https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/jubilant/ These Jubilant gentlemen dance and play music at the same time, celebrating Life. (surrounded by evidence of death-many of the surrounding buildings are full of bullet-holes and chips from the 1967 war)
Category: Culture
Weekly Photo Challenge:(Missing) Face
This lady is around 500 years old, and it is unknown how she lost her face. She is carved in two pieces, and you can see the depression where the peg that held her head and face went. She represents Agriculture, and she was harvesting grain from her family's fields, to feed her family, and …
Weekly Photo Challenge…Admiration for a Thing of Beauty
I have always admired my violin, which I bought from its maker in 1987, when it was nearly brand new. David VanZandt lives in Seattle, and every once in awhile I take my beautiful violin home to "Daddy" for him to touch up the varnish and do any needed adjustments. I found that, once I …
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Weekly Photo Challenge…A Most Extraordinary Dinner
In May of 2013, I organized my first Seattle Ricochet Meetup, a physical meeting of Ricochet members, around a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar held in Seattle. Ricochet members are always up for a meeting, and many Seattle members support Hillsdale College. I posted an invitation on the Member Feed, and asked for advance notice …
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Thursday Thoughts
I found an interesting statement in a Wall Street Journal review of a new book of the letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, writer of the "Little House" series about her childhood in the Midwest and on the prairie. It seems that, in her eighties, she did a radio broadcast, to the "Children of Chicago", and …
Conquering my revulsion
For most of my life, I have had a revulsion reaction to people whose bodies are deformed, or whose behaviors are offensive in public. I believe this revulsion is probably hard-wired into human beings from prehistory, as a survival characteristic (others whose looks or behaviors are not "civilized" might be foes); so I'm betting that …
Celebrate our Beautiful Country
Every day, I give thanks to have been born in the Greatest Country on God's Green Earth. Our country is one of the most beautiful on Earth, with terrain ranging from blazing hot deserts, to grassy prairies, to high snow-capped mountains, to chains of beautiful blue lakes. The American people are the most generous in …
Black Lives (Don’t) Matter
What about this Black Life? Did you know that over 60% of black babies are aborted? Yes, SIXTY PERCENT! This evening, I discovered an interesting Web Site called Black Genocide. Give it a look. This simple fact shows that so-called Progressives do NOT believe that Black Lives Matter. In truth, the fact that Abortion is …
Who is more important to the president? Brutal dictators? Or you?
Let's see. In the past couple of years he has met with, and praised: The Brutal Dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin. A Saudi Prince, of a kingdom that represses its women, stoning them to death for "honor crimes". He has done his best to release "detainees" (brutal terrorists) from Guantanamo Prison, allowing them to return …
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Weekly Photo Challenge…Dancing at Her Wedding
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/dance/ They got the slow dance out of the way, so they could dance to the Persian music. My nephew married a gorgeous young lady whose family is from Iran. Her dad gave an absolutely hilarious speech that had all the wedding guests rolling in the aisles. To the Dance!
