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That will happen December 7, when once again the scrolling ironwork doors will open to the public! https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/ppujnjsopi5riu2co65iz1mfjyb1vktps/wwwjustalittlegoodnewscom/blog-2-1/twas-the-night-before-christmas monthly 0.5 2024-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/eac31cb4-091d-42d9-bfda-607571a09b6d/Image.jpeg Welcome - “You did it to me.” - Last night I heard a story from my friend Mary Beth, that I’d like to share. Mary Beth said last Wednesday she was volunteering at One Generation Away, https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/monday-missivestps/wwwjustalittlegoodnewscom/blog-2-1/twas-the-night-before-christmas monthly 0.5 2024-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/9ff11e54-37e3-42b8-8439-009e269b6c44/HuffsMarket.jpeg Welcome - Monday Missives - Huff’s Grocery Hammocks, Huff’s and Hummingbirds. 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That’s 329,203,020,898,253,600,000 miles. 329 quintillion miles equates to 688,995,312,997,877 round trips to the moon. Get it? I can’t. https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/music-has-the-power-to-synchronize-our-heart-beatstps monthly 0.5 2023-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/6b50cee1-1edb-43b4-9f37-a9eb7f97f834/violins.jpeg Welcome - Music has the Power to Synchronize our Heart Beats - Classical Music has the power to adjust our body’s rhythms. https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/whatifjesus monthly 0.5 2023-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/cf4aa601-4c9b-4298-9bac-7bc152683613/Jesus-Loves-Me-72px.jpg Welcome - What if… - What if today, just for today, we all decided that we are going to take Jesus seriously? Like really seriously. https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/revivalnewagain monthly 0.5 2023-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/3104c764-3512-42de-b6e0-6c4c186055fe/E6D89213-10FF-4438-9CCE-D2688383C7A6.jpg Welcome - Revival Is New Again - Asbury University Likely, you have heard about the revival that has just concluded after two weeks of near continuous worship at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. What began as a routine chapel service February 8th turned into days and nights of prayer, praise and power. The assistant soccer coach who also works with the school’s mission team lead a chapel talk about love in action. A handful of students stayed behind after service and just kept praying and singing. They reported “an unexplainable surreal sense of peace” enveloped the room. Soon more students, faculty and locals drifted back in. Friends told friends and ultimately 50,000 people found their way to Wilmore, KY (a town of 6.000) to see, feel and participate in what (or Who) was happening in the 1500 seat auditorium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/753dccd4-e3c2-47a6-8293-526fe78c40e8/1BB027EF-293D-4A93-A6AA-9E4E14C0AA3C_4_5005_c.jpeg Welcome - Revival Is New Again - E.M. Bounds was serving as the minister at the Methodist Church at the time of this revival. This was not his first stint in Franklin. His first time to Franklin was as the Chaplain in General John Bell Hood’s Army of Tennessee. On November 30, 1864 he ran headlong into the bullets and cannon balls with the confederates soldiers at the bloody Battle of Franklin. (He was, by the way, opposed to slavery.) Bounds was captured by the Union Army and forced to dig mass graves for the fallen after the battle. Ultimately he was released and went home to Missouri, but he couldn’t forget about the heartbreak in Franklin. Bounds asked to return as the minister to the Methodist Church in Franklin. When he arrived he found the church in a “wretched state.” He gathered a small group of men who prayed on the Square every Tuesday night for revival in the Church and in Franklin. And then it happened. Revival came to Franklin and the church grew from a few members to over 500. (Remember only 900 people lived in Franklin then.) According the local papers at the time, the entire town was transformed by the revival. E. M. Bounds https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/killing-the-worm monthly 0.5 2023-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/1f1b7e74-980c-4eac-a803-188613e25df1/B3BFC5E9-06CD-4C1B-A780-EB2EA046D64D_1_201_a.jpeg Welcome - Killing the Worm - Toting clean water from the well dug by Save The Children. The problem of drinking unsafe water is improving for millions. https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/its-international-tongue-twister-day monthly 0.5 2022-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/7da697e8-0a45-42d3-b830-97a6faaf2b2b/79D858BB-9859-47ED-9064-A7AD169A549D_4_5005_c.jpg Welcome - It’s International Tongue Twister Day! - In honor of International Tongue Twister Day, let’s spare a moment for one of our favorite linguistic challenges. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/greyhound-training-to-dog-saving monthly 0.5 2022-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/b9e63344-9489-4a48-ba72-db45448e9701/7907C1AC-E33D-4B73-9178-BE49B7D3A022.jpg Welcome - Greyhound Training to Dog Saving - I love a story of redemption. This is that kind of story. Hang with me. Meet Aspen. She’s available for adoption. Read on…. https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/justalittlegoodnews/wildlifephotographer monthly 0.5 2022-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/90a35e26-98ff-4c09-a3b3-eea2dd111c66/1D2A5A4B-8338-4751-8BD3-9F4470775BA7.jpeg Welcome - 2022 Wildlife Photographer of the Year - Make it stand out This year’s winner, Karine Aigner lives in Washington D.C. and captured bees rolling through the Texas sands in a romantic tryst that I guess only bees really understand. https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/today-is-american-indian-day-in-tennesseetps monthly 0.5 2022-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/1664240314603-IHML1301W3H9F8X3SI36/unsplash-image-t6t2-gXKxXM.jpg Welcome - Today is American Indian Day in Tennessee - …And appropriately so because Tennessee we are surrounded by the history of our native predecessors. As you likely know, even the name Tennessee comes from Cherokee roots, meaning, “Where the river bends.” However the story of the indigenous people in our corner of the world begins much earlier. https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/in-the-words-of-the-espn-announcer-what-a-stud monthly 0.5 2022-09-02 https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/june-16-international-day-of-the-african-child monthly 0.5 2022-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/481af1a7-3439-4e2e-9e61-013d06f16fbd/IMG_0964.jpg Welcome - June 16, International Day of the African Child - Over 400 Million Children Live on the African Continent. By the age of 15, only 40% will be enrolled in school. When Tony and I were in Karonsa, Malawi on a Habitat for Humanity trip, we played games with the village children during breaks. The local Habitat leaders told us to be careful to retrieve all soccer balls and toys after each of our recesses because if the kids had a soccer ball they wouldn’t go to school. That was in 2013. Those children are young men and women now. I wonder what happened to the little boy who played tic-tac-toe in the dirt with Tony? What about the dozens of children who would strike a pose at the sight of a camera and then shrill with excitement when I flipped it around for them to see their image? Statistically speaking, in Malawi, only 35% will have completed Primary School. (The teacher to student ratio for first grade is 1:130.) Of those, only 8% will complete Secondary education. While Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world, the statistics across the Continent are not tremendously better. 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(And me with a cheesy grin.) https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/memorial-day2022-npzbs monthly 0.5 2022-05-30 https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/may-12-international-nurses-day monthly 0.5 2022-05-15 https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/unplanned-profession monthly 0.5 2022-03-28 https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/ellen-and-william-crafttps/wwwjustalittlegoodnewscom/blog-2-1/twas-the-night-before-christmas monthly 0.5 2022-03-28 https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/happynewyear2022 monthly 0.5 2022-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/57799662-c003-4032-befe-fe2c9768f5f8/GettyImages-480397804-595d936c1d824250b5ca6ade1c55fdb8.jpg Welcome - Happy New Year - Beginnings and Endings Over the centuries there have been a host of dates that represent “New Year’s Day”. The Egyptians began their new year on the fall equinox and the Greeks turned the calendar at the winter solstice. When Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar in 46BC, he named January 1 as the first day of the year. This made a lot of sense as the month, Januarius, is named for the god, Janus. Janus boasts two faces, one looking to the past the other to the future. During medieval times, European Christians chose the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25th) to kick off a new year. However, in 1582 Pope Gregory XIII reestablished January 1st and that pretty much brought the matter to a close for the Western World. https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/veterans-day2021/wwwjustalittlegoodnewscom monthly 0.5 2021-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/7a3ec90b-0d3f-437b-9aa4-5b3bf8cc3ae4/tempImagegF9HYl.jpg Welcome - Veterans Day - With Gratitude This little blog today was supposed to be 3 things you may not know about Veterans Day. Since I know those now, I’ll share them. #1. According to the Defense Department Veterans Day has no apostrophe. They should know. #2. Veterans Day was originally named Armistice Day commemorating the truce signed on November 11, 1918 to officially end “The War to End all Wars.” But of course it didn’t; so in 1954 the name was changed to Veterans Day to honor the service women and men from WWII and the Korean War. #3. In 1971 the Uniform Holiday Bill moved Veterans Day to the 4th Monday in October. It was very confusing and no one really liked it so in 1975 President Gerald Ford signed a law retuning Veterans Day back to November 11th because historically that makes sense. https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/the-giving-garden monthly 0.5 2021-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/1626658567392-XL8LH1GKT6EAKA846XNX/Lynn_Cynthia_Wallace.jpeg Welcome - The Giving Garden - Lynn and Cynthia Wallace As I stood with Sarah McGingley under a July sun, surrounded by zinnias, sunflowers, basil, sage and thyme, looking over an acre of potato hills and 20 volunteers picking squash and tying tomato vines all around, I’m speechless (a rare incident). Sarah is fielding questions from volunteers about where to place boxes, who is volunteering and how high the tomato vines should be , I’m still speechless. Every day, I drive pass the 107 acres of green expanse owned by Franklin First United Methodist Church (FFUMC) with no idea that tucked behind century old oaks and maples is The Giving Garden. What is The Giving Garden? As the name implies, it’s a 5-acre garden filled with squash, zucchini, tomatoes, carrots, okra, green beans, spinach, kale, onions, peas, potatoes and lots of other stuff your Mama said was good for you. There’s also herbs and flowers all grown for the expressed purpose of giving away. Having begun as a pumpkin patch in 2009, today The Giving Garden provides partners like Community Child Care, Meals on Wheels, Graceworks, Second Harvest Food Bank, One Generation Away, Daughters of the King and many more with healthy, organically cultivated produce. A few statistics about The Giving Garden: 20 tons – the amount of produce given away each year 6,000 - the number of plants started each year 100s - the number of vases of flowers given to people who receive Meals on Wheels 700 – the number of sweet potato shoots eaten by deer in just one night (apparently doing God’s work does not mean He stops the deer from enjoying the fruits of your labor) https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/have-you-met-freddie-figgers monthly 0.5 2021-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/1623434025713-EW41IBP8L6A2D1T9UV1Q/Freddie_Figgers_Child.jpg Welcome - Have you met Freddie Figgers? - Freddie was born September 26, 1989 and abandoned beside a dumpster the same day. When Freddie was two days old, Foster parents, Nathan and Bettie Figgers welcomed Freddie to their home. The Figgers had fostered many children, but adopted Freddie. Nathan, a maintenance man and Bettie, a farm worker, gave the little boy a loving home. In addition to fostering children, the Figgers fed the homeless and helped-out strangers in their town of Quincy, Florida. https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/memorial-day monthly 0.5 2021-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/1622464262675-AI9GH2WS0K2ZEG39PGTK/6F321DF0-FA83-40B2-B532-47E6C21D3757.jpeg Welcome - Memorial Day - Thank you. To every mother who didn't know it was the last hug, to every father who squinted back stinging tears, to every brother and sister, thank you. To every husband and every wife, who held a perfectly folded-triangular flag in one arm and a child in the other, thank you. To every best friend who remembers the last beer, the last fishing trip, the last football game, thank you. And for every child who knew his mom or dad only by the stories they’ve been told, thank you. To everyone who loved someone who paid the ultimate price, thank you. https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/in-honor-of-world-bee-day monthly 0.5 2021-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/1621629447903-5QXGTVYQQQ0E14KUI3GN/evening%2Bprimrose%2Bflowers.jpg Welcome - In Honor of World Bee Day (May 20th) - This Just In…. Flowers Can Hear and Dance! According to a study conducted in Israel, some flowering plants can sense when a bee is near them and produce extra nectar in anticipation of the meeting! Professor Lilach Hadany, a researcher at Tel Aviv University, conducted experiments exposing Evening primroses to 5 different sound options: Silence, computer generated noises at 3 different frequencies and the sound of a honey bee at 4 inches away from the plant. With the first 4 options, there was no change in the flower’s nectar. However, within 3 minutes of playing the recorded bee sounds to the Evening primrose the sugar concentration in the nectar increased from between 12% and 17% to 20%. The study has been reproduced indoors and out and in different seasons. Further research, using a laser virbrometer, found that the flowers vibrate to match the sounds of the bee recordings. Marine Veits, co-author of the study, points out that, “This specific flower is bowl-shaped, so acoustically speaking, it makes sense that this kind of structure would vibrate and increase the vibration within itself.” https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/mothers-day monthly 0.5 2021-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/1620255801523-GMRLONGNW91235X5Y0YL/grotesque+2.jpg Welcome - Mother’s Day - Mother’s Day Gifts That Are Not From Hallmark According to Statista.com, Americans will spend 28 billion dollars on Mother’s Day this year. Of course every penny is deserved and then some. But if you haven’t acquired the perfect gift for Mom, I have a little good news, I have found some fantastic last minute suggestions. These ideas are mostly inspired by searching for my mom’s gift. My mom is 86. She is done with collecting stuff. So I’ve been searching for non-stuff gifts. You might find something you like here too. https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/six-steps-to-a-better-brain monthly 0.5 2021-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/1617044344061-1Z5LKI1162DPB1MV0B7P/brainpower_clipart.jpg Welcome - Six Steps to a Better Brain To be honest, sometimes I worry about my loss of memory. I sidestep introducing people in a casual conversation for fear of getting the name wrong. Sometimes I avoid inquiring about someone’s relative in the event they’ve died and I’ve forgotten. Yep — that’s happened - it’s awkward. At a party (they’ll be back) an old friend will say, “Do you remember back when we…..?” I nod, smile and lie, “Of course, who could forget that?” Me. So, reading Professor James Goodwin’s comments in The Telegraph is MORE than just a little good news! It’s great news! According to his new book, Supercharge Your Brain, it’s not only possible to protect our brains from aging, “we can continue to grow new brain cells throughout our entire life.” My unqualified scientific response: Yippee! https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/stpatricksday monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/1616022205943-BC0QS9NGWOO8Y4MF53LP/statue-of-st-patrick-lough-derg-county-donegal-ireland-521934752-58ab39285f9b58a3c9cc1879.jpg Welcome - 10 Things to know about Saint Patrick - Everyone loves Saint Patrick’s Day! It’s about, shamrocks, leprechauns and green beer. Does that have anything to do with the real Saint Patrick? Here’s 10 quick facts about the actual Saint Patrick. https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/helperstps/wwwjustalittlegoodnewscom monthly 0.5 2021-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/1614294593273-482QYM6URJB0GRSTYS2Q/Image%2B2-25-21%2Bat%2B5.02%2BPM.jpg Welcome - Helpers Chelsea, like many others have found out there are some really good helpers!. https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/covidcreativity monthly 0.5 2021-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/1612376842290-25F1UV2M1PF7ZER6CIKW/wizardmakery1.jpg Welcome - Creativity during COVID - Meet Nickie Lewis Mama Emerald protecting her dragon eggs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/1612377629405-4P9QBE6TG0NWCZZWCM7Z/ladyinred.jpg Welcome - Creativity during COVID - Meet Rania Matar Photographer Rania Matar lives in Massachusetts. When she and her neighbors found themselves confined to their homes because of COVID, the artist, like most of us, still needed to connect with others and still needed to create. Ms. Matar offered to photograph neighbors through their ground floor windows and doors. The incredibly accomplished artist captured over 100 socially distanced portraits. According to her interview with The Art Newspaper, Ms. Matar says, “It proved to me that people were really craving human connection on some level." 27 of the works of art are on exhibit at Cornell Fine Arts Museum in Winter Park, FL. You can also see many of these evocative works on Rania Matar's Instagram . https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/laughingstockfarm12021 monthly 0.5 2021-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/1610400402476-DPWHAVTVKA426NB22MMZ/laughing_stock_farm.jpg Welcome - Did you hear about Laughing Stock Farm? When restaurants in Freeport, Maine, were closed due to COVID, Laughing Stock Farm was in serious jeopardy. https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/twas-the-night-before-christmas monthly 0.5 2020-12-24 https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/advent-101 monthly 0.5 2020-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/1607397427662-6UKVAATLEQ2GYAEFP0MT/image.jpeg Welcome - Advent 101 - What’s the Big Deal About Advent? Yesterday marked the second Sunday of Advent. The theme was peace. 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This love affair is with an organic vegetable box that’s delivered to my doorstep weekly. I’ve learned new recipes, even tried a new veg I’ve never had before (Romanesco, like a little green, spikey cauliflower) and am eating a lot healthier as a result. I’m grateful for fresh, organic, mostly English veg delivered to my home to feed my body and nurture my love of cooking which had been waning.” https://www.justalittlegoodnews.com/welcome/week-of-thanksgiving monthly 0.5 2020-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d4a7d7b72cb33ce9df753/1606269884565-XKPVHD6SV2RPDTA1YUL6/Tisha.jpg Welcome - Week of Thanksgiving… - “An Unexpected Blessing” Tisha ODowd told me she is grateful for the opportunity to make her dream come true even in a pandemic. 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