Parvo-like disease is killing 30+ young dogs in Northern MI (August 2022)

Michigan Live! update Monday 22 August article

https://www.mlive.com/news/2022/08/at-least-30-dogs-dead-of-mysterious-parvo-like-illness-in-one-northern-michigan-county.html

Most dogs have died within 3 days of displaying symptoms

 from Upper Peninsula media outlet

https://wgrd.com/dogs-sick-dying-in-northern-michigan-from-unknown-disease/

The Otsego County Animal Shelter is warning owners that a parvo-like outbreak is

killing dogs primarily from 6 - 20 months with Parvo-like symptoms.  Necropsy results

by the veterinarians are as yet inconclusive.

Gaylord, Michigan also Vanderbilt, MI and the nearby areas around Gaylord

Symptoms of parvo are: lethargy, depression, and lack of appetite; followed by a sudden onset

of fever, diarrhea, and vomiting.  See Your Veterinarian Immediately.

32 books by Frederick Buechner (1926 - 2022) rest in strength

 Fiction

A Long Day's Dying

The Seasons' Difference

The Return of Ansel Gibbs

The Final Beast

The Entrance to Porlock

Lion Country

Open Heart

Love Feast

Treasure Hunt

The Book of Bebb

Godric

Brendan

The Wizard's Tide

The Son of Laughter

On the Road with the Archangel

The Storm

Non-Fiction (autobiography, sermon anthologies, theol. works)

The Magnificent Defeat

The Hungering Dark

The Alphabet of Grace

Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC

The Faces of Jesus

Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

Peculiar Treasures: A Biblical Who's Who

The Sacred Journey

Now and Then

A Room Called Remember

Whistling in the Dark

Telling Secrets

The Clown in the Belfry

Listening to Your Life

The Longing for Home

The Eyes of the Heart: A memoir of the Lost and Found

Frederick Buechner (reflecting on life's end for "Speak What We Feel" (2001)

 The renowned novelist, essayist, preacher, thinker considered four influential writers

who helped answer life's most perplexing questions [ G.M. Hopkins, G.K. Chesterton, M. Twain a.k.a. Samuel Clemens, and W. Shakespeare ]

FROM Page 160 in the afterword (pages 157-161)

Death, on the other hand, seems less of a negative to me now than it once did.

If somebody a while back had offered me a thousand more years, I would

have leapt at it, but at this point (n.b. he was 75) I would be inclined to beg

off on the grounds that, although I continue to enjoy things a good deal

most of the time and hope to go on as long as I can, the eventual end 

to life seems preferable to the idea of an endless and endlessly

redundant extension of it.  The only really sad part of checking out as

I think of it now is that I won't be around to see what becomes of my

grandchildren, who are the light of my life, the oldest of them only

seven at this writing.  But maybe that is just as well.

They say that we are never happier than our unhappiest child, and if

that is expanded to include the next generation down, the result

is unthinkable. . There is sadness too in thinking how much more 

I might have done with my life than just writing, especially considering

that I was ordained not only to preach good news to the poor,

but to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick and imprisoned,

and raise the dead.

If I make it as far as St. Peter's gate, the most I will be able to plead is

my thirty-two books, and if that is not enough, I am lost.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

 selected by Frederick Buechner in "Speak What We Feel" (2001) Reflections on Literature & Faith

. . . one of the four essayists/poets that he compares and contrasts is

Hopkins citing this work on "Darkness" 

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.

What hours, O what black hours we have spent

This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went!

And more must, in yet longer light's delay.

What witness I speak this.  But where I say

Hours I mean years, mean life.  And my lament

Is cries, countless, cries like dead letters sent

To dearest him that lives alas! away.

I am gall.  I am heartbroken.  God's most deep decree

Bitter would have me taste; my taste was me;

Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse.

Self-yeast of spirit a dull dough sours.  I see

The lost are like this, and their scourge to be

As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.

[page 20, from  part I]

ISBN= 00621752X HarperCollins

Month of August -- this year

 August 1-31, 2022

Thus far 348 visits

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Aykroyd + Belushi (The Blues Brothers) to headline "Blues'd and Infused" event Niles, MI

 August 20, 2022 -- details and weblink to register (for those over 21 only)

Local bands, food trucks, consumption tents, a dab tent, games area, misting tents, more

https://hightimes.com/events/dan-aykroyd-jim-belushi-to-headline-bluesd-infused-fest-as-the-blues-brothers/

Full Moon - August 11, 2022

 August 11 at 9:36 p.m.

Named after N. America's largest fish, the Sturgeon Full Moon, is named after

the fish found in North American lakes and rivers.  Other names include

Grain Moon, Corn Moon, Lynx Moon, and Lightning Moon.

It will be the last supermoon of the year 2022.

https://www.almanac.com/astronomy/moon/calendar