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Posted on 12/28/2024 5:31:53 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
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Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS)))
As I recall it was about the end of the 19th century. Paderewski was at Stanford and stayed in California for a while. He was very helpful to young musicians. Years later, with the Communists overrunning Poland, the great musician died and was buried at Arlington Cemetery. The inscription on his tombstone read something like, ‘When Poland is Free Return me to Poland.’ I wonder if his grave is still at Arlington?
Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...and a Blessed Lord’s Day and Shavua Tov.
Pea soup fog here today.
It’s foggy here too! How weird.
Greetings to all at the Canteen!
To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU
for your service!
Shavua Tov.
Wishing all our Jewish troops, veterans, families, allies, friends, and Canteeners
a peaceful and prosperous week.
Prayers for our troops, veterans, families, allies, friends, and Canteeners
for a safe and peaceful week ahead.
Prayers for our troops, veterans, families, allies, friends, and Canteeners
for a safe and peaceful week ahead.
Howdy, Kathy.
Were you able to go to the office today? If so, it must have been a “fun” drive. Holy cow, the fog!!!! I pulled up the Lake Hood cam a few minutes ago and thought something was wrong with the cam. Blank screen. That’s some thick fog.
Ended up getting a “new” computer today. It was going to cost more than it was worth to fix the old one so I got a nice refurbished one. It’ll keep me busy tonight trying to figure out what’s on it and where everything is so I can set it up the way I want it. I also have a couple of programs to put in it that I hope will work with Win10.
I don’t like change.
What Does “Tanto” from the Movie 13 Hours Carry Every Day? -The Shawn Ryan Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkyYynaB8h8
Check the comments below the video:
“I watch ‘ 13 Hours, The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi ‘ on the anniversary and Nov 11 every year - Military family that dates back to the Civil War, Wounded Knee, WW1, WW11, North Africa, Korean War, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq & Afghanistan the USAF & The RCAF in Canada - My father W.A. Sherman was a Barnstormer precursor to the Snow Birds - My father’s family is from Missouri & my mother’s family is from Pine Ridge, Rosebud, reservations in South Dakota - We are Lakota Oglala & Irish! Have deep regard for all the armed forces in the US - Hawaii, & Canada - Patricia Light Infantry, Calgary Alberta, High River, Fort MacLeod, Billing’s Montana etc… -5 sons - 3 have served - 2 grandsons & 1 great granddaughter serving! May Creator Bless and guide all those Soldiers serving today and grant peace to those who have served and especially to those who have lost dear ones! Mitakuye Oyasin Mita Kolas.”
Thanks for your recolelctions...made me go look.
This is what I found....
President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized for Paderewski's remains to temporarily rest in the vault of the Mast of the USS Maine Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, until he could be buried in a free, independent Poland. Paderewski was not eligible for below-ground burial in Arlington National Cemetery (or in any other U.S. national cemetery), because he had never served in the armed forces of the United States or any nations allied with the United States.
With the end of the Cold War, Paderewski's wish to be laid to rest in his homeland could be realized. On June 27, 1992, a horse-drawn caisson and a U.S. military honor guard escorted Paderewski's remains out of Arlington National Cemetery, en route to Andrews Air Force Base and a flight to Warsaw. After days of ceremonies, his ashes were interred in a crypt at Warsaw's St. John's Archcathedral.
Paderewski's heart remains in the United States — literally. The organ is encased in a bronze sculpture at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, a town with a large Polish-American community.His remains made it back to Poland, but his heart is in Pennsylvania.
Oh my...
The Hebrew word rendered “build/building” in Genesis 11 is banah (vv. 4, 5, 8). This term can refer to a physical building—whether rebuilding or establishing something—and metaphorically to building a family. Both usages occur in 2 Samuel 7 (see vv. 5, 7, 13, 27). Psalm 127:1 includes the word twice: “Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.” Daniel 4:30 includes the Aramaic counterpart to banah from Nebuchadnezzar: “Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?” In the New Testament “to build” is a metaphor for the work of Christ in establishing His church (see Matthew 16:18; Ephesians 2:19-22). Building plans that fail to consider Jesus as the master builder (see Hebrews 3:4) are subject to fail.
When I was a young boy in Ohio, we lived near several construction sites. Inspired by them, my friends and I gathered leftover scraps to build a fort. Borrowing tools from our parents, we hauled wood and spent days trying to make our material serve our purposes. It was fun, but our attempts were poor reflections of the well-constructed buildings around us. They didn’t last long.
In Genesis 11, we encounter a major building construction project. “Let us build ourselves a city,” said the people, “with a tower that reaches to the heavens” (v. 4). A big problem with this effort was that the people did it to “make a name for ourselves” (v. 4).
This has been a recurring issue for humans; we build monuments to ourselves and our achievements. Later in the biblical narrative, this story is contrasted with Solomon’s motivation for building God’s temple: “I intend, therefore, to build a temple for the Name of the Lord my God” (1 Kings 5:5).
Solomon understood that what he built needed to point to God and not himself. This was such an important lesson that he even wrote a psalm about it. Psalm 127 opens with “unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain” (v. 1). Like my childhood fort-building, what we build will not last, but God’s name and what we do for Him has lasting significance.
He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our G-d from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.
May HASHEM cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighting men from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.
May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is Hashem, your G-d, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.
G-d bless and keep your children safe, Alouette.
God Bless our military men and women who have given their all.
Thanks, unique.
Any more good rain? It was pea soup fog here all day.
Looking out my window at work. If you squint REALLY hard, you can see the mall giant flagpole dead center.
Good evening, Mayor, and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.
Thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.
Stay warm and dry!
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