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National 4-H Week celebrates youth development in the Missouri Bootheel
Marianne WrightLincoln University Cooperative Extension
The Lincoln Link: Celebrating the history of the fair
Marianne WrightLincoln University Cooperative Extension
National Dairy Month highlights Missouri Bootheel farmers, youth and small-ruminant producers
June is National Dairy Month, a time to recognize the farmers, families, and agricultural businesses that help keep dairy products on our tables and contribute to the economic vitality of communities across the country. While the Missouri Bootheel is often recognized for its row crops, dairy production and related agricultural enterprises also play an important role in supporting local economies and food systems.
Gearing Up for Summer Camp
For many families, the arrival of summer brings a welcome change of pace. Later mornings, fewer activities on schedules, and more time to simply enjoy being together are just some of the things we associate with the summer academic break. Still, seasoned parents and educators alike know that keeping some structure in the day and continuing opportunities for learning can make all the difference in helping youth stay engaged, confident, and ready for what comes next.
From Garden to Freezer
March is a month when many of us start looking ahead to spring gardens, farmers markets, and the promise of fresh produce. It’s also a good time to think about how we might preserve that food so we can enjoy those garden harvests year-round. Fittingly, March is recognized as National Frozen Food Month, a time to celebrate the convenience and quality of frozen foods and to learn a bit about how freezing helps preserve the foods we love.
More Than Medals: Olympic Learning
When the Olympic torch is lit, the whole world seems to collectively pause and watch. People from a multitude of cultures and backgrounds all tuning-in for record-breaking performances, stories of hard-work and resilience, national pride, and unforgettable moments. For youth, the Olympics, and other major global events, offer something far more lasting than a highlight reel. They offer a living classroom that teaches curiosity, possibility, and connection in ways textbooks alone rarely can.
The Lincoln Link - Wellness in the New Year
For many, January is a natural time to pause, reflect, and reset. The start of a new year often inspires people to think about their health and well-being. It is a great time to check in with your health and make small, realistic changes that can lead to meaningful improvements over time. You don’t need a complete lifestyle overhaul to feel better. Often, the biggest difference comes from establishing simple, consistent habits.
You’re Invited to a Holiday Open House!
The holiday season is a time often associated with reflection, connection, and renewed spirit. In that spirit, Lincoln University Cooperative Extension (LUCE) Caruthersville Outreach Center is preparing to open its doors for a Holiday Open House on Monday, December 8th.
Lincoln University Cooperative Extension Old Tricks & New Treats – Hal...
If the crisp morning air and the color-changing trees didn’t announce that fall is finally here, then the pumpkins and spooky decorations on porches and lawns around town certainly would. Fall is here and it brings one of the most eccentric holidays – Halloween! Halloween is a holiday that casts its spell across communities big and small and invites families and neighbors to celebrate the season together.
The Miracle of Simple Happiness
The Plough Music Series is a selection of music intended to lift the heart to God. It is not a playlist of background music: each installment focuses on a single piece worth pausing to enjoy. This article was first published August 9, 2017.
What’s That Smell? - Let’s Talk About Hygiene
What’s That Smell? – Let’s Talk About Hygiene I think we can all agree that it’s been one hot summer! The sunny days and warm temperatures have their advantages. Swimming, outdoor play, and evenings at the ballpark were always some of my favorites growing up. But with the heat and humidity comes something less charming – the return of summer sweat During one of the first weeks of summer camp this year, I was impressed when an older camper came to me and asked if I had any deodorant.
The School that Escaped to the Alps
In May 1933, Germany’s new National Socialist government passed a law establishing two national anthems: the traditional “Deutschlandlied” and the recently composed Horst Wessel song, a feverish ode to fascist power. The law required students in Germany to learn both songs. So it was not a surprise when, during a school inspection on December 5, 1933, the inspector asked Trudi Hüssy’s students to sing the Horst Wessel song. They did not know it. He asked Trudi if she knew it. Yes.
A Requiem for World War I
The Plough Music Series is a regular selection of music intended to lift the heart to God. It is not a playlist of background music: each installment focuses on a single piece worth pausing to enjoy. This week marks the anniversary of the start of one of history’s greatest catastrophes, the First World War, which began on July 28, 1914. After the fighting ended in 1918 and patriotic fervor ebbed, the unprecedented horror of the war began to sink in.
Marianne Wright reviews Jesus through Medieval Eyes by Grace Hamman
The year our first child was old enough to start understanding the words of Christmas carols, I wondered whether he realized that all the songs were about the same person. We sang about the Holy Infant, the Christ Child, the Messiah, Godhead, Incarnate Deity, Immanuel, the Baby in the Hay, the King of Angels. God became man: it is a wonder so great that Christians have been trying to find words to describe it ever since it happened.
PloughCast 71: On Giving Up All One’s Money
Susannah speaks with Clare Stober and Marianne Wright about living without money. Clare didn’t grow up in the Bruderhof – she made the decision to join when she was in her early thirties, after a successful career. She describes her spiritual quest, and the doubts and worries that came with considering joining – and the freedom that she has felt since then. Marianne is fourth-generation Bruderhof, has never had her own bank account, but the decision to join was no less personal and intense.
60: That Hideous Strength Is Nonfiction
Marianne Wright discusses C. S. Lewis’s prescient science fiction novel. Peter Mommsen’s sister comes on the pod with Pete and Susannah to discuss That Hideous Strength, the third book in Lewis’s space trilogy, and its eerily accurate critiques of transhumanism. From questions of academic vocation to Arthurian legend to tame bears to head transplantation, this novel is a rich exploration of what it means to be human in the face of a conspiracy against the human.
Love Bade Me Welcome
The Plough Music Series is a regular selection of music intended to lift the heart to God. It is not a playlist of background music: each installment focuses on a single piece worth pausing to enjoy. This article was originally published on March 10, 2014. In 1629, the thirty-five-year-old politician George Herbert seemed set for a promising career in public life. He had already been a favorite of King James I as a student, and now he was an up-and-coming member of Parliament.
11 Delicious Summer Cocktails Perfect for Sipping
It’s here, summer is finally here! Now that we’ve been warmed by the sun and actually able to leave our homes, we’re thinking about outdoor summer shindigs, patios, and summer cocktails enjoyed outside. So wipe down that patio furniture, pull out your sundresses from storage, spruce up the cottage, and grab your cocktail shaker. Maybe even plan a retro garden party! These 11 adult beverages will take you all the way through to the Labour Day long weekend, and beyond if we’re lucky.
Music for Holy Week
Originally published on April 7, 2017. At the beginning of the last week of his life, Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday was a singular moment of joy and triumph, as his followers celebrated what they believed to be the beginning of the reign of the king of Israel. As described in the Gospel of Mark: And they brought the colt to Jesus, and threw their garments on it; and he sat upon it.
A Hymn for Palm Sunday
The Plough Music Series is a regular selection of music intended to lift the heart to God. It is not a playlist of background music: each installment focuses on a single piece worth pausing to enjoy. At the beginning of the last week of his life, Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday was a singular moment of joy and triumph, as his followers celebrated what they believed to be the beginning of the reign of the king of Israel.
The Trout Quintet
Articles Books and Culture Music Plough Music Series By Marianne Wright February 20, 2014 I’ve just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the Andantino makes me want to be a trout myself. You can’t help rejoicing and laughing, however moved or sad at heart you feel, when you see the springtime clouds in the sky, the budding branches, stirred by the wind, in the bright young sunlight. I’m so much looking forward to the spring again.
Older Women's Network Queensland
Posted 15 May 2019 / by OWN QLD / in Community, Elders Experts are calling on all political parties to prioritise the issue of older women’s homelessness in the lead up to the federal election. Between 2011 and 2016, there was a 31 per cent rise in homelessness among older women in Australia.
A Prayer for the New Year
The Plough Music Series is a regular selection of music intended to lift the heart to God. It is not a playlist of background music: each installment focuses on a single piece worth pausing to enjoy. It seems appropriate to start the year with a selection from the master of sacred music, Johann Sebastian Bach.
Christina Rossetti’s 'None Other Lamb'
In 1892 Christina Rossetti published her last major book, The Face of the Deep, a verse by verse reflection on the Revelation of St. John, with poems scattered throughout. It appeared after a decade during which the deep faith which had been hers throughout her life was challenged by her own ill health (she was suffering from Graves disease and would die of cancer two years later) and the deaths of her beloved mother and brother Dante Gabriel.
Carol of the Birds
Pablo Casals was awarded the United Nations Peace Medal in October 1971 for his lifelong commitment to peace and the rights of all people. As he said, “I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow man.
Daily Legal News
Bankruptcy 2020-12526 Case Number 2020-12526 Date Filed Tuesday, May 19, 2020 Chapter & Region 7 & 471 Debtor Thomas J. Wright 9149 Creekwood Drive Mentor, OH 44060 Joint Debtor Marianne C. Wright About your information and the public record.
Saint Patrick’s Breastplate
The Plough Music Series is a regular selection of music intended to lift the heart to God. It is not a playlist of background music: each installment focuses on a single piece worth pausing to enjoy. “Saint Patrick’s Breastplate” is an ancient Irish prayer traditionally attributed to the fifth-century Saint Patrick himself. The title reflects the medieval custom of knights who placed inscriptions of prayers in their breastplates and then recited them as they rode into battle.
How to Handle the Halloween Sugar Rush
It’s one of the best/worst time of the year for parents—Halloween! We get to see our kids in the most adorable, fun, spooky costumes and spend a night exploring our neighbourhood. But we also have to find ways to manage the bags (or if your kids are anything like me, the pillowcases) full of candy they haul home at the end of the night. Like it or not, your house is going to be FULL of sugar by 9:00 pm on October 31st.
The Coming Light: Hymns of St. Ephrem the Syrian
Christianity came to Syria early: within a few years of Christ’s death, Saul was on his way to Damascus, commissioned by the High Priest to arrest Jesus’ followers there so that he “might bring them bound to Jerusalem” (Acts 9:2). Saul, having now become Paul, returned to Damascus after spending time in Arabia, and remained there for three years. Jesus’ followers were first called Christians in this city.
Beethoven’s Homage to Summer
The Plough Music Series is a regular selection of music intended to lift the heart to God. It is not a playlist of background music: each installment focuses on a single piece worth pausing to enjoy. Summer, wrote Gerard Manley Hopkins, is “barbarous in beauty.” Inspired by similar feelings, Beethoven wrote his sixth symphony, the “Pastoral,” which describes a summer day spent in the country.
Motet for a New Year
The days between Christmas and Epiphanyare a time to reflect on the miracle of Christmas and to look toward the challenges of the coming year. Here’s music from 1646 that does both. Starting and ending with a solemn “Alleluia,” the song describes God’s love in sending his son to the manger to be our friend, and expresses the resolve never to waver from Christ.
Trying to Ignore His Christianity
Articles Faith Devotional Reading By Marianne Wright November 29, 2017 C. S. Lewis once wrote, “I was brought back … [from atheism to Christianity] by the strong influence of two writers, the Presbyterian George MacDonald and the Roman Catholic G. K. Chesterton.” He described many times his first experience of reading George MacDonald’s Phantastes and its effect on his life.
Learning the Joy of Mission: Bach and Hudson Taylor
“Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith,” wrote J. Hudson Taylor, whose life was characterized by joyful reliance on God. Believing himself called by God to be a missionary in China, he spent fifty-one years there, travelling to inland areas where, in the nineteenth century, few people had heard the gospel.
Martin Luther’s Pentecost Hymn
The Plough Music Series is a regular selection of music intended to lift the heart to God. It is not a playlist of background music: each installment focuses on a single piece worth pausing to enjoy. Pentecost marks the day when the Holy Spirit came to the waiting disciples (Acts 2:1-13).
Ye Now Have Sorrow
“Ye now have sorrow,” Jesus tells his friends on his final evening (John 16:22). The sorrow of the separation of death is an inevitable part of the human experience, and images of the worldwide sorrows resulting from war, disease, or accident are likewise inescapable. This devastation is captured by Gerard Manley Hopkins in his sonnet “No worse, there is none:” …Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
An Offering to God
Towards the beginning of the traditional mass, the worshiper has an opportunity to make an offering to God while the bread and wine are placed on the altar; one form of the liturgy includes the words, “I consecrate to Thee, O Lord, every thought, every word and deed of my whole life. I give Thee my understanding, my will and memory.” The life of Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador became just such a complete sacrifice when he was assassinated at the altar on March 24, 1980.
Women in the judiciary - is there an unconscious bias?
This article by Kylie Morsley & Marianne Wright is taken from the August 2013 edition of Safety Management The long running debate about the number of women in the judiciary was re-sparked by the appointment of three male judges to the Supreme Court in February 2013. It has been suggested by Lord Neuberger, president of the Supreme Court, that we may all be suffering from an unconscious bias against women and a subconscious expectation of a judge having male characteristics.
Medieval Halloween: A Poem for All Hallows Eve
The Plough Music Series is a regular selection of music intended to lift the heart to God. It is not a playlist of background music: each installment focuses on a single piece worth pausing to enjoy. Since at least the seventh century, Christians have observed a vigil on All Hallows Eve to pray for the souls of the recently departed.
Learning to Love Goodness
In a widely reproduced photograph from an 1876 book titled English Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century, George MacDonald appears among a group of nine British literary giants.footnote Charles Dickens is there, of course, as well as Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, and W. M. Thackeray. The photograph – a montage created by a commercial publisher – is a visual monument to Victorian eminence: big black-cloaked men with big beards who wrote big, famous books.
Love in Haydn’s Creation
February brings us the nastiest weather of the year. On the other hand, it also brings us Valentine’s Day, and an opportunity to reflect on the wonder and joy of human love, which – as Genesis tells us – was created at the dawn of the world: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them.
The Joyous Prayers of Lili Boulanger
Lili Boulanger’s setting of Psalm 24 ends with choir and organ at full pitch: “He is the king of Glory: Jehovah.” This exuberant praise was written in 1916, an agonizing year for Europe and in particular for the young composer, who was coming to realize that the ill health that had troubled her since childhood would probably allow her only one or two more years to live. During those few years, her musical creativity and skill increased, as did her devotion to the Catholic faith of her childhood.
More than the Watchman
Ask the Lord your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.” Isaiah 7:11 Of all the Penitential Psalms, 130 is especially poignant for the distance of its author’s journey. A cry “out of the depths” evokes a deep and turbulent sea, with waves closing overheard. Yet by the end of his prayer, he is standing as a watchman on battlements, waiting with hope – and certainty – for the coming dawn. Charles H.
Saint Anthony’s Fish Sermon
St. Anthony arrives for his sermon and finds the church empty. He goes to the rivers to preach to the fishes; They flick their tails, which glisten in the sunshine. The carp with roe have all come here, their mouths wide open, listening attentively. No sermon ever pleased the carp so. Sharp-mouthed pike that fight continously have come here, swimming hurriedly to hear this pious one; No sermon ever pleased the pike so.
Music for Ascension Day
The Plough Music Series is a regular selection of music intended to lift the heart to God. It is not a playlist of background music: each installment focuses on a single piece worth pausing to enjoy. Ascension Day marks Christ’s going, as he told his disciples, “to my Father and to your Father; to my God and to your God” (John 20:17; this event is described most fully in Acts).
Jesus the Worker in ‘Misa Campesina’
In the beginning of time, God ordained that man must work (Genesis 3:19). Anyone who has worked as best they can on a difficult task knows that, through grace, what was established as a punishment for sin can become a means of redemption or an opportunity for love. Gerard Manley Hopkins, in his reflections on the Institutes of Ignatius Loyola, describes this well: Turn then, brethren, now and give God glory.
The Hymn for Orthodox Easter
The Plough Music Series is a regular selection of music intended to lift the heart to God. It is not a playlist of background music: each installment focuses on a single piece worth pausing to enjoy. The “Paschal Troparion” is the earliest known Easter hymn, likely dating to within a century of Jesus. To this day it is sung in Orthodox churches throughout the world during the Paschal vigil, held during the hours of darkness between sunset on Holy Saturday and sunrise of Easter day.
Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater
Stabat mater dolorosa Juxta crucem lacrymosa Dum pendebat Filius. Cujus animam gementem Contristatem et dolentes Pertransivit gladius. O quam tristis et afflicta Fuit illa benedicta Mater unigeniti. Quae morebat et dolebat et tremebat cum videbat Nati poenas inclyti. Quis est homo qui non fleret Christi Matrem si videret In tanto supplicio? Quis posset non contristari Piam Matrem contemplari Dolentem cum Filio? Pro peccatis suae gentis Vidit Jesum in tormentis Et flagellis subditum.
God’s Counting on Me
What more is there to say about musician, activist, and visionary Pete Seeger, who died this Monday? Our neighbor – he lived just twenty minutes from Plough headquarters – and some of our team have counted him as a friend for decades. He lived generously and fully, loved the earth and its people, and whatever his faults, stands out for his down-to-earth courage and dogged hope for humanity.
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