Another Kind of Wonderful

We are going with a different kind of thankful this year. Our predictable dinner was traditional. Dishing up was done while I was stirring gravy, eating was a fast gulp, and the door shut behind the guests 45 minutes after they arrived. Stuff happens. It wasn't good, it wasn't bad, it just was.

I clicked over to Real Live Preacher a few minutes ago and saw the most amazing YouTube Video from Kansas State University. Maybe it is the old librarian in my brain that made me appreciate it so much. It is the flip, flip, flip of the card catalog I occasionally miss...not much though. They produced another one called "The Machine is Us/ing Us." Video for information nerds.

While He Who Must Be OBeyed watched for a shirt tail relative do some rodeoing on TV, I listened to Dr. Ben Carson, from Johns Hopkins Hospital lecture to a group in Baltimore. I have heard him before but the second time around was good again. He said there is no such thing as wasted knowledge; which could make one wonder as we finished "The Exploits of Ben Arnold" by Josephine Waggoner's interview notes.

Is it good to read the words of the scout, who in 1876 rode hard for $200 to deliver the first message of the Custer Massacre (Ed Lemmon's words) on the Greasy Grass from General Reno to the outside world? If you can call General Crook on the Powder River in Montana the outside world. Then there is the other version. Is all knowledge good? Some is a trivial pursuit and questionable.

Dr. Ben Carson is spot on with his wisdom and philosophy.