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Oh look, Chicken Thursday!
August was the best month ever for the business side of Cybersalt. Grandma Cybersalt and I are grateful for that because we are both addicted to eating every day! It has been almost 8 years since I retired into this working retirement and all through that time God has been faithful in teaching me more and more about owning and running a business and shaping me into the person I need to be in that role. It has often been challenging and I am still in the biggest room of all - the room for improvement - so it is that more refreshing and important to celebrate the highs as they come along as well!
Today's video share is about one of those secrets that is poorly kept. So now you are in on it, now, too!
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Enjoy the rest of today's digest!
~ Pastor Tim
Stolen Goat
The following is a quote from a director of sports information in the Navy, regarding the theft of some mascots from the Naval Academy by Army rivals:
"We knew Army cadets were involved because they cut through two fences to get to the goats, and 15 feet away there was an unlocked gate."
One-Liner #1954
If you see a road sign that says "Survey Crew Ahead" they are not actually interested in your opinion; I know that now...
My Daughter's Career Crisis 💇♀️
My daughter can't decide if she wants to be a hairdresser or an author.
I guess she'll have to flip a coin ... heads or tales.
Quote #2390
Today I complete a chore I have been putting off for six months. It took 15 minutes. I will learn nothing from this.
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The Chaos
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
~ Charivarius (G. Nolst Trenité)
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Susan Page writes . . . .
All These Beautiful Things
I’ve often thought there could be nothing worse than living with cognitive decline to the point where you are unaware of your family, friends or your surroundings. I have deep concern and empathy for individuals experiencing the effects of dementia. Yet, the decline a person experiences may not even compare with the difficulties their friends and family are navigating. Acceptance is a brutally painful journey that has no compass or roadmap.
Yet, when a few brave soldiers willingly share the most intimate and personal stories of what they have been through or are currently facing, they have freely given a gift of love. Through sharing, they help others find the pathway through the maze of dealing with this disease. Since there are no cures or answers to the question of why, it’s helpful to know how others have learned to cope. While we live in a fallen, broken world, and, in time, our bodies and minds fail, there is hope. Hope comes in the form of faith and our belief in a good God, who will make all things new someday. There will come a day when there will be no more crying or pain, and what a day that will be!
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