13 Random Acts of Thursday
1. I think it’s appropriate that we have nine hens since both Joe and I are one of nine siblings.
2. Recently overheard at my house: Was it a shoe-in or just a foot in the door?
3. Sometimes I feel like the world is like a snow globe that is getting tilted upside down with melted glacier water about to torrent down.
4. I like that the word wet is within the word sweat and that the S at the beginning sweat suggests a mutant plural of wet.
5. I recently read that the Big Bang was originally meant as dismissive term by someone who backed another theory, sort of like how “Obama Care” began by Republicans and was meant to be derogatory until Obama and others embraced it.
6. A story on the nightly news that really caught my attention: A school principal Roxbury, Massachusetts, turned a school around that was plagued by violence and ranked in the bottom five of all Massachusetts public schools by getting rid of all the security guards and reinvesting all the money used for security infrastructure into the arts. More HERE.
7. Another impressive story reported on the nightly news was about an Indiana first-grade school project that involves writing down random acts of kindness that were done for you and posting them with colored post-its on a bulletin board. My favorite one was from a first grader that read “Hunter tied my shoes.” The idea spread to the high school. Watch HERE.
8. I was shocked to learn about a five year old that got a .22 caliber rifle for his birthday and shot and killed his 2-year old sister with it. “We don’t give our kids the keys to our car, and there is a good reason for it,” responded one emergency room pediatrician.
9. Blogging is a form of regularity for me and if I go a couple of days without posting I don’t feel well.
10. I think it’s ironic that corporation sounds so much like cooperation?
11. Once again, the truth is stranger than fiction: Most people have this view of our encounters with microbes from the perspective of disease. But that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Only 10% of the cells in our body are human. The rest are microbial. The human gut alone contains almost four and a half pounds of bacteria.
12. Every other day I get someone landing on my blog via a “has Jackson Browne had a facelift” search because of THIS post, in which I state that Browne isn’t the same cocky young guy standin’ on a corner in Winslow Arizona with seven women on his mind and girls in cars slowing down to check him out, but he still looks good.
13. I don’t get THIS, but it made me smile. HERE.
May 9th, 2013 9:13 am
No.9 is same with me 🙂
Giving a kid a gun as present?? My God, what was in his parent’s head? Shocking! Thanks for the link…I am going to read that now.
May 9th, 2013 10:49 am
Another WONDERFUL T13. I love that you have 9 Hens….it is really rather proper, isn’t it?
I LOVED the story about the school taking the Security money and putting it BACK into The Arts!!! BRAVO, BRAVO! I always enjoy your words-within-words thoughts….It Certainly is amazing….!
The story of that little boy killing his sister is a true tragedy on so very many levels…..I don’t understand people and guns!
The people with stuff on their heads—-GREAT!
May 9th, 2013 10:49 am
What amazes me is that the photographer got that many old Finnish people to stand still for the head gear.
“Random acts of Thursday”? lol.
Nine hens looks like more than is sounds.
May 9th, 2013 11:48 am
When I was 8 years old, I could break down a .22 magnum survival rifle into its components, then slap it back together and fire it in under 2 minutes. I never killed anybody and I don’t shoot guns today but I consider myself very lucky – not that I could do that, but that I didn’t hurt myself or someone else. It is not something I advocate, giving guns to kids, but it certainly does happen. It should be against the law.
We do not appreciate the preciousness of life.
Great TT.
May 9th, 2013 1:06 pm
loved #s 6 & 7, especially 7. #5 shocked me too 🙁 Did I tell you Dave is the second youngest of 9? I love being with someone who has a big family, it’s something I always wished for.
May 9th, 2013 3:13 pm
I’m laughing at #13.
May 9th, 2013 3:53 pm
Sadly, I am not surprised there a irresponsible people who would give a 5-yr old a rifle as a present. I hope the parents are held responsible. I was interested in the SPPRAK story, but it cut off less than a minute in, and I couldn’t find it on the NBC website. Pity.
May 10th, 2013 10:26 am
I really love #’s 6 and 7 and find it wonderful to hear good news on the news instead of all the bad stuff!! But then you read #8 and you are shocked!
PS I think #13 is going back to where you are from…..nature!!
May 11th, 2013 8:03 pm
Loved #6 – sent the link to an art teacher friend of mine.