FINGER LAKES REUSE: Finger Lakes ReUse combines the mission of a Salvation Army Thrift Store to collect and sell household items and clothing at low cost with the mission of a Habitats for Housing center to collect and resell building materials at low cost.
ReUse also offers an electronics department that takes in and refurbishes older equipment for resale and will also do repairs on existing equipment. In addition to job training and actual jobs, they have even found a use for appliances and gadgets that can’t be repaired; mechanically adept adults have workshops where kids get to take such things apart and learn how they work!
Their recent newsletter announced that Geneva, NY, is working toward establishing their own ReUse program. The newsletter also announced recent grants from various agencies and organizations totaling nearly a million dollars to continue and expand their work.
JESUS’ FACE CLOTH: [12:28] – Once again, “The Folded Napkin” is circulating the Internet. It’s a sweet idea, that the face cloth was found folded in the empty tomb means Jesus will return. But it doesn’t stand up to scripture scholarship.
The Greek word for the face cloth – soudarion – means a sweat-cloth or towel used to wipe perspiration off the face or to bind the face of a corpse. Jesus’ face cloth – aka, the Sudarium of Oviedo – is stored at the Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo, Spain, which BTW is just 119 miles west of Garabandal, Spain, where the Blessed Mother appeared in the 1960s.
PSA: In case you need to evade the authorities, here are two tricks from the 20th century. During prohibition in the U.S., moonshiners wore “heifer-heels” to make it difficult for cops to track their foot prints through fields. And in WW2, infiltrators and smugglers wore clog shoes with the soles on backwards to fool the Germans into tracking them the wrong way.
GRAMMY NOTES: I just read this at https://www.imightbefunny.com/humor/18-of-the-funniest-tweets-about-life-with-toddlers/ – Jerry Seinfeld once said, “A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.” I think anyone who has ever spent time with toddlers can relate.
One of the main things I remember from when my kids were toddlers was the “Why?” “How?” “When?” “Why?” “Where?” “Why?” fifty million times a day. Exhausting for sure.
That being said, I absolutely loved those parenting years…the vocabulary explosion, watching them figure out the world around them, the sheer cuteness of their speech.
My reply: “YES!! One evil parenting thing I did was to set a hard limit of three whys in a row. Besides saving my sanity and preserving the health and safety of my endlessly chatty daughter, I thought it would force her to think more about my answers before she asked a new question. Dunno if it worked, or not. But she’s 42 now and frequently tells me stuff that has me wondering when she got so wise. So maybe!”
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