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The Power of Grandma’s: LWIL November 15 -November 21

The Power of Grandma’s: LWIL November 15 -November 21

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:11 am by Mark Wilson

The Power of Grandma’s: LWIL November 15 -November 21 2022-11-30T01:11:38-05:00 Mark Wilson

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Last Week In Life:

November 15, 2021-November 21, 2021

National Young Readers Week

Last Week’s SPECTACULAR STORY OF WEEK

The Power of Grandma’s

Recently science has caught up with what generations have known since the beginning of reported time.

That Grandmothers have a supernatural power granted to them from the creator. It enables them to love children, especially grandchildren in a way that nobody else can. The Proceedings of the Royal Society B published a study by a crack team of researchers at Emory University. They used an MRI to take neural snapshots of 50 Grannies as they viewed pictures of their own grandkids and their own natural children. This is what they found out.

Grandmothers’ brains lit up at the emotional empathy center when they saw pictures of their grandkids in an imaging study.
They react with less emotional activation when viewing photos of their own children as adults.
Scientists have hypothesized that having a grandma close by is beneficial for everyone involved.

Brain scans show grandmas really do feel more affection toward their grandkids than their adult children, scientists say (yahoo.com)

A real life example of the unique power of grandmas is exemplified in the case of Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench. Grandma Wanda was trying to text her grandson regarding thanksgiving dinner. Her love of her grandson and her lack of no-how of the modern world of cyber things lead to the text to the wrong person who is Jamal back in 2016. He ended up coming over for thanksgiving dinner anyway. He knew he wasn’t really invited but he asked to stay for dinner, into which Grandma Wanda said to him… “Of course you can, That’s what grandmas do … feed everyone!” And he has been coming over ever since. Last year unfortunately Grandma Wanda lost Grandpa Lonnie to Covid. She had it also but survived for another thanksgiving. RIP Lonnie. Grandma and man she mistakenly texted reuniting for sixth Thanksgiving.

Inside every grandma is a small child that wants to be cared for by grandma. The best way to explain this is the Gerber baby. The cute little Gerber Baby is the trademark logo of the Gerber Products Company, an American purveyor of baby food and baby products. The cute little darling you see on all their products was drawn by artist Dorothy Hope Smith. The Gerber Baby was modeled after Ann Turner Cook. And she just turned 95 on November 20. When Grandmas love children their really loving the child they once were. Ms. Cook is a American mystery novelist, which gives our example more clout because the bond between babies, grandkids, other’s kids, and grandmas may be detectable by science but still remains a mystery that only writers and poets and grandkids can understand.

The original Gerber Baby is celebrating her 95th birthday

Ann and Joachim,
Did you hold the baby boy in your arms?
And cradle him to sleep?

Did you take him on walks?
To see the majestic world surrounding you.

Did you celebrate the high holy days with him each year?
Did you watch him grow from boy to man?
Did you make his favorite foods on special occasions?

Oh why do we know so little of you?
As for me, I had 4 grandparents
They watched me grow from a little girl to a grown woman
And they were there for me.

While I’m sure you were loving and caring
I’m not sure what it would be like to be
grandmother and grandfather to our loving savior
The Lord Jesus Christ
Who is King of the Universe.
-Kristin ‘The Carmelite’ Wilson O.C.D.S

Last Week’s Other Stories, Articles and Things

A friend of mine on Facebook (that would be the Catholic Bard) recently tagged on my page a short YouTube clip of Dr. Ralph Martin being interviewed by Matt Fradd on his podcast “Pints with Aquinas.” The topic was Bishop Robert Barron (again) and his alleged soft-peddling of the necessity of faith in Christ for salvation. You can access the video clip here. I was not going to respond to the many distortions of Barron’s views in the video since I have already previously blogged on Ralph Martin’s baseless accusations against the good Bishop, but the latest video does deserve a response and so here I am. Dr. Ralph Martin’s Obsession with Bishop Robert Barron. A Response to his Latest Video – Gaudium et Spes 22

Larry Chapp answers FB prompts so you and I don’t have to. Even if you’re not following this intra-Catholic brouhaha, you’ll want to read this for the fun of it. Who knew damnation could be so exhilarating?-Christopher R. Altieri

Tito Edwards – NCRegister The Best In Catholic Blogging

This Week on

Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

MYS181: Fifty years ago, Dan Cooper boarded a short flight to Seattle and then hijacked the plane. After getting $200,000 in ransom, he parachuted out of the plane, never to be seen again. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask who he really was, how he pulled off the plot, and what happened to him after.

D.B. Cooper: The Hijacker Who Got Away

FEAST DAYS ,HOLIDAYS AND LAST WEEK IN HISTORY

WinCalendar: Calendars, Holidays, Days & Today

Monday November 15, 2021

[Saint Albert the Great, Bishop and Doctor of the Church]

Odd Socks Day

I Love to Write Day

Top news stories on this day

Astroworld Festival disaster: 9-year-old Ezra Blount is 10th concertgoer to die as a result of Travis Scott concert - ABC13 Houston

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

First Stock Ticker Debuts – HISTORY

1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
2013 – Sony releases the PlayStation 4 (PS4) game console.

Tuesday November 16, 2021

[Saint Margaret of Scotland; Saint Gertrude, Virgin

National Button Day

Top news stories on this day

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

Fransisco Pizarro Traps Incan Emperor Atahualpa – HISTORY

1871 – The National Rifle Association receives its charter from New York State.
1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

Wednesday November 17, 2021

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious Memorial

National Unfriend Day

National Homemade Bread Day

Top news stories on this day

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

Elizabethan Age Begins – HISTORY

1894 – H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
1896 – The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh’s Schenley Park Casino.
1947 – The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
1962 – President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.
1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors “I am not a crook.”
2003 – Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s tenure as the governor of California began.
2019 – The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.

Thursday November 18, 2021

[The Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles;
USA: Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, Virgin]

National Princess Day

Apple Cider Day

World Philosophy Day

Top news stories on this day

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

Mass Suicide at Jonestown – HISTORY

326 – The old St. Peter’s Basilica is consecrated by Pope Sylvester I.
1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
1626 – The new St Peter’s Basilica is consecrated.
1872 – Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women are arrested for voting illegally in the United States presidential election of 1872.
1910 – In their campaign for women’s voting rights, hundreds of suffragettes march to the British Parliament in London. Several are beaten by police, newspaper attention embarrasses the authorities, and the march is dubbed Black Friday.
2012 – Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria becomes the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
2013 – NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.

Friday November 19, 2021

National Play Monopoly Day

World Toilet Day

Top news stories on this day

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

Lincoln Delivers Gettysburg Address – HISTORY

1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico)
1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the “Ocean of Storms”) and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
2004 – The worst brawl in NBA history results in several players being suspended. Several players and fans are charged with assault.

Saturday November 20, 2021

National Adoption Day

National Peanut Butter Fudge Day

National Absurdity Day

Top news stories on this day

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

Nuremberg Trials Begin – HISTORY

1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville‘s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)
1900 – The French actress Sarah Bernhardt receives the press at the Savoy Hotel in New York at the outset of her first visit since 1896. She informed about her impending tour with a troupe of more then 50 performers and her plans to play the title role in Hamlet.
1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, is released.
1998 – The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Sunday November 21, 2021

OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE

Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Memorial

National Gingerbread Cookie Day

Bishop Barron’s Homily of the Week

Top news stories on this day

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

Millions tune in to find out who shot J.R. – HISTORY

1920 – Irish War of Independence: On “Bloody Sunday” in Dublin, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) assassinated a group of British Intelligence agents, and British forces killed 14 civilians at a Gaelic football match at Croke Park.
1953 – The Natural History Museum, London announces that the “Piltdown Man” skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
1964 – Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church‘s ecumenical council closes.

POPE FRANCIS’S FAMOUS LAST WEEK’S WORDS

I originally had something here. But sometimes when you post pictures they disappear for some reason.

A Chance To Do A Work Of Mercy

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Tunes I Came Across Last Week

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Book Titles I Came Across Last Week

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The Greatest Philosopher Who Ever Lived by Peter Kreeft

St. Dymphna’s Playbook: A Catholic Guide to Finding Mental and Emotional Well by Tommy Tighe

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

by Nikole Hannah-Jones (Creator), The New York Times Magazine (Creator), Caitlin Roper (Editor), Ilena Silverman (Editor), Jake Silverstein (Editor)

Will by Will Smith (Author), Mark Manson

New and Old Movies/TV I Came Across Last Week

November Movie Eternals | Mark Wilson (patheos.com)

Thursday, Nov. 18
Star Trek: Discovery: Season 4, Paramount+

Friday, Nov. 19

93% King Richard (2021) HBO Max

The Wheel of Time: Season 1, Amazon Prime Video

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

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