Jack’s Winning Words 4/23/19
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another.”  (Carl Jung)  In the 1940s you could walk into almost any shoe store and have your feet x-rayed and get a perfect shoe fit.  Kids loved looking at their boney toes.  Eventually the “x-rays” were banned, because it was found that they were leaking radiation all over the place.  The Bible advises, “Be wise as serpents…”  Not just in the shoe store, but in all choices.  Make sure they “fit” the you, you want to be.   ;-)  Jack

FROM JK IN NVL:  X-rays in a shoe store? Wow, I didn’t know that had been done! But along the same lines I certainly remember innocently playing with “quicksilver” (mercury) drops as a kid; no one warned us about any potential side effects from that.  And asbestos was great for fireproofing.  ...
Which present-day “okay” activities and items will be on tomorrow’s “not okay” list?  At least we can be aware and admit there are plenty of things we don’t know. “Now we see through a glass, darkly, then shall we see face to face...” 1 Corinthians 13:12===JACK:  I played with mercury, too, and drove without seatbelts.  But I was among the first to pay extra for seatbelts when they were offered as an option.===JK:  Funny how things change, and usually for the better. When they first installed those buzzer/beepers in cars to remind occupants the seatbelts were not buckled, it was typical in my hometown for folks to figure out how to disconnect the darn buzzer/beeper that many found so annoying.  Today of course I would feel reckless to go anywhere without being strapped in; and our kids were raised in “car seats” from day one.

FROM ST PAUL IN ST PAUL:  i also recall riding my bike right behind the mosquito fogger that came thru our neighborhood every evening all summer long.  we were breathing DDT in large quantities, i am certain.  its a wonder we are all still alive!===JACK:  Imagine the mind that you might have had if it weren't all fogged up.