Info in Bits & Pieces

A Personal Word

Time has flown by for me. First there was a vacation to South Carolina. Then the start of an intensive health journey to build strength, flexibility, and stamina. When you are as old as I am, you need to evaluate where your body is now and where it can hopefully be in the next few years. This is one of the reasons for choosing the blacksmith and the anvil below.

Quotes:

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
~~~ Thomas a Kempis

”Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
~~~ Confucius (551 B.C. – 479 B.C.), Chinese Philosopher

”Fear, without joy, is torment, and joy, without holy fear, would be presumption.”
~~~ The Treasury of David

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” ~~~ RUDYARD KIPLING

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
~~~ ERNEST HEMINGWAY

“Fools will not learn, and therefore they must again and again, be told the same thing, especially when it is such a bitter truth which is to have taught them — the fact that the godly are the chosen of God, and are, by distinguishing grace, set apart and separated from among men.”
~~~ The Treasury of David

Bits & Pieces of News

5.8 BILLION
The top three pornography sites worldwide receive a combined 5.8 billion monthly website hits.
~~~ as reported in The Epoch Times

50 PERCENT
More than 50% of children who become sex trafficking victims come from the child welfare system, and the average age of those entering prostitution is between 12 and 13, according to Los Angeles officials.

6,542 GUNS
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) intercepted a record 6,542 guns last year at airport checkpoints nationwide.

263 STORES
Tuesday Morning, a discount home goods retailer, says it will close 263 stores, more than half of its locations nationwide, after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
~~~ Our local Tuesday Morning is also on the closure list by the end of June. 2023.