Thanks, Carolyn McGinnis, for a wonderful evening on the river!
(Pictures are not in chronological order.)
Monday, July 22, 2019
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Gleaning Facebook: Clem and the Doggie Pillow
I wonder how many times I've watched this video. I wonder how many times I will. Joy.
Monday, July 15, 2019
Gleaning Facebook: Useless, Selfish
I can think of few other human beings of my 72 years on earth who have led such useless, selfish lives. This man has no redeeming attributes. When you think he has reached the absolute nadir of his sloth, envy, lust, anger, gluttony, wrath, and pride he sinks lower on the scale. I have been guilty of each of these many times in my life. I know it. I work to do better. There has never been the slightest indication that this sorry and pitiable man has any recognition of his sinful nature or that he makes any effort to reform. His own immediate perceived self-interest is always foremost in his words and actions. No wife, child, nation, or principle comes before that one paramount interest in his life. How can any rational, reasonably knowledgeable American still support such a deadly unrepentant and unAmerican sinner?
What would a Jefferson or a Theordore Roosevelt or a Harry Truman think of a president who does not read?
What would a Washington or an Adams or a Lincoln or a Coolidge think of a president who lies in every public utterance?
What would an Ike or an FDR or a JFK think of a president who glowingly praises dictators and murderers while insulting America's allies?
- Dona Ward
Not even a dog?
Terrell Shaw
He has no pets... first president in a hundred years to have no pet.
David Matheny
Terrell Shaw --He may have had one at one time, but subsequently turned over to a Animal Shelter for its protection.
Terrell Shields
A pet would run away.
Wendy Davis
Preach it, Rev!
Ray Lyons
Yes it does
Joan Ledbetter
He does not even care that his grandchildren will grow up in a more polluted world and a world more primed for war. Of course, he does not care about it being a meaner world. He figures that their rich, white, privileged selves will be above the fray and always get to live in their safe bubble of selfish arrogance. But, for him and his children to not even care that the grandchildren will have a less safe environment... There is no wheel turning upstairs. There is not a smidgen of intellect, not a drop of compassion, and not an iota of self-awareness. He is so devoid of anything that a human being should have that he only cares about his next applause. He is that empty inside. I would feel sorry for him if he were not causing such horrendous harm to so many. Evil is the only term that fits
George Conway: Trump is a racist president
Dear folks who have till now supported Donald John Trump:
I do not want to read or know your answers, I certainly don't want to argue with you. The following are rhetorical questions. The whole reason I write these things here and on Facebook is that, like Conway, there are people I love whose beliefs are so offensive to me that I cannot bear to talk with them in person about them. But the issues are also too important to me, to central to my life, for me to ignore or give up on or to be silent about. They are issues that I believe absolutely critical to the lives of my children and grandchildren and this republic. I pray that you will actually think about them. I want you to know your answers.
Do you have the courage to seriously consider Conway's words?
The man in question is sitting in the seat of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison... Abraham Lincoln... Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson... Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy... flawed men all who, no doubt sometimes allowing self-interest to color their decisions, read and thought and listened and seriously sought, by their lights and within their capabilities, to fulfill the goals of the Preamble.
How do you respond to this principled conservative lawyers observations of Donald John Trump?
Where is arch-conservative Conway wrong in what he writes here about the current president of the United States, his beloved wife's boss?
You and I share a great love of this country and probably many other things, but on the great American political issues of the last half-century there is little agreement for me with George Conway or with you, but can we not honestly face the crisis in America and deal with the great harm done to our country by Donald John Trump and his enablers? Please actually consider Conway's words.
If Donald John Trump is not a racist, there are no racists.
- Terrell
Washington Post Op-Ed -- George Conway: Trump is a racist president
I do not want to read or know your answers, I certainly don't want to argue with you. The following are rhetorical questions. The whole reason I write these things here and on Facebook is that, like Conway, there are people I love whose beliefs are so offensive to me that I cannot bear to talk with them in person about them. But the issues are also too important to me, to central to my life, for me to ignore or give up on or to be silent about. They are issues that I believe absolutely critical to the lives of my children and grandchildren and this republic. I pray that you will actually think about them. I want you to know your answers.
Do you have the courage to seriously consider Conway's words?
The man in question is sitting in the seat of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison... Abraham Lincoln... Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson... Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy... flawed men all who, no doubt sometimes allowing self-interest to color their decisions, read and thought and listened and seriously sought, by their lights and within their capabilities, to fulfill the goals of the Preamble.
How do you respond to this principled conservative lawyers observations of Donald John Trump?
Where is arch-conservative Conway wrong in what he writes here about the current president of the United States, his beloved wife's boss?
You and I share a great love of this country and probably many other things, but on the great American political issues of the last half-century there is little agreement for me with George Conway or with you, but can we not honestly face the crisis in America and deal with the great harm done to our country by Donald John Trump and his enablers? Please actually consider Conway's words.
If Donald John Trump is not a racist, there are no racists.
- Terrell
Washington Post Op-Ed -- George Conway: Trump is a racist president
YoungTales Show
What a great time I had at the final YoungTales Summer Show of 2019! We had FOUR kids show up ready to tell stories. I had invited our 2018 YoungTales champ, Sara Grace Abernathy to come share a story, and she had a brand new one from her trip to the beach. Then Sophie, who was only a second-timer at YoungTales, made her storytelling debut. She and her audience loved it! Andrew Neal who had been a part of the YoungTales team at East Central wowed us with his spooky ghost tale from a trip to Chickamauga. And Polly Abernathy, not to be out done by her older sister, told a story of her own. We had a good time singing the story song, “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly”. Then I told an old standby folk-tale “The King’s Cat”. We talked about the “bones” of that story so the kids could go home and re-tell it. And finally Sara Grace closed things out with a reprise of her hilarious personal story I call “Twunk!”
Sunday, July 07, 2019
Gleaning Facebook: HHH & RFK
In 1968 I was very active along with Ed Johnson and a few others in the tiny Asbury College Young Democrats. History professor "Ms Chic"
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| Somehow in the fall of '68 our YD group managed to pay a sign painter to do up this indoor sign for the HQ -- I suppose on butcher paper. It is about sixteen feet long and three feet wide. It spanned one whole wall of the HQ which we rented on Main Street in the village of Wilmore. |
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| Somewhere I have an old b&w photo of some of us in the HQ with this sign behind us. |
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| It was unfolded and spread -- for the first time in fifty years -- in my front hall last night so I could climb the stairs ant take these pictures. |
Earlier that year I had campaigned in Indiana for Bobby Kennedy:
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| In the Spring of '68, several of us from Asbury, abetted by our history professor Ms. Ciccorella and her daughter, Pat, made our way to Louisville and across the Ohio River to New Albany, Indiana to campaign for Robert Kennedy. |
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| One of our duties in New Albany was to make signs for supporters to hold up when Bobby & Ethel came to town. |
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| These are some of the signs I made and that we used when we met the Kennedys at the Louisville airport. |
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| I didn't use these signs though. Somehow I managed to be chosen to don a ridiculous sash and styrofoam hat emblazoned with Kennedy bling and stand in the airport receiving line as the token college kid among the bigwigs. |
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| I wish I had managed to save more of the official campaign stuff rather than these silly signs! |
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| Still it was a thrill to shake the hands of our next president (as I believed) and his wife. |
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| At the time I was disappointed that Kennedy had such a limp handshake (Ethel's was very firm!) -- I have since heard that major presidential candidates end up with very sore hands pretty quickly, so I have tried to give him a little break on that score. David Matheny You met Bobby K.??
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| Kennedy won the Indiana primary, but only a month later the dream was shattered by an assassin's bullet. |
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| This is one of the official posters I saved from the Indiana campaign. |
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| Eleven of the items in this shadow box are from my own campaigning in 1968. The matchbook is from the dinner I attended for the campaign in Louisville -- so that preserves the date as September 20, 1968. |
I think I picked up the faded "If I were 21" in '68. Of course I was from Georgia where eighteen-year-olds could already vote, so I cast my first presidential vote for Hubert Humphrey. I worked hard as a college senior and co-president of our Young Democrats at Asbusry College. I met Humphrey twice that year. I was impressed that he took the time to actually talk with us and listen to us briefly.
And we almost came back to win that year ... what a blessing for America it would have been to elect this good man and avoid the Nixon scandals. Even George Will admits that Nixon committed treason to be elected that year, meddling in the Vietnam peace negotiations to postpone a settlement till after the election. Nixon was the crookedest president ever... until January 20, 2017.
Friday, July 05, 2019
Independence Day 2019
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| The smoker is in place, the meat is ready for it, the Barbecue Master (Robert Bloodworth) is standing by... the 26th annual Independence Celebration on the Levee with the Shaws is about to commence! The Fourth is on the Third this year! Facebook Comments |
Mark Lewis
Terrell Shaw, you may legitimately add Emancipation Day which is July 3 celebrated each year in the US Virgin Islands. When we lived on St. Croix it was just as big an event as Independence Day on the 4th. The Danish proclaimed all slaves Free on July 3, 1848. HAPPY EMANCIPATION DAY!!!!!
Howard Smith Terrell Shaw Right, of course. You know I'm looking forward to THAT! Terrell Shaw You'll have to post about it. I won't be watching. Joan Ledbetter The Rome Braves have their fireworks tomorrow. They needed to separate the two.
Barbara Crawford
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From me, Terrell:
The meats\'s about ready... and smells good! Sheila let me lick the bowl after she made the banana pudding (Alvin Jackson Sr. take note!) Deborah Shaw Lewis and Naomi Liles Crouse and Sheila are making homemade ice cream. I hope all of you are planning to be here TONIGHT (not the Fourth but the Third!!!). The yard ain't perfect but hope y'all will be comfortable --- if a mite hot. We have cornhole, bocce, croquet, frisbees, hula hoops, and sidewalk chalk for the young and young at heart. Bring a bag chair if you can to supplement the chairs we have.
Facebook Comments
Teresa A Ware
The stew is resting.
Terrell Shaw
The stew was delicious!
Nena Dake
The stew was the best ever!
Anita Stewart
Deviled eggs in the fridge, ready to come.
Jill Sealy Salter
I hate we had to miss it!!! We had plans on 3rd before we knew the change. I am sure it was amazing!!!
Did Robert grill?? If so it doubles the pain!!! The only real BBQ we have found in Rome.
Why am I torturing myself? Oh, bc I am hungry and sad!!! Lol
Terrell Shaw
Jill Sealy Salter yes this is the fourth year that Robert Bloodworth has been our Barbecue Master!
From Vivian Davis
We had fun tonight! Thank you for having us
Sheila Matthews Shaw
Awww! I'm flattered that Thea came and sat next to me!
Tina Brinson
Thank you Terrell and Sheila for always being such gracious hosts of the Independence Day Celebration! As always, we had a wonderful time
Thank you Terrell and Sheila for always being such gracious hosts of the Independence Day Celebration! As always, we had a wonderful time
Sheila Matthews Shaw
I'm so glad you came and had fun!
From Lillian Shaw's Instagram:
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The desserts were glorious... no Weight-Watcher points were counted that day I assure you. Alvin Jackson Sr. you missed your banana pudding! But I'm awfully glad Sheila thought you'd be there to spur her to make one.  Of course we also had Ginger Whiteis's signature banana pudding. My mouth is watering with the memory! |
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| What a great party! Photobombs tolerated -- even encouraged! |
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| Sheila asked me to put lights on the archway near the levee; I'm so glad I did. It turned into a popular photo booth. Here Lil and three of my adopted daughters pose to commemorate the Independence celebration. |
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Lil & Renee snap a selfie. |
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| It was another great 4th (on the 3rd) celebration at the Shaw's! |
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We are blessed with wonderful neighbors on Avenue A. Last night for our Third(!) of July party we had help from several neighbors including Joan Ledbetter and Terry Ledbetter who brought this beautiful bouquet and a wonderful casserole, and they invited some of our friends to park in their driveway. Our neighbor Nena Dake also allowed parking on her property, and our neighbors Jason and Megan Carter volunteered some of their outdoor furniture to add to the seating available for the party.
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Katie S. Kimbrough
I enjoyed last night!
George Barton
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