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Weather: Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Light and variable winds, becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night: Clear. Lows around 50.
- 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:
Flagler Schools are closed all week for the Thanksgiving break.
The Bunnell City Commission meets at 7 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, where the City Commission is holding its meetings until it is able to occupy its own City Hall on Commerce Parkway in 2025. To access meeting agendas, materials and minutes, go here.
The Flagler County Beekeepers Association holds its monthly meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Flagler Agricultural Center, 150 Sawgrass Rd., Bunnell (the county fairgrounds). This is a meeting for beekeepers in Flagler and surrounding counties (and those interested in the trade). The meetings have a speaker, Q & A, and refreshments are served. It is a great way to gain support as a beekeeper or learn how to become one. All are welcome. Meetings take place the fourth Monday of every month. Contact Kris Daniels at 704-200-8075.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here
 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: This passage in Willa Cather’s Song of the Lark (1915) seems to me as good an explanation as any of the last election. Thea Kronborg, the autobiographical novel’s protagonist, is having a conversation with Ray Kennedy, who happens to be grooming her for marriage (she’s 15, he’s quite a bit older, though none of that is relevant to the point, or the passage, “grooming” being an anachronism when reading back into 1915, and anyway he’ll fail: she thinks him more of a hick than someone worthy of her pretensions. He doesn’t speak like one.) They’re on their way from the Sand Hills of Nebraska to Denver for a visit, and talking about the responsibility for one’s failures and successes. “Everybody’s up against it for himself, succeeds or fails-himself,” Thea tells him. “In one way, yes,” Ray admitted, knocking the sparks from his pipe out into the soft darkness that seemed to flow like a river beside the car. “But when you look at it another way, there are a lot of halfway people in this world who help the winners win, and the failers fail. If a man stumbles, there’s plenty of people to push him down. But if he’s like the youth who bore,’ those same people are foreordained to help him along. They may hate to, worse than blazes, and they may do a lot of cussin’ about it, but they have to help the winners and they can’t dodge it. It’s a natural law, like what keeps the big clock up there going, little wheels and big, and no mix-up.” Ray’s hand and his pipe were suddenly outlined against J the sky. “Ever occur to you, Thee, that they have to be on time close enough to make time? The Dispatcher up there must have a long head.” Pleased with his similitude, Ray went back to the lookout. Going into Denver, he had to keep a sharp watch.”
—P.T.
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Nar-Anon Family Group
Flagler County Beekeepers Association Meeting
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
Palm Coast City Council Workshop
Book Dragons, the Kids’ Book Club, at Flagler Beach Public Library
NAACP Flagler Branch General Membership Meeting
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
For the full calendar, go here.
A consoling philosophy in agreement with religion claims that the dependence of the soul on the senses and organs is only fortuitous and transient, and that it will be free and happy when the death of the body has freed it from their tyrannical power. This is very fine; but, religion aside, it is not certain. Since I cannot therefore find myself in the perfect certainty of being immortal until after I have ceased to live, I will be forgiven, if I am not in a hurry to come to know this truth. Knowledge at the price of life is a price too dear. In the meantime I adore God, forbidding myself from any unjust action, and abhorring unjust men, without however doing them harm. It is enough for me to abstain from doing them good. Snakes must not be fed.
–From Casanova’s Story of My Life (1797).
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