We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.
Nice antique village, probably touristy in season but not in October. Eating places in France do not serve before 7 or 730. Kinda late for Americans.
Supper at a brasserie, not a fancy place, in Sarlat, officially Sarlat-la-Caneda. That's 3 hunks of sateed foie gras on the right, a pile of sliced taters roasted in duck fat. The bread in Perigord Noir tends to be walnut bread.
19:1 He entered Jericho and was passing through it.
19:2 A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich.
19:3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature.
19:4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way.
19:5 When
Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus,
hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today."
19:6 So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him.
19:7 All who saw it began to grumble and said, "He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner."
19:8 Zacchaeus
stood there and said to the Lord, "Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I
will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I
will pay back four times as much."
19:9 Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham.
19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost."
The basic French sandwich is a baguette sliced horizontally with a thin spread of Dijon mustard on one half, butter on the other half, with a slice or two of ham and thin slices of gruyere cheese.
That's fine if you're hungry, but an open-faced grilled version in a cafe is better. I had two of these in the past 10 days. Delicious lunch.
Here's how to make it: Grill an American white bread in a pan with plenty of butter, on one side only. Put a small layer of ham, then top with a generous layer of cheese. Many choices of cheese to use. Then put under a broiler until the top turns brown.
That's it. Here's one I had last week:
If you want to go more complicated, there is the famous Croque Monsieur
4:6 As for me, I am already being poured out as a libation, and the time of my departure has come.
4:7 I have fought the good fight; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.
4:8 From
now on there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the
Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on that day, and not only to me
but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
4:16 At my first defense no one came to my support, but all deserted me. May it not be counted against them!
4:17 But
the Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that through me the
message might be fully proclaimed and all the gentiles might hear it. So
I was rescued from the lion's mouth.
4:18 The Lord will rescue me
from every evil attack and save me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be
the glory forever and ever. Amen.
31:27 The days are
surely coming, says the LORD, when I will sow the house of Israel and
the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals.
31:28 And
just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to
overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build
and to plant, says the LORD.
31:29 In those days they shall no longer say: "The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge."
31:30 But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of the one who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge.
31:31 The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.\31:32It
will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I
took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt--a covenant
that they broke, though I was their husband, says the LORD.
31:33 But
this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after
those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will
write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my
people.
31:34 No longer shall they teach one another or say to
each other, "Know the LORD," for they shall all know me, from the least
of them to the greatest, says the LORD, for I will forgive their
iniquity and remember their sin no more.
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