Last Week In Life:

November 1, 2021-November 7, 2021

Last Week’s SPECTACULAR STORY OF WEEK

Kristin’s Awareness Month

I have been falling often lately.
It doesn’t mean I fell from grace.
I have fallen from the right to own the driver’s licence I have had for over thirty years.

I fell due to drugs.
No, I am not addicted to alcohol, cocaine, LSD, or Crystal Meth.
I fell because my brain is a bit broken.
I am on as many drugs as they can possibly put me on, lest I am over-drugged.

Medicine has side-effects.
Lots of medicine has lots of side-effects.

And so I have fallen…
On the Grass Outside,
In the Shower,
Out of Bed.
Causing me intense pain up and down my head, my arm, and my spine.
Which come and go at any unpredictable moment.

Even with my walker firmly gripped tight in my hands
I have fallen and may fall again, at an unexpected moment.
It is so unexpected that it has become expected.
So when I am tired or feeling weak,
My wheelchair may save me assuming I happen to be using it.

There is a term for people like me.
But you may not be aware of the right words to use.

Calling someone an epileptic is no longer politically correct.
Nor is using the word FIT to explain the word seizure.

I am a person with epilepsy.
I am a person who has seizures.
But I am me.
I am more than an epileptic with fits.

It is National Epilepsy Awareness Month

These are Kristin the Carmelites thoughts about her hidden lifestyle which gives her something to offer up.

As I was dictating my wife’s thoughts about her life,I went down the stairs and grabbed her helmet.
As I was putting it on her I pinched her neck causing her more pain.
Thus putting on her helmet was just as dangerous as not having it on.

Read More about Epilepsy FAITH IN MY BRAIN MAY 18, 2020

In November it is also…

National Adoption Month

We were excited to have adopted a 15 year old girl named Princess.
She is now 23 and our relationship is strained.
We don’t regret adopting her.
We gave her a chance at a new life, which many teenagers need.
For better or worse she is our daughter always.
Our hope is that we can mend what is broken between us so we can
continue to live out the joy of her being part of our family.

Read more The Prodigal Daughter JUNE 01, 2020

Holy Souls in Purgatory

I often pray that those on earth, which could include me, make it to purgatory and avoid an eternity in hell.
I don’t really know what life after death will be like.
I only hope that after a purification all people will all spend eternity deeply in love with our triune God
who loves us unconditionally and has adopted us into his family.

National Peanut Butter Lovers Month

Peanut Butter tastes best with chocolate.
Though it is not the world’s healthiest combo.
It is in my opinion among the most enjoyable junk food in the world.
My father is from Ireland and he didn’t grow up with it and still won’t eat it to this day.
Although his siblings all do.

Manatee Awareness Month

Years ago as children we visited Apollo beach in florida where my grandmother insisted there were a lot of manatees.
We did not see a single one that day.
Another time at another place in florida, as I stood on a dock, I saw a manatee floating very near by.
The gentle manatee allowed me to touch it and I was wicked excited.
I was excited because I got to touch a manatee in the wild.

Last Week’s Other Stories, Articles and Things

The Carmelite loves Fr. Casey Cole and will go out of her way to watch him when the Catechist puts him on the big TV

Tito Edwards – NCRegister The Best In Catholic Blogging

This Week on

Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

MYS179: After 19th-century astronomers said Mars has a worldwide network of canals, people speculated there was not just life but a civilization there. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore whether there is life on Mars, and if so, how it got there and what it is like.

Canals on Mars? (Martian Life, Alien Life, Extraterrestrials, Exobiology)

Jimmy you live in a mysterious world

With a mysterious name

Are you Jimmy or James, Jacob or Seamus?

I inquire because I want to know,

As I am a mysterious girl.

What kind of a world is it anyway?

Do you live with ghosts, Martians, or big foot?

Is there an extra chair by your desk for your guardian angel?

Are you Facebook friends with the Loch Ness Monster?

FEAST DAYS ,HOLIDAYS AND LAST WEEK IN HISTORY

WinCalendar: Calendars, Holidays, Days & Today

Monday November 1, 2021

ALL SAINTS Solemnity [not a Holyday of Obligation this year]

National Author’s Day

Kristin has written some online books. Including some great poetry. Publications – Catholic Bard (patheos.com)

Color the World Orange Day

Here is what else happened on this day in History

.Sistine Chapel Ceiling Opens to Public – HISTORY

1604 – William Shakespeare‘s tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1611 – Shakespeare’s play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
1894 – Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
1897 – The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.

Tuesday November 2, 2021

The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day)

Election Day

Day of the Dead

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

Howard Hughes’s “Spruce Goose” Flies – HISTORY

1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
1889 – North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1965 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
2000 – Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for the first long-duration stay onboard. From this day to present, a continuous human presence in space on the station remains uninterrupted.^[2]^[3]
2016 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.

Wednesday November 3, 2021

[Saint Martin de Porres, Religious

Japanese Culture Day

National Housewife Day

After about 12 years of being a housewife to my wonderful husband,
I am finally working hard to keep the house clean and make dinner every night.
Am I becoming more organized and caring?
Or have I finally started to care about the state of our home?

National Sandwich Day

National Stress Awareness Day

It’s really real and I often want to lay down and cry when it wraps itself around me like a blanket.
And no matter how much family have, no matter how many FB friends you have, the loneliness evelps you and you convince yourself that no one cares.
But God cares. But somehow
He seems to be hiding on you.

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

One World Trade Center Opens – HISTORY

1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
1534 – English Parliament passes the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
1838 – The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1908 – William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.
1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2.^[2] On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.^[3]
1960 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson is elected to a full term as U.S. president, winning 61% of the vote and 44 states, while Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time, casting the majority of their votes for Lyndon Johnson.
1992 – Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton defeats Republican President George H. W. Bush and Independent candidate Ross Perot in the 1992 United States presidential election.
2020 – The 2020 United States presidential election takes place between Democratic Joe Biden and Republican incumbent President Donald Trump. On November 7, Biden was declared the winner.

Thursday November 4, 2021

Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop Memorial

Use Your Common Sense Day

TIME Magazine Cover: Why Obama ♥ Reagan - Feb. 7, 2011 - U.S. Presidents - Ronald Reagan - Barack Obama

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

Entrance to King Tut’s Tomb Discovered – HISTORY

1493 – Christopher Columbus reaches Leeward Island and Puerto Rico.
1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII‘s first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII’s older brother – they would later marry.
1962 – The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
1966 – The Arno River floods Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. Venice is also submerged on the same day at its record all-time acqua alta of 194 cm (76 in).
1980 – Ronald Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected as President of the United States.

Friday November 5, 2021

National Redhead Day

I have the map of Ireland on my face.
And, the hair, we always called Red to match.

Love Your Lawyer Day

Bishop Barron’s Homily of the Week

National Cancer Awareness Day

National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day

Daylight Saving Day

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

FDR Wins Fourth Term – HISTORY

1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1504 – Christopher Columbus returns from his fourth and last voyage.
1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1900 – The People’s Party is founded in Cuba.
1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1916 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
1916 – Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.
1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
1967 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1972 – United States presidential election: U.S. President Richard Nixon is re-elected in the largest landslide victory at the time.
2000 – The controversial US presidential election is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, electing George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States

POPE FRANCIS’S FAMOUS LAST WEEK’S WORDS

Pope Francis Reveals the Prayer He Prays Every Night Before Bed – (churchpop.com)

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A Chance To Do A Work Of Mercy

Hi,

I would like to take a moment to tell you about a Go Fund Me Page that I have established with the help of some high school classmates. Please see below. We set up this page with the hopes that it would afford me the opportunity to achieve some important goals to further my independence as well as provide for a little bit of financial security. Any help that you could provide would be greatly appreciated and I ask you please share the link. See below. I want to thank you in advance for taking the time to read my page and for your support. Thanks again!

David M. Patten

Fundraiser for David Patten by Tim Igo : Possibilities for Patten (gofundme.com)

Dave Patten’s classmates at Concord-Carlisle High School remember him well.

Always smiling, always positive, even though he had a much different childhood than most kids growing up in Concord.

“I was born with spastic cerebral palsy; I was seven months premature. I had hyaline membrane disease and I almost died twice, but I survived that. I’ve had to adapt to everything in life,” Patten said. “But I like to use my disability and life experience as a learning experience.”

When the classmates reconnected for their 30-year high school reunion, they learned Patten had lost his girlfriend and her family to COVID-19 last year, and he was unable to hold a steady job due to his disability.

They started a GoFundMe to raise money to get Patten back on his feet. As of publication, the fundraiser had generated more than $21,000.

Possibilities for Patten: CCHS grads raise funds for classmate (wickedlocal.com)

Dave’s Contribution to the Catholic Barf

A Non-Practicing Catholic Reviews The Exorcist | Guest Contributor (patheos.com)