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Connections Puzzle #933 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩

A native Californian, I still pronounce the 2nd syllable of Bethlehem as LEE.

My two favorite ceilings I've ever seen in person are King's College and Ely Cathedral.

#tec For any who missed King's College: youtu.be/O9nst98aFH4?...

When I see Netanyahu and Trump in their matching suits and ties at Maralago, the word that comes to mind is TOADY. Trump is Bibi's toady. He knows how to be a good toady: He was trained by Putin. Eventually all will croak.

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Wordle 1,654 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#tec On Holy Innocents' Day: "Receive, we pray, into the arms of your mercy, all innocent victims; and by your great might frustrate the designs of evil tyrants and establish your rule of justice, love, and peace." I think of the children in Gaza, Ukraine,....

Does one's vocal range narrow with the age? We sang some carols in church this morning that I used to be able to sing all the way through, but now I need to change octaves. (I guess that's acceptable within the Octave of the Nativity. )

Wordle 1,653 6/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PHEW!

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Connections Puzzle #930 🟦🟨🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Wordle 1,652 6/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PHEW!

Do any southern Californians other than newscasters call our region "SoCal"? I was born here in the 1940s, and I've never used that term. Growing up, I used to hear our area called "the Southland" in weather reports.

How great that the elected President of my nation is sending armed forces to kill people in Nigeria in supposed defense of Christians! I renounce and denounce the abuse of the name my only Lord to kill people with my taxes. He's an abomination.

Connections Puzzle #929 🟨🟨🟩🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟩🟦🟨 🟨🟩🟩🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟨 Today I just didn't get the connections.

Wordle 1,651 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Connections Puzzle #928 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Several years ago, before the current 'redaction' craze, I did an experiment with blacked out text in both WordPerfect and MSWord. I discovered that, if I copied blacked out text, and pasted into a blank document, it would be clear. I'm just a retired priest. The government geniuses didn't know?

#tec Did my ears deceive me, or did the Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC, just end the Prologue of John's Gospel with verse 13, thereby omitting v. 14, THE INCARNATION?

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Wordle 1,649 6/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PHEW!

youtu.be/M5LzNiy6vkU?... The words that I still sing in my soul from the 1940 Hymnal.

Southern California rain hysteria is in effect. Do other parts of the country get this on their news?

#tec and this classic While Shepherds washed their socks by night, All seated round the tub, The Angel of the the Lord came down, And gave their socks a scrub. And when their socks were squeaky clean, And sparkling like a gem, The Shepherds put them on again, And walked to Bethlehem. It goes on.

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Connections Puzzle #925 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

#tec When Advent 4 coincides with St. Thomas's eve and the solstice, it brings out some of us with certain sensitivities.

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Golly, Cher is only 3 years older than I am. "They say we're young and we don't know, won't find until we grow....." (watching SNL)

The state of the world on this eve of the Fourth Sunday of Advent is such that all my heart and brain can endure is a Guy Fieri cooking contest.

The partial release of the Epstein files is giving a whole new meaning to REDACTION CRITICISM.

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Today I saw two California Highway Patrol cars on I-605 that had pulled cars over with their blue and red lights flashing. The surprising thing was that their cars were not black and white. They were a stylish light gray, still with the CHP emblem on the sides. Have you seen this?

Connections Puzzle #922 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

I wish that TV weather ladies would wear dresses that cover their knobby knees. (I'm talking to you CBS LA.)

The name of the Kennedy Center was established by Congress, signed by the President, and is statute. Trump and his board have no authority to change it. The man is simply unclear on the concept of the law.

Salem, New Hampshire: One day I was washing my VW in front of Grace Church, Salem, Mass., where I was living on the church property for an intern year. A car drove up, and the driver asked me a direction about Salem, NH. I informed him that he was in Massachusetts. (at least it wasn't Oregon! )