Psalm 103 - This is my favorite psalm, not to be morbid, but the one I would like read at my funeral.
103:10 He has not dealt with us according to ours sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities. This is a fantastically loving and forgiving God.
On this day:
1999 - In Kansas City, MO, Owen Hart (Blue Blazer) died when he fell 90 feet while being lowered into a WWF wrestling ring. He was 33 years old.
1999 - Gerry Bloch, at age 81, became the oldest climber to scale El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He broke his own record that he set in 1986 when he was 68 years old. What does this say?
1999 - We celebrated my daughters confirmation. My brother had to miss it though, he attended Fred and Donna's wedding, but Andy's wife Alice came to Nicole's confirmation. That meant a lot to me and Nicole.
Parenting - That is the way things happen, isn't it. You have nothing to do for weeks or months and then one day, everything. Andy had stood up in Donna's first wedding to our cousin Earl, and it was very important to her to have Andy there for her marriage to Fred. Maybe acceptance of Fred, maybe honor to Earl's memory, or just a superstitious idea that if he wasn't there the second marriage wouldn't turn out as well as the first. Whatever the reason, everything went well at both ceremonies.
Book Club - Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough. Getting into politics.
Venezuela -
Urbanism, Architecture, and the Use of Space
Venezuela's spatial landscape is clearly demarcated between the urban and the rural. The city of Caracas, with its 4 million inhabitants (almost a fifth of the country's total population) is the emblem of a modern elite and European-style existence. Meanwhile the rural homesteads of the llanos, Andes, and Guiana Highlands represent a farming way of life with a more traditional subsistence strategy. The recent influx of rural migrants (both from Venezuela and abroad) has impacted the urban landscape, especially within the ranchos (lower- and middle-income
Simple homes with a flaring oil well in the background, Cabimas. Oil is Venezuela's most profitable export product.
This blend of modernist aspirations tempered with local traditions, including colonial architectural remnants, has created a unique Venezuelan style. A particular architectural expression of this is the internationally acclaimed construction of the Central University of Caracas, designed by the Venezuelan architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva, with asymmetrical buildings, large standing murals, and sculptures.
Read more: http://www.everyculture.com/To-Z/Venezuela.html#ixzz32Xup2OPH
Enjoy the day! Make it memorable!
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