Singing Sheep Superbowl Commercial--the best of 2016 (honda Ridgeline)

best superbowl commercial 2016

Warsam Shire poem, Home

Home  a poem

by Warsan Shire

no one leaves home unless

home is the mouth of a shark

you only run for the border

when you see the whole city running as well

your neighbors running faster than you

breath bloody in their throats

the boy you went to school with

who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory

is holding a gun bigger than his body

you only leave home

when home won’t let you stay.

no one leaves home unless home chases you

fire under feet

hot blood in your belly

it’s not something you ever thought of doing

until the blade burnt threats into

your neck

and even then you carried the anthem under

your breath

only tearing up your passport in an airport toilets

sobbing as each mouthful of paper

made it clear that you wouldn’t be going back.

you have to understand,

that no one puts their children in a boat

unless the water is safer than the land

no one burns their palms

under trains

beneath carriages

no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck

feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled

means something more than journey.

no one crawls under fences

no one wants to be beaten

pitied

no one chooses refugee camps

or strip searches where your

body is left aching

or prison,

because prison is safer

than a city of fire

and one prison guard

in the night

is better than a truckload

of men who look like your father

no one could take it

no one could stomach it

no one skin would be tough enough

the

go home blacks

refugees

dirty immigrants

asylum seekers

sucking our country dry

niggers with their hands out

they smell strange

savage

messed up their country and now they want

to mess ours up

how do the words

the dirty looks

roll off your backs

maybe because the blow is softer

than a limb torn off

or the words are more tender

than fourteen men between

your legs

or the insults are easier

to swallow

than rubble

than bone

than your child body

in pieces.

i want to go home,

but home is the mouth of a shark

home is the barrel of the gun

and no one would leave home

unless home chased you to the shore

unless home told you

to quicken your legs

leave your clothes behind

crawl through the desert

wade through the oceans

drown

save

be hunger

beg

forget pride

your survival is more important

no one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your ear

saying-

leave,

run away from me now

i dont know what i’ve become

but i know that anywhere

is safer than here

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there is a great sadness

much has been written on this blog about (every place but also specifically about Africa;) the Congo, and Somalia, and 

the 

unutterable strange violence

committed against women

by 

men

their own men

the men of their species,

their tribe,

their own home.

If you can bear it, read here:

for example,

congo

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/search?q=congo

somalia

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/woman-kidnapped-tortured-in-somalia.html

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/ayaan-hirsi-ali-sharia-law-muslim.html

africa...Sudan...

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/young-women-wise-women-college-women.html

It is to me a thing most curious, that within our species,

among our own families, 

power, strength, should be used to hurt..

Relational violence is mind-bending,

as this Power to Hurt and Control others is used to temporarily take the edge off of feelings of inferiority.

What a loss; 

how sad for us, that our culture has so many who will hurt those not only of their own species, but their very mates, their children.

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Poet:

How to Stay Warm...Learn from Your Pet

Very nice collection

Lots more:

http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2016/01/09/how-to-stay-warm-when-its-winter/

Pets stay warm

Animals keeping warm

transformation of abused and neglected dogs: Butterscotch

OK, here is the good news: some people love their dogs.
Cry, with Love.
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/denali-metaphors-love-and-lifedogs.html


and, here is a proof that evil exists:

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/rescued-dogs-before-and-after.html


learn about these cold hearted people here:
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/search?q=animal+abuse

Now. Here is a rescue with a good ending.

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OK, here is a beautiful pic
( from The Calendar)
To cheer you...

where are you going?

http://tao-of-digital-photography.blogspot.com/2009/11/where-are-you-going.html

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Denali, Metaphors, Love and Life...Dogs, anyone?

The story of Denali. and love, life, goodness, sacrifice...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2zQbsEGh_Q





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2zQbsEGh_Q


Full story here

http://www.today.com/pets/denali-film-honors-dog-who-helped-man-rally-beat-cancer-t25756

Loyal Dogs

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/faithful-loyal-dogs-stories-to-make-you.html

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http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/death-of-beloved-animals-hurts-because.html

. . .


Rescued Dogs here

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/rescued-dogs-before-and-after.html


Wonderful irish wolfhound story here

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/irish-wolfhound-learn-from-children-and.html

Judging the sins of other people

"The Church proclaims the truth of God's mercy revealed in the crucified and risen Christ, and she professes it in various ways. Furthermore, she seeks to practice mercy towards people through people, and she sees in this an indispensable condition for solicitude for a better and "more human" world, today and tomorrow. However, at no time and in no historical period-especially at a moment as critical as our own-can the Church forget the prayer that is a cry for the mercy of God amid the many forms of evil which weigh upon humanity and threaten it. Precisely this is the fundamental right and duty of the Church in Christ Jesus, her right and duty towards God and towards humanity. The more the human conscience succumbs to secularization, loses its sense of the very meaning of the word "mercy," moves away from God and distances itself from the mystery of mercy, the more the Church has the right and the duty to appeal to the God of mercy "with loud cries."135 These "loud cries" should be the mark of the Church of our times, cries uttered to God to implore His mercy, the certain manifestation of which she professes and proclaims as having already come in Jesus crucified and risen, that is, in the Paschal Mystery. It is this mystery which bears within itself the most complete revelation of mercy, that is, of that love which is more powerful than death, more powerful than sin and every evil, the love which lifts man up when he falls into the abyss and frees him from the greatest threats." 

The Mercy of Jesus

You do not understand the severity of your sins when you reject the abundant Love of the Christ.  Do not further wound His aching Heart by dismissing His Sacrifice and rejecting His Love.  

http://afterthewarning.com/messages-from-heaven/linda-noskewicz/2015/12/12-27-pray-spread-his-word.aspx



Ponder this:

There is no reason to state, with anger or sternness, comments about the sins of others.
Since we all have broken the bond of transparency and love with our Creator, and have even turned our back on Jesus crucified---have even provided some of the thorns by which our most gentle Brother was tortured---
Should we not be humble? Should we not be forgiving and mild?
Do we not sound like bombastic penguin-like sqwaukers kicking about when we shout about the sins of others?

And, if the goal is to lead others into a moment of contrition and grace, would there be a better path?

(I am not here discussing moments when policy is being developed or general conversation of good and evil, right and wrong...)

John 8:1-11New Living Translation (NLT)

A Woman Caught in Adultery

8 Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, 2 but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. 3 As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.

4 “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”

6 They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. 7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” 8 Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.

9 When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. 10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”

11 “No, Lord,” she said.

And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”

( it has been said that

 Jesus was writing in the dust the sins of 

the men who were standing there ready to stone her...)

Juvenile bald eagle and mated pair.

A pair of Beautiful Bald Eagles, and a juvenile-!!-
Were eating a raccoon
near my house as I drove into town.

Don't see juveniles too much. Here is one from a few years ago

More pics:


http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/juvenile-bald-eagle.html

They were gone when I returned but I brought some meaty bones from the grocery store to add...

And moved it into my line of vision in the house.


We shall see...




Bald Eagles

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/bald-eagles-in-kansas-feeding-and-love.html


http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/beautiful-bald-eagle-pictures-from.html

Huge hawk eating a squirrel

Pics and videos

hawk-invites-squirrel-for-dinner.html