Jack’s Winning Words 9/23/14
“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”  (Leonardo DaVinci)  John Muir, the naturalist, echoed this…”When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”  The interconnectedness of people and things is amazing.  The sooner we learn that we are in the same lifeboat, the safer we will be.  Enough with the bickering.  There’s a planet that needs protecting.    ;-)  Jack

FROM EDUCATOR PAUL:  I thought it was interesting that  "Occupy" is choosing Climate change as it's main mission in their protest  on Wall Street. Your words today are so important, Jack. Just think about them in relationship to Chaos Theory.  They are one in the same.  Fun!!! If we could just stop yelling at each other and just listen more.====JACK:  The sign at the railroad crossing reads:  STOP LOOK LISTEN.  We need a new one:  STOP LISTEN THINK.

FROM TRIHARDER:  I constantly contemplate the "butterfly effect".====JACK:  I read yesterday that when a butterfly flaps it's wings in Brazil, a tornado happens in Texas.  Is that the butterfly effect?

FROM ERIC THE CHIRO:  The hip bone's connected to the...thigh bone. The thigh bone's connected to the...knee bone.====JACK:  The interconnectedness of the skeleton is amazing, isn't it?

FROM PAUL IN ST. PAUL:  more good words for this day, Jack.  thanks...====JACK:  You can't go wrong with Da Vinci and Muir.

FROM PEPPERMINT MARY:  leonardo and chief seattle:)====JACK:  The ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) includes Chief Seattle in its Calendar of Saints (June 7).  I guess there are other saints besides those we typically hear of.

FROM PC IN MICHIGAN:  Amen!====JACK:  A preacher is usually encouraged by the "Amens" that come from the pews.

FROM HONEST JOHN:  The Hilltoppers refuse to be connected to the Maroons.  ( except, of course, that my mother graduated from Moline Hugh School)====JACK:  When I grew up it was the Tri-Cities (Moline, Rock Island and Davenport).  Then East Moline wanted to be included, so it became the Quad Cities.  I always thought that it should be one metropolitan area named, Moline.

FROM JAYHAWKER DON:  I don't know to whom it is attributed, but in those days back in the '70s, we were taught "You can't do ONE thing."====JACK:    I like that thought, so I Googled it to find out more.  Richard Heinberg said it in a conversation with Michael Stone.  The Google site shows the conversation.

FROM BLAZING OAKS:   I'M READING A FASCINATING LITTLE BOOK "GODS UNIVERSE" BY OWEN GINGERICH, AND SOME RELATED BOOKS BY REV. DR. JOHN POLKINGHORNE (WHAT A NAME!) DEALING WITH HOW A MODERN SCIENTIST CAN SUPPORT BOTH EVOLUTION AND INTELLIGENT DESIGN; AND THEIR "TAKE" THAT THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, WE ALL EVOLVED FROM THE SAME ANCESTORS. REALLY HAS STRETCHED MY MIND!~!. VERY INTELLIGENTLY WRITTEN!====JACK:  I am thankful for the evolution of my thinking.  This is not to deprecate what I believed as a child, but simply to underscore the fact that there is a growing (changing) of the mind, as well as the body.

FROM TAMPA SHIRL:  It seems like people are what needs protecting as long as some people are even killing their own families and others are chopping off heads. When we learn how to take care of each  other, the planet will fall into place.====JACK:  It's a wild world out there.  Has it always been that way...or does the "instant" news simply make it seem that way?  The religious wars of today can be a reprise of the Crusades, or even of the Biblical wars between the believers and the pagans.

FROM TARMART REV:  Often said when we are conversing with another, we are just two or three persons away from a common relationship with the same person.====JACK:  Does that mean that I'm related to you?====REV:  Just two o'l poor boys enjoying relationship serving our God who has made us rich in Christ!!

FROM PLAIN FOLKS CHESTER:  Leonardo knew how to connect the dots!!!!====JACK:  I remember seeing "The Last  Supper" done in a paint-by-numbers format.  It looked pretty good, but, of course, I've never seen the original.  BTW, paint-by-numbers was "invented" by a man from the community in which I live.

FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY:  How true!  It's too bad so many see their ideas as the only right one.  My brother-in-law is researching the family heritage along with some help from the rest of us.  It's amazing how many people we are related too, right in our own state!  We are all connected and we all need that lifeboat at some time or another....jump in!====JACK:  I've never been much for creating Family Trees, but I appreciate the work of those who care about such things.