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Weather: Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows around 60. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight. See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Today at a Glance:
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
The Flagler County School Board meets at 1 p.m. in an information workshop. The board meets in the training room on the third floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here. The board meets again at 6 p.m. in Board Chambers on the first floor of the Government Services Building. The meetings are open to the public and include public speaking segments.
Food Truck Tuesday is presented by the City of Palm Coast on the third Tuesday of every month from March to October. Held at Central Park in Town Center, visitors can enjoy gourmet food served out of trucks from 5 to 8 p.m.–mobile kitchens, canteens and catering trucks that offer up appetizers, main dishes, side dishes and desserts. Foods to be featured change monthly but have included lobster rolls, Portuguese cuisine, fish and chips, regional American, Latin food, ice cream, barbecue and much more. Many menus are kid-friendly. Proceeds from each Food Truck Tuesday event benefits a local charity.
The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
 Keep Their Lights On Over the Holidays: Flagler Cares, the social service non-profit celebrating its 10th anniversary, is marking the occasion with a fund-raiser to "Keep the Holiday Lights On" by encouraging people to sponsor one or more struggling household's electric bill for a month over the Christmas season. Each sponsorship amounts to $100 donation, with every cent going toward payment of a local power bill. See the donation page here. Every time another household is sponsored, a light goes on on top of a house at Flagler Cares' fundraising page. The goal of the fun-raiser, which Flagler Cares would happily exceed, is to support at least 100 families (10 households for each of the 10 years that Flagler Cares has been in existence). Flagler Cares will start taking applications for the utility fund later this month. Because of its existing programs, the organization already has procedures in place to vet people for this type of assistance, ensuring that only the needy qualify. |
Trial notes: In addition to its inherent repugnance (Rommel and his friends’ failed 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler aside), an assassination has the perpetual side effect of preserving the assassin’s name in the memory of the assassinated, like perpetual guano on the tombstone: Ravaillac and Henry IV, Charlotte Corday and Marat (difficult though it is entirely to fault Corday), John Wilkes Booth and Lincoln, Lee Harvey Oswald and Kennedy, James Earl Ray and Martin Luther King. And what’s with these triumviral names for American assassins? They would be better remembered as numbers. But isn’t it the same for more ordinary murders? How is the murderer not forever wedded to his victim in ways no other earthly memory could possibly stain him? The Inhuman Stain: the sequel Roth never wrote. The killer’s name, who will usually live on, at large or in prison, if he’s not himself murdered by the state, will always be associated with his victim’s name, to the dismay of the surviving family. And how much of a murder trial is an extended funeral, a eulogy by other means, with the jury made into the victim’s family for that stretch, given the option of vengefulness as the defense is given the duty to refute, deny, ridicule, defame and smear if necessary?
—P.T.
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Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
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Verily, Life is more awful than Death; and let no man, though his live heart beat in him like a cannon—let him not hug his life to himself; for, in the predestinated necessities of things, that bounding life of his is not a whit more secure than the life of a man on his death-bed. To-day we inhale the air with expanding lungs, and life runs through us like a thousand Niles; but to-morrow we may collapse in death, and all our veins be dry as the Brook Kedron in a drought.
–From Melville’s White-Jacket (1850).
Pogo says
@P.T., regarding Melville’s White-Jacket
I meant to post a comment yesterday, but age, CHF, dimming vision, and the whirlpool known as the inertnet prevailed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-Jacket
Add to that just this — imagine Melville, or anyone, manning a yard in Drake’s passage:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Drake%27s+passage