Sarah and her friend Emily Kate got a hold of the camera and took a few action shots of each other. Here is Sarah throwing a couple of peace signs for the camera.
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Joshua's Basketball Season
Joshua's basketball season ended last week. We will attend the awards banquet Saturday morning. It was a fun season, a great team and Joshua was super. The neighborhood boys play in our driveway just about every day. Hopefully, they will keep it up all the way until next basketball season! Below are a couple of pictures of our boy and his team.
Thursday, February 10, 2005
John of God
I have always had a fascination with religious healers. PrimeTime Live on ABC is doing a show on a Brazilian "healer" tonight.
They come in the thousands. The sick, the lame, the 'incurable' and the medically discarded, to a small town in central Brazil. They endure long international flights and for some long bus trips to Abadiania, high on the plateaux of Central Brazil. They come to be cured by the miracle healer, Joao Teixeira de Faria ... the man they call John of God.
He will scrape away cataracts and eye tumours with a knife, remove breast cancers with a small incision and cause the crippled to walk with just the touch of his hand. In a meditation room a ceiling high stack of discarded crutches, wheelchairs and braces pays silent testimony to his success. He is acclaimed as the greatest healer of the past 2,000 years.
Read the entire article here:
John of God
UPDATE - 2/12/05 - OK, I watched the show and what do I think? I think something unusual is going on in Brazil. Is it really possible that one man, who is not a doctor can perform 1000s of operations a week? Without anesthesia? With the patient feeling no pain? It sure looks as if that is what John of God is doing.
ABC did not make him out to be a quack. Nor could their doctor expert give any medical reason for the improvements seen in a few of the people followed by Primetime Live. One man even had an aggressively growing brain tumor shrink to almost nothing after visiting John of God. I don't know what exactly is happening in Brazil, but it looked to me that for some people, visiting John of God made them better.
They come in the thousands. The sick, the lame, the 'incurable' and the medically discarded, to a small town in central Brazil. They endure long international flights and for some long bus trips to Abadiania, high on the plateaux of Central Brazil. They come to be cured by the miracle healer, Joao Teixeira de Faria ... the man they call John of God.
He will scrape away cataracts and eye tumours with a knife, remove breast cancers with a small incision and cause the crippled to walk with just the touch of his hand. In a meditation room a ceiling high stack of discarded crutches, wheelchairs and braces pays silent testimony to his success. He is acclaimed as the greatest healer of the past 2,000 years.
Read the entire article here:
John of God
UPDATE - 2/12/05 - OK, I watched the show and what do I think? I think something unusual is going on in Brazil. Is it really possible that one man, who is not a doctor can perform 1000s of operations a week? Without anesthesia? With the patient feeling no pain? It sure looks as if that is what John of God is doing.
ABC did not make him out to be a quack. Nor could their doctor expert give any medical reason for the improvements seen in a few of the people followed by Primetime Live. One man even had an aggressively growing brain tumor shrink to almost nothing after visiting John of God. I don't know what exactly is happening in Brazil, but it looked to me that for some people, visiting John of God made them better.
Saturday, February 05, 2005
Infamous Idaho Killer Claude Dallas to Be Released From Prison After Nearly Two Decades - from TBO.com
Infamous Idaho Killer Claude Dallas to Be Released From Prison After Nearly Two Decades - from TBO.com
When I first moved to Myrtle Beach, my brother William and I made a point of tracking down Claude Dallas' parents who lived not too far from the ocean. We had both read the book about Claude's crimes and wanted to see for ourselves Caude senior, who had a good section of the book dedicated to him. Later Grandma Rhoda and Papa Bob made a somewhat out of the way side trip to the small town of Paradise Valley, NV to see where Claude lived. Now Claude is getting out and presumably is heading to Myrtle Beach to live with his mother. Follow the link above for the full story.
Claude Dallas
When I first moved to Myrtle Beach, my brother William and I made a point of tracking down Claude Dallas' parents who lived not too far from the ocean. We had both read the book about Claude's crimes and wanted to see for ourselves Caude senior, who had a good section of the book dedicated to him. Later Grandma Rhoda and Papa Bob made a somewhat out of the way side trip to the small town of Paradise Valley, NV to see where Claude lived. Now Claude is getting out and presumably is heading to Myrtle Beach to live with his mother. Follow the link above for the full story.
Claude Dallas
Today, Joshua had lunch with his teacher. Miss Cavanna picked him up at noon and off to McDonalds they went for chicken nuggets and conversation. I cannot imagine ever meeting up with one of my grade school teachers outside of school when I was Joshua's age. We have been so lucky that both Joshua and Sarah have had super, involved teachers every year they have been in school. I guess that is one reason they both do very well!
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