Wednesday morning open thread

 

It's supposed to rain all day, so I guess it's going to be a stay-in-and-read kind of day. 

How is it where everybody else is?

Tuesday Evening Post

 

Fella: “Wouldja like to buy a gallon reall cheap like?”

Husband: “We don’t need no booze”

Fella: “Ain’t booze, this here’s gasoline. Going for last month’s price.”

Wife: “Pay the man, Charles.”

Toosdai OT

 

What are your plans for the week?

Monday Evening OT

 

Mental Health check in. How's everybody doing? 

13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, & 19th - and Art - On Parlez Vous Monday

 

Monday Morning Open Thread

Hello and welcome to another week in the world.

Sunday evening OT

 Some thoughts from one of the mothers of original, non-commercial, social action Mothers Day, Julia Ward Howe. 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/julia-ward-howe

Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of tears! Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.

“Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”

From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says, “Disarm, disarm! The sword is not the balance of justice.” Blood does not wipe out dishonor nor violence indicate possession.

As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each learning after his own time, the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God.

In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace. J.W.H. 

It's a little depressing that despite all the changes of the last 200 years, some things haven't changed at all. 

All that aside, how's it going BT? 

The Photo Gallery

 

It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.

They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.

Sunday OT

 

Good morning and Happy Mother’s Day.