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The Pemberley Parlor: Scenes of Christmas
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Pull up a chair and enjoy a cup of tea while you're here. Welcome to our parlor! Tuesday, December 27, 2011. No Christmas is complete without Charlie Brown. This book is the traditional movie version story with. Sound effects, including Linus reciting the. Luke passage of the true meaning of Christmas. Here's our Christmas tree with lots. We bought it from the Boy Scouts this year,. At a reasonable price, I must add. When the children were young I liked to have. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). It is ...
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Marty's Blog: January 2008
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Monday, January 28, 2008. Voting With the Gut. I just heard Stephen Colbert (a Comedy Central news show host) speaking at the White House Press Correspondent's dinner with George Bush in attendance. It’s amazing that a guy can speak the way he did just 10 feet away from the leader of the most powerful nation on earth—stinging satire of what George Bush is all about! 8221; How does he know? His gut told him. I'm an evangelical here! Am I jerking any tears out there? Posted by Marty Becktell. Huckabee remi...
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Marty's Blog: MBTI Prayers
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Monday, September 28, 2009. Reportedly, the following prayers have been around for years, but this is the first time I've seen them. They're so dead on! A word about personality typing: One thing I've realized is that if you want to know and understand your own personality, taking a test may not be the best option. It's better to understand the concepts behind the test by reading a book like Please Understand Me II. ISTJ - God, help me to begin relaxing about little details tomorrow at 11:41:32 am. ESFP ...
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Marty's Blog: Family Loyalty vs. Family Intimacy
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009. Family Loyalty vs. Family Intimacy. I'm currently reading A Different Kind of Teacher. By John Talor Gatto. I'm totally engrossed. Especially as he talks about the history of compulsory schooling in America. (Schooling, says Gatto is not necessarily education.) Here's an excerpt which may be hard to understand if you don't have the context, but nevertheless I post (underlining and bold text added by me):. This fear of racial suicide was provoked by an unusual "closeness" of im...
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Marty's Blog: September 2009
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Monday, September 28, 2009. Reportedly, the following prayers have been around for years, but this is the first time I've seen them. They're so dead on! A word about personality typing: One thing I've realized is that if you want to know and understand your own personality, taking a test may not be the best option. It's better to understand the concepts behind the test by reading a book like Please Understand Me II. ISTJ - God, help me to begin relaxing about little details tomorrow at 11:41:32 am. ESFP ...
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Marty's Blog: February 2008
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Saturday, February 16, 2008. Ted Kooser, Career Choices, and Northerness. Here is just one poem of Kooser’s, which I pulled off his website, tedkooser.com, entitled "Flying at Night:". Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations. Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies. Like a snowflake falling on water. Below us,. Some farmer, feeling the chill of that distant death,. Snaps on his yard light, drawing his sheds and barn. Back into the little system of his care. All night, the cities, like shimmering novas,.
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Marty's Blog: November 2008
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Sunday, November 30, 2008. A Pilgrim Reality Check. Although allready three days after Thanksgiving, Pilgrims are still on the mind. I hope you enjoy the following commentary containing some things I learned while teaching US history at Logos School last year. I must credit Nathaniel Philbrick's "Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War.". A PILGRIM REALITY CHECK:. Lessons From the Pilgrims for our Current Economic and Political Affairs. Posted by Marty Becktell. Sunday, November 23, 2008. You c...
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Marty's Blog: December 2009
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009. Family Loyalty vs. Family Intimacy. I'm currently reading A Different Kind of Teacher. By John Talor Gatto. I'm totally engrossed. Especially as he talks about the history of compulsory schooling in America. (Schooling, says Gatto is not necessarily education.) Here's an excerpt which may be hard to understand if you don't have the context, but nevertheless I post (underlining and bold text added by me):. This fear of racial suicide was provoked by an unusual "closeness" of im...
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Marty's Blog: August 2009
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Sunday, August 30, 2009. So Glen Beck, what exactly is “common sense”? Why American conservatives don't know what they stand for and always lose. 8212;I can’t help but ask this question, What’s the solution, Mr. Beck? Okay, you’ve told us what we’re against, but what are we for? What unites us, Mr. Beck? Hopefully it’s more than your entertaining antics? This is something that American conservatives have a really hard time understanding. “We’re united by conservatism! Someone who knows what they believe?