God’s Grandeur
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
Stella's Place 
Good mornin, all! Coffee’s ready. Y’all grab a cup and sit a spell!
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Mornin’, Texan! Sending over a collection of cups and mugs along with an organizer for your kitchen wall….
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Well thank you. That’s mighty nice of you.
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You’re mighty welcome, Texan! Set aside the red one on the bottom row for me.
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Mt. Assiniboine Provincial Park, British Columbia and Alberta border…
Mount Matterhorn, Switzerland and Italy border…
Denali, Alaska…
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Mornin’ kids!
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Lovely…
Mornin’all ya’all! Nice enough outside, but still getting to mid 90’s every afternoon. Errands await.
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Mornin’ Czarina!
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Mornin’, Miss Wee. I must confess that I always feel much better about myself after listening to a Cackles speech. That country high school and state university prepared me for the world much better than her fancy law school! Although I’ve never had a no-show job like she’s got. 😉
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Mornin’ T!
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LOL. Macabre, but funny.
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Un-filtered words. [sigh]
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Mornin’ Weather!
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Good morning, Wee – I really appreciate your posts!! Have a fabulous day!!!
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Good morning, Wee! I was reading an article somewhere yesterday and the writer said that he thought there was something actually wrong with Kamala beyond just the fluffs and inappropriate laughing, like actually a screw loose.
I’d agree with that. She’s not just a leftie who is awkward in manner. She ain’t normal.
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Mornin’ Lucille!
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Makes sense to me. Good morning, Lucille!
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National Uncle Sam Day
National Bald is Beautiful Day
National Let Kids Take over the Kitchen Day
Positive Thinking Day
National Peanut Day
International Programmers Day – this day is celebrated based on binary code. The number 256 is distinct to programmers. Represented by an eight-bit byte, 256 equals 2 to the eighth power. This digit makes it the highest power of two that is less than 365. When translated to binary code, the day reads 1 0000 0000.
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I’ll take Bald Day for 100, Alex…err, Czarina! Some men are fortunate that they look really good bald. Others not so much. This is one of the good…Robert Saleh, coach of the Jets who looked shellshocked at his press conference Monday when talking about Aaron Rodgers’ season-ending injury. Don’t blame him on that; quite a shocking incident.
He’s smiling his beautiful smile here…
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Good morning! A beautiful but cool (sorry Tex) day here. Only 58°! Blue sky with white fluffy clouds.
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Mornin, Miss Stella. I checked at Pop’s place outside of Indy. It was 48* there at 8:00 this morning outside of Indy.
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Good morning, Miz Stella! We’re sunny today. I’m off to a doctor appointment and am glad the weather won’t be hot. It’s my only outing so far this month and am looking forward to seeing and talking to actual humans.
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I know what you mean. I made a trip to the pharmacy yesterday to pick up prescriptions. Tucker went along for the ride, but he whined through most of the trip. He gets excited about going in the car, gets in willingly, but then he whines.
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Loki gets excited when we go anywhere in the car. She usually whimpers a little when we first start out and then gets quiet. If we are going to my son’s place, she is quiet until we turn toward the mountains and she knows where we are going. I think the whimpering is just excitement.
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Tucker sounds like a back-seat driver…”turn this way, Mom; no, don’t…watch out for that pedestrian with the Golden Retriever…am I going to need to cover my eyes, Mom…can we go home?…I need a treat!”
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Mornin’ All. It was 55* when we got up and it feels chilly outside with a lot of dark clouds and overcast sky. Funny how I can’t tell if it is going to be cool outside just by the temp here. In FL it was very cool if it was 60* outside. Not so here.
Got an email last night from the apartment mgmt that they would be doing some work around this building. I assume using a jackhammer to break up the concrete. I had planned to go to Bible study but realized I couldn’t leave Loki by herself with all that noise. It would scare her to death. If they had told us earlier I might have been able to make arrangements with a dog sitter to watch her. Oh, well.
Clouds seem to be going away leaving clear blue sky with white puffy clouds over the mountains. May be a pretty day after all.
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Good morning, aus! You and Loki can have Bible study together…pick a passage on something to do with animals (though not the one where dogs eat Queen Jezebel).
Even when it’s cloudy, Montana is beautiful…
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LOL. We will do that. And, I will skip that passage. Don’t want to give her any bad ideas.
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Yeah, no sense in enabling canine gray matter to commune with their wild ancestors for pointers on how to deal with humans.
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Enough to gag a maggot.
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How pretentious and self-aggrandizing can one get? I guess we’re seeing it.
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How will we grow the nutritious veggies they want us to eat, since plants exit on carbon.
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Actually, I think they would prefer that many of us starve to death.
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Yes, it is a religion…the tenets of which are to be followed without question or dissent because their Father of Lies demands it. That particular deity hates human beings, btw.
The climate has been changing on a regular basis since Adam and Eve left the Garden. But Apple declares that removing carbon emissions is THE priority of their existence..AND IT MUST BE DONE BY 2030! Sooooo, man has wrecked Mother Nature’s earth via the inventions of cars, planes, trains and trucks plus the raising of food-on-the-hoof giving earth an abundance of cow methane…also a huge no-no.
Honestly, wouldn’t it be the greatest gift if these folks would simply shut up!
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The best thing I’ve heard from Mittens…………ever. Gonna shut it down after this term in the Senate! Yeehaw!!!!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mitt-romney-says-hes-not-running-for-reelection-to-the-senate-in-2024/ar-AA1gFxDr
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Great news.
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Unless he decides to run for President.
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That was my first thought, Stella. He and his RNC niece are probably planning it at this very moment.
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What the Democrats are doing to disenfranchise DEMOCRAT presidential candidates (unless it’s Joe Biden.) RFK explains:
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They certainly are creative in their multiple methods to disenfranchise their own team.
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