Lee Duigon

Today was a bit different

leeduigon(patty)April 17, 2026

Well, today I determined I would get out for my walk. Which I did.

Oddly enough, I did not get that post lunch fatigue. Maybe it’s a coincidence, but we’ll see. If walking eliminates that, I will definitely go for it.

I intend to walk every day, using the step counter as I am desperately in need of exercise.

Then, I took the afternoon off and watched a movie. This is something I never do, but today felt like I needed a change of pace. The movie was a documentary about Karen Carpenter. (Not the one made by her brother which had an actress playing her and which I imagine had been heavily whitewashed.) It was sad that such a decent-seeming person died so young. This was a real documentary, featuring interviews with people who knew and worked with her. Carol Burnett, Olivia Newton-John, and many musicians and record-business people. She not only had a marvelous voice, but was one terrific drummer.

It was something different at any rate.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Joe Collidge: ‘I’m OK, Yore Not’ REPRINT

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Parints thay shood “jist” Shut UP!!!!!!

I reeded this “here” big long Artacle today!

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(And thay say I “caint” reed!!!)

Fynely a juj says Its OK! fore Boyz to “use” Girls bath roombs!! ITS ABUOUT TYME!!!!!!

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Rescued Squirrel Has Cat For Mom

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Dogs Using Buttons To “Talk” very interesting

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I have seen this before, but this is very interesting.

Husky Loves Man, the Husky Loves Baby, Too

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After Christian School…It All Goes South REPRINT

leeduigon(patty)April 17, 2026

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We laugh at Joe Collidge, but he does have a mean streak.

From July 26, 2016

I have this story via Frontline Ministries. I won’t use any names: the point of the story is broader than that. And it’s not the only example.

So–boy enters Christian school. He has a very bad stutter, and the other kids make fun of him. Teacher puts a stop to that, but good, and works with the boy so that he finally overcomes his handicap. No more stutter.

Boy leaves Christian school, enters public high school. His Christian teacher hears from him no more… until he gets an email from the lad, now a college student.

The young man calls his teacher “bigoted” (biggit, biggit, croak the mindless frogs in the swamp called “university”) and excoriates him for writing “hateful” things about homosexuals and Muslims. By “hateful” he means anything less than full approval and complete submission.

Then the college student–who has by now been given a bigger handicap than any stutter: a public education administered by moral imbeciles–goes on to say, pompously, to his old teacher, “It’s not man’s place to judge… I can’t believe I respected such a bigoted individual (biggit, biggit) as yourself.”

“It’s not man’s place to judge”? Dude, what are you doing as you write that? Oh, I see–judge not, except it’s right to judge Christians and conservatives because your collidge perfessers told you so.

This whole collidge mantra of “There’s your truth that’s true for you and my truth that’s true for me” is nothing but a symptom of a mind that has been trained out of the habit of reasoning. Like, dude, if it’s your old teacher’s “truth” that homosexuality is wrong, aren’t you supposed to respect that as “his truth”?

Oh, okay–it doesn’t apply to Christians and conservatives.

I’ve seen what happens when a teen or tween leaves Christian school and gets sucked into the maw of public education. In no time at all they turn the kid into a waste of space. It’s what they do best.

Please, Christians, please! If you have kids in public school, please get them out of there. You wouldn’t dream of sending them to a Muslim school to be taught by Muslims. Why are you comfortable with having them be taught by reprobates?

Meanwhile, I’m sure I can’t see the payoff in training a whole generation of Americans to be puffed-up nasty little fools in whom unearned self-esteem has replaced earned self-confidence.

A Book to Make Me Wake Up Screaming REPRINT

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From May 11, 2016

Those publicists just can’t stop barking up the wrong tree.

I have been invited to review a book “set against the mysterious and sexy backdrop of Southern Cuba”–actually, she lost me right there–that “follows the young Thalia Vandergruen as she searches for her true identity with the help of trusted clairvoyant Sofi…”

Stop already. Have you ever known anyone actually named “Thalia”? I haven’t. And what’s with “Sofi”? That’s not how you spell Sophia, or Sophie. And she’s a clairvoyant. Uncle! Uncle!

But wait, there’s more. If you think those are silly names, Thalia meets this guy named “Yahriel–” (You should see how my spell check is reacting to these names. You’d think Joe Collidge wrote this.)

Stop, I can’t take any more. And this by a supposedly best-selling author. I checked: she’s a real person. I’m not giving her name because I prefer not to hurt her feelings. And anyhow the issue is not her, or her particular book, but the kind of drivel that keeps oozing out of our publishing industry. This example is pitched especially to women, in the category “women’s fiction.” But I will not have that said about women.

“What sets it apart,” concludes the publicist, “is the author’s signature smart bent and social conscience.” Great merciful heavens–does that mean what I think it means? The poor defenseless reader! I can’t think of anything good to say about “social conscience” in fiction.

I’m always looking for books to read and review, but this will not be one of them.

Rock of Ages

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An Interesting Day

leeduigon(patty)April 16, 2026

Today I really got caught up in the story about the two illegally bred half wolf dogs that were dumped in Connecticut.

I was very surprised when they were sent to a wolf sanctuary here in New Jersey. It turns out that we have not one, but two wolf sanctuaries. (I really sound like the Chamber of Commerce for New Jersey lately, but I am surprised that such small, highly populated and industrialized state has so many very cool things).

Pursuing further, I went to the website of one of them Howling Woods Farm in Jackson, New Jersey. They have some animals for adoption–so I read their contract agreement. It is wonderful as far as the care the adopter must promise to provide.

Among the provisions are–a canine companion if your animal is going to be left alone for more than one hour, high fencing, an adequate amount of outdoor space–and much more–it is just great. These people really care. If you go to their site and read it, it’s worth a look. I probably am not doing it justice.