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Weather: Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around 5 mph. Sunday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
Grace Community Food Pantry distribution is cancelled today.
 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: These few lines from the early essays of Montaigne have some resonance today. Change “kings” to “presidents,” and you’re set: “We owe subjection and obedience equally to all kings, for that concerns their office; but we do not owe esteem, any more than affection, except to their virtue. Let us make this concession to the political order: to suffer them patiently if they are unworthy, to conceal their vices, to abet them by commending their indifferent actions if their authority needs our support. But, our dealings over, it is not right to deny to justice and to our liberty the expression of our true feelings, and especially to deny good subjects the glory of having reverently and faithfully served a master whose imperfections were so well known to them, and thus to deprive posterity of such a useful example.” Just as useful, from a subsequent essay: “”Lying is an accursed vice. It is only our words which bind us together and make us human. If we realized the horror and weight of lying, we would see that it is more worthy of the stake than other crimes. … Once let the tongue acquire the habit of lying and it is astonishing how impossible it is to make it give it up.” Gore Vidal found Montaigne “consoling.” We are about to need a whole lot of that consolation.Â
—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.
No serious American novelist has ever had any real sense of audience. C. P. Snow made the point that he would, given a choice, prefer to be a writer in England to a writer in America because, for better or worse, the Establishment of his country would read him and know him as he knew them, as the Greek dramatists knew and were known by their city’s audience. One cannot imagine the American president, any American president, reading a work by a serious contemporary American writer. This lack of response is to me at the center of Mailer’s desperation. He is a public writer, not a private artist; he wants to influence those who are alive at this time, but they will not notice him even when he is good. So each time he speaks he must become more bold, more loud, put on brighter motley and shake more foolish bells. Anything to get their attention, and finally (and this could be his tragedy) so much energy is spent in getting the indifferent ear to listen that when the time comes for him to speak there may be not enough strength of creative imagination left him to say what he knows. Exhausted, he becomes like Louis Lambert in Balzac’s curious novel of the visionary-artist who, having seen straight through to the heart of the mystery, dies mad, murmuring: “The angels are white.”
—From Gore Vidal’s “Norman Mailer’s Self-Advertisements,” The Nation, Jan. 2, 1996, in United States: Essays 1952-1992 (1993).
Brynn Newton says
Via a vis lying:
“When a man takes an oath, Meg, he’s holding his own self in his own hands. Like water (he cups his hands) and if he opens his fingers then, he needn’t hope to find himself again. Some men aren’t capable of this, but I’d be loathe to think your father one of them.”
― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
Pogo says
@Try it sometime
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt
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Jim says
The State Legislature voted in laws that prevent homeowners from suing their insurance companies when the deny claims. The news is reporting that insurance companies are systematically denying most (all?) claims from homeowners on the Gulf side of Florida post-Milton. Their remedy? Either eat the cost of rebuilding, sell it as it is or sue the insurance companies at the homeowner’s expense. Insurance companies feel it’s cheaper to deal with those who sue than to honor their commitment via the policy the homeowner paid for.
Thank you Renner & DeSantis for looking out for Florida’s citizens.
Between this hurricane and the pending crash of condo values in Florida, moving somewhere else is becoming something that must be considered.
I’m glad we are banning books, firing teachers, stopping drag queen shows, halting gender treatments, stopping Haitians from coming across the Atlantic and invading us, sending police and State Guard units to Texas, flying migrants from Texas to someplace north, spending a small fortune changing New College into a jock school, and whatever else I failed to mention our state government is concentrating on… Otherwise, there would be no reason to stay in the Free State of Florida (until our insurance is needed….)