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JAG introduced me to this term in another thread. Here's a FAQ-style writeup about the so-called Benedictine option.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/benedict-option-faq/
Granted that the author and his audience probably would not even recognize the Restored Church as Christian, I nevertheless think there's a lot of good thinking and, probably, truth in that article. It seems to apply quite well to us as Latter-day Saints, though we have the huge advantage of being led by a prophet. I'd like to hear what other Latter-day Saints think about this.

I love Hera in that film. Especially the way she rebukes Pelias.

First things first - here's a picture of Honor Blackman playing Goddess Hera...

...and here she is as Pussy Galore...

...with Sean Connery also in the picture. Two total legends!
Anyway, now I have that off my chest, we have one child at home too (a daughter). Until last week she had to do school work online, but this week it's the Easter vacation so right now she's cooking supper (butternut soup). Luckily we all have our own laptops so no arguments - thoug  last week mine broke and I had to make a trip into work to borrow one. (Hence the "green" webcam - perhaps a student was sick on it once - who knows?) It's like a ghost town there too - only security and IT techs on campus, and not very many of them.
My wife has knitted me a face mask, so no coronavirus for me when I go shopping tomorrow!
 
 

The best part is being woken up out of a sound sleep at 2 a.m. to catch spiders, and when you're balancing precariously on a wobbly swivel chair, trying to reach the ceiling with an empty Pringles can (in which to receive Mr. Incey-Wincey Spider) your assembled family demand to know why you don't just kill it.
Well...as James Henry Trotter once said: 
‘I must NEVER kill a spider I must only help and guide her And invite her in the nursery to play.’ On a related topic...
 

I just went downstairs to tell that to my wife and daughter. Neither of them thought it was funny. My wife said "that's so disrespectful!" Oh well...
P.S. I knew it reminded me of something - this episode of BBT:
Except of course I had no Kwipke to back me up!

And of course, Dad thinks that's hug-worthy! Go, Dad!

I just went downstairs to tell that to my wife and daughter. Neither of them thought it was funny. My wife said "that's so disrespectful!" Oh well...
P.S. I knew it reminded me of something - this episode of BBT:
Except of course I had no Kwipke to back me up!

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Yer man Trump wouldn't agree!
Mine is a lovely yellow and it has special bits that go over my ears to keep it on. I'm doing the family shopping in an hour. I have face mask, gloves, hand sanitizer and ready to kick some COVID 19 butt! Wish me luck!

The best part is being woken up out of a sound sleep at 2 a.m. to catch spiders, and when you're balancing precariously on a wobbly swivel chair, trying to reach the ceiling with an empty Pringles can (in which to receive Mr. Incey-Wincey Spider) your assembled family demand to know why you don't just kill it.
Well...as James Henry Trotter once said: 
‘I must NEVER kill a spider I must only help and guide her And invite her in the nursery to play.’ On a related topic...
 

My wife isn't knitting one, but she has made this facemask thing out of cloth on a sewing machine.  She is threatening on making me one and having me wear it.
(Just to clarify, she isn't actually threatening, that was a joke.  They are quite nice and look like others, but are cloth and washable).

I was going to start a new thread.  But I decided it fits with this comment.
I found the following item in the kitchen today.

Apparently it is a "watering can" made by my 8 yo "Bumble Bee." 
I remarked,"Ok, I guess it would be useful if you dip it into the pond then drop the water into the garden, back and forth."  I noted a weakness in the design due to a hole placed at the level of the hollow handle.
My wife informed me,"That's not a handle. It's the spout."  I burst out in laughter at a "spout" that holds more volume than the container itself.
It is just this kind of stuff that I often miss out on when I'm working all the time.  I have the cutest kids.

It's called "Why are you doing it like that?" Best part -- no winners!

In case you don't know, you can get texts every day this week "with inspiring ways to #HearHim this Easter, no matter what your circumstances may be" by texting EASTER to 71234 or emails by entering your email address at comeuntochrist.org.

Zechariah 9:9
Luke 19:28-40

https://www.sciencealert.com/three-black-holes-orbiting-each-other-can-t-always-go-backwards-in-time?fbclid=IwAR197b7upYLDcLf1ucvwNY3wWGNrlUweKzhH9SunfyyqEGTSZ4VcBS0I75w
When I was a BYU undergrad studying physics, one of the things we were taught was that time appeared to be unidirectional*. This was used to explain entropy, why heat never flowed "uphill" and why a balloon might explode but not spontaneously reassemble. This article reports on an experiment that takes things a large step further, suggesting that non-reversibility occurs in stellar systems from perturbations as small as the Planck length (!!!). The suggestion is that chaos (in the mathematical sense) is literally built into the universe. Very, very interesting, from both a physics and a metaphysics point of view.
*I always wondered if this unidirectionality might not be explained simply by the nature of human psychology and perception. Maybe time flows in both directions, but we only perceive it as flowing in one? But the above article would suggest that, no, perfect temporal reversibility is not possible in all cases. That argues pretty persuasively for one-way time. As I tell my children, "I have travel here through time from 1963 to bring you this message: Sweep the floor."

How do you know that isn’t her daughter’s name? She has four very strangely named sons, I wouldn’t put it past her to name her daughter “Someone”

Jamie likes baseball!

I’ve seen this riddle before, but with in variation. It ended with “Can you tell me the name of the fourth son?” And the answer is simply “no”

Please ignore the grass remnant on the carpet. Our carpets are normally clean enough to eat off of. Which may explain why there's food all over them I assumed it would be clean for this pic.

What's the definition of "baroque"?
When you have no Monet.

What's the definition of "baroque"?
When you have no Monet.

Another one from my local butcher
 
R.I P Boiling Water
You'll be mist

...give me your ansa-doo!"
I always associate that song with two things:
A very rude version of the chorus which some kids used to sing when I was at school. (I don't know...some people!) The scene in 2001 A Space Odyssey where, after the spaceship's computer HAL-9000 goes on a killing spree, the one surviving astronaut disconnects its circuits one by one, causing it to lose gradually its cognitive capacity. At the end, all it can remember is this song, taught to it by its first programmer. (Which incidentally was the first song sung by a computer using speech synthesis.) Did you know that that song has verses to it as well as the chorus? Check it out: 
I only found that out today!

That Foghorn Leghorn episode had me in stitches for weeks when I first saw it. It's often made me wonder - was it just pure wackyness, or did the writers have some idea of quantum tunneling?

...give me your ansa-doo!"
I always associate that song with two things:
A very rude version of the chorus which some kids used to sing when I was at school. (I don't know...some people!) The scene in 2001 A Space Odyssey where, after the spaceship's computer HAL-9000 goes on a killing spree, the one surviving astronaut disconnects its circuits one by one, causing it to lose gradually its cognitive capacity. At the end, all it can remember is this song, taught to it by its first programmer. (Which incidentally was the first song sung by a computer using speech synthesis.) Did you know that that song has verses to it as well as the chorus? Check it out: 
I only found that out today!