Wisdom
Notes from Encyclopedias
1. Aluminum is the third most common element after oxygen and silicon.
2. The Amazon River is the second longest river in the world after the Nile. The Amazon is 4,000 miles long. It begins about 100 miles from the Pacific Ocean in the Andes in Peru. The Amazon falls 16,400 feet in its first 600 miles, and only 800 feet during the rest of its course. Ocean ships can sail 2,300 miles up the Amazon to Iquitos, Peru. The Amazon carries more water than the Mississippi, Nile, and Yangtze rivers together. High tides at the river’s mouth occasionally overpower the river’s current which creates a wall of water, called a bore, that measures up to 15 feet high and rushes upstream.
Journal Humor
I am home all alone for the first time since my hip replacement surgery four days ago. Margie and the kids have gone to church….Margie has a piano recital this evening for her students. She kept telling herself all the way through church to remember to go to the Baker County Public Library to pick up a key for the room there with the grand piano where she holds recitals. Her mind, however, was also on her husband at home, and wondering if he was behaving himself, and whether she’d find him crumpled in a heap on the floor somewhere. As she left the church parking lot, Margie said that she needed to go get the library key. Ivy expected her to turn right, but she turned left toward home. Ivy then expected her to turn left at the stop light, and take the 10th Street route to the library. Instead, Margie turned right toward home. Ivy said, “Didn’t you want to go get the library key?”
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In going through journals number 28 and 29 I find several entries about dogs. They need to be brought together into one place. Today I told my sister, Ellen, that I generally never like other people’s dogs, but that her little “Jade” and Adam’s “Sam” are exceptions. They’re the only two dogs that I like. Maybe these stories have something to do with my feelings about all the rest.
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