Quilting Friends Row by Row
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Oh Happy Day!
The melted lipstick is out of my pants! Between something called GooGone Spray Gel and Oxi Clean it has all been washed away. Now I just need to get the interesting orange smell out of my pants from the GooGone Spray Gel.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
UPdate on the house that Jack is Building
It has been awhile since I've been to my son's house. This is the front of the house. The roof is on and he is now installing windows. He has done a wonderful job. This is the child that I one day hoped he would be the next Frank Lloyd Wright. He can see how something should be put together before it is built. He can see the answer to a math problem without figuring it out on paper. (Drove his math teachers crazy!) He didn't get this ability from me. If he did it must be a very recessive gene.
Ooops! Who are these interlopers? They are the peacocks that live next door to the Pincocks. The next door neighbors have peacocks. They are beautiful. In late summer and early fall the male drops his tail feathers. I have several of the hanging up in my classroom to help the children remember how to pronounce my name. The white one is the female.
Ooops! Who are these interlopers? They are the peacocks that live next door to the Pincocks. The next door neighbors have peacocks. They are beautiful. In late summer and early fall the male drops his tail feathers. I have several of the hanging up in my classroom to help the children remember how to pronounce my name. The white one is the female.
Stupid is as Stupid Does and I’ve Been VERY STUPID!
Of all the places NOT to love this is the top of my list! I have a VERY BAD habit of leaving a whole tube of lipstick in the pockets of my clothes. I then will throw the article of clothing in the wash now that isn’t bad until I put the clothes in the dryer. Today I did the evil deed! I now have THREE very nice pairs of pants to use when I cleaning house and do yard work. I’ve just spent an hour cleaning out my dryer. I now have a load of rags in there on high hoping to soak up any RED lipstick in didn’t get. I had better things to do today. I WAS in the process of cutting out and sewing up pumpkins. NOT NOW! Oh no, not now! I’m going to have to google to see if I can find any remedy to get lipstick out. I HATE IT WHEN I DO THIS!
Saturday, November 14, 2009
One True Thing
"...Fear not what man can do, for God shall be with you forever and ever." This one thing that I know. My biggest problem is trying to remember this when life has gotten me down. Lately I've been forgetting.
Monday, November 2, 2009
My Mother's & Grandmother's Quilt
I don't know when my mother's mother, "Grandma Zina", started this quilt. I do know that the flower's fabric came from at least the 1930's. In 2003 my mother took up the task of working on this quilt while she went through chemo treatments for bone cancer. Mom finally finished this quilt this year, 2009. WOW! Mom thanks that took a lot of work and love to put this quilt together. Thanks!
p.s. We all share the same name, Lenore.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Zeal Without Knowledge by Hugh Nibley
I do a lot of listening to audio books. I find it an easier way to obtain information. I've been listening lately to a series of talks given by Hugh Nibley.
How can we always keep reaching for the highest and best to the utmost of our capacity? This requires enormous motivation and religion and supplies it. Nothing can excite men to action like the contemplation of the eternities. This quality is zeal. Zeal is the engine that drives the whole vehicle: without it we would get nowhere. But without clutch, throttle, brakes, and steering wheel, our mighty engine becomes an instrument of destruction, and the more powerful the motor, the more disastrous the inevitable crack-up if the proper knowledge is lacking. There is a natural tendency to let the mighty motor carry us along, to give it its head, to open it up and see what it can do. We see this in our society today. Scientists tell us that the advancement of a civilization depends on two things: (1) the amount of energy at its disposal, and (2) the amount of information at its disposal (Carl Sagan, The Cosmic Connection (New York: Doubleday, 1973), ch. 34.). Today we have unlimited energy—nuclear power; but we still lack the necessary information to control and utilize it. We have the zeal but not the knowledge, so to speak, and this is a very dangerous situation. What good is the power without real intelligence and solid knowledge? Zeal makes us loyal and unflinching, but God wants more than that. We need to do our own thinking and discipline our minds. True knowledge can never serve that end. Knowledge is individual and if a person has it, "who would know it? Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements. True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does. When we have limited knowledge, are particularly susceptible to excessive zeal. The things of knowledge require deep import, time, experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts to find them out. No shortcuts or easy lessons here! True zeal feeds on knowledge, true knowledge cannot exist without zeal. All knowledge must be a priority, proper degrees in the timing and emphasis of our learning, lest like the doctors of the Jews, we "strain at a gnat and swallow a camel." We must be willing to have our knowledge tested. The emphasis is all on the continuous, conscientious, honest acquisition of knowledge.
How can we always keep reaching for the highest and best to the utmost of our capacity? This requires enormous motivation and religion and supplies it. Nothing can excite men to action like the contemplation of the eternities. This quality is zeal. Zeal is the engine that drives the whole vehicle: without it we would get nowhere. But without clutch, throttle, brakes, and steering wheel, our mighty engine becomes an instrument of destruction, and the more powerful the motor, the more disastrous the inevitable crack-up if the proper knowledge is lacking. There is a natural tendency to let the mighty motor carry us along, to give it its head, to open it up and see what it can do. We see this in our society today. Scientists tell us that the advancement of a civilization depends on two things: (1) the amount of energy at its disposal, and (2) the amount of information at its disposal (Carl Sagan, The Cosmic Connection (New York: Doubleday, 1973), ch. 34.). Today we have unlimited energy—nuclear power; but we still lack the necessary information to control and utilize it. We have the zeal but not the knowledge, so to speak, and this is a very dangerous situation. What good is the power without real intelligence and solid knowledge? Zeal makes us loyal and unflinching, but God wants more than that. We need to do our own thinking and discipline our minds. True knowledge can never serve that end. Knowledge is individual and if a person has it, "who would know it? Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements. True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does. When we have limited knowledge, are particularly susceptible to excessive zeal. The things of knowledge require deep import, time, experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts to find them out. No shortcuts or easy lessons here! True zeal feeds on knowledge, true knowledge cannot exist without zeal. All knowledge must be a priority, proper degrees in the timing and emphasis of our learning, lest like the doctors of the Jews, we "strain at a gnat and swallow a camel." We must be willing to have our knowledge tested. The emphasis is all on the continuous, conscientious, honest acquisition of knowledge.
Friday, October 2, 2009
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