Monthly Archives: July 2008

Political Bands

Categories: Education, Health, Politics

It’s a presidential election year. Which means we have to deal with politics in the news a lot more than normal, and have been for the last year. I love my right to vote. I exercise it every chance I … Keep reading

Dissolve

Categories: Musings, Relationships

When I suggested the title of this post to several people, each of them said it should be about relationships (one did say cleaning). And in a way, it probably will. I thought it interesting that relationships wasn’t the first … Keep reading

One people

Categories: Learn Something, Random

One person can do a few things, but it’s amazing what that one person can do when they get together with other one persons. No one person can do everything, but one person can help one other person who can … Keep reading

It becomes necessary

Categories: Books, Education, Exercise, Family, Gospel, Happy Things, Health, Life, Musings, Quilting/Sewing/Knitting/Crafting, Relationships

The Declaration of Independence spoke of the necessities faced by the Colonies. What are the necessities in my life? My ancestors traveled the plains with an entire family’s worth of possessions in a covered wagon or handcart. Those are not … Keep reading

Human events

Categories: Family, Gospel, Politics, Relationships

A letter was read in all the congregations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in California on Sunday. The full letter can be found on the LDS website. The California Marriage Protection Act also has an official … Keep reading

When in the Course

Categories: Happy Things, Learn Something, Politics

It was on this date, 232 years ago, that the Continental Congress unanimously voted to declare our independence from the British. Two days later it was adopted. In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States … Keep reading

This, that, and the other, but mainly photos

Categories: Happy Things, Random

I went to the desert yesterday. I like going. My year membership has already more than paid for itself. I want to try and go once a month, and since June ended yesterday and I had not gone yet, I … Keep reading