a smiling woman dressed in a maid's uniform gesturing to a sinking ship - the text reads:
Visit Titanic --
A family experience!
On the same road trip in Arkansas at the outskirts of a tiny town we pass the sign bearing the town name and population : 158. Immediately following that sign are five more signs each bearing the name & denomination of a different church welcoming us to the town. With a population of 158, this town supports five different protestant denominations? I wonder if each church has a congregation of 30 souls, or is one church huge, with like, 75 members and all the others teensy?
In recent news I heard about severed feet inside athletic shoes bobbing in the waters off Vancouver. The fact that feet (I think there are five of them) are washing up on the shore is just weird enough. But there are other oddities to this story. When I first heard about it, on NPR, I believe, the journalists and detectives were laughing about the story. Black humor? Maybe, I don't know, but it seems pretty gruesome to me, there are five people who have had their feet separated from their bodies, and probably their souls from their bodies as well. So what's the funny part?
But wait! There's more:
The foot, like all the others before it, was in a running shoe. But the newest instance was a left foot, whereas the others were all right. None of the feet appear to have been removed by force."
So. The feet fell off by themselves?
Another recent news item. There is a movement to lobby the Olympic Committee to include Competetive Yoga as an Olympic sport. What's next? Competetive Meditation?
And last for this post: a few years ago my husband and I took our family to the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha. We were especially interested in visiting the Lied Jungle, advertised as the world's largest indoor rain forest. It was quite beautiful and fascinating. We started at the top and followed trails down to the ground admiring the foliage and flowers and wonderful animals. When we got to the bottom however we were startled by the noise of a chainsaw - we turned a corner to see a zoo worker wielding the saw as he cut down a tree. We know zoos try to make their exhibits as realistic as possible, but we thought this was taking things a little too far. We haven't been to the Henry Doorly Zoo in several years. We hope the rain forest is still there.
A family experience!
On the same road trip in Arkansas at the outskirts of a tiny town we pass the sign bearing the town name and population : 158. Immediately following that sign are five more signs each bearing the name & denomination of a different church welcoming us to the town. With a population of 158, this town supports five different protestant denominations? I wonder if each church has a congregation of 30 souls, or is one church huge, with like, 75 members and all the others teensy?
In recent news I heard about severed feet inside athletic shoes bobbing in the waters off Vancouver. The fact that feet (I think there are five of them) are washing up on the shore is just weird enough. But there are other oddities to this story. When I first heard about it, on NPR, I believe, the journalists and detectives were laughing about the story. Black humor? Maybe, I don't know, but it seems pretty gruesome to me, there are five people who have had their feet separated from their bodies, and probably their souls from their bodies as well. So what's the funny part?
But wait! There's more:
The foot, like all the others before it, was in a running shoe. But the newest instance was a left foot, whereas the others were all right. None of the feet appear to have been removed by force."
So. The feet fell off by themselves?
Another recent news item. There is a movement to lobby the Olympic Committee to include Competetive Yoga as an Olympic sport. What's next? Competetive Meditation?
And last for this post: a few years ago my husband and I took our family to the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha. We were especially interested in visiting the Lied Jungle, advertised as the world's largest indoor rain forest. It was quite beautiful and fascinating. We started at the top and followed trails down to the ground admiring the foliage and flowers and wonderful animals. When we got to the bottom however we were startled by the noise of a chainsaw - we turned a corner to see a zoo worker wielding the saw as he cut down a tree. We know zoos try to make their exhibits as realistic as possible, but we thought this was taking things a little too far. We haven't been to the Henry Doorly Zoo in several years. We hope the rain forest is still there.
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