Psalm 63 -vs 4 "I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands." Lutherans are not very demonstrative, with the exception of camp. We don't lift our hands in praise, except at camp. There are no motions to songs to keep you in touch with the joy of the singing, except at camp. We never dance to songs, except at camp. Love camp!
On this day;
1968 - Don and I were playing cards with his Mom and Dad and his Aunts and Uncle. We used to play poker and drink coffee. The guys would go out to Dad's workshop once in a while, probably had a bottle out there. Don's mom would get mad and they would argue the rest of the night. I have at different times in my life played cards with some people, it is a nice way to pass time and chat. Maybe you should get a once a month card party together, just a suggestion.
1926 - John Baird, a Scottish inventor, demonstrated a pictorial transmission machine called television. Those Scots are very smart! Bet the Bhutanese don't think so, see below.
Parenting - We did things with our parents back then. Played cards, went to dances and socialized. I think it is a healthy experience that keeps family strong. Nicole and I do a lot of socializing together, she is fun and we have a good time. Hope you do too. Children also learn life skills from watching their parents in relationship with other people, so watch how you act in front of your kids. :)
Ha Bhoutan - Just a few days left here
Go to Yeah1TV and see some of the video's etc.
Fast forward into trouble
Four years ago, Bhutan, the fabled Himalayan Shangri-la, became the last nation on earth to introduce television. Suddenly a culture, barely changed in centuries, was bombarded by 46 cable channels. And all too soon came Bhutan's first crime wave - murder, fraud, drug offences. Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy report from a country crash-landing in the 21st century.
April 2002 was a turbulent month for the people of Bhutan. One of the remotest nations in the world, perched high in the snowlines of the Himalayas, suffered a crime wave. The 700,000 inhabitants of a kingdom that calls itself the Land of the Thunder Dragon had never experienced serious law-breaking before. Yet now there were reports from many towns and villages of fraud, violence and even murder. The Bhutanese had always been proud of their incorruptible officials - until Parop Tshering, the 42-year-old chief accountant of the State Trading Corporation, was charged on April 5 with embezzling 4.5m ngultrums (£70,000). Every aspect of Bhutanese life is steeped in Himalayan Buddhism, and yet on April 13 the Royal Bhutan police began searching the provincial town of Mongar for thieves who had vandalised and robbed three of the country's most ancient stupas. Three days later in Thimphu, Bhutan's sedate capital, where overindulgence in rice wine had been the only social vice, Dorje, a 37-year-old truck driver, bludgeoned his wife to death after she discovered he was addicted to heroin. In Bhutan, family welfare has always come first; then, on April 28, Sonam, a 42-year-old farmer, drove his terrified in-laws off a cliff in a drunken rage, killing his niece and injuring his sister. Why was this kingdom with its head in the clouds falling victim to the kind of crime associated with urban life in America and Europe? For the Bhutanese, the only explanation seemed to be five large satellite dishes, planted in a vegetable patch, ringed by sugar-pink cosmos flowers on the outskirts of Thimphu. This is not good news.
Enjoy the Day! Make it memorable! Turn off the TV Happy Birthday Sharon!
Enjoy the Day! Make it memorable! Turn off the TV Happy Birthday Sharon!
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