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  1. Props that 6 year old Fastbreak didn't ask: "Gramps, what is a prostitute?"
  2. Add my voice to those who have made suggestions to consider checking out a different service and or church. Completely anecdotal but I shared some similar feelings as yours at times--I understood why some congregants preferred the pageantry of a *full-on praise and shout service but the day in day out once a week quiet contemplation was what resonated within my own family. Our children were early risers and in the community in which we lived at the time the church we attended held an **8:00 AM service in the chapel. Compared to the sanctuary with its large organ, two aisles, balcony, etc, the chapel was much more intimate. No stained glass windows, no choir. Just around a dozen or so pews, a piano, and the minister. It helped that the minister was quite focused on serving others and the sermon and scriptures and anecdotes shared were often intended to encourage that type of devotion. Aside from religion, developed over centuries, we forget that the human species would have never survived had we not cared for and served others, most especially 'the least of these'. I miss that church; when we moved away, it was difficult to find another in which we felt that spirituality. Keep searching and questioning. *If you ever watched the scene in the Spielberg directed The Color Purple where Shug Avery leads the juke joint denizens to her preacher daddy's church, you know just how amazing a service can be when it happens with the congregants in tune with the Lord's will and not their own. That was not a performance, that was a soul reaching out for love and forgiveness on Earth and in Heaven. In contrast, some of the services I've attended do have that feeling of 'performance' over substance. **I have so many stories of attending this service as often the only family with small children among a chapel congregation whose average age was probably 75. But this is not the time nor place.
  3. I get what you're saying with respect to declarations, and your experiences (which mirror my own) etc. My commentary is more along the lines of what the future may bring if the agencies decide to surveil in a more sinister way. Fine line between national security and 'we just don't like your kind.'
  4. I'm going to tag onto this post as it is constructive and in a positive way. Another couple of things to remember (and this was also mentioned) is that your children are looking to you for social behavior and while you are aware of your flaws (which is good!) as they grow into adolescence (and with a 10 year old that is closer than you think) they are VERY aware of them. Daughters and sons want attention from their fathers and these years right now are IT. Meaning as they hit the teens and begin to bond with peer groups and want more privacy for teenage thoughts and dreams, it gets more difficult to express the emotions bubbling beneath the surface in positive ways. For both of you. While my spouse was an engaged father with our children when they were little--swapping off reading aloud, bath time, etc as they got older, we had a conversation about those nearing teen years and how more than ever, this was a good time for Dad to really step up and be there as a person of character for them. Forget the patriarchal society that we live in (if I hear alpha male one more time, my rolling eyes will fall out of my head) and just going with things like 'how does one resolves disputes, how does one learn about compromising, or forgiveness, or walking away from a bad situation or when to stand one's ground.' None of these things have to be about being male, per se, but how to be a human being. How it's okay to cry, to be weak, to ask for help, to confess to feeling overwhelmed or lost or angry. How some of these can be used against one (revealing too much information to untrustworthy acquaintances) and how to navigate that in relationships--personal, professional, and just out and about in the world. One of our children is pretty introverted. Like the OP, my spouse is quite drained after work but something that helped us was me commandeering the evening meal prep so that the two of them could take a walk. It wasn't a terribly long walk, but five to ten minutes into that walk and the words would just spill out of him. To this day, they still take a walk together whenever this (now adult) returns home and you wouldn't think such a small somewhat uncool thing would matter but it did and it does.
  5. Same, and we learned about the oil boom and people like the Phillips brothers but not about the allotment theft that @mchookem mentions.
  6. Anyone care to wonder about what's required for entry that will be normalized? Just like those countries that Dear Leader scorned.
  7. Have been rather busy these last two weeks, here's Friday's report from Texas: 597 cases, an increase of 36 from the 15th. 62 patients hospitalized since the onset of outbreak. Potter County is a new addition I believe
  8. I made a jello salad this week with frozen raspberries, raspberry gelatin and cool whip. It's pretty tasty. But olives? I have a much better use for those: Back to the topic....
  9. *Mumps has entered the chat... *Sterility in males caused by the mumps is actually rather rare but it does happen due to a variety of issues with the areas that mumps affects (not a doctor, just info gathered off of various sites.)
  10. It's been discussed already so won't go into that but finally drew up the courage to watch All Quiet On The Western Front. I'm not sure 'enjoy' is the correct word for the viewing experience unless I'm solely going off of the cinematography, acting, etc because it is, as many good war movies are, a gut wrenching experience but it needed to be seen.
  11. Dude put in his dues for quite a while before landing bigger roles, so he's grabbed the baton and is running. Film is on the list next month at Cannes and then opens stateside in July; I hope it is a good film as the topic is one that sets off some folks.
  12. Better start wearing the gold lapel pin or get reported for anti-Christian bias....
  13. I'll take your Commodus and raise you a Harkonnen:
  14. Once again, thank you for the update. Oklahoma is predictably stupid about not reporting counties; but the only way one could even try and suss out potential locations is by tracking exposure sites that the media shared. Recently, they've had some exposures in OKC, so speculation might be that those are Kansas cases traveling southward to the nearest metro area for care. (Although Stillwater would be more likely). I haven't followed theirs as closely. One of the news agencies mentioned northeastern Oklahoma and specifically mentioned Weatherford which is NOT northeastern Oklahoma (that would be like Tulsa or Bartlesville) and once again proves the issue with a)fact checking no longer being a thing and b) the giant corps like Fox buying stations coast to coast is shit for true and accurate news.
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