Just as the Weight Watchers book asks you to take a quiz assessing your readiness to diet, there should have been one measuring my readiness to blog. Nine days since my last post. I’m blaming it on my classes and busy schedule. Come Aug. 15, I’ll be able to tend to this regularly. Until then, keep watching!
Month: July 2010
Just for Dad
Here’s a good primer on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites your grandchildren (and children) are using.
All I want for Christmas….
is an Alvin Greene action figure.
Politics here gets “curiouser and curiouser.”
Happy Anniversary!
On this day 14 years ago my brother B. married up.
Fantastic Fourth
K. (I’m guarding everybody’s privacy right now!) and I met up with some other friends for the Freedom Festival at the Village at Sandhill. The fireworks show was spectacular – it lasted almost 30 minutes. We kept applauding during the last 10 minutes because we thought, oh, that has to be the finale. Yet it just kept on going.
How did I come up with the name of this blog?
To learn how I came up with the blog’s name, go to the About Me page.
Waiting for the furniture truck
In one or two hours I’ll have the new curio cabinet. Can’t wait to finally put all the dust-catchers in one place and shut the glass door on them.
Happy Independence Day!
Calvin Coolidge, on the Declaration of Independence:
It was not because it was proposed to establish a new nation, but because it was proposed to establish a nation on new principles, that July 4, 1776, has come to be regarded as one of the greatest days in history. Great ideas do not burst upon the world unannounced. They are reached by a gradual development over a length of time usually proportionate to their importance. This is especially true of the principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence. Three very definite propositions were set out in its preamble regarding the nature of mankind and therefore of government. These were the doctrine that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain inalienable rights, and that therefore the source of the just powers of government must be derived from the consent of the governed.
Another excerpt, applicable in today’s theory of “living documents:”
It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.
Read the whole thing.
More on the Glorious Fourth.
Great shopping day
Today I spent a lot of money at Chapin Furniture, “in the heart of downtown Chapin, SC.” On Monday I’ll have a new curio cabinet to hold all the items catching dust around my patio home. I’m also getting a new dining room table and six matching chairs. Those won’t come for about four to six weeks – they’re still on a container ship making their way to Chapin. Here’s a picture of the curio (but mine’s in black).
Update: I located a picture of the table and chairs. I am so pleased – I got a great deal! I didn’t pay anywhere close to the price on this site. When I first saw this Web site, I groaned thinking the price listed in red was the price for the table and six chairs. Then I realized, no, that was the site’s price for just the table. I remember the sales lady telling me this is a great price, and I was thinking, yeah, yeah. But she was not telling me a story. I got a great deal. Dad would be proud.
Test picture – She who must be obeyed
Pickles hides out, Christmas 2008. The tree is fake. The article tells the story – I’ll publish that around Christmas.
Notes from Aunt Gem 