Thought for Today – 06.18.17

“Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.”

Sermon 39 Catholic Spirit from the 1872 edition of Wesley’s Complete Works – Thomas Jackson, editor

Quote obtained from a Vital Piety blog post comment by Jennifer Wood.

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How can you tell when a financial bubble is about to burst?

Part of our routine is watching a lot of HGTV.  I know prices are insane when I can’t afford to downsize.  I just viewed a recent construction local listing priced 35% higher per square foot than my house.  New construction is over 50% higher per square foot.

Stick a fork in it.  It’s done.  Air is leaving the balloon.

Need more proof? Read this.

Dear Client

There was a zip file attachment to this email received this morning.

Should I open it?

Dear Client,

According to the reconciliation of the Department of Finance there are the arrears following your client account totaling in $697,25 .

We attach the last unpaid invoice #71023099 to this letter and kindly ask you pay it off until March 31, 2016.

Please check out the file and do not hesitate to pay off the debt. We look forward to your reasonableness.

Estimating Seasonal Influenza-Associated Deaths in the United States: CDC Study Confirms Variability of Flu | Seasonal Influenza Flu | CDC

Estimating Seasonal Influenza-Associated Deaths in the United States: CDC Study Confirms Variability of Flu | Seasonal Influenza Flu | CDC.

CDC estimates that from the 1976-1977 season to the 2006-2007 flu season, flu-associated deaths ranged from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 people. Death certificate data and weekly influenza virus surveillance information was used to estimate how many flu-related deaths occurred among people whose underlying cause of death was listed as respiratory or circulatory disease on their death certificate.

Just a simple reminder that in any year the flu virus will kill more people than the ebola virus.

Stay calm people.  And get a flu shot.

Thought For Today – 11.5.11

Our life, as individual persons and as members of a perplexed and struggling race, provokes us with the evidence that it must have meaning.  Part of the meaning still escapes us.  Yet our purpose in life is to discover this meaning, and live according to it.  We have, therefore, something to live for.  The process of living, of growing up, and becoming a person, is precisely the gradually increasing awareness of what that something is.  This is a difficult task, for many reasons.

Thomas Merton No Man is an Island

How fitting a coincidence that this is my 1000th post.

If you believe in coincidences.