What?! You mean that wasn't a personal response just to me?! I'm crushed!

He owes me something like 15 responses. Not that I want to read them.

May you be “wildly successful” in your learning moments, Theric.

"I continue to desire the President and his administration will be wildly successful in advancing policies that benefit the country. While no administration is without its learning moments, I believe there have been important course corrections that are helping to move us in a better direction."

Utah senator John Curtis (or his intern) describes the murder of Americans on the streets of Minneapolis as a "learning moment," in response to one of my daily messages:

Martin Luther King made a brief visit to Salt Lake City in 1961. Here's my short post about that visit, written in 2007.

keepapitchinin.org/2017/01/16/m...

I pre-ordered it based on this first notice. Ha! Guess I showed you!!

a young Josiah Gibbs how to plane floors for the Salt Lake Theater, or the several other woodworking references I’ve run across in his letters, Brigham Young knew wood and never lost his love for craftsmanship. Thanks, John!

there, giving his preferences for the curing of wood to be used for pails, washtubs, and churns. I know the point of framing the letter for display is the original signature, but I also really love the content – whether it was for humble buckets, or kneeling to teach

A framed 1860 letter by Brigham Young, with his portrait, displayed on a hand-made 19th century wooden cupboard filled with vintage linens.

This is why I wanted to beat the UPS driver back here this morning: My friend John has sent me this beautiful thing, straight to my Brigham Young-loving heart. It’s an original BY letter, 10 May 1860 to Samuel A. Woolley in Parowan. That old time carpenter had instructions for the bucket factory

Merry Christmas! (my first)

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed.” — II Corinthians 4:8

Get your mammogram, sisters.

Monday, December 8, before military authorities would allow him, a civilian, to send even the briefest of telegrams.

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Image of telegram: Kealakekua Hawaii 13 8/239P [date and time of sending] 1941 Dec 9 AM 7 19 [date and time of receipt] Heber Grant 47 East South Temple St Salt Lake City Utah All Well Roscoe C Cox

With the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Roscoe C. Cox, president of the Latter-day Saint Hawaiian Mission, knew parents of his missionaries, and Church leaders concerned about membership, would be desperate for information. It was the afternoon of the next day,

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My mom had her Cub Scout den make them in the late ‘60s!

My favorite Thanksgiving graphics from the old LDS magazines ... but also a terrible reminder of the false assumption that Native Americans are gone.

From the Children's Friend, 1949

Have just scrolled through eight screens of Blue Sky and don't have the slightest idea what ANY of the posts refer to.

The Children's Friend, October 1955

I really shouldn't have attempted it--it was too much physically--but I wasn't going to miss it. I made it all the way up Salt Lake City's Capitol Hill, with the assistance of so many kind strangers who lent me their arms or pulled me up after I sat on curbs to recover.

No Kings. A lot of love.

Cooking. Making stir fry, soup, and fruit compote to be sure I don't lose one bite of terribly overpriced produce.

If you’re going to put words in a stranger’s mouth, try not to be so dumb.

That would have been dreadful (but entirely plausible)!

No, it was in the papers of the Church History Library, but not in an obvious place so it had been overlooked in historians' searches.

Commentary: How LDS leader Brigham Young and a great Ute chief strived for peace in a time of war Research historian Ardis E. Parshall sheds light on the efforts of LDS pioneer-prophet Brigham Young and Ute Chief Wakara to stem 19th-century hostilities in early Utah.

The retained copy of that letter has been found.

Want to know what the two great leaders discussed in their final exchange?

See www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

(Behind a paywall; a $3/month Patreon subscription unlocks it and all other locked content.)

The last letter written by Gov. Brigham Young ti Chief Wakara of the Ute Nation (1855), seeking peace between the warring peoples, arrived at Wakara's camp on the day he died. The letter was thrown into Wakara's grave, and its contents lost for all these years.

I don't see the sentient part.

Tylenol has nothing to do with autism.

But we should check out the Epstein files in case there's anything there about autism. Better safe than sorry!

The LDS clerks who marked church membership records with "colored man," as here, almost certainly intended it as discrimination, yet those notations opened the way for them to be remembered and honored by Century of Black Mormons.

exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of...

My mother on Antifa duty, 1944.

If the "flags were ordered," isn't it the responsibility of the flags themselves to comply, or not?

A geometric freestanding 3D art piece lit up in blue with intricate square and rectangular shapes

Pearlescent acrylic earrings in a geometric design

A dear friend of mine who's a multimedia artist has finally, after much encouragement, opened an Etsy shop featuring his jewelry designs and art pieces. He's hoping to make a few small sales so he can get some reviews of his shop.

www.etsy.com/shop/marplebot