Jimmie’s a hat knittin’ machine
January 31st, 2010 @ 22:52Posted by: John
Archive for January, 2010
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I’m back from Austin
January 31st, 2010 @ 21:00Posted by: John
The weekend was a gift from Casey and I truly appreciate it. It was a lot of fun, like a little vacation.
Rodney Crowell gave a great keynote address but something happened in the Q&A afterwards that absolutely knocked me out. A girl stood up and asked “where does music come from?”. There was a mental groan in the room because that’s so broad it’s like asking “what’s the answer to the universe?.” Rodney Crowell didn’t dumb it down, take it lightly, or even skip a beat. He got contemplative. In the coolest way, like in a movie, he dramatically says these two words… genetic memory. The room mostly didn’t get it, people seemed stunned. I instantly started bawling like a baby; it was just a shock to hear the truth stated so cleanly. Keep in mind that Rodney Crowell is a deeply religious person. But he’s right as rain; that’s exactly where it comes from and why people are attracted to it.
I’m off to Riley’s. I have to give my “Old Crow Boys” report to the singer-songwritin’ regulars out there.
email2friendScott McCloud on comics
January 31st, 2010 @ 18:11Posted by: By Email
Changing is Possible
January 31st, 2010 @ 09:33Posted by: Jimmie
I have a terrible temper. Sometimes it just takes over and I lash out. But that isn’t really how I want to live.
Today I found a great article about how one person has overcome this problem. There’s some language issues so I’m giving the link instead of posting it here directly.
I know people can change, but I also believe that we can’t really alter our basic personalities. This author says we have to learn the early signs of slipping into the behavior then make a choice to act differently. By literally ACTING differently.
And it’s important to rehearse, also.
After some period of time acting, the change will take root.
Real change.
Maybe the inclination to react in the old way will remain, but we have the power to choose our own path.
This sounds very real and doable to me. Worth exploring.
email2friendNancy Fly
January 30th, 2010 @ 22:02Posted by: Charlie Whipple
John, Do you know Fly? I haven’t thought about her in years. I don’t know if she still lives in Austin or not. At one time she was married to a guy who made guitars, but later divorced. She was friends with my sister, D.B. in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Dorothy Belle had a resale shop called The Phoenix. It wasn’t an ordinary resale shop because just up the road was where the Rockefellers and other rich folks lived and Deeb skimmed the cream at their “garage sales”. Anyway, Fly was one of the twenty somethings that flocked around D.B. Fly had been at an Ivy League school I think, and one of her projects had been to go around in the Blue Ridge Mountains and record old time fiddle music. She asked D.B. to get her a violin if one should turn up at a garage sale. One did. I heard Fly play that fiddle one day along with her husband playing the guitar. She was very good. Fly had an article in one of the Texas magazines a number of years ago which described about a dozen of the old time Texas dance halls. If you know her she would sure be a wonderful addition to the Thursday night bunch.
email2friendOur Wild Aviary
January 30th, 2010 @ 21:52Posted by: Charlie Whipple
It is mid January, and outside it is a gray cloudy morning with temperatures in the 50’s. The knee high blue stem grass in our back field has turned the color of hay. On the far side of the field, the grass is bordered by a line of tall dark green oaks and cypress trees on our neighbor’s property. In the distance, a few roof tops poke up above the woods of the surrounding misty hills.
In our backyard, the cedar elms, crepe myrtles and sycamore trees have long since lost their leaves, although a few dead leaves still cling to the sycamore branches. A fine mist is giving the red bricks of the patio a slight sheen. At the corner of the patio is an evergreen Indian Hawthorne tree. And poised on a branch is a brilliant red male cardinal, like a living decoration on a Christmas tree.
The cardinal is looking toward the bird feeder stand just beyond the back porch arbor. The stand is a green steel rod six feet high terminating in four downward curving arms that
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email2friend“Blackeyed peas and collard greens!”
January 29th, 2010 @ 20:56Posted by: John Whipple Sr.
I can remember “Ethyl’s Place” and Ethyl as a large black woman jolly and talkative and seemed to have a reasonable answer for everything.
I think she may have been the best cook I have ever known. She cooked lunch daily for fifty cents and had the best selection of soda pop in an old, old Coca Cola box stacked high in really cold crushed Ice with big drinks like Barqs,(pronounced Barks), large Delaware punch, Hippo in four flavors, and Nehi, (pronounced, Knee High,) all sized to match her plate of food and costing only one nickel.
She served everyone individually and in the proportions the size of your smile taken from large pots on several stoves with
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email2friendFrom last night’s radio broadcast of TNMC
January 29th, 2010 @ 10:59Posted by: John
This is two songs, Jimmie singing “I Shall Not Be Moved” and me singing “Katy”. It was quite a choir last night – the old Carter Family vibe was going on.
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I’m heading to this songwriter’s symposium, talk to everybody again on Sunday night.
email2friendEmail from John Amos
January 28th, 2010 @ 16:04Posted by: By Email
Warning: Clever Scam – taking advantage of men.
Women often receive warnings about protecting themselves at the mall and in dark parking lots, etc. This is the first warning I have seen for men. I wanted to pass it on in case you haven’t heard about it. This will only become more commonplace as the weather warms.
A ‘heads up’ for those men who may be regular Lowe’s, Home Depot, or Costco customers:
Over the last month I became a victim of a scam while
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email2friendTNMC will be webcast tonight to the far reaches of the world starting at 7:00
January 28th, 2010 @ 13:02Posted by: John
just think of it… Mike Fletcher being available at the wifi hotspots of Inner-Outer Mongolia.
You can connect at www.am1670.net or better yet, go directly to this webcast page and see if you can’t make the connection to turn your computer into a radio. It’ll be live so you have to go to the site tonight to hear it. Above here I did a screen capture so you can see the area down the page (there right under the weather forecast stuff) where you log onto a stream. Each of those is a way for you to hear it. What works for me with just one click is the Windows Media Services Server. Try that. Also the Real Media worked fine for me and the others may, too. If you know about streaming they’ve given you every flavor. If not, just click on the Windows Media or Real Audio, one of those should work. If you want to listen in tonight you might want to go to the website early and make sure it streams for you.
If you’re hearing it tonight text us. Or go on their chat and they’ll read what you type over the air.
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email2friendAnn/Mom is 72 years young
January 27th, 2010 @ 21:48Posted by: John
can’t wait to celebrate with you at the Faust! You are the absolute best mother in the whole world! And the one and only dear, sweet Ann/Mom to all your friends in this big group of family and friends. I love you!!
email2friendNice to hear people enjoying themselves!
January 27th, 2010 @ 21:47Posted by: John Whipple Sr.
how to make a baby
January 27th, 2010 @ 19:55Posted by: By Email
this is flash, I hope it doesn’t slow Whippleworld down…. but I had always wondered how babies are made.
email2friendLate Resolutions or Just Some Good Rules to Live By
January 27th, 2010 @ 09:46Posted by: Tyler
Now that January is almost over, hopefully everyone has their resolutions in order. Thanks to a friendly co-worker who sent this to me in an email – I think these are some great jumping off points for how to always live, but even better to start the year off right by doing them. Try to pick at least 2 from each category and make it a point to do those things all the time. I’d love to make some of them mandatory for my office.. but since I can’t I’ll just share with as many people as possible.
Health:
1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
4. Live with the 3 E’s – Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy.
5. Make time to pray.
6. Play more games.
7. Read more books than you did in 2009.
8. Sit in silence for at 10 minutes each day.
9. Sleep for 7 hours
10. Take a 10-30 minute walk daily. And while you walk, smile.
Personality:
1. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is about.
2.
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I need some sun
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how can you afford to do that without any ads?
Are you going to go?
