Ronettes - Be My Baby

So uber cool!

those outfits
their cool dancing 

(well maybe not those ones in the back so much)

The LAST video ! ! ! extra long, extra fun

drum roll please... we have reached the last of the videos #44 (can you believe it? Thank you the brilliant Jonathan at Zondervan!)

Since it is the final one plus since it is extra long we incorporated lots of different scenes from past stories. Can you spot them? Who can guess which stories they are from?

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Now

"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin" Ivan Turgenev 

better get started...

Is Central Park on the Upper West Side?

via NYT

Since 1838, Fifth Avenue has been the central dividing line between the East and West Side of Manhattan.

Except look at this bus stop sign that says it's West and the street sign that says it's East. Apparently it depends on which side of Fifth Avenue you are on. And this sign is on the west side of Fifth Avenue so actually it's still West.

Is the West Side of 5th Avenue the West Side of Manhattan?

(I am sure it is) And in which case, technically, Central Park is on the Upper West Side.

I knew there were lots of reasons to live on the UWS versus the UES. ANd now we get to claim CP!

(BTW: yesterday was the 200th birthday of the Manhattan Street Grid! Created by John Randel. Happy Street Grid Randel Day)

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wellington boot inspection

(photo: Wellington Boot Inspection, 1939)

Everyone's been wearing them in New York. Even out to dinner. They come in patterns and bright colors and with cozy fleece liners.

But it used to be you'd only see Hunter wellies on Brits accessorized with Barbour and muddy field and the occasional pheasant. (Sorry. I still can't get my head round the Wellies out to dinner thing.) 

As someone put it: "I have a friend who says that when you see those things on someone, you know they know what they're doing." Best most famous of those being the Queen herself.

But that's not true anymore since we all of us are wearing them now. Unless we all of us actually know what we're doing, do we?

What I want to know is: why are they being inspected? what is she looking for? and when is the next inspection and where should I bring mine?

Oh and how can I get one of those with the number on?

look carefully now

Akira Kurosawa, the great film director, was 13 when the Great Kanto earthquake hit in 1923 destroying Yokohama, three fifths of Tokyo, and killing nearly 150,000 people. His older brother Heigo Kurosawa (16 at the time) took Akira to see the devastation. It was something Akira never forgot:

"My brother once forced me to spend a day wandering through Tokyo looking at the victims of the Great Kanto earthquake..." Kurosawa told an interviewer in 1993, 70 years after it struck. "Corpses piled on bridges, corpses blocking off a whole street at the intersection, corpses displaying every manner of death possible to human beings. When I involuntarily looked away, my brother scolded me, 'Akira, look carefully now.' When that night I asked my brother why he made me look at those terrible sights, he replied: 'If you shut your eyes to a frightening sight, you end up being frightened. If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.' With my camera, like Dostoyevsky with his prose, I have tried to force the audience--which is often unwilling--to look carefully now."

bedtime story

mom (Monica) reading to Presley (looking at her mom) and Finley (in mom's lap)

via @jpokluda

(Thanks Jonathan!)

JSB Give-Away!

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The Jesus Storybook Bible is my absolute favorite children's bible story book. The illustrations are so gorgeous!  But the best part of the story is how it shows the presence of Christ throughout every Old Testament story. This is a book that every Christian family should have for their children... Since reading it to Micah and Mia, they have begun to see even more how Christ is present in their lives today and that is my highest priority as their mom." Hayley