Words 8.31

Words Twice a Week    8.31

ok – so before I forget, here’s a recipe for raised waffles.  This is actually from the Betty Crocker Cookbook; it’s just about the same as the Fanny Farmer one.  

1 pkg yeast                               1 t salt

¼ C warm water                         3 eggs

1 ¾ C scalded and cooled milk ¼ C butter, melted

2 T sugar                                         2 C flour  [it says ‘all purpose’ – we use a 6 grain kind 

                                                                       of like whole wheat]

  Dissolve the yeast in the water.  Add everything else, beat until smooth.  [I’m just using a spoon.]  Cover, let rise in warm place for 1½ hrs.  Stir down.  Cover again and refrigerate 8-12 hrs.  Stir down.  Pour from cup or pitcher onto hot waffle iron.  They’re really good!  [Had to get the external keyboard so I can put an exclamation point there.]

From the church calendar -

- Sept 2  Martyrs of New Guinea.  When the threat of Japanese invasion reached the island, most missionaries fled.  Anglican Bishop Philip Strong encouraged his pastors not to flee as the early disciples had done before Jesus’ crucifixion.  Immediately after the occupation, Strong and seven others were executed.

- Sept 4  Paul Jones  Born in 1880 in Pennsylvania, he became a priest and served in Utah as pastor and later as Bishop. His ministry took him to many reservations of Native Americans, as well as among miner and railroad workers. He traveled many miles around the diocese visiting parishes by railroad, stagecoach, motorcar, horse and foot.  He was a socialist and a pacifist, and after declaring publicly in August 1917 that ‘war is unchristian’, was ‘encouraged’ to resign. He became a missionary in tiny Brownville Junction, Maine, on a railroad line to New Brunswick, Canada and near the end of what became the Appalachian Trail.   He helped the Fellowship of Reconciliation become an international movement and was their secretary for 10 years.  He helped found the Episcopal Pacifist Fellowship which in 1966 became the Episcopal Peace Fellowship.

From the World Calendar -

Aug 31 

 - Thomas Edison patented his motion picture camera.  One of these days we’ll go back to the movies.  

Sept 1 

 - Martha, the last known Passenger Pigeon died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo.  She was named for First Lady Martha Washington and has become a symbol of the threat of extinction.

Sept 2  

 - J.R.R Tolkein died after taking us from the Shire to Mordor and back.

Sept 3

 - In 1783 the Treaty of Paris was signed between Great Britain and The United States of America, ending the Revolutionary War.

 - E. E. Cummings died.  Or should that be e.e. cummings?  He could handle my “no shift” keyboard just fine.

 - On this day in 1967 drivers in Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side to driving on the right-hand side.

- Sept 4

 - Edvard Grieg died.  He immortalized his country’s [Norway’s] folk tunes and peasant imagery.  Here’s a video of his Morning Mood - 

 - Albert Schweitzer died.  He was a organist, pastor, lecturer, physician, and theologian.  He suggested that Jesus’ teachings were grounded in the conviction that the world would end in his lifetime.  His book The Quest for the Historical Jesus argued that attempts to understand the real Jesus say more about the interpreter than about Jesus.  [It’s one of those long, long books with one really good and accessible paragraph at the end.]  He left his academic career and mastery as player and interpreter of Bach to become a medical missionary in Africa.  He lived a radical reverence for life of all kinds.He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1954.

Sept 5  

- After surrendering, Native American Sioux freedom fighter Crazy Horse was assassinated while in U.S. custody.  He had helped Sitting Bull defeat Custer the previous year.

- Mother Teresa died in 1997.  She started the Missionaries of Charity, devoted to serving the poorest of the poor.  She left Albania for the Sisters of Loreto Convent in Ireland to learn English for service in India.  On 10 September 1946, Teresa experienced what she later described as "the call within the call" when she traveled by train to the Loreto convent in Darjeeling from Calcutta for her annual retreat. "I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them. It was an order. To fail would have been to break the faith.”  She said "By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus.”

Sept 6 

- Ferdinand Magellan had set out from Seville, Spain, on Sept 20, 1519 with 5 ships to sail around the world.  One of them, the Victoria, with 18 crew members returned to Seville on this day in 1522.  Magellan unfortunately died on April 27, 1521.  That was one long cruise.  

Geez – a lot about people dying!  Here are some things that started this week (not really people getting born, but the best I could do)

Sept 3 – Ebay founded in 1995

Sept 4 

- Google founded in 1998

- Who Wants to be a Millionaire on British TV in 1998

- Kodak founded in 1888

Here’s a prayer -

God of each day and all times,

whatever we do and wherever we go,

help us live this day so that when we come to die

we will feel that we have lived it well,

caring for the littlest and the least,

having reverence for all life.