****Walt & Eileen Petersen**: April 2024

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Traces of ime . . . April 22-28, 2024

Traces of Time . . . .

{Last week: Scroll to end and click "Older Posts" at bottom22-28, 2024

Dedicated to our seven children--Janie, Gary, Steve, David, Julie, Brian, Jen, their spouses, our 39 grandchildren, 9 spouses married to our grandchildren, 6 great-grandchildren, 1 due in April and posterity to come.
So our posterity now numbers 66. Number 67 due in April.
THIS WEEK

APRIL 22-28, 2024

April - Hope you all have a wonderful, fantastic birthday!
17 - Walt - "90" Remembrance - 4th in heaven
24 - Gary - "59"
24 - John - "50"
24 - Kimble - "25"
25 - Jerry - "50"

MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2024
Family is Everything...

Sunrise: 6:38 a.m.

Sunset: 8:13 p.m.

...this Monday

Last Monday to compare to...
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Hokulia Shave Ice - Saratoga Springs will be opening soon! Like their FB page to get info about when it will open.
Hokulia Shave Ice - Saratoga Springs UTAH. We're prepping the shack, getting it ready to open. Can't wait to see all of you! Stay tuned for opening dates.
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Appointment with Dr. Kimball
at Willowcreek Clinic in Lehi
A1C = 7.1
down from 8.1 on Jan. 8,
so that's great!!

Wish I knew the name of...
...these beautiful trees.

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This afternoon I started listening to
The Bomber Mafia
this afternoon. Fascinating!
Malcolm Gladwell - Age 45
in this 2008 photo from
Wikipedia.
Now age 60.

Family Book Club
April Choice by Gary
Book released 2021
Gary’s choice for April...

I’ve been wanting to listen to another Malcolm Gladwell book for the last little while. This is one of his recent ones from 2021:
The Bomber Mafia.
Since Oppenheimer, I've been curious about knowing more of the fire bombing of Tokyo in WW2, which was more devastating than the atomic bomb drops. Which looks like it is discussed in this book.
It's only about 5 hours, though, so I'm also including Malcolm Gladwell podcast published as a book also from 2021:
I Hate the Ivy League.
Education is something that I've been interested in for a while, and I'm curious to hear some of Gladwell's take on it. They are both available on Audible, and are about 5 hrs each, so about 11 hours total.
*THE BOMBER MAFIA***
In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists, the “Bomber Mafia,” asked: What if precision bombing could cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal?
In contrast, the bombing of Tokyo on the deadliest night of the war was the brainchild of General Curtis LeMay, whose brutal pragmatism and scorched-earth tactics in Japan cost thousands of civilian lives, but may have spared even more by averting a planned US invasion.
In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell asks, “Was it worth it?” Things might have gone differently had LeMay’s predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge. Hansell believed in precision bombing, but when he and Curtis LeMay squared off for a leadership handover in the jungles of Guam, LeMay emerged victorious, leading to the darkest night of World War II.
The Bomber Mafia is a riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war.
I HATE THE IVY LEAGUE
Malcolm Gladwell has long relished the opportunity to skewer the upper echelons of higher education, from the institution of U.S. News & World Report’s Best College rankings to the LSATs to the luxe Bowdoin College cafeteria.
I Hate the Ivy League: iffs and Rants on Elite Education, upends the traditional thinking around how education should work and tries to get to the bottom of why we often reward the wrong people. The higher education system follows a hierarchy that was created to primarily benefit top-tier, elite, well-off students, but Gladwell wants to find out how we can do a better job at educating the middle and make education more affordable, fair, and open to all.
Why is Gladwell so obsessed with American education?
The foreword and afterword of I Hate the Ivy League explains, framing this carefully curated selection of Revisionist History episodes. If you’ve never listened to Revisionist History, this collection is a thoughtful introduction to the long-running podcast, and if you’re already a fan, it allows for careful re-examination of the important issues at hand: how do we really determine what matters most when it comes to educating our children?
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Earth Day 2024Happy Earth Day 2024! Today's annual Earth Day Doodle features the planet's natural beauty and biodiversity and reminds us of the importance of protecting it for future generations.

TUESDAY, APRIL 23**, 2024

Family is Everything...
Institute

Lori Lyn and Betsy teach

the course of Instruction:
"Women in the Scriptures"

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2024

Family is Everything...
Happy Birthday today to...
24 - Gary - "59"
24 - John - "50"
24 - Kimble - "25"
Gary - 1965
Gary
Gary
Gary
Gary
Gary
Gary
Gary
Gary
Gary
Gary
Gary - 1984-86
Korea Seoul Mission
Gary - 1990

Gary - 1991
Eagle Scout brothers
Gary - 2001
Memorial Day at
Grama Albertson's home
Gooding, Idaho
Gary - 2024 April 24
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John - 2020-something
with his siblings

John - 2019
with his Dad & Mom
and siblings
John - 2014
with Julie and Riggy

John & Julie and
family

John & Julie and
family - 2022
John & Julie and
family

John and kids - 2024 April 24

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Kimble - 2007 Thanksgiving with
cousins Sam and Anna
Kimble - 2014 - with his brother
Carter at his sister Kelsey's
wedding.

Kimble - 2015 - with his brother
Carter
Kimble - 2015 - his family cheering
him on at state swim meet

Kimble - 2017 - State Swim Meet

Kimble - 2020
Coast Guard Cadet
Kimble - 2023 - with Riggy

Kimble - 2023 Sep - visit from Hawaii
Introducing us to Maddie
Kimble - 2023 Oct - Engaged to
Maddie

Kimble - 2023 Dec -
Married to Maddie

Kimble - 2023 Dec -
Married to Maddie

Kimble - 2023 Dec -
Married to Maddie

Kimble - 2023 Dec -
Married to Maddie

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Lunch Bunch was at the new
Village Baker in
Saratoga Springs.
I always get their egg salad sandwich.

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Movie Night with Gary...

Wed, April 24
was from
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THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2024**

Family is Everything…
Today Jerry is 50

FRIDAY,  APRIL 26, 2024
Family is Everything…
day

SATURDAY,  APRIL 27, 2024
Family is Everything...

SUNDAY,  APRIL 28, 2024
Family is Everything...

April 28

Ward Conference

Presiding

President Jordan Erickson

Conducting

Bill Miller

Organist

Kaye Wyler

Chorister

Nadine Fletcher

Opening Hymn

“The Lord Is My Light”
Hymn 89

Invocation

Sue Allen

Ward/Stake Business

Sacrament Hymn

"'With Humble Heart"
Hymn 171

Administration of the Sacrament

Aaronic Priesthood

Speaker

Bishop Roger Cheney

Speaker

President Jordan Erickson

Closing Hymn

"Be Still, My Soul"
Hymn 124

Benediction

Craig Allen

The Work of Salvation & Exaltation

LIVE the gospel of Jesus Christ

CARE for those in need

INVITE all to receive the gospel

UNITE families for eternity

Organization Links:
Relief Society Newsletter - March-April
Elder's Quorum
Youth Sunday School

Temple & Family History

Social Media Links:

Saratoga Springs 3rd

unofficial Ward Facebook group
Saratoga Springs UT Stake Friends

unofficial Stake Facebook group

Church of Jesus Christ, Saratoga Springs Community

unofficial Stake Facebook page

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Relief Society

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At the end of this April 28th,
I pray you have had a
restful , peaceful, and spiritual
Sabbath Day...
I share these truths as my testimony to you...

Heavenly Father lives and knows us each by name. He loves us and wants us to return to Him and Heavenly Mother when we leave this mortal existence.
He loves us just
as we are at this very moment.
He knows what our potential is.
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Jesus Christ came to earth as The Only Begotten of the Father and fulfilled the Atonement. He is the Redeemer of all.
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I am thankful for the guidance of the Holy Ghost as the third member of the Godhead.
Walt said to me once: "I look forward to thanking the Holy Ghost in person when I get to Heaven. I don't think we give Him enough credit for all He does."

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Joseph Smith was foreordained to be the Prophet of the Restoration. He is the Restorer of all things.
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President Russell M. Nelson is the Living Prophet today for all the world.
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The Bible is "the Word of God as far as it is translated correctly" and is a Testament of the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
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The Book of Mormon is the Word of God and is Another Testament of Jesus Christ. It is the most correct book of any book on earth.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the True Church on the earth today. Because of the restored Temple Ordinances families can be sealed for eternity.

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Of these truths I testify in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Eileen Petersen
April 28, 2024

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Next week APRIL 29-MAY 5, 2024

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Traces of Time . . . .

{Last week: Scroll to end and click "Older Posts" at bottom22-28, 2024

Dedicated to our seven children--Janie, Gary, Steve, David, Julie, Brian, Jen, their spouses, our 39 grandchildren, 9 spouses married to our grandchildren, 6 great-grandchildren, 1 due in April and posterity to come.
So our posterity now numbers 66. Number 67 due in April.
THIS WEEK

APRIL 29-May 5, 2024

MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2024
Family is Everything...

Sunrise: 6:29 a.m...

Sunset: 8:20 p.m.

...this Monday

Last Monday to compare to...
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TUESDAY, APRIL 30**, 2024

Family is Everything...
Institute

Lori Lyn and Betsy teach

the course of Instruction:
"Women in the Scriptures"

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2024

    Family is Everything...
May - Hope you all have a wonderful, fantastic birthday!
02 - ___ Taylor - " 2"  {Kelsey & Josh's son}
16 - Michael Fisher "21"
21 - Maddie - "17"
21-Grampa Bide Prescott's Remembrance 1884-1943 "69"
Family Book Club

Book Description

A dramatic account of Paul Revere's Ride that uses this one famous incident to offer deep insight into the outbreak of the revolution and the birth of the American republic. - 1994
1.   Listening Length

12 hours and 52 minutes

2.   Author

David Hackett Fischer

3.   Narrator

Paul Boehmer

4.   Audible release date

June 6, 2017

English

Publisher's summary

Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history - yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. In Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischer fashions an exciting narrative that offers deep insight into the outbreak of revolution and the emergence of the American republic. Beginning in the years before the eruption of war, Fischer illuminates the figure of Paul Revere, a man far more complex than the simple artisan and messenger of tradition. When the alarm riders took to the streets, they did not cry, "The British are coming", for most of them still believed they were British. Within a day many began to think differently. For George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Thomas Paine, the news of Lexington was their revolutionary Rubicon.
What does Rubicon mean?
a bounding or limiting line
Rubicon • \ROO-bih-kahn\ • noun. : a bounding or limiting line; especially : one that when crossed commits a person irrevocably.

Paul Revere's Ride returns Paul Revere to center stage in these critical events, capturing both the drama and the underlying developments in a triumphant return to narrative history at its finest.

©1994 David Hackett Fischer (P)2017 Tantor

Unabridged Audiobook

Categories: History

·         Paul Revere's Ride Paperback - April 19, 1995
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Paul Revere’s Ride

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow**

LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.

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He said to his friend, “If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light, —
One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm.”

xxx

Then he said, “Good night!” and with muffled oar
Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore,
Just as the moon rose over the bay,
Where swinging wide at her moorings lay
The Somerset, British man-of-war;
A phantom ship, with each mast and spar
Across the moon like a prison bar,
And a huge black hulk, that was magnified
By its own reflection in the tide.

xxx

Meanwhile, his friend, through alley and street,
Wanders and watches with eager ears,
Till in the silence around him he hears
The muster of men at the barrack door,
The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,
And the measured tread of the grenadiers,
Marching down to their boats on the shore.

xxx

Then he climbed the tower of the Old North Church,
By the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,
To the belfry-chamber overhead,
And startled the pigeons from their perch
On the sombre rafters, that round him made
Masses and moving shapes of shade, —
By the trembling ladder, steep and tall,
To the highest window in the wall,
Where he paused to listen and look down
A moment on the roofs of the town,
And the moonlight flowing over all.

xxx

Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead,
In their night-encampment on the hill,
Wrapped in silence so deep and still
That he could hear, like a sentinel’s tread,
The watchful night-wind, as it went
Creeping along from tent to tent,
And seeming to whisper, “All is well!”
A moment only he feels the spell
Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead;
For suddenly all his thoughts are bent
On a shadowy something far away,
Where the river widens to meet the bay, —
A line of black that bends and floats
On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats.

xxx

Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride,
Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride
On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.
Now he patted his horse’s side,
Now gazed at the landscape far and near,
Then, impetuous, stamped the earth,
And turned and tightened his saddle-girth;
But mostly he watched with eager search
The belfry-tower of the Old North Church,
As it rose above the graves on the hill,
Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.
And lo! as he looks, on the belfry’s height
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!
He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,
But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight
A second lamp in the belfry burns!

xxx

A hurry of hoofs in a village street,
A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,
And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark
Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet:
That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation was riding that night;
And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight,
Kindled the land into flame with its heat.

xxx

He has left the village and mounted the steep,
And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,
Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides;
And under the alders that skirt its edge,
Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,
Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.

xxx

It was twelve by the village clock,
When he crossed the bridge into Medford town.
He heard the crowing of the cock,
And the barking of the farmer’s dog,
And felt the damp of the river fog,
That rises after the sun goes down.

xxx

It was one by the village clock,
When he galloped into Lexington.
He saw the gilded weathercock
Swim in the moonlight as he passed,
And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare,
Gaze at him with a spectral glare,
As if they already stood aghast
At the bloody work they would look upon.

xxx

It was two by the village clock,
When he came to the bridge in Concord town.
He heard the bleating of the flock,
And the twitter of birds among the trees,
And felt the breath of the morning breeze
Blowing over the meadows brown.
And one was safe and asleep in his bed
Who at the bridge would be first to fall,
Who that day would be lying dead,
Pierced by a British musket-ball.

xxx

You know the rest. In the books you have read,
How the British Regulars fired and fled, —
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
From behind each fence and farm-yard wall,
Chasing the red-coats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.

So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm, —
A cry of defiance and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo forevermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.

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From The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1903

Want to know more about Longfellow’s poem and how Revere’s legacy developed and changed over time? Listen to this episode of Ben Franklin’s World titled “Paul Revere’s Ride through History” to hear from historians about how our understanding of Revere has changed over the centuries.

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Lunch Bunch was at
La Fountain

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Movie Night with Gary...

Wed, May 1 is seeing the
Timpanogos High School
play that Isaac is in.

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THURSDAY, MAY 2**, 2024

Family is Everything…
Today

FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2024
Family is Everything…
day

SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2024
Family is Everything...
Isaac is performing at the
Eccles Theater in downtown
Salt Lake City at the State
finals in high school drama...

SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2024
Family is Everything...

At the end of this May 5th,
I pray you have had a
restful , peaceful, and spiritual
Sabbath Day...
I share these truths as my testimony to you...

Heavenly Father lives and knows us each by name. He loves us and wants us to return to Him and Heavenly Mother when we leave this mortal existence.
He loves us just
as we are at this very moment.
He knows what our potential is.
* * *
Jesus Christ came to earth as The Only Begotten of the Father and fulfilled the Atonement. He is the Redeemer of all.
* * *
I am thankful for the guidance of the Holy Ghost as the third member of the Godhead.
Walt said to me once: "I look forward to thanking the Holy Ghost in person when I get to Heaven. I don't think we give Him enough credit for all He does."

* * * * *
Joseph Smith was foreordained to be the Prophet of the Restoration. He is the Restorer of all things.
* * *
President Russell M. Nelson is the Living Prophet today for all the world.
* * *
The Bible is "the Word of God as far as it is translated correctly" and is a Testament of the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
* * *
The Book of Mormon is the Word of God and is Another Testament of Jesus Christ. It is the most correct book of any book on earth.
* * *
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the True Church on the earth today. Because of the restored Temple Ordinances families can be sealed for eternity.

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Of these truths I testify in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Eileen Petersen
May 5, 2024

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Next week MAY 6-12, 2024

MONDAY, MAY 6, 2024

Family is Everything.. Sunrise: 6: a.m.

Sunset: 8: p.m.
...this Monday

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