Rush hour — that’s an oxymoron. At 4:09 PM EST on August 14, 2003, the blackout hit the northeast. Most people walked home. Some slept in the street using the blankets and pillows their hotels gave them. Most fasted when street venders quickly sold out. Most everybody just got along — but, for how long? WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE LIGHT SWITCH FAILS? Consider the following: ENJOY – have a barbecue and invite a widow or…
FOD is not something to worry about – unless you are in aviation. Then, it can be everything. Anything out of place is FOD: anything that can produce (F)oreign (O)bject (D)amage to an aircraft. A paper clip or a pebble on the runway, a hat, a tool, a bird — anything that can go through an engine except fuel and air is FOD. You will never see a cluttered airport. Aviation has to be a tidy industry. People’s…
“It came on between Wells and Wendover,” explained my mother, to my irate father. “It was only one little red light. The smoke didn’t start ‘til later.” I learned an early lesson when dad replaced the engine in our ’52 Buick. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” That lesson was magnified during a military aviation career. To expect the unexpected is the beginning of safety awareness. To feel safe comes from broadening our…
The sports world is always reaching for new highs in pain. “No pain, no gain,” we are told. A popular athletic shoe ad says “sometimes you just have to break the rules.” Some sports today push limits so far as to be near death experiences. The pain is so great, if you aren’t dead, you will wish you were. Pain is a great teacher because it leaves no doubt as to when we have surpassed limits or broken…
A young couple, just getting started, determined to sacrifice and spend some of their meager finances on a food supply. They picked a cool closet in their small apartment and determined two things: 1. they would not food shop unless they could purchase a case of something they normally consumed. 2. they would never buy anything unless it was on sale. The local newspaper specials became an important part of their casual reading. What started with generic canned…
The wisdom to store basic grains comes from the Word of Wisdom, that councils: “All grain is ordained for the use of man, . . . to be the staff of life. . .” Grains not only provide great variety and food value, but they also store well for long periods of time, without need of rotation. Processing grains into prepared cereals and mixes not only strips nutritional value, but also increases cost: 65-85% of the original nutrition…
Style and fashion are most often the worldly antithesis to spiritual covenant and commitment. Having “enough and to spare” is a worthy material goal of every home. Yet, each person illustrates his own attitudes and fashion, easily seen in spending habits. “Luxuries become the next generations’ necessities,” reported the U S Census Bureau. Ben Franklin opined on fashion, saying, “expect little change in men’s pockets this year.” Thrift stores inventories come from those who share of their…
The trouble with learning principles from living prophets is that seldom do we get recipes or procedures across the pulpit. Pure light and truth, when revealed to the man of agency, leaves his faith to be proven by his choices. . . especially when it comes to diet. Pres. Kimball taught: “Store what you eat. Eat what you store.” That’s it. Get to it. Look at your family’s needs, ages, special diets, etc, — what ever you eat…
If “variety is the spice of life,” certainly there is a need to inventory a variety of foods to support the family when stress interrupts routines. Someone once said that “the greatest contemporary invention that has done the most to destroy mans’ productivity is the drive-up window.” We are great at eating. We don’t resort to drugs, alcohol, or tobacco as crutches on rough terrain; but, when we come under stress we do eat more. Metabolisms go…