"Dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish."
Read on and fall sound asleep
Have you watched any of the “Frozen Planet” on the National Geographic Channel? I am very impressed with the camera work and the patience required gathering the images. I was especially amazed upon learning that Killer Whales live in pods each of which seems to have its own culture. And that the adults experiment with hunting techniques then pass the learned lessons on to the young. The bit where a pod formed a directed wave to break up an ice floe to gain access to a seal was extremely powerful. I have a hard time grasping the density of life in the polar regions. If life can thrive at 28 degrees Farhenheit it might also on the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
I only thought I loved Texas. After indexing 1862 death certificates from Texas between 1876 and 1976 I have fallen even more deeply in love with this big ole state. The state is awash in wonderful place names and human names so exotic that only a Martian from a tiny village in the district of Hnor of Strym on the northern slopes of mount Olympus would be able to pronounce them. Eighteen hundred sixty two dead yet they keep on coming. A flood of people dying in loneliness, despair, hope, joy, lingering, sudden, peaceful, violent. Wonderful warm people. We can never give up because we owe it to our ancestors to make things better as they attempted. I wish I could make the words say what I feel.
 | 3/21: Dear Lord, use us to help others understand your love and grace that reach past our sin. Amen. The prayers are from the Upper Room. For your own free E-Mail Devotional visit : http://upperroom.org/devotional/email/ and click on the link “Other Ways to Receive the Daily Devotional” | |
A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below.
She shouted to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.
She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be a Republican.”
"I am," replied the man. "How did you know?"
"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've been of no help to me at all and now, thanks to your lack of help I'll be even later."
The man smiled and responded, "You must be an Obama Democrat."
"I am," replied the balloonist. "How did you know?"
"Well," said the man, "you don't know where you are, or where you are going. You've risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now somehow, it's my fault.
”As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.”
John Stuart Mill
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