tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229942172024-03-23T11:19:13.875-07:00Snail Hollow GazetteRunning commentary on things that strike my interest, focusing on issues that relate to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and everything else in general.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15178899339154525170noreply@blogger.comBlogger846125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22994217.post-15755863602671832622018-12-03T08:21:00.001-08:002018-12-03T17:59:12.000-08:00Winter Treasures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A couple of prosaic pieces I wrote some time ago, reflecting upon my relationship with wilderness.<br />
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I made a pilgrimage this weekend to the slopes of Mount Evans, to pay my respects to a grove of peculiar trees that inhabit that locale.<br />
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These the pines of a particular breed that choose to live their lives out, at forbidding lofty heights, where other species abjure. Fire and rain, wind and snow, all the elements combine to blast these enduring creatures without pity or respite.<br />
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Not the towering graceful beauties of the forest, these. The aged pines are twisted and gnarled into bizarre stunted gnomes. Battle scars from eons of withstanding the destructive forces of nature cover their flanks.<br />
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And yet they endure.<br />
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Some of the oldest patriarchs, clinging to life by the thinnest of threads, have witnessed the awesome pageant of an unimaginable span of ages, as time passed before them, hundreds upon hundreds of seasons spinning by, a thousand generations in the lifetime of men.<br />
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I consider these trees, with their stunning longevity. They do not complain about the travail or suffering, though many of them have obviously suffered greatly. They do not question their purpose, or falter in the mission -- to live, and keep on living. The trees endure, and do not ask why.<br />
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There is an incredible, priceless beauty in endurance. Perhaps it is beyond our understanding today. I feel certain that the trees possess this secret knowledge.<br />
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How long will it take us to learn?<br />
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<pre>Towering firs raise into the blazing blue,
their boughs reaching up in mighty supplication.
Framing the world across mountain tops and airy ridges,
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Bowed with fronds sweeping low to the earth,
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I owned the tops of the mountains today. No others tracked the smooth white surface of the cold, clean snow. The mountain heights and I held our secret soul tryst, a chaste and joyous virtue only open to the lone and lonely.<br />
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I traverse the high passes, seeming so near to the pale blue sky, bracing against the fierce onslaught of the merciless freezing north wind. Howling gusts sweep up gritty blasts of icy snow grains in a ground blizzard, below a dark horizon troubled by passing storm clouds. As I struggle upward, the icy wind steals my breath away with each passing burst.<br />
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In the shelter of the deep shady canyon, I pause before tall green firs swaying and sighing as the force of the gale funnels up the slope, the wind whistling and moaning through the tossing boughs like the keening of mourners. The feet of the great trees stand deeply buried beneath the drifts.<br />
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Laboring to slowly climb the steep slope, bundled heavily against the freezing cold, my body is soon dripping with sweat. As the moisture accumulates under my hat and across the back of my neck, a rime of ice quickly forms around my head, into the simulation of a frosted white helmet.<br />
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I stop at the summit for a brief respite, in the lee of a swarm of boulders. I comb the ice out of my hair. Over the top of the broad peak, bare crusted snow is sculptured by the wind. The blowing snow appears to form sinuous snakes that writhe and coil and dance like living creatures. A sort of white noise, the continuous susurration of millions of snow grains skittering and slithering along, masks the roaring of the wind and creates a deep dynamic silence. Pressure against my back builds and ebbs from the force of the wild wind.<br />
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I have overstayed my welcome. The wind intensifies and the snow turns into heavier pellets that plaster across the front of my jacket and trousers, until I start to resemble an animate snowman. I hasten down the front side of the mountain, and as I pass, drifting snow quickly obliterates the traces of my passage.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15178899339154525170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22994217.post-30109009583548097642018-10-02T09:50:00.003-07:002018-10-02T09:50:51.519-07:00Revisiting: The Masks Come Off<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Some of the posturing of tolerance and respect has dropped away today, even more so than in recent times.<br />
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The real faces of protest and screaming demands are revealed to be twisted with hatred, ugly grimaces with dramatically hostile countenances. It is apparent that this ideology was underlying fundamental sentiment all the time. How can any protagonist of the current status even try to approach this howling wolf pack! In their frenzied madness these unreasoning vigilantes would lynch us from the nearest tree.<br />
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We the beleaguered seek refuge in more comfortable places, while the screaming mobs mock with derision for our withdrawing from this daunting fray.<br />
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Each camp incites themselves to taunt and ridicule what they perceive as the enemy. Ironically, it will only require some dramatic event to throw things back into a more realist perspective for all partisans. The impact of one explosive event will be facilitated by all the current dissent and disorder.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15178899339154525170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22994217.post-38615853358119178032018-09-01T14:43:00.002-07:002018-09-02T11:50:41.077-07:00Wasatch Wildflowers: Aconitum columbianum, Monkshood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cleome serrulata is common across North America.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Insects are attracted to it, especially bees, which helps in the pollination of nearby plants. It is native to southern Canada and western and central United States. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">C. serrulata is an important cultural plant for many Southwestern Indian tribes. The young, tender shoots and leaves are good sources of vitamin A and calcium. In the past they were used as potherbs or medicinally as teas for fevers and other ailments. The seeds were ground and used to make gruel or bread.</span></span><br />
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The Navajo still use the plant as a source of yellow-green dye for their beautiful wool rugs and blankets. Many pueblo tribes use a concentrated form of dye, made from boiling the plant into a thick black resin, to paint designs on pottery or for decorating their baskets<br />
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Perhaps among the most distinguishing features of this fir tree is the upright presentation of dark purplish cones early in the season. The cones exude sticky sap that drips down.<br />
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The bark of mature trunks of the tree is smooth gray, punctuated with elongated lenticels and minor branch scars, which give it a stippled appearance.<br />
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The crown of mature firs present as a sharply pointed and gradually tapering pyramidal shape, typically with major branches reaching to the ground, or nearly so<br />
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Firneedles adopt a very dark green color overall, with the new growth appearing much lighter in color.<br />
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On close examination, in can be seen the needle is pyramidal in cross section, and that the needle surface is densely packed with white lenticels on either side of the needle midrib, with the upper surface less dense and the lower white stripe being wider.<br />
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Interesting to note that the Sub Alpine Fir at the highest elevations adapts a "Krumholtz" growth habit, the trees presenting stunted and twisted shapes with little height, sometimes even reduced to mat-like prostrate and ground hugging growths that bear scant resemblance to trees at lower elevation.<br />
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Alexander Neibaur (January 8, 1808 – December 15, 1883) was the first dentist to practice in Utah and first Jewish person to join the Mormon Church. He was educated for the profession at the University of Berlin and was a skilled dentist before the establishment of dental schools in America. He was fluent in 7 languages and as many dialects.</div>
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Neibaur arrived in Nauvoo, Illinois on 18 April 1841. There he established his dental practice, using a room in Brigham Young's house for his practice, and developed a close friendship with Joseph Smith, Jr., whom he helped study German and Hebrew. (Neibaur made gold dentures for Brigham.)<br />
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After the Mormons were driven from Nauvoo, Neibaur went to Winter Quarters, Nebraska, and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, rejoining with the main body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1848. In Utah Territory he continued the practice of dentistry and was a manufacturer of matches.</div>
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Peter Barton, Bishop of Kaysville, Davis county, Utah, is the son of John Barton and Elizabeth Bell, and was born March 21, 1845, at St. Helens, Lancashire England. He was baptized by Elder James Barton in 1853; ordained a Deacon and later a Priest while in England.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">June 18, 1877, he was ordained a High Priest and Bishop and set apart to preside over the Kaysville Ward, which position he filled with honor, both to himself and the Ward. He also served as Ward clerk in Kaysville for a number of years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In February, 1889, he was sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment for "unlawful cohabitation," but before having served his full term, he was pardoned, being the first "Mormon" ever pardoned by Pres. Benjamin Harrison. Bishop Barton has held a number of civil positions, such as justice of the peace, city recorder of Kaysville, etc. He has also served two terms in the Utah legislature.</span></div>
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Ferdinand Frederick Ludwick Cobabe moved his family from the ancestral home in Malchow Prussia to Copenhagen Denmark around 1850-1860 . Ferdinand raised his family for some years in Copenhagen Denmark until he came in contact with Mormon missionaries, apparently some time around 1860. He was baptized 12 Oct 1862.<br />
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So it was with me and my mom. I grew up in a home with six sisters, two brothers, a a gang of assorted others from time to time.</div>
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HUSBAND AND WIFE have a solemn responsibility to love and care for each other and for their children. Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness, to provide for their physical and spiritual needs, and to teach them to love and serve one another, observe the commandments of God, and be law-abiding citizens wherever they live….<br />Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children. In these sacred responsibilities, fathers and mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners….<br />THE FIRST COMMANDMENT that God gave to Adam and Eve pertained to their potential for parenthood as husband and wife...</blockquote>
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She created my life…</div>
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She gave me her love…</div>
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She is my mom. All these things and many more…</div>
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Mothers inherit the grand tradition of Eve, the mother of all the human family, the one who understood that she and Adam had to fall in order that “men [and women] might be” and that there would be joy. Yours is the grand tradition of Sarah and Rebekah and Rachel, without whom there could not have been those magnificent patriarchal promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob which bless us all. Yours is the grand tradition of mothers and grandmothers, and the mothers of the 2,000 stripling warriors. Yours is the grand tradition of Mary, chosen and foreordained from before this world was, to conceive, carry, and bear the Son of God Himself. We thank all of you, including our own mothers, and tell you there is nothing more important in this world than participating so directly in the work and glory of God, in bringing to pass the mortality and earthly life of His daughters and sons, so that immortality and eternal life can come in those celestial realms on high. (Elder Holland)</blockquote>
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When I was growing up, we had a big house with plenty of room for our growing family.</div>
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When we were very little, she would come and read stories to us at bed time.</div>
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We had closet doors in our bedrooms that were chalkboards, and way before any schoolteachers taught me to read and write, my mother taught me at home.</div>
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In fact, when I started first grade in elementary school, this was the source of all kinds of misunderstanding and unhappiness. The teacher could not believe I already knew the first-grade basics. He insisted that I should participate in group activities with the other children. Before I could understand that different people have different talents at different stages, I was impatient with those who made so laborious things that came so easy to me. I suspected that some of the kids in our group activities were playing dumb, just to irritate me. </div>
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As I learned to pay better attention, I noticed that my mother had limitless patience with guests in our home, she set a good example for us.</div>
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Among so many other things, my mom had an exceptional musical talent. I didn’t inherit any particular talent myself, but I came to appreciate good music, after so much exposure to it. I recall many musical performances in which she was featured or took part, in groups like the Southern California Mormon Choir, in places like the Hollywood Bowl, and the Chandler Pavilion for Performing Arts in Los Angeles.</div>
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Not to say I was a perfect little boy that never had any conflicts at home. I have a snapshot of myself from 1956, at our brand new home in Manhattan Beach. It was not yet landscaped, and it featured a large and deep mud puddle in the back yard. The photo shows me proudly standing in the middle, wearing yellow fuzzy footy pajamas, padding trough the muddy swamp. I thought it was a fine swimming pool, those antics perhaps in part responsible for my later enthusiasm for swimming. I could not understand why she was so upset about the mud and mess...</div>
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But as I said, I was not always involved in such trivial incidents, notwithstanding my mothers teaching. I remember one particularly acrimonious exchange.. around twelve years old, after which I decided I must run away from home. I grabbed a few provisions, wrote a heartfelt note announcing my intention - it featured a bleeding heart that was pierced by a couple of arrows - and I pedaled away on my bike, resolved to never return. I ended up at the playground of the local grade school, riding my bike with some friends. Subsequently I had a disastrous crashing of my bike while climbing up some dirt hills, and tearfully marched home to display my pitiful wounds - to my mother, of course. Who else would wash away the blood and tears, and put on band aids?</div>
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One of the occasions that stands out in my memory involved my taking some things that were my mothers property, to sell them. I used my ill-gotten gains to buy cheap toys. When she found out about my misdeeds, she let me know she was really disappointed. It made such a deep impression on me that I was never again tempted to steal.</div>
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On many other occasions I was better-behaved, and we had many fun times together. We took lots of “field trips” with my mom, exploring places like the nearby tidal pools, several museums and garden areas around Los Angeles and San Diego. She encouraged us to participate in planting and keeping a backyard garden. We became well acquainted with the local nursery grower, and my mom always gave the birthday gift of one tree to plant. Our yard was a showplace for flowers and fruit trees. I’ve never had better peaches than those from our back yard.</div>
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We also had a collection of farmyard pets to learn to take care of – ducks and chickens, pigeons, and rabbits, dogs and cats.</div>
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Well, I do recognize that some of us, for one reason or another, grow up without our mother’s guiding care. I am sure that throughout our lives we frequently borrow from other moms, because like my mom, many seem to have the capacity to spread out their love inclusively, to a circle with more than the local family.</div>
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My mom is like that. Though my family made a pretty substantial group, we always had more – sometimes many more - that were welcomed around our dinner table. She hosted a Cub Scout den for a number of years. And served in numerous other Church callings.</div>
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Well, my mom is eighty six now, and we seldom have the excitement and misadventures I so enjoyed growing up. But she still makes an effort to express love for everyone. And is still my most effective therapist.</div>
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On one recent occasion, she was sitting in the foyer during church. She noticed one very little boy acting out, so she captured him with a big hug and held quiet him on her lap. He was suddenly still, gazing up into her grandma smile, and he asked her, “How did you get those cracks in your face?” She really DID crack up over that!</div>
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I send roses to her on Mothers Day as a token of my love, recognizing I can never repay all that I have enjoyed or been blessed with, because of her.</div>
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Rejoice in the Lord alway: <span class="clarity-word" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and</span> again I say, Rejoice.</div>
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Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord <span class="clarity-word" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is </span>at hand.</div>
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Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.</div>
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And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.</div>
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Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things <span class="clarity-word" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">are</span> honest, whatsoever things <span class="clarity-word" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">are</span> just, whatsoever things <span class="clarity-word" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">are</span> pure, whatsoever things <span class="clarity-word" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">are</span> lovely, whatsoever things <span class="clarity-word" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">are</span> of good report; if <span class="clarity-word" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">there be</span> any virtue, and if <span class="clarity-word" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">there be</span> any praise, think on these things... (Philippians 4:4-8)</div>
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Indeed, a day for rejoicing! After spending half the time since Sept 4 in one hospital or another, today I have found a new place to call home - at least for a while. I have relocated to an assisted living facility in Salt Lake City. It is named rather fancifully "Le Chateau de Brickyard".Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15178899339154525170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22994217.post-23064627953674482642018-01-01T05:22:00.004-08:002018-01-01T05:22:57.645-08:00Happy New Year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15178899339154525170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22994217.post-78875536461097828172017-11-26T09:33:00.001-08:002017-11-26T09:33:46.892-08:00Glad TidingsGood things can come our way, even from people who are thoroughly confused about most everything. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15178899339154525170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22994217.post-71954946661077834342017-11-08T14:55:00.001-08:002017-11-08T14:55:40.425-08:00Thanksgiving revisited...<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
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<br />In the <a href="http://www.lds.org/liahona/2013/08/recognize-remember-and-give-thanks?cid=HP080113054&lang=eng" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;">First Presidency Message this month</a>, President Eyring reminds us all to recognize, remember, and give thanks to the Lord for all His the bounteous blessings. Eyring quotes from President Kimball,<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: blue;">Please follow the counsel you have been given in the past and maintain your personal journals. Those who keep a book of remembrance are more likely to keep the Lord in remembrance in their daily lives. Journals are a way of counting our blessings and of leaving an inventory of these blessings for our posterity. (Spencer W. Kimball, "<a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1978/04/listen-to-the-prophets?lang=eng" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Listen to the Prophets</a>")</span></blockquote>
This blog fulfils two purposes for me. It serves as my personal editorial page, and as my personal Book of Remembrance.<br /><br />Though I don't always express it in obvious ways, I am ever grateful for Heavenly Father's providence.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />In the Book of Mormon, Alma testifies,<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: blue;">...All things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator. (<a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/30.44?lang=eng" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Alma 30:44</a>)</span></blockquote>
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<br />In the Doctrine and Covenants, we have further prosaic testimony about the nature of God and His creations,<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
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<span style="color: blue;"> The earth rolls upon her wings, and the <sup class="studyNoteMarker"></sup>sun giveth his light by day, and the moon giveth her light by night, and the stars also give their light, as they roll upon their wings in their glory, in the midst of the power of God.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"> Behold, all these are kingdoms, and any man who hath seen any or the least of these hath seen God moving in his majesty and power. (<a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88.41-47?lang=eng" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Doctrine and Covenants 88-41-47</a>)</span></div>
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<br /><br />I borrow a beautiful photo of a Columbine in blossom, from my long-time Internet friend Dave Kennison.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /> Another beautiful glade of flowers on the Wasatch Plateau, photographed by my sister Beth.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />The very earth upon which we stand, the air we breathe, the beauty and freedom of the hills, the trees and flowers, even the rocks and flowing waters. All of it testifies of the great love that our Heavenly Father blesses us with.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />For all these blessings, and many more, my heart overflows with gratitude. My life has been filled with many good things, and I am joyful and thankful. <span style="color: blue;"><br /></span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: blue;">And inasmuch as ye do these things with thanksgiving, with cheerful hearts and countenances, not with much laughter, for this is sin, but with a glad heart and a cheerful countenance—<br /><br />Verily I say, that inasmuch as ye do this, the fulness of the earth is yours, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and that which climbeth upon the trees and walketh upon the earth;<br /><br />Yea, and the herb, and the good things which come of the earth, whether for food or for raiment, or for houses, or for barns, or for orchards, or for gardens, or for vineyards;<br /><br />Yea, all things which come of the earth, in the season thereof, are made for the benefit and the use of man, both to please the eye and to gladden the heart;<br /><br />Yea, for food and for raiment, for taste and for smell, to strengthen the body and to enliven the soul.<br /><br />And it pleaseth God that he hath given all these things unto man; for unto this end were they made to be used, with judgment, not to excess, neither by extortion.<br /><br />And in nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his hand in all things, and obey not his commandments. (<a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/59.15-21?lang=eng" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Doctrine and Covenants 59:15-21</a>)</span></blockquote>
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Yesterday, I stuck a ripe banana in my pocket. I wear utility scrubs, they have lots of pockets.<br />
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Anyway I was summarily interrupted from my intention to assimilate the comestible portion of said fruit by an urgent and immediate call of nature.<br />
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My response was not a timely one, and as I neared, the objective spot, I peed my pants and made a big puddle on the bathroom floor.<br />
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This led to my first discovery of formal physical science, hereafter to be known as "Porcelain's Law". The law simply states that, in the spirit of Occam's Razor, there exists a proportional direct relation between the distance to the bathroom and the propensity to make a puddle on the floor.<br />
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This principle was tested and demonstrated through exhaustive empirical research methods.<br />
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In fortuitous serendipity, as I mopped the floor, my banana dropped out of my pocket, and I subsequently drove over it with the wheelchair. I was presented with observational results of the kinetic energy released, and the characteristic ballistic function of hydro static force generated in the dispersal and pattern of subsequent banana-like ejecta.<br />
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Then I had the opportunity to clean walls and wheelchair as well as mopping the floor to dispose of the experimental detritus. In addition to a load of laundry.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15178899339154525170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22994217.post-55841548568247216282017-11-07T19:53:00.001-08:002017-11-07T19:53:29.611-08:00Walking in Darkness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I don't feel like I belong here any more. I am all alone in a very dark place. I am no longer someone who matters. Love is gone, no hope, nothing left but feeling shame to be so worthless.<br />
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Why do I even ask why?<br />
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People help me in my helplessness, but it makes me feel even more worthless and hopeless. I have no escape. No place of refuge...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15178899339154525170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22994217.post-71948778208167933122017-10-29T19:29:00.001-07:002017-10-29T19:36:40.391-07:00Living Water<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:</div>
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But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.<b> (<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/4.10?lang=eng#9">John 4:13-14</a>)</b><br />
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These latter days are a time of great spiritual thirst. Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives. They crave a cool, satisfying drink of insight and knowledge that will soothe their parched souls. Their spirits cry out for life-sustaining experiences of peace and calm to nourish and enliven their withering hearts.</div>
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Indeed, “there are many yet on the earth among all sects, parties, and denominations, who are blinded by the subtle craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, and who are only kept from the truth because they know not where to find it.”<span class="noteMarker" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://www.lds.org/ensign/1995/05/living-water-to-quench-spiritual-thirst.p1?lang=eng#footnote14-95905_000_009" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-size: 9px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14</a> </span>Let us work with all our heart, might, mind, and strength to show our thirsty brothers and sisters where they may find the living water of the gospel, that they may come to drink of the water that springs “up unto everlasting life.” (<a href="https://www.lds.org/ensign/1995/05/living-water-to-quench-spiritual-thirst.p1?lang=eng"> Elder Wirthlin, Living Water to Quench Spiritual Thirst</a>)</div>
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Another episode of stroke affecting me last week. This was probably what the drs characterize as a TIA, Transient Ischemic Attack. By definition, a TIA is a temporary experience, leaving no permanent brain injury.<br />
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Last Thursday night, I had an episode that included dizziness, everything spinning around me, diminished sense of awareness, vision compromised with encroaching gray out, and more confusion than usual.<br />
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Someone helped wheel me up to my room, but she was behind me, so I wasn't sure who. I thought it was my friend Lilian, but she said no, she saw me weaving around the lobby, and was concerned about my drunken careening, so she got the nurse.I asked to be left alone, because I was wanting to avoid another ER fiasco. They can't seem to do anything much about events like this except compile extravagantly expensive billing for inconclusive tests. I went to bed felling dizzy and groggy.<br />
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The next day, I was feeling recurring weakness in my lower body, and my speech was slurred more than the previous day. Back to the routine of trying to recover...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15178899339154525170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22994217.post-13660904112568319792017-10-17T06:41:00.003-07:002017-10-17T06:43:31.837-07:00Enduring Well<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Life is carefully designed to produce for us, if we are willing, a harvest of relevant and portable experience...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); color: #333333;">Part of enduring well consists of being meek enough, amid our suffering, to learn from our relevant experiences. Rather than simply passing through these things, they must pass through us and do so in ways which sanctify these experiences for our good (see </span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/122.7?lang=eng#6" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">D&C 122:7</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); color: #333333;">). Thereby, our empathy, too, is enriched and everlasting. <a href="https://www.lds.org/ensign/1997/04/enduring-well?lang=eng">Elder Maxwell, Enduring Well</a></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15178899339154525170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22994217.post-46425286346715778472017-10-14T07:35:00.000-07:002017-10-16T20:14:13.447-07:00In darkness I cry...<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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Alone and lonely,</div>
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<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">runnels
of hot tears</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">course
across trails</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">long
traveled.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">No
balm for ills,</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">impossible
challenge</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">blocks
every effort.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">I
live in the blackest well,</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">subterranean
existence</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">devoid
of a glimmer of light,</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">bleak
and hopeless.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">Ugly
bigotry, self-recrimination</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">damns
every thought -</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">bleak
lives don’t matter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">I
struggle to rise to the level</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">of
support and charity</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">extended
by so many.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">But
still inside myself,</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">I
cannot break past walls </span>
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<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">that
await in front of every hopeful turn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">Contemplating
the potential peace of non-existence,</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">I
consider the horror of self destruction.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">It
would be so easy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">It
would be so easy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">It
would be so easy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">But
my counselors remonstrate,</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">Just
a change of scenery”.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">And
those professing care and love,</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">injured
beyond imagining,</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">wounded
to the heart</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">by
my selfish impulse,</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">unable
to comprehend</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">the
dark force that ever drives my thoughts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">Helpless
and naked</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">I
cry unto God for relief.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;">What
answers mocks my pain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
cried because I had no shoes</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "bitstream vera" serif , serif;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">until
I met a man who had no feet.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham a" , "gotham b"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.3px;">The mist of darkness will cover you at times so much that you will not be able to see your way even a short distance ahead. You will not be able to see clearly. But you can </span><i style="font-family: "Gotham A", "Gotham B"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.3px;">feel</i><span style="font-family: "gotham a" , "gotham b"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.3px;"> your way. With the gift of the Holy Ghost, you can </span><i style="font-family: "Gotham A", "Gotham B"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.3px;">feel</i><span style="font-family: "gotham a" , "gotham b"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.3px;"> your way ahead through life. Grasp the iron rod, and do not let go. Through the power of the Holy Ghost, you can </span><i style="font-family: "Gotham A", "Gotham B"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.3px;">feel</i><span style="font-family: "gotham a" , "gotham b"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.3px;"> your way through life. (See 3 Nephi 18:25; D&;C 9:8.) </span><a href="https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/boyd-k-packer_lehis-dream/" style="font-family: "gotham a", "gotham b"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.3px;">Elder Boyd K Packer: Lehi's dream and you</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/ensign/1987/10/suicide-some-things-we-know-and-some-we-do-not?lang=eng">Suicide: Some Things We Know, Elder Russel M Ballard</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15178899339154525170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22994217.post-4999644602208871882017-10-13T13:43:00.003-07:002017-10-13T13:53:19.897-07:00MovedMoved to a new location. Senior Living center in Orem. New Church ward, lots of nice people.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/TreeoOrem/">Treeo Orem</a><br />
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Extra charges for pets - I won't be getting a poodle.<br />
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A bit too expensive for my budget, but otherwise ideal for my needs at the moment. Working on stroke rehab - again. Insurance refused to cover any further treatment, so I am on my own this time. Done this enough times, it is a familiar trail. <br />
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Looking for another place in Salt Lake County; my boys said move closer to them, so they can visit more often. <br />
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Could no longer justify living at my moms house. Cannot help her any more, I'm more handicapped than she is. Folks from her ward and community promise to help her, and she will be getting home health visits.<br />
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Suggestions for nice future apartments welcome.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15178899339154525170noreply@blogger.com1