Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Work and Retirement, 2

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I've been a bit ill, so not much of a post today. My wife raised two points (bold) about yesterday's post, my admittedly idealized a...
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Monday, May 30, 2005

Work and Retirement

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Modified from Punch , May 16, 1917, as uploaded by Project Gutenberg (for illustrative purposes only--I don't play golf--so far!) Our S...
Sunday, May 29, 2005

How Firm a Foundation

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How Firm a Foundation Words by John Rippon, 1787, hence public domain; tune most commonly used by Joseph Funk, 1832 How firm a foun...
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Saturday, May 28, 2005

She's done!

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My wife's salaried life is over. She put in her last day of teaching yesterday. We thank God that she was able to work this long. We als...
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Friday, May 27, 2005

Women in the Old Testament: 5 Sisters

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Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah--they were the daughters of Zelophehad, and their story is told in Numbers 26:33, 27:1-7, 36:2-12, ...
Thursday, May 26, 2005

Sunspots 10

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Eye of Science contains a gallery of amazing photos of small thi...
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Things I'm thankful for, 1

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The obvious : You, whoever you are, who is reading any part of this posting--even if it's only to here. Thanks! God, in all three person...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Vetch pod

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This is a vetch pod, scanned. I posted about vetch a few days ago. Vetch is a member of the legume, or pea family. This vetch pod looks a l...
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Monday, May 23, 2005

Frodo, Ged and Hazel: Flowers and Plants

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As mentioned in previous posts, The Ring trilogy by Tolkien, the Earthsea books by Le Guin, and Watership Down by Richard Adams are my favo...
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Sunday, May 22, 2005

Star Wars: Christian or not?

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A Christian doesn't have to see only movies, or read only books, that have a Christian world-view. Christians should be careful what th...
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Saturday, May 21, 2005

Pro Basketball's First Family?

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There are, no doubt, several good candidates for this non-existent title. The Van Gundy brothers, Jeff and Stan, are both NBA head coaches. ...
Friday, May 20, 2005

Green Plants

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We are absolutely dependent on green plants. Without them, we would have almost nothing to eat, because either we eat them directly, or we e...
Thursday, May 19, 2005

Small aster/composite

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This flower is a member of the Aster, or composite, family, a family of flowering plants with many species. Most of this family are weeds ...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Sunspots 9

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Two posts on the Trilemma, posed by C. S. Lewis: either Christ was God's son, or crazy. One post here , another here . They come to s...
Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Vetch flowers

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Another member of the legume, or pea, family ( see previous post ) is vetch. Vetch flowers are small, and the plant isn't nearly as larg...
Monday, May 16, 2005

Kudzu, stealth invader

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Yesterday's post showed a photo of a kudzu leaf, and remarked that the plant is not native to the Southeastern U. S., even though it so...
Sunday, May 15, 2005

Kudzu leaves

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The picture above is of some kudzu leaves. Kudzu is not yet in bloom in upstate South Carolina, but, as you can see from yesterday'...
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Saturday, May 14, 2005

Cherokee rose

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And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet I say u...
Thursday, May 12, 2005

Wild blackberry flowers

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It's never a bad idea to stop thinking about whatever is bothering you and think about flowers. Blackberries are members of the ros...
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Sunspots 8

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THANKS TO GOD! I didn't say that explicitly at the retirement luncheon for me and several others, held at my institution this week, and...