tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58611302024-03-17T22:04:11.188-05:00Stephen M (Ethesis)Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.comBlogger979125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-25323533236740949182023-09-26T09:09:00.006-05:002023-09-26T09:17:34.101-05:00 My blogging history (old links).My attempt at a backpacking blog for when we started trying to do a through hike is at https://ethesis.wordpress.com/My Trail Space trail journal entrees begin at https://www.trailjournals.com/journal/entry/596552My first blog started in 1997 at http://adrr.com/living/one.htmI followed that up at http://ethesis.blogspot.com/(still Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-68392447214968661742023-09-26T09:04:00.001-05:002023-09-26T09:04:06.549-05:00Sacrament talk on coveting
I
was asked to talk on the tenth and final commandment “Thou shall not covet.”
The
Hebrew word translated "covet" is chamad (חמד) which is commonly
translated into English as "covet", "lust", and
"strong desire." The word means yearn to
possess or have (something). In the
tenth commandment we are warned not to year to possess or have Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-67465618758278090342021-12-19T22:43:00.001-06:002021-12-19T22:51:21.023-06:00 Just had the best birthday I've had in my life. I'm grateful for that.And Win is the best part of my life, which continues to improve, even thought I'm now 66.When I was new to grief I also began to gnash my teeth, grinding them, without being aware of it. My dentist pointed it out to me and I was able to quit grinding them during the day, but not at night.I started using guardsStephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-1325827552442396422020-08-23T10:36:00.003-05:002020-08-23T10:36:26.228-05:00From my mission. Thanks to President & Sister Siddoway and the A.P.'s who put this together originally, and to President Siddoway for the enormous amount of work it was for him to make a copy for Kris Morgan Cunningham, and then thanks to her for getting it to me so that I could get it to you!!! :)Parts 1-2: https://thesoleacademy.com/…/1975-Pageant-Workbook-parts-1-…Part 3: https://Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-76217540700200567682019-11-21T14:51:00.004-06:002019-11-21T14:51:30.104-06:00A post about charity vs. poverty zoo visitshttps://wheatandtares.org/2019/11/21/charity-or-holiday-entertainment/
It is better than starving, but there is a difference between kindness and voyeurism.Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-42400708777970405322019-11-13T15:28:00.002-06:002019-12-07T13:45:42.124-06:00Please ignore this post if you are here for actual content.Please ignore this post if you are here for the older content.
The last substantive content is at: http://ethesis.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-hope.html
Borrowed from Tatiana Boshenka
Thought 1: This post reminds me of what Vaclav Havel said about hope:
. . [T]he kind of hope I often think about (especially in situations that are particularly hopeless, such as prison) I Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-3096162783744103742019-11-08T12:36:00.003-06:002019-11-13T16:06:33.121-06:00Please ignore this post if you are here for the older content.
Please ignore this post if you are here for the older content.
The last substantive content is at: http://ethesis.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-hope.html
My current blogging relating to my backpacking is at http://ethesis.wordpress.com/
I can't imagine anyone who would be interested in the specific links below.
Checking to see if this works as I was just told that the Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-67533386094563660552019-08-02T13:20:00.001-05:002019-11-13T15:27:05.708-06:00Marketing samplePlease ignore this post if you are here for the older content.
The last substantive content is at: http://ethesis.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-hope.html
My current blogging relating to my backpacking is at http://ethesis.wordpress.com/
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Disclosure/Caveat:
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Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-3420622697822786152019-07-10T10:07:00.001-05:002019-07-10T10:07:11.814-05:00Coda on my law practiceWhen I retired, I still had three appeals pending.
The last of them just had an opinion issued:
https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/fifth-court-of-appeals/2019/05-18-00753-cv.html
Previously:
https://data.scotxblog.com/scotx/no/19-0323
and
http://search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=39de5f57-62aa-4bb6-b540-b89755c01928&MediaID=3e3604b0-a56e-481d-af40-4a51a8ecc655&coa=%Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-83125971675009394132019-03-08T17:03:00.002-06:002019-03-08T17:21:58.735-06:00A change of paceI think I have said what I have to say about grief, recovery and finding life again.
So, a change of pace.
I retire on March 17. While our home will be graced by a nephew and others, Win and I will be backpacking, at least for a while.
http://ethesis.wordpress.com/ is where my future adventures are being recorded.
Since I will be backpacking I expect my religious/spiritual posts at Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-15744830896554874262019-02-10T10:09:00.002-06:002019-02-10T10:09:56.913-06:00On hope
Borrowed from Tatiana Boshenka
Thought 1: This post reminds me of what Vaclav Havel said about hope:
. . [T]he kind of hope I often think about (especially in situations that are particularly hopeless, such as prison) I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don’t. . . . Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-61377578700681641122019-01-13T14:37:00.001-06:002019-01-13T14:37:03.452-06:00Grief, recovery and changesOne thing that happened, each time a child died, a coping mechanism that I was using broke with the death.
I used to walk by myself to reduce stress, I just couldn't do it until last year. Unless someone walked with me I just couldn't do it. I started working out with Shotokan again after Courtney died and before Robin died. I had real problems trying to do that again, Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-11710008336474062452018-06-28T19:38:00.001-05:002019-11-13T16:19:56.814-06:00Backpacking shoesI've found that I can't use zero drop (causes me knee problems, probably because of tight calves).
I've found that I need a wide toe box.
La Sportiva Wildcats. (https://sectionhiker.com/la-sportiva-wildcat-3-0-trail-runner-review/ )
Wide toe box ++
12mm drop
28 ounces
Update of November 12, 2019
Ok. I'm on my second pair of Wildcats. Maine really tore them up, the Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-53282862161196111412018-04-20T17:47:00.001-05:002018-04-20T17:47:55.110-05:00Selling off a now extra tent.Same tent I have listed at Gear Trade, discounted since if I sell direct it will have only the 3% PayPal charge. $275.00 + $30 shipping and handling.
weight 2lb 11 ounces. Fabric Fly: 10D Nylon Ripstop 1200mm PU/SIL Fabric Canopy: 15D Nylon Knit Mesh Fabric Tent Floor: 40D Nylon Ripstop 1500mm PU Tent Capacity: 3 (2+ really) Number of Poles: 1 Number of Doors: 1 Number of Vestibules: 1 Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-36507274277147876952017-09-10T17:04:00.001-05:002017-09-10T17:04:53.131-05:00On Temples (a religious post)I wrote this:
https://wheatandtares.org/2017/09/07/asking-about-the-temple/
It follows the theme, set out in another's essay:
“I am saddened that President McKay felt he had been poorly prepared for his experience but encouraged by his frankness in talking about it.15 We need to do a better job, both institutionally and personally, in preparing our children, our friends, and new members to Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-41988802105835013442017-03-12T18:11:00.001-05:002017-03-12T18:11:14.418-05:00Lesson in church today
-Women need to be faithful to themselves.:how do they do that?:how do we support them in being faithful to themselves?:how do we encourage them not to demean themselves or others?
-Find strength in God:be ordained as was Emma Smith:teach, write, learn, study:women are to expound by the Spirit
-Find joy:accept that there will be sorrow:accept that there will be anxiety and concern:Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-41912723173848591582017-03-12T18:10:00.001-05:002017-03-12T18:10:20.197-05:00Bible Lessons
May you be like Ruth and like Esther,
Marry someone of a different race,
All will adore you,
You will be famous,
Everyone will know your face ....
[isn't that the lesson we get from the two books of the Bible named after women?].
Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-4175874443407832862017-02-25T06:34:00.000-06:002017-02-25T06:34:07.337-06:00The day my dad got arrestedIn the hospital.
While donating blood.
There was a police officer bleeding out, and they had run out of the officer's blood type.
They can't order you to donate blood, but my dad was signed up to be available and when he got the call he jumped in his car and headed to the hospital.
The entrance was restricted to a round about traffic flow at the time of day my dad arrived, so he just made a (Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-16566977746936853202016-07-28T08:14:00.006-05:002017-03-12T18:10:57.137-05:00
Most organizations face a dilemma. On the one hand, too much factionalism and resistance and they break down into feuding, balkanized fragments. On the other hand, without any pushback, they turn into an echo chamber of yes men. The trick to success is to harness the power of loyal opposition.
Thus the Chinese wisdom saying: “A thousand yes-men cannot equal one Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-60413423454233847562016-07-24T10:01:00.001-05:002016-07-24T10:01:36.738-05:00
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This moment does not define the refugees, but our response will
help define us.
“For I was an hungred,
and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and
ye took me in:
“Naked, and ye clothed
me. …
“… Verily I say unto you,
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have
done it unto me.”1
There are an estimated 60Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-89117488165199701662016-06-19T10:31:00.001-05:002016-06-19T10:31:46.372-05:00Lesson 12, Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
Chapter 12: “Seek the Spirit in
All You Do”
Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Ezra Taft Benson, (2014), 156–66
“We must remain open and sensitive to the promptings of
the Holy Ghost in all aspects of our lives.”
When we act, we need to be able to
distinguish between just whatever pops into our heads as a result of our own
bias, prejudice and random thoughts from what God would have Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-28455125083282732016-05-04T21:25:00.002-05:002016-05-04T21:25:37.369-05:00Working on a rough draft
Changes.
Introduction
There have been four changes in the Church in the last fifty years that seem to have altered the shape of the modern church and its direction. They are:
A move from the Church as a single tribe "the blood of Israel" or a large family to a collection of super families or affiliated tribal groups.
A move from blue collar ethos to white collar professional Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-74446689523335524092016-04-17T10:29:00.005-05:002016-04-17T10:29:43.266-05:00Lesson Eight -- Overcoming the Walls of our Minds.
“The purpose of the gospel of Jesus Christ is to bring about love, unity, and
brotherhood of the highest order,” he said.
When you think about church on Sunday, what do you expect out of
your meetings?
In the message
of the gospel, the entire human race is one family descended from a single God. All men
and women have not only a Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861130.post-39571112767467379072016-04-09T09:52:00.001-05:002016-04-09T09:52:55.062-05:00Memory, Simplification and LiesI realized recently that by the standards of some people who insist that all simplification is a lie that I am a gross fraud and liar.
After all, I have said many times that my wife and I buried three children in a five year span. That is a lie. It was really four and a half years. That isn't even true. It was from January 26, 1993 to August 31, 1997. Which isn't Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219023897626648057noreply@blogger.com0