Anniversary roses!
We are very grateful to celebrate our anniversary with a quiet day at home. We had our nut cereal with dried fruit and oatmeal, did some reading and writing, cooked shrimp fried rice together, which we had for an afternoon dinner, and then enjoyed these lovely roses. We had some cheese crackers with salsa con queso and some wine for supper, a version of “a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou singing beside me in the wilderness”. We left out the literal singing.
We gathered together to celebrate our many blessings. First among them is happiness to be together with those children who were able to come, friends, and their children. We harvested our own plantains, and made plantain bread, which we did not manage to serve on this occasion.
The nineteen pound turkey helped provide two festive meals, and leftovers for other servings. We should be thankful for whatever we have every day, partly because it is so hard on the earth to provide it.
Abraham Lincoln (Wikipedia, NOV 2013)
The official version of the Gettysburg Address
signed by Abraham Lincoln. Not necessarily the version he delivered. This is probably from Wikipedia.
When we were in 5th grade my friend and I memorized the Gettysburg Address for fun. It really is a wonderful, very brief speech.
“The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above out poor power to add or detract. … It is for us the living, … to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced … — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain–that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. ” (Boldface is mine.)
We need to renew these sentiments all across America.
