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Carol H Tucker
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Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
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the Ides have it
Today is the 4th day of the 11th week, the 15th day of the 3rd month, the 74th day of 2017, and:
- Brain Injury Awareness Day
- Brutus Day
- Buzzards Day
- Dumbstruck Day
- Everything You Think is Wrong Day
- Ides of March
- International Day Against Police Brutality
- International Day of Action Against Canadian Seal Slaughter
- International Eat an Animal for PETA Day
- Kick Butts Day
- National Peanut Lovers Day
- National Pears Helene Day
- National Shoe The World Day
- True Confessions Day
- World Consumer Rights Day
- World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film
ON THIS DAY: In 474 BC Roman consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso celebrated an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce. In 44 BC Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, was stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. In 280 Sun Hao of Eastern Wu surrendered to Sima Yan which began the Jin dynasty. In 1493 Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first trip to the Americas. In 1778 James Cook reached the west coast of Vancouver Island with ships HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, on the way to search for a North West Passage from the Pacific In 1819 French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel won a contest at the Academie des Sciences in Paris by proving that light behaves like a wave -- the Fresnel integrals, still used to calculate wave patterns, silenced skeptics who had backed the particle theory of Isaac Newton. In 1875 Archbishop of New York John McCloskey was named the first cardinal in the United States. In 1877 the first official cricket test match was played -- Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia. In 1917 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty. In 1941 Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines took its first flight between Manila (from Nielson Field) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name. In 1956 the Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady debuted on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. In 1985 The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corp. of Massachusetts.
Quote of the day:
“What is happening now has happened before, and what will happen in the future has happened before, because God makes the same things happen over and over again.”
~ Ecclesiastes 3:15
When I look back reflectively, I have to admit there is a quality of sameness to the problems I have faced in my everyday lives [both “real” life and my 2nd Life], a similarity to the issues that have to be addressed and resolved, again and again and again. As often as I ponder what my purpose of life is [or was if I have unknowingly fulfilled it somehow], I wonder what lessons I should’ve learned from these situations that apparently I have not grasped because I keep getting patiently presented with the same learning opportunities over and over again. I read The Sacred Contractby Caroline Myss, and the concept of a soul choosing where and when to be born so that they can study, learn and grow resonates powerfully with me. While I’m very sure the good nuns of my Sunday school would react to such teachings with horror, I do not see such a creed as being inimical to being a Christian, any more than I perceive the message of The Shack as a dangerous or deranged way of thinking or believing. It certainly places some of the more “interesting” things that have happened to those around me and/or to me in a different light – it takes away the sting of blaming an unfeeling and capricious universe, or castigating myself for some lack or guilt and deserving of punishment. But then again, I have often commented that I much prefer a merciful Lord to a just one, not being quite sure I am ready to face my just deserts….
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