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Plans: fur babies, JCP. Beauty Warehouse/clipper heads
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The Noble Virtue of perseverance requires us to meet difficulties head-on. Life is filled with personal challenges. We struggle on a daily basis with various forces around us. Sometimes we may ask ourselves, is it really worth it? Perseverance is the determined, continual action in the face of adversity. If you give up, it’s game-over. It really is simple, isn’t it? No matter what you are doing, no matter the challenge, see it to its conclusion. Even if you try and fail, realize that the only real failure is not trying. Failure is evidence that someone has tried. Success is failure defeated (C.Reimer/V.Elmersson).
Havamal 71
The lame man rides the horse, the handless man drives the herds,
The deaf man fights and succeeds,
To be blind is better than to be burnt;
A corpse is of no use to anyone (The Poetic Edda, Larrington pg. 23).
RAISE YOUR HORN! TIP YOUR GLASS! GIVE HAIL TO THE NOBLE VIRTUE OF PERSEVERANCE!
David F. Schmidt (1895-1957)
Birth 28 Feb 1885 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas
Death 1 Oct 1957 in Marion County, Kansas
*Married to Mary Goertz 22 October 1922
Mary Goertz (1888-1983)
Birth 17 March 1888 in Kismet, Kansas
Death 27 Dec 1983 in Marion County, Kansas
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me. I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side. I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Gebo: The mystical union of gift and giver, repay gift for gift, generosity, a fair exchange between people or gods and the Luck that accompanies it; freely exchanged, obligations, contracts, relationships, sometimes sexual, sacrifice, and hospitality, do not take more than we are willing to give, the voluntary sacrifice of resources.
*A1R7; Aett 1, root 7, Yggdrasil’s root of creation
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Fa:
Havamal 146:
The first one promises to help generously
In sorrow, sickness and pain;
In eternal change, man goes forth
From death to new creation.
Generous help, luck, eternal change, forward motion, binding, life/death/life, new creation, property, to grow, to wander, to destroy, to shred, guidance, Father, potential change reflected in a beginning; preface of that which is becoming, being and passing away; procreation, creative father principle, Alle-Vater principle. primal Fire, the power of spirit and change as well as the power of creativity, the Divine Masculine Principle, success, pure, generated fire that acts creatively in love, will that spares manifestation down to the material levels, necessity of change.
“Generate your luck and you will have it” (List, 49).
*H1R1; Halbdutzend 1, root 1, Irminsul’s root of creation
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Rune Lesson: According to lore there are obvious benefits to gifting that lines-up generous help:
13. If you have a friend you feel is loyal,
And wish to win and keep his trust,
Open your heart to him, and be generous with gifts,
And seek his companionship often.
14. If there is a man you deal with, but do not trust,
Yet seek to win his favor for your gain-
Be friendly to him in your manner,
Though false in heart, and repay him his lies with lies.
(Germanic Heathenry; A Practical Guide, Coulter translation, pg. 242)
*from creation to creation
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1st check on all fur-kids: food, water, litterboxes, shelter.
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Outcome: 6hrs of sleep, one wakeup, Lily cuddles, and Toby at the side of the bed
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A banana + AM meds + a small apple
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jwlr chat
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Toby’s 9:15AM fasting glucose reading: 350
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Toby’s 9:30am feeding, insulin, Apoquel and eyedrops
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jwlr video chat
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Toby’s 11am glucose: 376
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Core:
ab roller 3 sets of 31 reps weighted 30lbs
pushups 3 sets of 10 reps concentrating on technique
ab wheel 3 sets of 10 reps @ 2/3 rollout concentrating on technique
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Brunch sandwich:
sandwich slims https://www.kroger.com/p/kroger-100-whole-wheat-sandwich-slims-8-count/0001111000192
2 eggs over easy
4 potato coins
shredded cheese
2 slices of canadian bacon
1 slice of cheese
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Result from my COVID test: NEGATIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Adjusted the stray cat feeding table a bit on the patio. It’s still not quite right, but it will do for now.
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Toby indicated he might have an interest in a walk today. Sure enough, he finished three blocks. I didn’t push him at all. I let him tell me what he needed. He kept a good pace and a raised tail. He hadn’t had any kind of a walk in more than a week.
*sunny, mildly cold, north breeze.
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Toby’s PM eye-goop
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Dillons; meat for Toby
McDs
Sally Beauty; clipper heads for clippers
JCP; lounge pants
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jwlr chat
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jwlr and I watched the same Netflix movie though 1000+ miles apart constantly connected; Anna Karenina https://www.netflix.com/title/70243443
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Toby’s 10:30pn feeding, insulin and eyedrops. SHIT! I couldn’t find his glucose reader quickly enough. By the time I found it Toby had gobbled it down. I am SO comforted that he is eating this well.
*Toby’s 11pm glucose reading: 498. I’ll make sure to check it again fist thing in the morning.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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1am nighty night with good Lily cuddles.
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*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!