Some visual aids

Ignorance is no defense is a Pastor quote. i added “loud noise” as a reflex response.
Pastor quote above.

A four-part short-video series to document a habitual level of loud neighbor noise for extended periods.

After the video above, the noise subsided for 10 minutes. The PA system was not adjusted. Shot this video and sent it to my neighbor who had just a minute before texted me asking if i can hear the Church noise. Already on it.

The lower noise volume didn’t last long, so the Sheriff non-emergency line was called. The Orange County Sheriff met me at the neighbor’s house (the neighbor adamantly approved of this), agreed on the code violation, and responded at the Church. This helped but required a second call to Sheriff. Five hours of neighborhood disturbing the peace.

Neighbor unhesitatingly allowed me to enter his back yard and go to the chain link fence to shoot the above video.

Ten days later, on December 23, this…our neighbors dealt with this…(video below)…from the public street…

Not every neighbor subjected to the loud noise is a Christian. To disrespect someone else’s peace has a line. Does a religious group get a neighborhood exemption? Week after week, month after month?

Today’s audio and visual aids (videos) support the context.

Being well prepared creates a calm and confidence that every Pastor (even the ones preaching the Gospel according to Walt) needs to walk with.

To be continued…

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Laughter is no enemy to learning

Exit door
Please. The video below is funnier than expected. Please use laughter to enhance what you do. But watch for the trap of using humor to medicate some deeper issue, for example, insecurity.

Laughter is no enemy to learning.

Laughter is also no enemy to stress reduction.

Ain’t gonna lie, the past weekend was so quiet that it reminded me how it’s been the past 30 years.

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Three Little Pigs comedy video

Walt Disney quote
It’s only impossible until you do it the first time.

Parables and fairytales were the first instruction manuals for life.

The Three Little Pigs is my favorite.

Watch the whole video or start at 1:30 in to begin the most incredible Three Little Pigs story ever.

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Racism is a tool

Winston Churchill quote
When anyone tells a lie about someone in order to make money, a crime has been committed. Slavery was invented long before Christopher Columbus sailed to America. Slavery may be the second oldest economic invention, after prostitution.

Last thing i wanted to do (or had time to do) this morning was watch an 18-minute TED Talk.

Something told me to at least listen to the first two minutes. Watched it all. Profoundly insightful. From here to this post’s end are soundbite quotes…

  1. race is not biological, it’s a story some people decided to tell.
  2. people told that story to justify the brutal exploitation of other human beings for profit.

Said another way, racism was invented as a tool to divide us and to prop up economic, political, and social systems that advantage some people and disadvantage others.

Of course, you, like me, don’t have 18 minutes to watch this. Ok then, just watch the first two minutes of this video…

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Full or full of it?

mountain wildflowers
Daisy Parkway (my nickname) in Glacier National Park.

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Are we full or are we full of it and is there a difference? Nature has no rules or dogma.

An organized life is a peaceful life.

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