I used to love going to the airport in Des Moines and watching the planes. Now you can do it via YouTube - and see cooler planes than ever came to Des Moines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFLDfP6HkwM
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Not sure about anyone else but I was devastated by the election. How in the world could anyone look at this buffoon and think that he had the temperament or qualifications to run this country? Just amazes me.
But he won.
So now what to do? One of the frustrating things about this is that I know that I will be long gone before the country begins to recover from the damage that he is going to cause.
But the Methodist Grandma used one of my favorite Bible verses after the election:
Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season, we shall reap, if we do not lose heart.
And then there's the story of my grandfather. Born in 1899, dropped out of school after the sixth grade so he could help full time on the farm. Spent his life working the land, providing for his family, through the dusty years of the Great Depression, and after. He always loved trees - and planted some religiously every year, on his small Iowa farm. As he grew older, he slowed down a little bit, but still went out every spring and planted one or two walnut trees. I asked him once - being an obnoxious teenager - why he did that when he likely wouldn't be around to harvest any walnuts from the trees. He smiled and used that as a teaching opportunity for me - to talk about our responsibility to do good, no matter whether we see the results or not - doing good is it's own reward.
So that's my inspiration - I'm going to redouble my efforts to take America back from Trumpism -- after all a majority of voters went for Hillary, not him.
https://www.facebook.com/reverbpress/photos/a.747117125377648.1073741830.731244080298286/1165019736920716/?type=3
But he won.
So now what to do? One of the frustrating things about this is that I know that I will be long gone before the country begins to recover from the damage that he is going to cause.
But the Methodist Grandma used one of my favorite Bible verses after the election:
Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season, we shall reap, if we do not lose heart.
And then there's the story of my grandfather. Born in 1899, dropped out of school after the sixth grade so he could help full time on the farm. Spent his life working the land, providing for his family, through the dusty years of the Great Depression, and after. He always loved trees - and planted some religiously every year, on his small Iowa farm. As he grew older, he slowed down a little bit, but still went out every spring and planted one or two walnut trees. I asked him once - being an obnoxious teenager - why he did that when he likely wouldn't be around to harvest any walnuts from the trees. He smiled and used that as a teaching opportunity for me - to talk about our responsibility to do good, no matter whether we see the results or not - doing good is it's own reward.
So that's my inspiration - I'm going to redouble my efforts to take America back from Trumpism -- after all a majority of voters went for Hillary, not him.
https://www.facebook.com/reverbpress/photos/a.747117125377648.1073741830.731244080298286/1165019736920716/?type=3
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