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Weather: Mostly sunny with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers in the morning, then showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Light and variable winds, becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent. Heat index values up to 110. Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
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Today at a Glance:
Separation Chat, Open Discussion: The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State hosts an open, freewheeling discussion on the topic here in our community, around Florida and throughout the United States, noon to 1 p.m. at Pine Lakes Golf Club Clubhouse Pub & Grillroom (no purchase is necessary), 400 Pine Lakes Pkwy, Palm Coast (0.7 miles from Belle Terre Parkway). Call (386) 445-0852 for best directions. All are welcome! Everyone’s voice is important. For further information email [email protected] or call Merrill at 804-914-4460.
Flagler County’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meets at 10 a.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The Lehigh Trail Advisory Board will meet immediately after the Parks and Recreation board meeting.
Local Mitigation Strategy Meeting, 10:30 a.m. at the Emergency Operations Center, Training Room B. 1769 E Moody Blvd Building 3 Bunnell. The Emergency Management staff is holding its multi-jurisdictional quarterly Local Mitigation Strategy public meeting to discuss grant funding, ongoing project progress and updates to Community Rating System program implementation efforts. Anybody interested in attending the meeting or wishing to learn more about mitigation is encouraged to attend. For meeting details/invite, please contact the County’s Emergency Management Office via e-mail or phone.
The Flagler County Public Library Book Club meets at the Meeting Room of the Palm Coast Branch Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast, from 2:45 to 4:30 p.m. No reservations are required, but please call to verify the date and time of the meeting. New members are always welcome so just show up to join in the literary fun. Today’s book: A Dog’s Purpose, by W. Bruce Cameron.
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library: Do you enjoy Chess, trying out new moves, or even like some friendly competition? Come visit the Flagler County Public Library at the Teen Spot every Wednesday from 4 to 5 p.m. for Chess Club. Everyone is welcome, for beginners who want to learn how to play all the way to advanced players. For more information contact the Youth Service department 386-446-6763 ext. 3714 or email us at [email protected]
The Circle of Light Course in Miracles study group meets at a private residence in Palm Coast every Wednesday at 1:20 PM. There is a $2 love donation that goes to the store for the use of their room. If you have your own book, please bring it. All students of the Course are welcome. There is also an introductory group at 1:00 PM. The group is facilitated by Aynne McAvoy, who can be reached at [email protected] for location and information.
 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. |
Notably: Saint Paul in 1 Corinthians 13:11: “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” And what a shame you did. What a shame that this sad abnegation by one of the grimmer influencers of human history continues to be taken so seriously. Its opposite isn’t the answer of course. We need not be children forever. But we were children once (the more innocent and idealistic reversion of We Were Soldiers Once… And Young), not to have that experience discarded, but to carry it with us, to inform our adulthood as only a childhood can. How miserable, how hollow, how pointless would our lives be if we were born adults, if we never had “childish things” to discard, if we did discard all our childish things, and lived exclusively in the prison house of adulthood? No doubt Robin Williams had a talk with Paul in the garden of Evens.
—P.T.
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Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Blue 24 Forum
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
It’s Back! Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
For the full calendar, go here.
They talked about religion, and the slack way the world was going nowadays, the decay of behavior, and about the younger children, whom these topics always brought at once to mind. On these subjects they were firm, critical, and unbewildered. They had received educations which furnished them an assured habit of mind about all the important appearances of life, and especially about the rearing of young. They relied with perfect acquiescence on the dogma that children were conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity. Childhood was a long state of instruction and probation for adult life, which was in turn a long, severe, undeviating devotion to duty; the largest part of which consisted in bringing up children. The young were difficult, disobedient, and tireless in wrongdoing, apt to turn unkind and undutiful when they grew up, in spite of all one had done for them, or had tried to do: for small painful doubts rose in them now and again when they looked at their completed works. Nannie couldn’t abide her new-fangled grandchildren. “Wuthless, shiftless lot, jes plain scum, Miss Sophia Jane; I cain’t undahstand it aftah all the raisin’ dey had.”
–From Katheryn Ann Porter’s “The Old Order” (1955).
Deborah Coffey says
Good list in the cartoon!
Pogo says
@And so it goes
https://www.google.com/search?q=childhood's+end+clarke
Pogo says
@Elsewhere
Ray W. says
A short while ago, one of the FlaglerLive contingent of gullible commenters repeated the mantra that government never makes anything better.
In 1994, the “Northridge” earthquake leveled a bridge, closing the 10 Freeway, a major Los Angeles traffic artery. Motorcycle sales skyrocketed as commuters looked for ways to get around the traffic snarls that made commutes hours longer than normal. The California government coordinated a rebuild of the entire bridge in three months. After 11 short weeks, the Port of Baltimore is now fully reopened.
These are but two of the examples of a government making a disaster, either natural or manmade, better. The gullible commenter wanted just one reason. The list will go on and on and one. Once again, he is wrong.
Mary B says
flaglerlive should be more about the news and not so much about political opinions. Always disappointing when I open the webpage for this newspaper. Real Journalism is a thing of the past.
Pierre Tristam says
Aside from their hyper partisan beginnings (the debates on the US Constitution took place in a media landscape of violently opinionated newspapers and pamphlets that would put Fox and Facebook fabrications to shame, though the Federalist Papers crinkled out of that landscape) newspapers have thankfully always had opinion sections, which the reader has been free to ignore, alongside news pages. It’s what makes it an interesting read, what makes us an interesting society, to the extent that we’re willing to be challenged. What you object to, of course, is the opinion itself, not the medium, but confusing the two has its conveniences.
Laurel says
Yes, and political cartoons have always been a big part of newsprint history.