tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80332509197399161932024-03-13T03:27:21.997-06:00Passionate--formerly Moderate--now Liberal "Mormon""But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand." (Isaiah 32:8). A faithful yet unique perspective from members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ac Y Bardd Geraint Fychan, Mab BrycheiniogGranthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.comBlogger1376125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-82268389120815630962023-08-14T12:56:00.003-06:002023-08-15T07:02:49.147-06:00Squaring the CircleI just returned from a wonderful trip to Wales. On the way, I arranged to visit Temple Church in London, a place I have been trying to get to for many years. It was well worth it.Put aside all the silliness you have heard about the Templar Knights, even Monty Python. They were deadly serious. And for all the blood and error, they were searching for and attempting to establish a concept. It was inGranthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-22810276513085993702023-05-05T08:27:00.007-06:002023-05-05T10:46:50.327-06:00How Many Are Deaf to Covid-19? At the Ear Doctor's OfficeAs a voice crying in the wilderness, I went half deaf myself.There is no need to panic or reimpose the initial lock-downs and masking. It is more than prudent to follow the current guidelines regarding Covid-19 prevention along with so many other communicable diseases:1. Follow the consensus recommendations of serious medical professionals, scientific experts, Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-57665898036421256892022-06-12T08:16:00.003-06:002022-06-12T08:16:42.184-06:00"To the Welsh"I finished reading Llyfr Mormon, The Book of Mormon in Welsh. My system was not to translate every word or understand every grammatical structure. I simply read it along with the original English translation of Joseph Smith which was done by the gift and power of God. Mine was more for the general sense of it and I cannot deny that I felt the Spirit of God witness in the language of my Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-33389222918325191772022-04-17T11:04:00.012-06:002022-04-17T11:09:22.634-06:00Regeneration by Henry VaughanSpring is Easter is Passover is Life from Death:RegenerationA ward, and still in bonds, one dayI stole abroad;It was high spring, and all the wayPrimrosed and hung with shade;Yet was it frost within,And surly windsBlasted my infant buds, and sinLike clouds eclipsed my mind.Stormed thus, I straight perceived my springMere stage and show,My walk a monstrous, mountained thing,Roughcast with rocks Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-58741360830158463922022-02-07T14:01:00.000-07:002022-02-07T14:01:09.690-07:00My Library, Part 2The further adventures of me in my library. This one is mostly about children's books and reading to children. Enjoy:<!--more-->Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-26715793051659391002022-02-05T18:23:00.002-07:002023-07-16T09:12:57.478-06:00Where I spend a lot of my time. Am I less anonymous if I post a video of me in here? I'm far from an "internet sensation" and I couldn't even figure out Tic-Tok that well. The filming is pretty poor. This is maybe for posterity's sake, maybe to explain a little about myself. Welcome to my library:Just today, there was some guy on Facebook I don't even know telling me I didn't know what I was talking about. Whatever.Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-11612183204273188872021-11-13T07:57:00.007-07:002021-11-13T14:04:38.683-07:00The Rule of Law Must and Shall PrevailPublic domain photo of U.S. Capitol by the National Park Service (not implying any endorsement)What a relief to see Steve Bannon indicted for contempt of Congress for failing to answer a constitutionally legal subpoena to testify and produce documents. It is very good to start with the easiest case. Bannon was not a member of the Executive Branch at the time of the insurrection of January 6 and Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-85684384923932540502021-09-27T08:57:00.001-06:002021-09-27T08:57:09.654-06:00Flash of Possible Prophecy Jolted by a photo this morning of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.From Wikimedia Commons. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.O InternationalThis is one of those thoughts of potential prophecy that is not a fixed, future point in the time continuum, but an opportunity for thought, choice, agency, and responsibility.May I offer Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-88012582035987878552021-09-26T10:32:00.006-06:002021-09-26T17:41:24.365-06:00My Handcart Ancestor and Her Traveling Companion he evidence is pretty solid that our Elinor* (1789-1861) was the traveling companion of Mary Taylor Mayo (1791-1856) in their travels to America and on the Pioneer Trail. Mary is the one who died just short of South Pass on the Overland Trail. She died September 13, 1856, in Nebraska Territory and was buried in Oregon Territory when the Ellsworth Handcart Company stopped for Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-81996426406784499532021-07-04T07:57:00.004-06:002021-07-04T08:11:05.323-06:00RHYDDID!It seems important to state today if only to reassure my few readers, much less myself, that I still believe in God and in the United States of America. This is true even if I go to church today without a blazingly bold tie in red, white, and blue. I'm thinking of the one my Dad gave me some time ago with the Frank Lloyd Wright designs on it. That's a more subtle homage to the American Spirit as Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-10008135521167412212021-06-22T08:12:00.005-06:002021-06-23T05:25:35.690-06:00"Negroes Attack Bothell, Washington!" Didn't Happen!1968 riots in Washington D.C. after MLK,Jr. Assassination Warren K. Leffler / Library of Congress, Public Domain, 1968 was a really bad year, Assassinations, Riots, War in Vietnam (my uncle was there), and really bad politics. I was an elven-year-old kid in the suburbs and it was a little scary. My Dad was talking with a friend on our front lawn. The friend said that he was buying Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-43755905250276329492021-04-12T16:20:00.002-06:002021-04-12T16:23:36.833-06:00Returning to Church - or not....An email drafted for my Bishop and EQ President that I'm not sure if I should send. Comments?I just got my second Covid shot and I'm feeling pretty good about that.I posted on Facebook that I'm looking forward to meeting with friends again in a couple of weeks as long as they were also vaccinated and still wear a mask in public places (-pretty much the standard of my mission to be in the Church Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-46686250773433916602021-04-04T09:08:00.004-06:002021-04-04T09:37:51.756-06:00Art Comes Home from the SeaMy Dad's art is still in a bit of homelessness as he is with my Mom in assisted living and much of it is in storage. We are trying to help him decide where his art should go believing that it should be passed down through his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren to be preserved through generations to come and not wind up in somebody's garage or a rummage sale. I mean, he signed his Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-38150393528598780042021-03-02T04:23:00.000-07:002021-03-02T04:23:58.472-07:00Punch to the Gut Stunned since January 6.The pressure had built from the election up to that point with the monstrous lies too ridiculous and too outrageous to laugh too long.I honestly don't know if our America will survive. There was so much unfinished work yet to do and now it seems to be in vain.I can't trust the people who supported the horrible man who caused this. Well, it wasn't just him but all hisGranthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-38382345641808054122020-11-08T07:40:00.000-07:002020-11-08T07:40:34.137-07:00Post-Election Post 2020 - Not Quite a Blue Wave "Not So Blue" The View up Mercury Passage, Tasmania, Australia by Colin ChickAnd yet, it is pretty blue! And very pretty at that.My body is pretty well oxygenated as I have been taking a lot of deep breaths since the election was called yesterday morning by the Associated Press recognized as the impartial leader of the constitutionally protected Free Press in the United States. It appears Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-76992934164544663452020-10-28T07:21:00.000-06:002020-10-28T07:21:19.313-06:00School Board Update Dear School Board Members:I'm just back from dropping my wife off to teach school [....]. We loaned our second car to our daughter-in-law who is finishing her student teaching [elsewhere in Utah]. On the way to dropping off my wife, we stopped off at 6 a.m. when the store was open to pick up bags of ice for the Science projects today as my wife is the Science team lead. We did the same Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-81795374193937006402020-10-17T10:25:00.001-06:002020-10-17T10:25:21.208-06:00Please Vote! It's coming!Be a part of history and save America! Vote!<!--more-->Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-46626013665104850232020-10-12T07:22:00.005-06:002020-10-12T08:48:38.390-06:00Conspiracy Theory Is Not the Way to GoThere are a couple of books out by Matthew L. Harris of Colorado State University - Pueblo. One was noted in a link I shared in a Facebook posting that I will copy here because it led me to state my political interpretation rather succinctly.[linking to an article "How did Mormons become so Republican?]:Hopefully, we're finally getting out of this philosophy of one man....Ya know it's interestingGranthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-13219188209234732582020-10-03T17:44:00.000-06:002020-10-03T17:44:00.021-06:00Battling the Davis County School BoardIt might be helpful and encouraging to some in these frightful times to share my ongoing battle with the Davis County School Board that in response to complaints from a group of parents, has changed our modified schedule limiting attendance to manageable, social-distancing limits, to full overload of our classrooms beginning Monday:jrobison@dsdmail.net,emumford@dsdmail.net,jutanner@dsdmail.net,Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-17011586379305637292020-10-02T14:30:00.003-06:002020-10-05T07:56:44.541-06:00Corona Virus and trumpI don't know how this will end. trump made his covid-19 bed and now he lies in it. I just want this on the record:I pray for our Nation and a smooth transition of Executive (maybe Legislative) Branch power._______________AddendumOctober 5, 2020That doesn't mean he won't try.Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-86096371161716104072020-09-30T07:45:00.002-06:002020-09-30T07:45:54.993-06:00Alleged DebateNo, I didn't watch it. There would have been too much stress and anxiety to deal with. I thought I would just watch some highlights this morning but after reading a few of the reports of the debacle, I'm not sure I want to do even that.The best thing to do at this point is to share a scripture:Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-24658425501677910202020-09-10T07:52:00.004-06:002020-09-28T12:00:47.992-06:00Abortion Again Once more I will try to explain and persuade. Abortion is a serious, moral wrong when done for selfish reasons, IMO. However, as my Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has made it very clear that there is no absolute prohibition of abortion:"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes in the sanctity of human life. Therefore, the Church opposes elective Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-68336100379546502542020-08-23T20:50:00.000-06:002020-08-23T20:50:40.260-06:00City of Rocks to Remember Stones memorialize. It is a rare privilege to take a Grandson on an adventure. My second Grandson went with me to explore a portion of the California Trail that our ancestor, Elinor Jenkins Vaughan Hulet, likely took on her way to Jacks Valley at the foot of the Sierra just above the Carson River. City of Rocks is now a popular climbing destination. The stones were there when Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-46629392282129185762020-08-16T07:55:00.002-06:002020-08-23T08:57:21.095-06:004 - 1 - 7 - 2 - 8 - 3 - 10Not a mathematical sequence or formula, not a password, not my Jr. High locker combination, and I'm not really that into numerology. It could be a secret code. It makes perfect sense and the clues are all here in the blog. Yes, a mystery. It could be presented like this: 41728310or better:4 17 28 &Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033250919739916193.post-76203778182275140052020-07-23T21:37:00.000-06:002020-07-23T21:37:47.463-06:00Water Remembering
One shot.
It lives apart from the designated reality in which I snapped it.
Now, I designate another.
My camera was to capture the falls at end of day. At this point in the earth's cycle it does not allow the sinking sun to face the falls. Still, the light was good.
Hot, dry, dusty. No moisture in the air as the water cascaded more loudly at the canyon mouth. Then, fecundity. A rank smellGranthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133789257179902461noreply@blogger.com0