According to the Calendar of the Traditional Roman Rite, today (29 July) is the Feast Day of Saint Martha, the sister of Mary Magdalene. The Gospel Reading for today’s Mass said in her honor is: Luke 10. 38-42.
[38] factum est autem dum irent et ipse intravit in quoddam castellum et mulier quaedam Martha nomine excepit illum in domum suam [39] et huic erat soror nomine Maria quae etiam sedens secus pedes Domini audiebat verbum illius [40] Martha autem satagebat circa frequens ministerium quae stetit et ait Domine non est tibi curae quod soror mea reliquit me solam ministrare dic ergo illi ut me adiuvet
[41] et respondens dixit illi Dominus Martha Martha sollicita es et turbaris erga plurima [42] porro unum est necessarium Maria optimam partem elegit quae non auferetur ab ea
[38] Now it came to pass as they went, that he entered into a certain town: and a certain woman named Martha, received him into her house. [39] And she had a sister called Mary, who sitting also at the Lord’s feet, heard his word. [40] But Martha was busy about much serving. Who stood and said: Lord, hast thou no care that my sister hath left me alone to serve? speak to her therefore, that she help me.
[41] And the Lord answering, said to her: Martha, Martha, thou art careful, and art troubled about many things: [42] But one thing is necessary. Mary hath chosen the best part, which shall not be taken away from her.
”Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.”
– George Washington
Recently posted to the Facebook wall of I hate it when I wake up in the morning and Barack Obama is President.
calf raises:
3 sets of 15 reps
squats:
3 sets of 15 reps
bench presses: – on the bowflex machine
3 sets of 15 reps
seated lat-pulls: – on the bowflex machine
3 sets of 15 reps
alternating seated dumbbell concentration curls:
3 sets of 8 reps with each arm
This Wednesday night brings me the second of the week’s three scheduled strength workouts and one of the very last using my bowflex machine: the decision has been made to disassemble and dispose of it. When I move into my smaller apartment later this summer, there simply won’t be room for it. Strength workouts in the future will focus on the use of dumbbells, isometrics, and similar gear and techniques.
Which member of congress is the biggest fool? Might as well try to figure out which bean in the can caused the fart.
– Neal Boortz
As he recently and rightly tweeted.
Underground, by Jeff Parker and Steve Lieber and recently published by Image Comics, is a TPB that collects the 5-issue mini-series released in 2009.
I missed the mini-series when it first came out but subsequently purchased the TPB. It was my bedside read over a couple of nights earlier this week, and I absolutely loved it!
For the second twenty-five years of my life I lived and worked in Southern Indiana. Southern Indiana has often been declared to have more in common with the State of Kentucky, which it borders, than with the rest of the State up in Northern Indiana. Having lived in Northern Indiana for the first twenty-five years of my life, and visiting Kentucky frequently during the second twenty-five, this is a position with which I whole-heartedly agree. In Underground, Lieber and Parker have characterized the different personality types of small town Kentucky perfecty.
For many of the happiest years I spent living in that part of the country, I was a serious caver, belonging to a very active grotto of the National Speleological Society, serving as a primary field assistant to an ecologist who did his Doctoral Thesis on cave environment, and working with the Cave Research Foundation mapping back sections of the Mammoth / Flint Ridge Cave system in Kentucky. So I’m intimately, experientially familiar with the major themes of this story. That having been said, I’ve got to say that I’m shocked at how absolutely right-on the authors have described the technical aspects of caving in this particular karst area.
Not only is the story precisely correct in its many details, it’s also a damned exciting tale artistically dramatic in its presentation. Very, very well-done! Heck, it almost makes me wish I was a few decades younger and physically fit enough to do some more caving. Heh.
This quick cameraphone shot was taken while looking south from my back patio on a Tuesday afternoon.
Yes, I’m very much a city boy. The bigger the city the better. And let me live right in the heart of it, if you please.
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