May 11, 2014 Sunday Mothers Day

Exercised my faith.


Of course Pastor Beebe spoke of Mothers Day, but it was also good shepherd's day.  Quite a lot of similarities between shepherds and mothers.  Psalm 23


On this day:  1991
Nicole had a softball game and Aaron had a concert at the H.S.  at the same time.
A person born on this day will be 23 years old today. If that same person saved a dollar every day starting at age 3, then by now that person has accumulated $7,305.00 today. (Assuming this person is still alive and kicking)


Parenting - I don't know how parents that have more then one child do it.  With two children, if both parents are involved you are ok, but more?  Families are so busy these days with encouraging each child to express an interest in something.  I remember one of my friends telling me, (she had 4 kids), the last one was out of luck, and literally got to do nothing.  Her son played hockey, one daughter was in theater and the other in track and swim.  When the last one came along, they couldn't fit a thing into their schedule for her.  She is married with 3 kids now.  I wonder what her kids are doing?


Book Club - Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough.  I am at Harvard with Theodore now.  It was really a different time, and they were different people.


Venezuela - Little more history?

Simón Bolívar y Francisco Santander

Independence from Gran Colombia[edit]

In Venezuela, nominally a province of Gran Colombia, José Antonio Páez, backed by the former mantuanos (and now by the ruling clique in Caracas), tentatively initiated the separation of Venezuela in 1826. Bolívar returned post-haste to Bogotá, where vice-president Santander complained about Venezuelan insubordination. Bolívar traveled to Caracas and seemingly put Páez in his place (1827). Sucre left Bolivia the same year. Santander expressed disappointment and furthermore opposed Bolívar's plans to implant the Bolivian constitution in Great Colombia, for which a convention was convoked by Bolívar in the town of Ocaña. Thus began the rivalry between Santander and Bolívar.

José Antonio Páez. Painting by Martín Tovar y Tovar

In 1828, in view of the political opposition he faced both in Venezuela and in New Granada and because his Great Colombia had started to disintegrate, Bolívar named himself dictator. He escaped an assassination attempt with the help of his mistress, Manuelita Sanz, a pardo woman from Quito. Santander was exiled, but Jose Prudencio Padilla, the pardo general who had helped corner Morales after Carabobo in Maracaibo, was executed^{[by whom?]} instead. The emboldened Peruvians now invaded Guayaquil. Bolívar had to return to Quito in 1829 to repulse them, which didn't take much doing, for the invasion had petered out before Bolívar arrived. Back in Bogotá, Bolívar pleaded for unity and, though he had offered to resign various times during his career, this time, when Great Colombia had a new constitution (not Bolívar's Bolivian one) and a president, Joaquin Mosquera, Bolívar finally did resign in 1830. At that point, Páez not only had declared the second independence of Venezuela but also had promoted a campaign of vituperation against Bolívar. Seeing the state of things, Quito followed suit under Venezuelan general Juan José Flores, and Sucre was assassinated while riding alone through a thick forest on his way to that city. A downcast Bolívar rode to the coast with the intention of leaving the country, but he was truly exhausted and very sick. He died near Santa Marta in Colombia at the age of 47.

1830–1908[edit]

Enjoy the day!  Make it Memorable   Happy Mothers day!