Reaching Deep

Today's Tids Issue 3,630

For warmth:

While Professional golfers and high visibility NBA stars are dropping out of the Olympics, last night two true world super stars, Franklyn and Phelps drew upon every last ounce of energy in their battle tested bodies to make the USA Team. Their smiles and excitement lit up the Omaha night and then spread across the fruited plains. But let’s face it, for this old guy the Olympics were always for those individual human efforts that have and will continue to astound the world. So we lose a couple of golfers and basketball players – we still have the heroes. Go Missy. Go Michael.

Domestic violence has always been one of the most horrific of all human aggressions against one another. The dismay which grows into revulsion starts with the word “Domestic” as in safe home, spouse of my dreams, ‘for better or for worse, til death do us part”. In a flash, the violence, large or small, can shake the sanctity of human faith. And, nobody can believe it, most often the battered. How do you stop what you can’t see?

I’m still feeling the goose bumps from Missy Franklyn’s second place finish last night.

So, an Indian chief who had three pregnant wives was elated when they all gave birth within weeks of each other. The first was a boy and the chief built her a Tepee of deer hide. After giving birth to another boy, the second wife received a tepee of Antelope hide. The old chief kept secret the details of the third birth, but built a two story tepee of hippopotamus skin. He then asked his tribe to guess what occurred. All were wrong until one brave stood up and said “twin boys”, and explained how he knew, “It’s elementary: The value of the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides.” Shoot me.

The Question:

Who are considered the all time best Hudson River Valley artists? Bonus: Who are Mary Surratt and Samuel Mudd?

The Headlines:

--WS Trying To Keep Brexit rally Alive; Futures Look Mixed.

--Brexit Backer Boris Johnson Will Not Seek To Be Prime Minister.

--US On High Terror Alert For 4^th Of July Weekend.

--Istanbul Terror Planner Is Chechen With Ties To Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

--30 Killed In Kabul Bombing.

--US Air Strikes Kill 250 ISIS Fighters.

--Mountain Biker Mauled, Killed By Grizzly In Glacier National Park

Based on what I am reading, it sounds to me that Brexit could do more to reign in Hedge Funds than Elizabeth Warren could ever dream about. A free, unsubsidized market place will always find its way back to rationality, just as dark forests cleanse their overgrowth.

Writing disjointed daily Tids titles can get you in trouble. Yesterday many were looking for a Seafood Chowder recipe in the morning mess, and were disappointed. Seafood chowder recipes can be as varied as the endless seas and all life within. But here in the Ocean State we have a sense what is best. In a double broiler pan melt 3 tbs butter and cook two cut-up pieces of bacon til crisp. Remove bacon and add to drippings one large deiced Vidalia onion and 4 diced celery ribs. Cook til Onion is translucent. Stir in 2 cloves s minced garlic, 1 tbs thyme, 1 tbs blk pepper, 1 tbs smoked paprika, I tbs seafood seasoning (like Old Bay). Sprinkle atop that 1 cp flour. Cook and stir 2 mins. Now add 2 cps diced new potatoes, 1 qt seafood stock and 2 bay leaves. Cook 20-30 mins til Pots are tender and liquid thickens. Now stir in 2 (12oz ) cans evaporated milk, 2 lbs chunked cod, 1 lb bay scallops, 1 lb chopped clam meat and 1 lb peeled shrimp. Return bacon simmer til blended and garnish with parsley. 

It’s the grandchildren. When caught in compromising positions Politicians seem to be turning to their grandchildren to bail them out. Hillary deleted emails about her grandchildren and now Loretta Lynch, who is investigating Mrs. Clinton, was caught meeting for a half an hour with Mr. Clinton, In  response to here embarrassment of appearances she said they talked mainly about grandchildren. In fact, she says they never mentioned Hillary. Mrs. Lynch has been an accomplished mis-speaker in the same vein as the Clintons. Yikes.

Breakthrough:

In Google searches last week, Brexit beat out Porn! Yikes. To many, Brexit is porn.

Too many anti-courtesy people in this world are being exalted.

We all started out with ancestors wearing animal skins. Humans slowly elevated their outerwear to the point when in the 17^th to 19^th centuries people were actually overdressed, over ornate. Then for a century we began to recede away from formality til today when women are wearing less and less, and men wearing shirts outside are but a era or two away from draping animal skins again. And this morning I read a note about a movement to “Save Suits”.

How sad is it that one of the biggest operations in the Olympics is testing urine!

Have you noticed late that more and more people from new generations are taking pride in not following? Following, as in keeping up with the Jones, can be expensive. Following can lead you into waters where you are unable to swim. In following you can use too much of your own energy trying to be who you aren’t. Wait a minute; the youth who aren’t following the old into taxi cabs...are all Uberized.

I read where cities are billing Trump for the high cost of his rallies. Why don’t they bill the DNC who have been the well documented instigators of the street aggression? Oh, excuse me, the cities are democrats. I get it.

The Parking Lot: Chapter 65 continues…

   Sitting in thc darkness, the threesome heard powerful engine slow and then rumble as if searching the island for a landing spot. To a stranger the island would appear unapproachable. But, Nancy was thinking that this is no average stranger. Her biggest concern was that they would see the small inlet that led to the larger cove where they remained hidden.

   “Shine that flash light over there,” came one of the shouts. Where was over there, wondered Nancy. There was a burst of sound from the rumbling engine, and it seemed to be heading away from their end of the island. Her heart and lungs began working again. All that tome while she was keeping silent, all she could hear was the raspy breathing of Fred. To her at that moment it sounded like the 4^th Of July celebration.

   The sound of the motor stopped, meaning they had probably found place to them at least that seemed accessible. She the entire shoreline would appear forbidding to the average person. But these people were on a mission.

  In the distance she heard a splash and some swearing. She knew now from the sounds that they picked a bad spot and didn’t have chance. That would only mean they would come back around to their spot again. The motor roared, then rumbled slowly until they were soon just outside their nest. She put a hand over Fred’s mouth. His eyes popped and she put her finger to her lips.

  Sue thought she heard a scrape of a fiberglass hull meeting a rock, hope fully the ugly one just at the entrance of the inlet. Then a roar as the boat must have reversed direction.

   “This can’t be the island, she hard a familiar voice say. She tensed. The engine powered up, and the sound seemed to fade into the distance. Did they leave, did they now decide they knew who to wait for on the Mainland.

The Answer:

It is generally considered that the lush paintings of Albert Bierstadt, a New Englander, are what people visualize most when thinking of Hudson River Valley School of artists. Next is J. Alden Weir, followed by George Caleb Bingham, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Mrtin Johnson Heade, Herman Herzog, Thomas Moran, Robert S. Duncanson, Frederic Edward Church and Thomas Cole at #10 (Note: Cole is regarded as Founder of the Hudson River School, so many place him 31 because for that.).  Bonus: Mary Surratt and Dr. Samuel Mudd were two of the six conspirators arrested and sentenced in the death of Abe Lincoln. Muss received lifem and the other five were executed.

Good-bye, June. I’ll miss ye.