“Come as you are!” is an almost-sacred slogan in America. Few state laws regulate dress; with the exception of total nudity. Parents often hesitate to direct young people on how to dress. Most schools have dropped their dress codes. Few churches today provide guidelines for people’s appearances. In fact, when schools or churches try to establish a dress code, they are often met with fierce opposition. “Unfair!” “Unreasonable!” “Legalistic!,” and “Old fashioned!” are typical...

You can most certainly take it to the bank. Tom Brady won his fourth Super Bowl ring. He'd just been the subject of a media-induced controversy (which, quite frankly, was just terribly overblown), but he overcame those obstacles. Forget Deflategate, sports fans; Tom Brady has done something that is never really easy to do, and that's win four Super Bowls. And the New England Patriots have accomplished that feat in six such appearances since 2001.

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Released in 2013, I don't think TSLC ever made a U.S. theatrical release - mostly roaming the film festival circuit. Netflix dvd just got a hold of it and I jumped on it, having seen it on several top 10 lists.

Though I've never seen it, TSLC's opening scenes immediately reminded me of Liu Jiayin's Oxhide II (2009) [link: movingimagesource.us/, Oxhide II and the art of dumpling making, by David Bordwell and Kevin B. Lee posted April 28, 2011]. I've got it bookmarked at Amazon vod...

My arugula has all sprouted in the greenhouse...now I just wish the lettuce and spinach would catch up!

The man eased himself solemnly into the sturdy pine rocking chair he’d bought his wife on their first anniversary. He’d placed it with pleasure next to his easy chair many years before. Since then, their first moments of morning were spent together in their favorite chairs; drinking coffee, talking, and praying.
That rocking chair had provided rest after long, busy days of cleaning, gardening and canning. It had comforted mother and child in the wakeful hours of night feedings;...