Juneteenth Weather: A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 9am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 89. Light and variable wind becoming northeast 9 to 14 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Sunday Night: a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 5am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 76. Breezy, with an east wind 9 to 15 mph.
Today at the Editor’s Glance:
MySDC KidZ Jamboree: From the organizers: “It’s a Kids Field Day Event. Loads of Food, Music, Games with a splash of real FUN. Come One, Come ((ALL))Ages 4-16yrs of old. Chaperones and Game Attendants are encouraged. This event is to Welcome all Children Ages 2yrs-16yrs old to get involved! Parents we are inviting you to sign you children up to consistent activity both educational & beneficially active in their very own age group. We are encouraging positive surroundings of great friends that promote brilliance through an Alfa Club whom sponsor dreams that really do come true. COME OUT AND LAUGH!!, MEET!!. GREET!!, EAT & WIN!!” James F. Holland Memorial Park, 18 Florida Park Drive, Palm Coast, noon to 5 p.m.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 1 to 4 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Notably: Today is Juneteenth, which marks the emancipation of enslaved persons in Texas in 1865. Juneteenth is now a national holiday, observed on Monday. It is the birthday of Blaise Pascal (1623), who gave us that famous bet: that you supposedly lose nothing by believing in God, but lose plenty in case you don’t believe, and God were to exist. Which evokes what the English writer Julian Barnes wrote about the attacks on Richard Hawkins for his atheism: “Behind the excess, and the misrepresentation, of the attack, you can smell the fear. Believe in what I believe–believe in God, and purpose, and the promise of eternal life–because the alternative is fucking terrifying.” More existential thoughts in the daily quote below.
Now this:
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Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
“It is a matter of record that in our thirty-six years of life in a nuclear-armed world we have been largely dead to the nuclear peril, and I would like to consider more closely what this failure of response seems to have been doing to our world. Pascal, taking note of the cerebral character of the condition of mortality, once observed that “it is easier to endure death without thinking about it than to endure the thought of death without dying.” His observation perfectly describes our response so far to the peril of extinction: we have found it much easier to dig our own grave than to think about the fact that we are doing so. Almost everyone has acknowledged on some level that the peril exists, but the knowledge has been without consequences in our feelings and our actions, and the superpowers have proceeded with their nuclear buildups, in the recent words of George Kennan,
“like the victims of some sort of hypnotism, like men in a dream, like lemmings heading for the sea.”
–From Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth (1982).
Pogo says
@And it is Father’s Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDxJrggie8
“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”
― C.S. Lewis