Mother's Club Annivesary

Mother's Club Celebration

St Paul Baptist Chruch

Orangeburg, SC

02/19/2012

This Months Health Tip

Moderation is always the key to just about everything.

 Click through to see some health foods that you may not know about. 

Sugar can cause nasty ailments like weight gain and type 2 diabetes, so we do our best to avoid overdosing on it. But sometimes this ubiquitous ingredient can be sneaky, operating under pseudonyms like "high fructose corn syrup" or appearing in foods we would never suspect. Forget the obvious bad guys like cake and soda--you already know about those. It's the seemingly-healthy staples to watch out for, like milk and tomato sauce.

Blue Moon over Palmetto

 

 

The official nickname for South Carolina is The Palmetto State, which refers to the state tree (the sabal palmetto). Commonly called the cabbage palmetto, the sabal palmetto (Inodes Palmetto) was added to the "National" flag of South Carolina after it seceded from the Union in 1861. A palmetto remains on the present-day state flag, a sabal palm appears on the South Carolina state seal, and is even mentioned in the salute to the flag of South Carolina ("I salute the flag of South Carolina and pledge to the Palmetto State love, loyalty and faith").

God's Strenght

God's strenght to all who mourn the death of Ms. Whitney Houston.

 I know I will miss her.

Panda Tongue

The only place on Earth that the Giant Panda lives in the wild is in the mountains of central China. Researchers believe there are less than 1000 of these beautiful animals left, of which about 300 or so live in captivity. Atlanta is fortunate to have in its zoo 2 of only 4 pandas in U.S. zoos. The other 2 are in the San Diego Zoo. The National Zoo in Washington D.C. recently lost what would have been the 5th in the U.S., a Giant Panda named Hsing Hsing who passed away on November 28, 1999. One of the most famous panda couples consisted of Hsing Hsing and Ling Ling. These were presented to President Nixon in 1972 by the Chinese government as a token of goodwill after his historic visit to China. Ling Ling died in 1992.

Pandas in the wild will live about 18 to 20 years while those in captivity will live to be about 30. The oldest living Giant Panda is in Wuhan Zoo, China and is an unbelievable 36 years old!

Pineapple Study VI

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Christopher Columbus

The first encounter between a European and a pineapple occurred in November, 1493, when Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage to the Caribbean region, lowered anchor in a cove off the lush, volcanic island of Guadaloupe and went ashore to inspect a deserted Carib village. There, amidst parrot-flecked jungle foliage and wooden pillars spiraled with serpent carvings, his crew came upon cook pots filled with human body parts. Nearby were piles of freshly gathered vegetables and fruits, including pineapples. The European sailors ate, enjoyed and recorded the curious new fruit which had an abrasive, segmented exterior like a pine cone and a firm interior pulp like an apple.

Social History of the Pineapple

By Hoag Levins

Front Pew print

Black History Month: A Salute to The First Lady

South Carolina roots.

Ancestry:

African. Although Michelle Obama’s genealogy has not yet been extensively researched, it is known that at least one of her paternal great-great-grandfathers, James Robinson had been enslaved in Georgetown, South Carolina. In one speech while President Obama was campaigning, he indicated that there is also descent in his wife’s family from a European-American ancestor.

Don't Block My Sunshine

Repeat Daily for Peace

Our Father, Who art in heaven

Hallowed be Thy Name;

Thy kingdom come,

Thy will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us;

and lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

Amen.



You Can Wait

You Can Wait.

I ...am ...taking a break tonight.

 I'm going to sit on this comfy couch and stare back at that box that's yelling at me.

Most of the time I don't understand or believe what it says

but it's so interesting and there are so many different layers...one after the other.