MIDWEEK MUSINGS:THE SPICE OF LIFE

 It's time for the LifeQuest fall classes and Monday was my first class and I joined 14 other seniors in a one-time special 3-hour glass fusion workshop...  The best part of these classes is not just the subject matter but meeting new folks with similar interests...

LifeQuest is for seniors 52+ to participate in a variety of classes ranging from board games to lectures, discussion groups or more active classes like getting out of our chairs.

This quarter I also enrolled in another workshop on AI & Scamming besides 8-week classes in German Art, Intro to the World of Tea, Masters of NonFiction: Montaigne and Thoreau, Sips through Time and Line Dancing. I hope to also slip into some Photo Sharing classes & Obit Writing!

LifeQuest recognizes socialization is so important for seniors and one is never done learning embodying what I hold dear:  DIVERSITY is the spice of life...

tUESDAY tUNES: WHAT YOU WON'T DO FOR LOVE

Today, an old tune came across my feed... You know, one of those that evokes a different era and makes you wonder why they don't make them like they used to... both the melody and the lyrics.

How many of the songs written today will last this long?

Here's Bobby Caldwell's  WHAT YOU WON'T DO FOR LOVE

MONDAY MUSING: HANDICAPPED

 MONDAY MUSING left me shaking my head as I couldn't let another example of being inconsiderate go. But before I snapped the pic, I thought don't think the worst case scenario.

You see, there were two open parking spots next to where I parked three spots down from an allotted HANDICAP parking space.

What drew my attention was that the car that pulled in the handicap spot was a Domino's delivery person's car. It hit me as a good Friday Foto pic. 

A couple of thoughts: First, they'll be quick if it's a delivery. But why take up the spot unnecessarily? Just pull up in front of the store and run it in. Then, I thought perhaps the delivery person was indeed handicapped and I shouldn't pass judgment so quickly.

As I zoomed in to take the pic before I walked into the store. The delivery gal got out, no pizza in hand. Oh, she wasn't happy to see me taking her pic. She started yelling for me to mind my own business with more than a couple of expletives and continued cussing me out into the store.  

I don't understand why folks nowadays are so inconsiderate... What if it was one of their family members/friends that needed that spot on another 100-degree day? Seriously, I think folks can be handicapped in many ways, don't you?

FOTO FRIDAY: A SPECIAL FRIDAY

FOTO FRIDAY: Every holiday I attempt a new recipe and this one makes me well up because it's made with large onions and today is a day filled with both happy and sad tears...

As the recipe suggested, I rolled them with a yummy rice stuffing ahead of time and froze them...

Hopefully they will turn into this...

We shall see! Either way, I hope it's good!

Last week's ESCAPED ECLIPSE

TBT: NEW YEAR BLESSING 2016

 TBT This lunar calendar year is 5787 but this New Year blessing from a decade ago couldn't be more poignant;

yet we must hope for love and compassion, hope and healing.

NEW YEAR BLESSING

May this be a year of Peace.

MIDWEEK MUSINGS: POSTAL

I'm going postal for MIDWEEK MUSINGS this week but maybe not the way you are assuming. You see, the Historic Society offered another of their interesting public tours last Friday, and this one was downtown at 600 W Capitol, home to the Depression-era limestone Greek Revival  edifice of the 1932 post office and courthouse.

The Post Office stayed in the building's lobby until the mid 90's and one can still see the wall of individual embossed mailboxes and original counter.  In 2003 it was renamed for Judge Richard Arnold who sat on the 8th circuit. Although it's purely a courthouse now the name still says Post Office and Courthouse.

The courthouse is one of the State's 3 eastern Courthouses.Anybody entering the premises must leave their phones with security as no cameras are allowed in the building. 

We were divided into 3 groups to visit 3 different courtrooms in on the 1st and 4th floors in both the old and new structures. In the original large courtroom, the architectural features are the same as in every state. Now the jurors have computer screens to view from their seats! The bar footrests were obviously for much taller folks than me. (LOL)

The courtroom were the Little Rock 9 was tried has been moved down to the first floor to make it more accessible to visitors. 

Landmark cases included :

1957: Federal supremacy over school desegregation with the Little Rock 9 being admitted to Central after Governor Faubus sent in the National Guard ( Cooper vs Aaron). 

1969: Judge Henley rules the entire Arkansas prison system unconstitutional  (Holt v. Sarver)  First time whole state prison struck down under the 8th amendment.

1982 Judge Overton struck down state's creation- science law,   McLean v Arkansas Board of Education, declaring creation science wasn't science at all.

mid 90'sJudge Howard Jr presided over Whitewater Trials of the M/M McDougal with President Clinton giving video testimony.

Some other inter tidbits were family members amidst the Judges. 

Judge Thomas Clark Trimble III and daughter federal Judges: ElsiJane Trimble Roy, first woman onn the federal bench in Arkansas. She even sat in his old courtroom.

Father -Son pair Jams Maxwell Moody and son James Maxwell Moody Jr.  who took the seat in 2014 and is still there

tUESDAY tUNES :FEMINISM

For this Tuesday not only am I doubling the tune but tripling it in memory of the pioneers of Feminism.

I have chosen three but how about you add your suggestions and we can make a mighty fine list.

As I indicated in yesterday's title:

I  AM WOMAN Helen Reddy 1972

RESPECT  Aretha Franklin 

AIN'T YOUR MOMMAJennifer Lopez 2016