2010)

This Avatar: The Last Airbender meme:

The Prince of Egypt (1998)

Blackadder (1983-1989)

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

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Le beurre, l’argent du beurre, et les chansons des personnes mises en esclavage qui l’ont préparé

Quelle mer l’a donc bue, L’esclave lente et noire ? Quelle mer, d’eau ou d’air ? Est-ce dans mon cœur Qu’elle s’est enfoncée, Et qu’ai-je donc à la chercher ?

Du fond d’un abîme abstrait On dirait Qu’elle me sert, Fidèle, soumise et fière ; Et je crois entendre chanter Tristement Ses chaînes d’argent.

- Anne Hébert, « L’esclave noire » Poème publié dans la revue Amérique française en 1943.

Le Québec (et plus largement le Canada), naît d’une double transgression contre l’humanité : d’un côté la dépossession et le génocide d’autochtones, et de l’autre la mise en esclavage des personnes afro-descendantes (et pendant en certain temps des Premières nations aussi). Nous vivons aujourd’hui dans une société où, des siècles plus tard, les personnes perçues comme blanches sont privilégiées et protégées à tous les niveaux : le travail, le logement, l’éducation, les services sociaux et médicaux, le système judiciaire, la propreté de l’air et de l’eau, etc. alors que les personnes noires, les autochtones, et les autres personnes racisées faisons face à de la discrimination sur un plan ou un sur un autre, et bien souvent sur plusieurs plans à la fois. 

L’œuvre de Betty Bonifassi et le projet qu’elle a préparé avec Robert Lepage – par leur nature même (déjà suffisamment esquissée dans les médias) – dépasse largement le cadre de l’appropriation culturelle. Il s’agit plutôt d’un type d’exploitation perverse, voire sadique, qui vraisemblablement titille, excite, stimule, exalte les bénéficiaires d’un système où le racisme anti-noir est normalisé. 

Le sadisme comporte toujours une part de mégalomanie. Bonifassi déclarait donc sur Facebook être atterrée par la critique de Marilou Craft : « Ça me rentre dedans parce que j’ai tellement fait de sacrifices pour l’ouverture et pas la fermeture… qui d’autre a pris le risque de faire cela….. » (Nous voilà tombés dans le sado-masochisme.) De son côté, dans sa critique absurde du statut Facebook de Craft, Nathalie Petrowski, ayant épuisé ses remarques irrespectueuses, nous informe que 

«ces chants auxquels Betty rend hommage n’auraient jamais connu de rayonnement ni de diffusion sans ses efforts. C’est par sa voix et sa détermination que ces chants, à la fois noirs et lumineux, ont été rappelés à notre mémoire au lieu de sombrer dans l’oubli. Lui en faire le reproche est aussi absurde que de reprocher aux deux ethnomusicologues blancs de les avoir enregistrés pour qu’ils ne soient pas oblitérés par l’Histoire.»

Or, les deux ethnomusicologues blancs, Alan et John Lomax ont collaboré avec des artistes noirs incarcérés pour enregistrer et transcrire leurs chants sous forme d’archive. Un prisonnier nommé James « Iron Head » Baker, alors âgé de 63 ans, avec l’aide d’un groupe de prisonniers incarcérés au Texas, a consacré à la mémoire le premier enregistrement de « Black Betty », une chanson rendue depuis longtemps célèbre par une constellation d’artistes au sein de laquelle ne figure aucunement Bonifassi.

Les Lomax ont également collaboré avec Huddie William Ledbetter, alias Lead Belly, un musicien et un chanteur de folk et de blues Afro-Américain. Né en Louisianne en 1888 sur une plantation, Lead Belly était en prison lorsqu’il contribua aux enregistrements des Lomax en 1933. En 1934, il obtint que sa peine soit allégée en offrant à John Lomax ses services en tant que chauffeur. Lead Belly continua à enregistrer de nombreuses chansons avec celui-ci. De plus, il accompagnait l’ethnomusicologue lorsqu’il donnait des conférences dans des universités. Lead Belly enregistra non seulement des archives, il jouit également d’une carrière musicale sur scène, particulièrement à New York et en Louisianne, de même qu’à la radio. Lead Belly mourut en 1950.

Huddie William Ledbetter, alias Lead Belly, et sa femme, Martha Promise. Photo de Bernard Hoffman

Plus de quarante ans plus tard, la maison de disque Rounder Records regroupa les enregistrements de Lead Belly que les Lomax avaient effectués entre 1934 et 1943 et les diffusa en six disques : Midnight Special (paru en 1991), Gwine Dig a Hole to Put the Devil In (1991), Let It Shine on Me (1991), The Titanic (1994), Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen (1994), et Go Down Old Hannah (1995). De son côté, la maison de disque du Smithsonian, Smithsonian Folkways, rendit accessible au public les enregistrements que l’artiste avait laissé auprès Moses Asch en diffusant trois albums : Where Did You Sleep Last Night (1996), Bourgeois Blues (1997), et Shout On (1998).

En d’autre mots, si « Betty Bonifassi traîne ces chants d’esclaves et de prisonniers noirs dans sa besace depuis 1998 », contrairement à ce qu’a écrit Petrowski (sans que Bonifassi le démente), ces enregistrements ne « dormaient » déjà plus à l’époque « sur les tablettes du musée Smithsonian à Boston ».

Au-delà de la contribution inestimable des prisonniers et autres artistes tels James «Iron Head» Baker, Lead Belly, Vera Ward Hall, McKinley Morganfield alias «Muddy Waters», Aunt Molly Jackson, Son House, David «Honeyboy» Edwards, Texas Gladden, Ferdinand «Jelly Roll» Morton, qui ont tous collaboré avec les Lomax, il faut aussi souligner le travail des autres artistes Afro-Américains qui ont façonné les traditions folk et blues entre les années 1930 et 1970. Ils ont contribué à la survie et au rayonnement des « Negro Spirituals », des chants des personnes esclavisées, et des chants de travail des « chain gang » et des prisons. Parmi eux Odetta, Harry Belafonte, et Nina Simone ont connu un succès particulièrement important. Le groupe Sweet Honey in the Rock effectue aussi depuis sa création en 1973 un travail exceptionnel à cet égard. Enfin, depuis quelques années, la jeune virtuose du jazz Cécile McLorin Salvant, qui compte déjà deux Grammys à son actif, inclut dans son répertoire des chants afro-américains du début du 20e siècle.

La compagnie de danse Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT), qui a connu sa première performance en 1958, se consacre depuis ses touts débuts à la mise en mémoire et à l’adaptation culturelle sur scène de l’histoire afro-américaine à travers la danse moderne. L’histoire de l’esclavage et du travail forcé des noirs emprisonnés au tournant du vingtième siècle, de même que la musique qui traversa ces périodes jouent bien évidemment un rôle central dans leur travail. Leur spectacle « Revelations » que j’ai vu pour la première fois à Montréal avec ma soeur il y a dix ans est l’œuvre de danse moderne qui, à travers le monde, a connu le plus de spectateurs, depuis ses débuts en 1960. En 2014, Matthew Rushing, l’un des chorégraphes de la compagnie a conçu un spectacle en l’honneur d’Odetta, que Martin Luther King Jr. avait nommé la reine de la musique folk américaine.

“Odetta,” de AAADT. Photo de Mike Strong

Dans son dossier de presse pour son album Lomax, Bonifassi n’évoque aucun lien avec ces traditions. En tisser signifierait abandonner le rôle de messie qu’elle s’est donné. De même, pour ce nouveau projet, partager la scène des artistes telles Sylvie Desgroseillers, Marie Josée Lord, Black Theater Workshop, Nyata Nyata et j’en passe aurait signifié abandonner le plaisir de décider entre blancs. 

Si les Lomax, avec les 10 000 enregistrements, 6 000 images, and 6 000 vidéos qu’ils ont archivés, ont bel et bien effectué une contribution monumentale à la mémoire des musiques, des voix, et des histoires des afro-descendants, le travail de Bonifassi n’accompli pas grand-chose si ce n’est de tourner le couteau dans la plaie ouverte qu’est le racisme, illustrant ainsi à quel point la suprématie blanche produit des œuvres culturelles et des discours sadiques à l’égard des Noirs.

Bonifassi a révélé n’avoir jamais vu son travail être remis en question: mieux vaut tard que jamais. Il suffirait de comment par remercier chaleureusement Marilou Craft d’avoir simplement demandé : « Qu’est-ce qui cloche? »

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Joshua | RC Sproul [Joshua 1:1-18]

    Joshua was gifted to accomplish great triumphs for the     LORD, but he never forgot who was really in charge.

    Today, R.C. Sproul tells Joshua’s story of courage & loyalty.

    Today on @RYMRadio, listen as RC Sproul shares     what lessons we can learn from this gifted military     general who knew when to lead and when to follow.

        He was strong & courageous, and he         trusted GOD for the outcome.

    And that characterized his entire ministry.

    Where he crossed the Jordan & GOD gives him every     place where he sets his foot.

    As long as the people were obedient.

I] INTRODUCTION

    After Moses died, Joshua took over as the leader of Israel.

    They’ve been wandering in the desert for decades, but now     they were on the cusp of entering the promised land.

    We continue our look at the great men & women of the     BIBLE, here on Renewing Your Mind.

    Today a story of loyalty & courage.

    Here’s Dr. RC Sproul.

II] PREFACE

    Like to begin our brief counsel & survey of Joshua, by looking     at the opening words of the Book that bears his name in the OT:

    The first CH of Joshua, beginning at the first verse.

        Joshua 1:1-18 | ¹ Now after the death of HIS servant         Moses, the LORD spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’         assistant, saying,

            ² “Moses MY servant is dead. Now therefore arise,             you & all these people, & cross over the Jordan into             the land that I am giving to the children of Israel.

            ³ I have given you every place where the sole of               your foot will tread, just as I promised to Moses.

    Then HE goes & GOD describes the parameters of those lands     which HE has already delivered into the hands of Joshua.

            ⁴ Your territory shall extend from the wilderness &               Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the               land of the Hittites—& west as far as the Great Sea.

    And HE says:

            ⁵ No one shall stand against you all the days of               your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you;               I will never leave you nor forsake you.

    Now here the admonition, that GOD gives to Joshua:

            ⁶ Be strong & courageous, for you shall give these               people the inheritance of the land that I swore to               their fathers I would give them.

    Now listen to the 2nd exhortation:     [exhortation: emphatically urging someone to do something]     SYN: urging/encouragement/persuasion/insistence/warning

            ⁷ Above all, be strong & very courageous. Be careful               to observe all the law that MY servant Moses               commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right               or to the left, so that you may prosper wherever you go.

            ⁸ This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth;                you are to recite it day & night so that you may be                careful to do everything written in it.

               For then you will prosper & succeed in all you do.

    The 3rd exhortation, v.9:

            ⁹ Have I not commanded you to be strong & of good               courage?

               Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the                LORD your GOD is with you wherever you go.”

NOTE: Strange About This Threefold Warning

    I think there is something strange about this threefold warning     [exhortation] that we find at the very beginning of the     commissioning of Joshua to be the successor of Moses.

    Moses led the people out of Egypt, & we remember that he took     them to the entrance of the promised land; & was allowed to go     into Mt. Nebo [Deuteronomy 34:1-4] & to gaze into that land that     had been promised centuries before to their fathers.

    But himself was not allowed to led the people in.

    That privilege & that task was given to Joshua. [22:42]

    Why was Joshua selected to be the successor of Moses?

    Here we see GOD ordaining him & commissioning him, &     reminding him three times. If you’re going to do the job that     I have commissioned you to do, you need to be two things:

       ●  You need to be STRONG, &        ●  You need to be COURAGEOUS.

    Cause remember the fundamental task that GOD has given     to Joshua is a military assignment, it is a task of conquering     a hostile nation.

    And how strong were the entrenched Canaanites, perceived     to be at that time? [22:00]

                                OVERWHELMING!

    The odds that Joshua faces, humanly speaking, in this military     expedition are all stacked against him.

    And so if he’s going to succeed, as the military leader, he has     to have strength, & he cannot be paralyzed by fear, he’s got to     operate on a heavy dose of courage.

    But that courage is directed really in two ways:

    1] He has to be courageous in his military task

        But is that the only position GOD is calling him to?

    2] He’s also given the responsibility of being the successor         or Moses, who is the judge over the people.

1.] Spiritual Leader

        He’s not only the military leader now, he’s the spiritual         leader of the nation; & GOD said, you’re going to have         to meditate MY WORD, & in MY LAW, & in MY TESTAMONY         day & night!.

        And you don’t turn away to the left or to the right.

        In order for you to be effective, as the spiritual leader of         MY people, [you have to be educated? is that what HE said?]

        No, you have to be strong [unwavering in your devotion to ME]         & you have to be courageous [have no doubts in MY goodness]

        You realize how much moral courage it takes to be an         authentic spiritual leader? [20:28]

        To not play the games of political compromise [placate the ppl]         in order to please everybody. To be the leader of a holy nation.

        A man must have unbelievable strength of character         & moral courage to make the decisions.

        If you looked at the life of Joshua, you’ll see the life of a man,         not only of brilliant military strategy, & knowledge, & practice,         but a man of key & acute spiritual sensitivity.

    A man of integrity, I think of Joshua as the Stonewall Jackson     of the OT, I really do. You come into my house, & you’ll learn     something about me & my heroes.

    The portrait that will jump out at you, from my living room, is     this great big framed portrait of Stonewall Jackson. [19:27]

2.] Historic Doppelgänger

    I admire Stonewall Jackson because he was one of the most     brilliant military geniuses that the United States has ever     produced.

    He kept the whole federal army talking to themselves in that     campaign in the [Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1862].

        He was undermanned, under staffed, under supplied,         overwhelmed in terms of strength of his opposition, &         he is like a phantom.

    So highly mobile, he rewrote the military textbooks on mobility     did you know that?

    And he was a godly man. [18:50]

    The life of Stonewall Jackson, the great biography of SJ     authorized by SJ, but many were written but the greatest     that was ever written was written by his aide in the camp.

3.] Godly Counsel

    His personal military advisor, who was major Robert Dabney.

        Robert Lewis Dabney (March 5, 1820 – January 3, 1898)         was an American Christian theologian, Southern         Presbyterian pastor, Confederate States Army chaplain,         & architect. He was also chief of staff and biographer to         Stonewall Jackson.

    Ever heard that name?

    How many of you have ever heard of Robert Dabney?

    The clergy puts their hands up, in Presbyterian history, you     have the northern & southern Presbyterian Church.

    And the two greatest theologians in the history of the SPC     was a man by the name of Thornwell & the other was the     man of Robert Dabney.

        James Henley Thornwell (Dec. 9, 1812 – Aug. 1, 1862)

    Same man, SJ had as his military aide, the best theologian     he could find. And before he would go into battle, he would     pray with his troops.

        He would say to his men, the battle is ours         the outcome is the LORD’s.

    And he was the kind of general who rode in front of his troops.

    He was a model of integrity & courage.

    But our lecture today is not one of SJ, it’s about SJ-Joshua.

    I mean everything that SJ was, Joshua was even greater.     He surpassed SJ in terms of courage, in terms of military     brilliance, & in terms of spiritual integrity.

4.] Strange Three-Fold Exhortation

    Again I mention that there is something odd about this 3-fold     exhortation: To be strong & to be courageous. [17:08]

            Because strength & courage already were             Joshua’s middle name.

    Remember I asked a few moments ago, why was he selected??

    Why did he lead the people into the promised land & not Moses?

    Remember when the camp of the people was in Wilderness     of Paran at Kadesh [”Kadesh-barnea”], & they sent out the     spies into the promised land. [Numbers 13]

    The spies were sent to spy out the land & were commissioned     to bring back their reconnaissance & advanced scouting reports.

        What man goes to war at first without assessing the         strength of the enemy? JESUS said later [Luke 14:31]

    These guys went out & they saw grapes like they’ve never     seen in their lives. They saw a land flowing with milk & honey.

    What else did they see?

    The Anakim (Hebrew: עֲנָקִים‎ 'Ǎnāqîm ), were described as a     race of giants, descended from Anak, according to the OT.

    And those spies came running back & said:

        Hey I’ve got a great place for us to go, Egypt. (lol)

        To the rear march, it is time for strategic withdrawal.

    That was the message of the spies, they said,

        “You won’t believe those people! They’re giants!!         And we’re like grasshoppers in front of them!?         We don’t have a chance!”

    Moses asked them for a report.

    And everyone they’re all crying the blues.

    They’re all ready to surrender without a battle; everybody mentions     every possible reason why they shouldn’t move ahead.

        Ten out of twelve wanted security!

5.] Let’s Go GOD is with us

    Caleb said, “Hey it’s an incredible land..”     Joshua said, “Let’s go...GOD is with us.”

    Let’s go.

        Strong & courageous, and he trusted GOD.

    And that characterized his entire ministry.

    Where he crossed over the Jordan & GOD did give him     every place where he set his foot, as long as the people     were obedient.

    Jericho crumbled to the Earth, the walls fell down     before the army of Joshua.

    And the people came in to possess the land, they crossed     into it, & that land that had been promised to Abraham, and     Isaac, & Jacob now came into the possession of the     children of Israel.

    Until they came into the city of Ai, where they’re totally     unexpected, where all the other people are fleeing in fear.

        From now the most feared people         were not the giants, but Joshua.

    But in Ai, the people sinned [Joshua 8:.

    And did not carry out the instructions that GOD had given them;     & GOD led them to defeat.

        But Joshua, read it, handled it with such spiritual         sensitivity, it’s amazing.

    My favourite story about Joshua takes place early on in his     book in CH 5. [Joshua 5:14]

    After the children of Israel celebrate the Passover, we read in     v.13-15, where it says this:

         Joshua 5:13-15 | The Commander of the LORD's Army

         ¹³ Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up             & saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn             sword in HIS hand.

            Joshua approached HIM & asked,

            “Are YOU for us or for our enemies?”

        ¹⁴ “Neither,” HE replied. “I have now come as commander             of the LORD’s army.”

            Then Joshua fell facedown in reverence & asked HIM,

            “What does my LORD have to say to HIS servant?”

        ¹⁵ The commander of the LORD’s army replied,

            “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are               standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

            ¹⁰ Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people:

            ¹¹ “Go through the camp & tell the people,

                ‘Prepare your provisions, for within 3 days you will                  cross the Jordan to go in & take possession of the                  land that the LORD your GOD is giving you for                  your own.’”

            ¹² But to the Reubenites, the Gadites, & the half-tribe of                 Manasseh, Joshua said, ¹³ “Remember what Moses                 the servant of the LORD commanded you when he                 said, ‘The LORD your GOD will give you rest, &                 HE will give you this land.’

            ¹⁴ Your wives, your young children, & your livestock may                 remain in the land that Moses gave you on this side                 of the Jordan.

                But all your mighty men of valor must be armed for                 battle to cross over ahead of your brothers & help them,

            ¹⁵ until the LORD gives them rest as HE has done for you,                 & your brothers also possess the land that the LORD                 your GOD is giving them.

                Then you may return to the land of your inheritance &                 take possession of that which Moses the servant of the                 LORD gave you on the east side of the Jordan.”

            ¹⁶ So they answered Joshua,

                “Everything you have commanded us we will do, &                  everywhere you send us we will go.

                ¹⁷ Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will                 obey you. And may the LORD your GOD be with you,                 as HE was with Moses.

                ¹⁸ Anyone who rebels against your order & does not                 obey your words, all that you command him, will be                 put to death. Above all, be strong & courageous!”

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The Church's Year - FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI

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Why is this day called Corpus Christi?

Because on this Thursday the Catholic Church celebrates the institution of the most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. The Latin term Corpus Christi signifies in English, Body of Christ.

Who instituted this festival?

Pope Urban IV, who, in the decree concerning it, gives the following explanation of the institution and grandeur of this festival: "Although we daily, in the holy Sacrifice of the Mass; renew the memory of this holy Sacrament, we believe that we must, besides, solemnly commemorate it every year, to put the unbelievers to shame; and because vie have been informed that God has revealed to some pious persons that this festival should be celebrated in the whole Church, we direct that on the first Thursday after the octave of Pentecost the faithful shall assemble in church, join with the priests in singing the word of God," &c. Hence this festival was instituted on account of the greatness of the divine mystery; the unbelief of those who denied the truth of this mystery; and the revelation made to some pious persons. This revelation was made to a nun at Liege, named Juliana, and to her devout friends Eve and Isabella. Juliana, when praying, had frequently a vision in which she saw the bright moon, with one part of it somewhat dark; at her request she received instructions from God that one of the grandest festivals was yet to be instituted the festival of the most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. In 1246, she related this vision to Robert, Bishop of Liege, who after having investigated the matter with the aid . of several men of learning and devotion, among whom was Jacob Pantaleon, Archdeacon of Liege, afterwards Pope Urban IV. made arrangements to introduce this festival m his diocese, but death prevented his intention being put into effect. After the bishop's death the Cardinal Legate Hugh undertook to carry out his directions, and celebrated the festival for the first time in the year 1247, in the Church of St. Martin at Liege. Several bishops followed this example, and the festival was observed in many dioceses, before Pope Urban IV. in 1264 finally ordered its celebration by the whole Church. This order was confirmed by ClementV, at the Council of Vienna in 1311, and the Thursday after the octave of Pentecost appointed for its celebration. In 13 17, Pope John XXII. instituted the solemn procession.

Why are there such grand processions on this day?

For a public profession of our holy faith that Christ is really, truly and substantially present in this Blessed Sacrament; for a public reparation of all the injuries, irreverence, and offences, which have been and are committed by impious men against Christ in this Blessed Sacrament; for the solemn veneration and adoration due to the Son of God in this Sacrament; in thanksgiving for its institution; and for all the graces and advantages received therefrom; and finally, to draw down the divine blessing upon the people and the country.

Had this procession a prototype in the Old Law?

The procession in which was carried the Ark of the Covenant containing the manna, was a figure of this procession.

The Church sings at the Introit the words of David:

INTROIT He fed them with the fat of wheat, alleluia: and filled them with honey out of the rock. Allel. allel. allel. Rejoice to God our helper; sing aloud to the God of Jacob. (Ps. LXXX.) Glory etc.

COLLECT O God, who under a wonderful sacrament hast left us a memorial of Thy Passion; grant us, we beseech Thee, so to venerate the sacred mysteries of Thy body and blood, that we may ever feel within us the fruit of thy redemtion. Who livest etc.

EPISTLE (I Cor. XI. 23-29.) Brethren, I have received of the Lord, that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye, and eat; this is my body which shall be delivered for you: this do for the commemoration of me. In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This Chalice is the New Testament in my blood: this do' ye; as often as you shall drink., for the commemoration of me. For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink this chalice, you shall show the death of the Lord until he come. Therefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink of the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.

GOSPEL (John VI. 56-59.) At that time, Jesus laid to the multitude of the Jews: My flesh is meat indeed arid my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna and are dead. He that eateth this bread shall live forever.

[The explanation of the epistle and gospel is contained in the following instruction.]

The Jews, liberated by the powerful hand of God from Egyptian captivity, went on dry ground through the midst of the Red Sea, whose waters became the grave of their pursuer, King Pharao, and, his whole army. Having arrived in the desert called Sin they began to murmur against Moses and Aaron, their leaders; on account of the want of bread, and demanded to be led back to Egypt where there was plenty. The Lord God took pity on His people. In the evening He sent into their, camp great flocks of quails, which the Jews caught and ate, and on the morning of the next day the ground was covered with white dew, and in the desert something fine, as if pounded in a mortar, looking like frost on the earth, which as soon as the Jews beheld, they exclaimed in surprise: "Man hu?" "What is that?" But Moses said to them: "This is bread which the Lord has given you." And they at once began to collect the food which was white, small as Coriander seed, and tasted like wheat?bread and honey, and was henceforth called man or manna. God gave them this manna every morning, for forty years, Sabbaths excepted, and the Jews lived upon it in the desert, until they came to the Promised Land. This manna is a figure of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar which contains all sweetness, and nourishes the soul of him who receives it with proper preparation, so that whoever eats it worthily, dies not, though his body sleeps in the grave, for Christ will raise him to eternal life.

INSTRUCTION ON THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR

What is the Sacrament of the Altar?

It is that Sacrament in which under the appearance of bread and wine the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ are really, truly and substantially present.

When and to what manner did Christ promise this Sacrament?

About one year before its institution He promised it in the synagogue at Capharnaum, according to St. John the Evangelist: (VI, 24-65.) When Jesus, near the Tiberian Sea, had fed five thousand men in a miraculous manner with a few small loaves, these men would not leave Him, because they marvelled at the miracle, were anxious for this bread, and desired to make Him their king. But Jesus fled to a high mountain, and in the night went with His disciples to Capharnaum which was a town on the opposite side of the sea; but a multitude of Jews followed Him, and He made use of the occasion to speak of the mysterious, bread which He would one day give them and all men. He first exhorted them not to go so eagerly after the perishable. bread of the body, but to seek the bread of the soul which lasts forever, and which the Heavenly Father would give them, through Him, in abundance. This imperishable bread is the divine word, His holy doctrine, especially the doctrine that He had come from heaven to guide us to eternal life. (Vers. 25-38.) The Jews murmured because He said that He had come from heaven, but the Saviour quieted them by showing that no one could believe without a special grace from His Heavenly Father (V. 43, 44.) that He was the Messiah, and had come from heaven. After this introduction setting forth that the duty of faith in Him and in His divine doctrine was a spiritual nourishment, Christ very clearly unfolded the mystery of another bread for the soul which was to be given only at some future time, and this the Saviour did not ascribe to the Heavenly Father, as He did the bread of the divine word, but to Himself by plainly telling what this bread was: I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever, and the bread that I will give, is my flesh for the life of the world. (V. 51, 52.)

But the Jews would not believe these words, so clearly expressed, for they thought their fulfillment impossible, and said: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? (V. 53.) But Jesus recalled not His words, answered not the Jews' objections, but confirmed that which He had said, declaring with marked emphasis: Amen, amen, I say unto you, except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you., (V. 54.) He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life, and I will raise him up in the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed; he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him. As the living Father bath sent me; and I live ,by the Father; so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead. He that eateth this bread; shall live forever: (V. 55-59.) Jesus, therefore, said distinctly and plainly, that at a future time He would give His own Body and Blood as the true nourishment of the soul; besides, the Jews and the disciples alike received these words in their true, literal sense, and knew that Jesus did not here mention His Body and Blood in figurative sense, but meant to give them His own real Flesh and Blood for food; and it was because they believed it impossible for Jesus to do this, and because they supposed He would give them His dead flesh in a coarse, sensual manner, that the Jews murmured, and even several of His disciples said: This saying is hard, and who can hear it? But Jesus persisted in His words: My flesh is meat indeed, &c., and calls the attention of His disciples to another miracle: to His future ascension, which would be still more incredible, but would come to pass; and by the words: It is the spirit which quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing, the words that I have spoken to you, are spirit and life, (V. 64) He showed them that this mystery could be believed only by the light and grace of the Holy Spirit, and the partaking of His Bodes and Blood would not be in a coarse, sensual manner, but in a mysterious way. Notwithstanding this, many of His disciples still found the saying hard, and left Him, and went no longer with Him. (V. 67.) They found the saying hard, because, as our Saviour expressly said, they were lacking in faith. He let them go, and said to His apostles: Will you also go away? thereby showing that those who left Him, understood Him clearly enough, and that His words did contain something hard for the mind to believe. The apostles did not leave Him, they were too well assured of His divinity, and that to Him all was possible, as St. Peter clearly expresses: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we have believed and have known that thou art Christ, the Son of God.

From the account given by St. John, it is plainly seen that Christ really promised to give us for our food His most precious Body and Blood, really and substantially, in a Wonderful, mysterious manner, and that He did not speak figuratively of faith in Him, as those assert who contemn this most holy Sacrament. If Jesus had so meant it, He would have explained it thus to the Jews and to His disciples who took His words literally, and therefore could not comprehend, how Jesus could give His Flesh and Blood to them for their food. But Jesus persisted in His words, that His Flesh was truly food, and His Blood really drink. He even made it the strictest duty for man to eat His Flesh and drink His Blood; (V. 54) He shows the benefits arising from this nourishment of the soul, (V. 55) and the reason why this food is so necessary and useful. (V. 56.) When His disciples left Him, because it was a hard saying, He allowed them to go, for they would not believe His words, and could not believe them on account of their carnal manner of thinking. This holy mystery must be believed, and cannot be comprehended. Jesus has then promised, as the Catholic Church has always maintained and taught, that His Body and Blood. would be present under the appearance of bread and wine in the Blessed Sacrament, a true nourishment for the soul, and that which He promised, He has really given.

When and in what manner did Christ institute the most holy Sacrament of the Altar?

At the Last Supper, on the day before His passion, after He had eaten with His apostles the paschal lamb, which was a prototype of this mystery. Three Evangelists, Matthew, (XXVI: 26?29.) Mark, (XIV. 22-25.) and Luke (XXII. 19-20.) relate in few, but plain words, that on this evening Jesus took into His hand bread and the chalice, blessed and gave both to His disciples, saying: This is my body, that will be given for you; this is my blood, which will be shed for you and for many. Here took place in a miraculous manner, by the all?powerful word of Christ, the mysterious transformation; here Jesus gave Himself to His apostles for food, and instituted that most holy meal of love which the Church says contains all sweetness. That which three Evangelists. plainly relate, St. Paul confirms in his first epistle to the Corinthians, (XI. 23-29. ,See this day's epistle) in which to his account of the institution of the Blessed Sacrament he adds: Whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, (that is, in a state of sin) shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord . . . .eateth and drinketh judgment to himself. (V. 27-29.)

From these words and those of the three holy Evangelists already mentioned, it is clear that Jesus really fulfilled His promise, really instituted the most holy Sacrament, and gave His most sacred Body and Blood to the apostles for their food. None of the Evangelists, nor St. Paul, informs us that Christ said: this will become my body, or, this signifies my body. All agree that our Saviour said this is my body, this is my blood, and they therefore decidedly mean us to understand that Christ's body and blood are really, truly, and substantially present under the appearance of bread and wine, as soon as the mysterious change has taken place. And this is confirmed by the words: that is given for you; which shall be shed for you and for many; because Christ gave neither bread nor wine, nor a figure of His Body and Blood, for our redemption, but His real Body, and His real Blood, and St. Paul could not assert that we could eat the Body and Blood of the Lord unworthily, if under the appearance of bread and wine were present not the real Body and Blood of Christ, but only a figure of them, or if they were only bread and wine. This is also proved by the universal faith of the Catholic Church, which in accordance with Scripture and the oldest, uninterrupted Apostolic traditions1 has always believed and taught, that under the appearance of bread and wine the real Body and Blood of Christ are present, as the Ecumenical Council of Trent expressly declares: (Sess. XIII. C. I. Can. I. de sacros. Euchdr.) "All our ancestors who were of the Church of Christ, and have spoken of this most Blessed Sacrament, have in the plainest manner professed that our Redeemer instituted this wonderful Sacrament at the Last Supper, when, having blessed the bread and wine, He assured the apostles in the plainest and most exact words, that He was giving them His Body and Blood itself; and if any one denies that the holy Eucharist truly, really, and substantially contains the Body and Blood, the Soul and Divinity of, our Lord Jesus Christ, therefore the whole Christ, and asserts that it is only a sign or figure without virtue, let him be anathema."

Did Christ institute this Sacrament for all time?

Yes; for when He had promised that the bread which He would give, was His flesh for the life of the world, (john. vi. ga.) and had said expressly that whosoever did not eat His Flesh and drink His Blood would not have life in Him, He, at the Last Supper, by the words: Do this for a commemoration of me, (Luke XXII. 19.) gave to the apostles and their successors, the priests, the power in His name to change bread and wine into His Body and Blood, also to receive It and administer It as a food of the soul, which power the apostles and their successors, the priests, have always exercised, (I Coy. X. 16.) and will exercise to the end of the world.

How long after the change does Christ remain present under the appearance of bread and wine?

As long as the appearances remain; this was always the faith of the Church; therefore in the primitive ages when the persecutions were raging, after the sacrifice the sacred body of our Lord was taken home by the Christians to save the mystery from the pagans; at home they preserved It, and received It from their own hands, as affirmed by the holy Fathers of the Church Justin, Cyprian, Basil, and others. But when persecution had ceased, and the Church was permitted to profess the faith openly, and without hinderance, the Blessed Sacrament was preserved in the churches, enclosed in precious vessels, (ciborium, monstrance, or ostensorium) made for the purpose. In later times it was also exposed, on solemn occasions, for public adoration.

Do we Catholics adore bread when we pay adoration to the Blessed Sacrament?

No; we do not adore bread, for no bread is there, but the most sacred Body and Blood of Christ, and wherever Christ is adoration is due Him by man and angels. St. Augustine says: "No one partakes of this Body until he has first adored, and we not only do not sin when we adore It, but would sin if we did not adore It." The Council of Trent excommunicates those who assert that it is not allowable to adore Christ, the only?begotten Son of God, in the Blessed Sacrament. How unjust are those unbelievers who sneer at this adoration, when it has never entered into the mind of any Catholic to adore the external appearances of this Sacrament, but the Saviour hidden under the appearances; and how grievously do those indifferent Catholics sin who show Christ so little veneration in this Sacrament, and seldom adore Him if at all!

Which are the external signs of this Sacrament?

The form and appearance, or that which appears to our senses, as the figure, the color, and the taste, but the substance of the bread and wine is by consecration changed into the real Body and Blood of Christ, and only the appearance of bread and wine remains, and is observable to the senses.

Where and by whom is this consecration effected?

This consecration is effected on the altar during the holy Sacrifice of the Mass (therefore the name Sacrament of the Altar), when the priest in the name and by the power of Christ pronounces over the bread and wine the words which Christ Himself pronounced when He instituted this holy Sacrament. St. Ambrose writes: "At the moment that the Sacrament is to be accomplished, the priest no longer uses his own words, but Christ's words therefore. Christ's words complete the Sacrament."

Is Christ present under each form?

Christ is really and truly present under both forms, in Divinity and Humanity, Body and Soul, Flesh and Blood. That Jesus is thus present is clear from the words of St. Paul: Knowing that Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more. (Rom. VI. 9.) Because Christ dies no more, it naturally follows that He is wholly and entirely present under each' form. Hence the council of Trent says: "Whoever denies that in the venerable Sacrament, of the Eucharist the whole Christ is present in each of the forms and in each part of each form, where a separation has taken place, let him be anathema."

Then no matter how many receive this Sacrament, does each receive Christ?

Yes, for each of the apostles received Christ entirely, and if God by His omnipotence can cause each individual to rejoice at the same instant in the sun's light, and enjoy its entireness, and if He can make one and the same voice resound in the ears of all the listeners, is He not able to give the body of Christ, whole and entire, to as many as wish to receive It?

Is it necessary that this Sacrament should be received in both forms?

No, for as it has already been said, Christ is wholly present, Flesh and Blood, Humanity and Divinity, Body and Soul, in each of the forms. Christ promises eternal life to the recipient also of one form when He says,: I f any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever, and the bread that I will give, is my flesh for the life of the world. (John. VI. 52.) The first Christians, in times of persecution, received this Sacrament only in the form of bread in their houses. Though in earlier times the faithful, like the priests, partook of the chalice, it was not strictly required, and the Church for important reasons has since ordered the reception of Communion under but one form, because there was danger that the blood of our Lord might be spilled, and thus dishonored; because as the Blessed Sacrament must always be ready for the sick, it was feared that the form of wine might be injured by long preservation; because many cannot endure the taste of wine; because in some countries there is scarcity of wine, and it can be obtained only at great cost and with much difficulty, and finally, in order to refute the error of those who denied that Christ is entirely present under each form.

Which area the effects of holy Communion?

The graces of this most holy Sacrament are, as the Roman Catechism says, innumerable; it is the fountain of all grace, for it ,contains the Author of all the Sacraments, Christ our Lord, all goodness and perfection. According to the doctrine of the?Church , there are six special effects of grace produced by, this Sacrament in those who worthily receive it. It unites the recipient with Christ, which Christ plainly shows when He says: He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, abideth in me and I in him; (John VI. 57.) hence the name Communion, of which St. Leo writes: "The participation of the Body and Blood of Christ transforms ' us into that which we receive," and from this union with Christ, our Head, arises also a closer union with our brethren in Christ, into one body. (I Cor. X. 17.) It preserves and increases sanctifying grace, which is the spiritual life of the soul, for our Saviour says: He that eateth me, the, same also shall live by me. (John VI, 58.) It diminishes in us concupiscence and strengthens us against the temptations of the devil. St. Bernard says: "This holy Sacrament produces tow effects in us, it diminishes gratifiation in venial sins, it removes the full consent in grievous sins; if any of you do not feel so often now the harsh emotion of anger, of envy, or impurity, you owe it to the Body and Blood of the Lord:" and St. Chrystostom: "When we communicate worthily we return from the table like fiery lions, terrible to the devils." It causes us to perform good works with strength and courage; for be who abides in Christ, and Christ in him, bears much fruit. (John XV.) It effaces venial sin, and preserves from mortal sin, as St. Ambrose says: "This daily bread is used as a help against daily weakness: and as by the enjoyment of this holy Sacrament, we are made in a special manner the property, the lams of Christ, which He Himself nourishes with His own heart's blood, He does not permit us to be taken out of His hands, so long as we cooperate with His grace, by prayer, vigilance and contest. It brings us to a glorious resurrection and to eternal happiness; for he who communicates worthily, possesses Him who is the resurrection and the life, (John XI. 25.) who said: He that eatheth my flesh, and drinketh ? my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day. (John VI, 55.) He has, therefore, in Christ a pledge, that he will rise in glory and live for ever. If the receiving of this Sacrament produces such great results, how frequently and with what sincere desire should we hasten ~ to enjoy this heavenly banquet, this fountain of all grace! The first Christians received it daily, and St. Augustine says: "Daily receive what daily benefits!" and St. Cyril: The baptized may know that they remove themselves far from eternal life, when they remain a long time from Communion." Ah, whence comes in our days, the indifference, the weakness, the impiety of so many Christians but from the neglect and unworthy reception of Communion! Christian soul, close not your ears to the voice of Jesus who invites you so tenderly to His banquet: Come to me all you who are heavily laden and I will refresh you. Go often, very often to Him; but when you go to Him, do not neglect to prepare for His worthy reception, and you will soon feel its effects in your soul.

In what does the worthy preparation for this holy Sacrament consist?

The worthy preparation of the soul consists in purifying ourselves by a sincere confession from all grievous sins, and in approaching the holy table with profound humility, sincere love, and with fervent desire. He who receives holy Communion in the state of mortal sin draws down upon himself, as the, apostle says, judgment and condemnation. The worthy preparation of the body consists in fasting from midnight before receiving Communion, and in coming properly dressed to the Lord's banquet.

The holy Sacrament of the Altar is preserved in the tabernacle, in front of which a light is burning day and night, to show that Christ, the light of the world, is here present, that we may bear in mind that every Christian congregation should contain in itself the light of faith, the flame of hope, the warmth of divine love, and the fire of true devotion, by a pious life manifesting and consuming itself, like a light, in. the service of God. As a Christian you must believe that under the appearance of bread Christ is really present in the tabernacle, and that He is your Redeemer, your Saviour, your Lord and King, the best Friend and Lover of your soul, whose pleasure it is to dwell among the children of men; then it is your duty often to visit Him in this most holy Sacrament, and offer Him your homage and adoration, "It is certain," says: St. Alphonsus Ligouri, that next to the enjoyment of this holy Sacrament in Communion, the adoration of Jesus in this Sacrament is the best and most pleasing of all devotional exercises, and of the greatest advantage to us." Hesitate not, therefore, to practise this devotion. From this day renounce at least a quarter of an hour's intercourse with others, and go to church to entertain yourself there with Christ. Know that the time which you spend in this way will be of the greatest consolation to, you in the hour of death and through all eternity. Visit Jesus not only in the church, but also accompany and adore Him when carried in processions, or to sick persons. You will thus show your Lord the homage due to Him, gather great merits for yourself, and have the sure hope that Christ will one day repay you a hundredfold.

1. Thus St. Ignatius, the Martyr, who was instructed by the apostles themselves, rebukes in these words those who even at that time would not believe in the change of the bread and wine into the body and blood of the. Lord: "They do not believe that the real body of Jesus Christ our Redeemer who suffered for us and has risen from death is contained in the Sacrament of the Altar." (Ep. ad Smyr.) Thus St. Irenaeus who was a disciple of St. Polycarp, a pupil of St. John the Evangelist, writes: "Of the bread is made the body of Christ" (Lib. IV adv. haer.) In the same manner St. Cyril: "Since Christ our Lord said of this bread, This is my body, who dares doubt it? Since He said, This is my blood, who dares to say, it is not His blood?" (Lib. IV. regul. Cat.) and in another place: "Bread and wine which before the invocation of the most Holy Trinity were only bread and wine, become after this invocation the body and blood of Christ." (Cat. myrt. I.)

What can the unbelievers say to this testimony? Do they know the truth better than those apostles who themselves saw and heard Jesus at the Last Supper, and who taught their disciples that which they had seen and heard? All Christian antiquity proves the error of these heretics:

NOTE. The Blessed Sacrament as a Sacrifice and the Holy Mass and its ceremonies, are treated upon towards the end of this book.

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Deana Martin α:19 de agosto 1948

Deana Martin (nacida el 19 de agosto de 1948) es una cantante y actriz estadounidense. Ella es la hija del cantante Dean Martin Martin nació en Manhattan de Dean Martin y su primera esposa, Elizabeth (Betty) MacDonald. Se mudó a Beverly Hills, California con su familia a la edad de un año. Más tarde se fue a vivir con su padre y su segunda esposa, Jeanne Biegger. Durante su infancia, no era raro que sus amigos de Rat Pack , Frank Sinatra y Sammy Davis Jr. , visitaran. Estar cerca de ellos la convenció para seguir una carrera en el entretenimiento. Martin se formó profesionalmente en el Dartington College of Arts en el Reino Unido. Sus créditos teatrales incluyen Romeo y Julieta , The Taming of the Shrew , Hamlet y A Taste of Honey . Ella co-protagonizó la gira National Broadway de la obra Star Spangled Girl de Neil Simon con George Hamilton y Jimmy Boyd. Otros papeles protagonistas incluyen Wait Until Dark, 6 Rms Riv Vu , A Shot in the Dark y The Tunnel of Love. Hizo su gran debut cinematográfico en Young Billy Young con Robert Mitchum , David Carradine., y Angie Dickinson . Este debut condujo a papeles protagónicos en las películas Strangers at Sunrise con George Montgomery y A Voice in the Night con Vito Scotti . Hizo su debut en televisión en 1966 en The Dean Martin Show. Era una invitada frecuente, actuando en números musicales y de comedia con una amplia gama de artistas, incluido Frank Sinatra.

FILMOGRAFIA ACTOR AÑO TÍTULO PERSONAJE 1984 Los locos del Cannonball, segunda parte Jamie Blake 1981 Los locos del Cannonball Jamie Blake 1975 Desafío Joe Ricco 1973 Amigos hasta la muerte Billy Massey 1971 La primera ametralladora del Oeste Joe Baker 1970 Aeropuerto Vernon Demarest 1968 Bandolero Dee Bishop 1968 Cómo salvar a un matrimonio David Sloane 1968 El póker de la muerte Van Morgan 1968 La mansión de los siete placeres Matt Helm 1967 Emboscada a Matt Helm Matt Helm 1967 Noche de titanes Alex Flood 1966 Texas Sam Hollis 1966 The Silencers Matt Helm 1965 Los cuatro hijos de Katie Elder Tom Elder 1964 Bésame tonto Dino 1964 Ella y sus maridos Leonard Crawley 1963 4 tíos de Texas Joe Jarrett 1963 Consejos a medianoche Jason Steel 1963 Gallardo y Calavera The Bum 1962 Dos frescos en órbita Astronauta 1962 Los tres sargentos Sgt. Chip Deal  1962 Something's got to giveCorto Nicholas Arden 1962 Who's Got the Action? Steve Flood 1961 All in a Night's Work Tony Ryder 1960 La cuadrilla de los once Sam Harmon 1960 Suena el teléfono Jeffrey Moss 1960 ¿Quién era esa chica? Michael Haney 1959 Los ambiciosos Maurice 'Maury' Novak 1959 Río Bravo Dude (Borachon) 1958 Como un torrente Bama Dillert 1958 El baile de los malditos Michael Whiteacre 1957 Ten Thousand Bedrooms Ray Hunter 1956 Juntos ante el peligro Slim Mosely Jr. / Slim Mosely Sr. 1956 Loco por Anita Steve Wiley 1955 Cómicos en París Rick Todd 1955 Un fresco en apuros Bob Miles 1954 El Circo de 3 pistas Pete Nelson 1954 Viviendo su vida Dr. Steve Harris 1953 El jinete loco Herman Nelson 1953 Una herencia de miedo Larry Todd 1953 ¡Qué par de golfantes! Joe Anthony 1952 Camino a Bali Él mismo 1952 Locos del aire Chick Allen 1952 ¡Vaya par de marinos! Al 1951 El cómico Bill Miller 1951 That's my boy Bill 1950 Colosos de la armada Vic Puccinelli 1950 Mi amiga Irma va al Oeste Steve Baird 1949 Mi amiga Irma Steve EQUIPO TÉCNICO AÑO TÍTULO TRABAJO 1987 Hechizo de luna Intérprete (Banda sonora)

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That picture set you did was lovely but it just made me sad. Rebecca was between them just like she will be when the 3 of them coparent. It’s the one thing I couldn’t handle coming out of this storyline, the one thing that would make me have to stop watching, and now people like you are accepting it as inevitable. Seeing people excited for a Robron and Rebecca co-parenting situation just bums me out.

oh hon, didn’t wanna make you sad. I understand what your saying, I don’t know how to reassure you though honey, because I dont feel the same. So many parents manage it in real life with drama befitting soap, pretty much every child in Emmerdale seems to have lived this reality and it doesn’t have to mean Rebecca is between them. Besides the only reason I posted it like that is because the formatting was nicer with Mum in the middle. I don’t think its inevitable at all. I have no idea what Emmerdale will choose to do. 

But I’ve not really got a problem with the concept of Robert and Rebecca co-parenting, they were genuinely very good at it at the start. If Aaron wants to be added to that mix, if he manages to deal with it, I’d be very happy for him. I would say I’m intrigued to see the dynamic, the awkward negotiation, who gets baby duty when. Its literally my fav thing between Charity and Ross, when they pass Moses between each other, and that shared love for their son means they have to begrudgingly meet and snipe at each other. We have no idea how it will work out yet, but perhaps it will be better than your fearing.

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When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must confess that my sympathies are all aroused in their behalf. They were cheated, deceived and abused. Their god was quick-tempered unreasonable, cruel, revengeful and dishonest. He was always promising but never performed. He wasted time in ceremony and childish detail, and in the exaggeration of what he had done. It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god. He had solemnly promised the Jews that he would take them from Egypt to a land flowing with milk and honey. He had led them to believe that in a little while their troubles would be over, and that they would soon in the land of Canaan, surrounded by their wives and little ones, forget the stripes and tears of Egypt. After promising the poor wanderers again and again that he would lead them in safety to the promised land of joy and plenty, this God, forgetting every promise, said to the wretches in his power:—'Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness and your children shall wander until your carcasses be wasted.' This curse was the conclusion of the whole matter. Into this dust of death and night faded all the promises of God. Into this rottenness of wandering despair fell all the dreams of liberty and home. Millions of corpses were left to rot in the desert, and each one certified to the dishonesty of Jehovah. I cannot believe these things. They are so cruel and heartless, that my blood is chilled and my sense of justice shocked. A book that is equally abhorrent to my head and heart, cannot be accepted as a revelation from God.When we think of the poor Jews, destroyed, murdered, bitten by serpents, visited by plagues, decimated by famine, butchered by each, other, swallowed by the earth, frightened, cursed, starved, deceived, robbed and outraged, how thankful we should be that we are not the chosen people of God. No wonder that they longed for the slavery of Egypt, and remembered with sorrow the unhappy day when they exchanged masters. Compared with Jehovah, Pharaoh was a benefactor, and the tyranny of Egypt was freedom to those who suffered the liberty of God.While reading the Pentateuch, I am filled with indignation, pity and horror. Nothing can be sadder than the history of the starved and frightened wretches who wandered over the desolate crags and sands of wilderness and desert, the prey of famine, sword, and plague. Ignorant and superstitious to the last degree, governed by falsehood, plundered by hypocrisy, they were the sport of priests, and the food of fear. God was their greatest enemy, and death their only friend.It is impossible to conceive of a more thoroughly despicable, hateful, and arrogant being, than the Jewish god. He is without a redeeming feature. In the mythology of the world he has no parallel. He, only, is never touched by agony and tears. He delights only in blood and pain. Human affections are naught to him. He cares neither for love nor music, beauty nor joy. A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain, and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, and changeable, infamous and hideous:—such is the God of the Pentateuch. ― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses