This Day in History, June 17
On June 17th, 1885, the Statute of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor.
WHAT A MARVELOUS AND MAGNIFICENT GIFT THE FRENCH GAVE THE UNITED STATES...I BELIEVE THEY ARE A PEACEFUL AND LOVING PEOPLE...MOST OF THEIR ART IS BEYOND ASTOUNDING...EVEN THEIR SPOKEN LANGUAGE HAS A ROMANTIC AND CAPTIVATING MELODY...THEIR COUISINE IS ALSO A WORLD STANDARD OF MANY RICH AND FAMOUS... I GRIEVE THAT MANY COUNTRIES CALL THEM COWARDS BECAUSE THEY DO NOT WANT TO FIGHT WARS...WAS JESUS A COWARD TOO?THE WAR WE SHOULD BE FIGHTING IS SPIRITUAL... KEEP YOUR ANGELS CLOSE AND LISTEN TO WHAT THEY ARE TELLING YOU...GOD IS THE GENERAL AND HIS TROOPS ARE OBEDIENT UNTO DEATH...WHAT IS THE REASON MANY CALL THE FRENCH FROGS?...BECAUSE FRANCE STARTS WITH AN F OR SOMETHING MORE DEGRADING LIKE SPIC, SLANT EYES, TOWELL HEADS, SAND NIGGERS, BLACK SAMBOS,?...DO AMERICANS HAVE A CATCH NAME OTHER THAN "PSI"S?...PRIDEFUL SELFISH IDIOTS...AT ONE TIME ALL WERE WELCOME TO THE NEW YORK HARBOR...I AM GLADDENED IN MY HEART THAT I DO NO USE THOSE NAMES OR KNOW ALL THE OTHER ONES THAT ABOUND ON THE PLANET...I BELIEVE WE OFTEN IGNORE THE GIFTS GOD GIVES US EVERY DAY...MANY DO NOT GIVE THANKS OR EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE HE IS SUPPLYING US EVERYTHING ON THE EARTH, STARTING WITH OUR VERY BREATH...IF HE WERE TO TAKE THAT SIMPLE GIFT BACK HOW WOULD THAT WORK FOR YOU?...IT IS NOT "LUCK" THAT RUNS THE WORLD...YOU DO NOT JUST "HAPPEN" TO BE IN THE RIGHT OR WRONG PLACE AT THE RIGHT OR WRONG TIME...YOU ARE WHERE AND WHO YOU ARE BECAUSE GOD LOVES YOU SO MUCH HE SENT HIS ONLY SON TO DIE FOR YOU AND GIVE YOU A SECOND CHANCE...I CANNOT CONCIEVE THE LOVE AND ANGUISH THAT WENT INTO MAKING THAT DECISION...TO ME IT IS SO POWERFUL TO THINK OF IT MAKES ME CRY OUT FOR HIM IN LOVE AND UNWORTHINESS FOR SO GREAT A GIFT...I WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THE USA EVEN KNOW WHERE THE STATUE OF LIBERTY CAME FROM...IF SO DO THEY KNOW IT WAS DESIGNED IN PART BY THE SAME MAN WHO BUILT THE EIFEL TOWER?...GODS GRACE AND MERCY IS SO COMPLETE HE EVEN GIVES US A CHOICE TO TAKE IT OR LISTEN TO THE DEVIL AS HE ATTEMPTS TO DECIEVE US INTO THINKING WE CAN BE GOD, OR AT LEAST EXPLAIN HIM AWAY...IF YOU THINK LIFE IS A GAME, I PRAY YOU CHOOSE THE RIGHT TEAM...WHEN IT IS OVER ALL WILL KNOW THAT "JESUS WINS"...DAVE...
Dave...http://www.fpfot.blogspot.com/..."Trust in the Cross"... "Be Safe"...
Classic Quotes by Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Russian composer/ conductor
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
I am an inventor of music.
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust
THE TRUTH OF OUR EXISTENCE...WORKING TOGETHER TO GET OUR PLANET SHIP SHAPE SO WE CAN LIVE OUR LIVES STRESS FREE AND JOYFULLY AS A FAMILY WELL REPRESENTED IN THE UNIVERSE...WE FOLLOW THE RULES OF TRUTH...WE LOVE TO BE LOVED...WE GLADLY GIVE OUR HUGS FOR FREE...WE KNOW THE COST TO GIVE AND RECIEVE IS WITOUT MEASURE...OUR MOTHER EARTH AND FATHER GOD ARE ABOVE REPROACH...WE LOVE AND DEFEND THEM FIERCLY AND WITHOUT QUESTION...THEIR WILL BE DONE....TO MOTHER AS IT IS TO OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN...
