tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83788059723881433652024-03-13T22:19:23.314-07:00Mrs. Webfoot's BlogI hope that you find something here to inspire you, to encourage you, to make you smile, or to make you think - even if you think I am wrong.
“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.”
- Vince LombardiMrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-30409717554205843352023-03-12T21:54:00.002-07:002023-03-12T22:00:06.152-07:00Mother to a Nation A few years ago we were able to visit my nephew and his family who were living in Dubai at the time. Andy was working for a construction company, in charge of the bids for things like hotels and an airport runway. Andy told me about a woman who had gone to the UAE and became midwife to the Royal Family. Dubai was poor at that time. Andy explained that because of her, the Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-81946797857479319692023-03-11T12:44:00.003-08:002023-03-11T12:46:32.705-08:00George Macdonald poem about asthmaGeorge Macdonald was the one writer who had the greatest impact on men like C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Notice how he pictures asthma as Satan himself who is out to destroy him by taking his breath and life away. Macdonald knows that asthma is a means that God is using to make him a man truly alive. He suffers, struggles for each breath, yet he knows that even God's Angel of Death can only Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-18415030539700509632021-01-17T12:07:00.006-08:002023-03-11T10:32:46.486-08:00Is the US invading itself? Would that be a good thing? What bastard or group of bastards is in power in the US? It is said that FDR was the first to use the phrase “he might be a bastard, but he’s our bastard” . We have a history of using “bastards” to advance our national interests - or the interests of the military industrial complex? God knows. We lived in Chile during the last years of Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-85654033231965880372020-08-01T13:02:00.001-07:002021-01-17T20:33:42.312-08:00My Grandfather Was an Anarchist - Part 2If Antifa is a fake anarchist movement, then what does a real Anarchist group look like?It looks like the Wobblies, the old Industrial Workers of the World - which is still a thing. You can Google IWW and see what their goals are. It’s pretty radical. They were radicals. They put the “a” in “anarchy”. No rulers. None at all. My grandfather was a Wobbly. What was the focus of the Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-2842985225391991562020-07-25T15:07:00.001-07:002020-07-25T20:52:18.228-07:00My Grandfather was an Anarchist - Part 1I don’t understand today’s anarchists, especially the ones who hide behind the moniker “Antifa”. There’s something fake about them. Yes, many of the young people who get caught up in the Antifa movement are sincere. They really believe that they are fighting for a better world. Some of the issues they raise are righteous causes.
So, what is the fake part?
They are actors playing a part. Some ofMrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-40946628957930794652018-09-27T12:20:00.001-07:002020-06-18T11:49:54.081-07:00A Few Thoughts on the Kavanaugh “thing"1. The Democrat Party has turned the Senate confirmation process for Supreme Court justices into a circus. This is generally a fairly simple process. Most of the time, the Senate will grant the sitting president his wishes when it comes to the approval of justices.
2. Since Democrats fear that Kavanaugh will somehow be able to overturn Roe v. Wade, they believe that any and all forms of Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-22958619874798113072018-09-22T17:36:00.000-07:002018-11-03T17:57:09.013-07:00A Few Thoughts on Our Border CrisisWhat is happening at the US - Mexico border is very complex. Here are a few points to consider.
1. The way the media have reported on this is shameful. They have politicized these desperate people in order to try to harm President Trump and gain support for the Democrat Party.
By doing so, the "press" - though our 1st Amendment means much more than just the media when it addresses theMrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-7297228386253146252018-01-02T19:40:00.001-08:002018-10-16T09:44:49.837-07:00Oboe Update - and HarpIt's been awhile since I've given an oboe update.
Well, I now feel comfortable playing my oboe d'amore. I was supposed to play twice at church on Christmas Eve, but it wasn't meant to be. I had a tooth go bad on me which produced an abscess. Then the medicine I took made me as sick as a dog.
So, that day was a write-off.
Oh, and I bought a 26-string, lever harp last summer. I love it. It's a Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-84880155878227092542016-12-26T20:55:00.003-08:002018-10-16T09:45:17.191-07:00Go to the Head of the ClassI was given this little bookmark with these questions and answers. These are supposed to be from real tests given by teachers to their students. Pretty funny.
Q: What is the opposite of main?
A: New Hampshire
Q: Who was Joan of Arc?
A: She was Noah’s wife.
Q: Use etiquette in a sentence.
A: “I don’t know the meaning of etiquette.”
Q: Which state is a peninsula?
A: Peninsulvania.
Q: Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-14562010756520633062016-10-05T11:55:00.000-07:002018-10-16T09:45:45.889-07:00What is the Oboe, anyway? - 3Here’s what a friend of mine said about my playing. We played in an orchestra together - he on electric guitar.
“When the oboe comes in it sends chills up my spine like the 1st time I heard Lenard Skinner play Tree Bird."
Best complement ever!Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-45473300031055514762016-02-18T14:16:00.000-08:002016-02-18T14:18:59.537-08:00What is an Oboe, Anyway? - 2 The oboe is principally a melodic instrument; it has a rustic character, full of tenderness, I would say even of shyness.
-Hector Berlioz from his Treatise on Orchestration
Berlioz also says this about the oboe.:
The sounds of the oboe are suitable for expressing simplicity, artless grace, gentle happiness, or the grief of a weak soul. It renders these admirably in cantabile Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-8992481135060594812016-02-16T13:11:00.004-08:002018-09-23T21:25:55.070-07:00What is the Oboe, Anyway? - 1In the minds of many, the oboe is just a clarinet or a carrot.
After service was over on Sunday a few weeks back, one of the men in the congregation came up and told me how much he liked my clarinet playing.
I was playing my oboe d’amore. I just said thank you. It has been my experience through the years that trying to explain the differences between a clarinet and an oboe is just too Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-32937844134909710452016-02-13T21:02:00.000-08:002016-02-13T21:11:29.890-08:00Oboe d’Amore and general musical UpdateWell, my playing has suffered a lot in the last 3 weeks because I’ve had this winter crud that won’t let me go. My daughter finally dragged me off to the doctor, so now I am on antibiotics. I still don’t have my voice back. I still have a sore throat. I still have trouble breathing.
The breathing is better, though, so maybe tomorrow I can do some playing on my d’amore. At the doctor’s office, I Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-85315587415078752872014-12-25T10:51:00.002-08:002016-02-14T12:18:03.748-08:00An Oboe Merry Christmas!Last Sunday I debuted the oboe d'Amore at church on worship team and for communion.
Our team was short an electric bass, an electric guitar, and vocalist because of out of town family commitments. So, the team members included myself on d'amore, Ben on the grand piano, Janet on her bass viol, and Josh on drums. It was more acoustic sounding, except that we were miked.
We got a lot of goodMrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-40295826973134834852014-12-16T17:33:00.003-08:002016-02-14T12:18:03.738-08:00Oboe True ConfessionsOkay, so I did a newby kind of really embarassing thing last Saturday. It was something that I have told students, even, to never do. It's sick 'em in oboe cleaning.
You see, the top of the upper joint of the oboe is quite narrow. You have to run a kind of thin silk swab that is sown onto a strong string with a weight at the end through the bore of the instrument. It's a bit tricky, since if Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-52616257468159999462014-12-10T13:58:00.001-08:002016-02-14T12:18:03.745-08:00Oboe D'Amore UpdateSomething very exciting arrived today. Well, I suppose not everyone would find it all that exciting, but I do. It's this!
Da L'opera Omnia Di J. S. Bach (Tuttii "Soli-duetti-trii E Passi Tecnici" Per Oboe, Oboe D'amore, Oboe Da Caccia, Taille (II Volume))
Very cool. It's from Milan. This volume has oboe, oboe d'Amore, and English Horn parts to the Christmas Oratorio, the Easter Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-5126213883069635012014-12-09T08:23:00.003-08:002016-02-14T12:18:03.742-08:00Oboe UpdateWell, I did a crazy thing last month. I purchased an oboe d'Amore.
What do I want to do with it? Well, try to tame it in the first place. There's the breathing issue and the reed issue and the fingers issue and all that.
Breathing:
I suffer from asthma, so a few years ago when I purchased a new oboe, I needed one that was free blowing and reeds that were kind of soft. Reed making was never my Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-33313876800287290842014-11-04T03:23:00.004-08:002014-11-04T22:17:17.639-08:00OboeOkay, so my oboe and I have kind of an off again, on again relationship - a bit like a rocky love affair. Right now it's on.
We have a few gigs coming up - 1,) the wedding of the sister of our son-in-law; 2.) a Christmas program at a large church in the neighboring town. That involves a real orchestra my husband and I get to play in. Rehearsals start some time this month. ; 3.) some communion Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-10468170414364492842014-03-28T15:23:00.001-07:002014-03-29T18:25:28.903-07:00Glory - 4Genesis 1:1-5
Genesis 1
The Creation of the World
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light wasMrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-2276179304444201852014-03-26T20:45:00.002-07:002014-03-26T20:46:01.142-07:00Glory - 3Okay, this is pretty complex, since God's glory has to do with His abiding presence as well as His fame, importance, and reputation. The word "Shekinah" is added to the word "glory" when it means God's presence, or God's manifest presence. The term "Shekinah Glory" does not appear in the Bible, but the concept does. I'll talk about that later.
There are some groups who want to see Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-46234002244375844402014-03-20T14:59:00.001-07:002014-03-24T20:02:30.394-07:00Glory - 2A couple of months ago I went to Bible Gateway to search for passages with the word "glory" in them. I was preparing some power points for a conference I was participating in. It was pretty amazing, since there are hundreds of verses containing that word.
I am no scholar, of course, so it will be clear that I am not trying to write a treatise on the subject of "glory" in the Bible. This Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-64398733013171141052014-03-17T19:04:00.002-07:002014-03-24T09:35:02.161-07:00Glory
I took this photo in Honduras last November. The lake is the famous Lago Yojoa. It was a pretty amazing sunset we witnessed.
Recently I have been looking into the meaning of "glory" in the Bible. Basically, God's glory as seen in Scripture carries the meaning of God's abiding presence.
No, the sunset is not God. The Bible does not teach pantheism or panentheism.  Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-83859658524965636872013-12-04T12:08:00.002-08:002018-01-29T09:27:44.243-08:00Magnificat Challenge
Magnificat Challenge:
Why not take some time to memorize Mary's Song, the Magnificat, in Luke 1:46-56? As you memorize, meditate on all of the qualities of God that Mary mentions in this passage. Notice, too, that Mary focuses her praise and her attention on God and what He was doing for her. We tend to focus on Mary and what she was thinking and going through at that time in her lifeMrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-84678321336989203642013-12-02T22:19:00.001-08:002013-12-04T12:26:27.841-08:00Thou Who Wast Rich - I heard this Christmas hymn online on WKSU Holiday Classical. Lately, I have been blogging about the heretical, charlatan Word of Faith teachings. The "little god" doctrine of these teachers enables them to, without a twinge of conscience it seems, take money even from poor people in order to live the lives of the rich and powerful. It is shameful what they do.
Compare Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378805972388143365.post-60319201621280936502013-04-14T22:07:00.001-07:002015-08-13T11:55:00.231-07:00Help and Healing after AbortionI found a wonderful website called After Abortion.org. Check it out. There are many lies being told to women, and much cover up of the real effects of abortion on women. After Abortion.org is one place where women are telling the truth about abortion. Abortion is not good for women at all. On this website, women are given a number of helpful resources if Mrs. Webfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.com0