My grandfather, Nicola Luvera, was born in Italy where his father, Paolo Nicola and mother Rosa Luvera were were sheepherders And sharecroppers in Gallina Italy. He worked with his father until he was 16 years old when he decided to move to Reggio Calabria where a cousin Antonio working in a slaughterhouse. He was able to get a job with his cousin and lived with his family for four years. Then he married woman from his village. They had a…
Regarding the news about a missile strike on Iran after it destroyed our drone, Donald Trump has tweeted and told the media this story: "We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die," Trump said, "150 people, sir, was the answer from a General. 10 minutes before the strike I stopped it, not proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone." In his telling of his story about the situation,…
Our trip to France began on Sunday, May 19. We had a 7:30 PM flight from Seattle to London Heathrow Airport. We arrived at 12:45 PM on May 20. Our connecting flight from London to Nice France left at 4:15 PM arriving at 7:25 PM in the evening. By the time we arrived in Nice it had been a very long travel day. We collected our luggage and met our driver for the trip to the hotel Cap Estel located…
We leave in a few days for the French Riviera for a couple weeks visit. We have been to this area often in the past, but this trip we are locating there as our central location. The Cannes Film Fesitival is going on from May 14th through the 25th and the hotels on the French Riviera are crowded during that time. As a result of accommodation issues we are staying at three different hotels in the general area rather than…
I read things that strike me as interesting and save them for reasons I am not fully sure about. I have no message for you from them, but here’s a collection of a few of them. • Marriage In the Television series The Kominsky Method, staring Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin, Arkin’s character delivers a talk about his wife at her funeral. It is beautiful and a total summary of my feelings about my wife Lita. Here’s what he says:…
“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ “I tell…
If you haven't seen the documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? which traces the life of TV host Fred Rogers and his television program of that title I recommend it to you. The documentary was directed by Oscar-winning Morgan Melville.There were 1765 episodes of the program from 1968 two 2001. Rogers died of cancer at the age of 74 in 2003. He was a graduate of the Pittsburgh theological seminary and an ordained minister. He was married to his wife…
My father in law, Hollis Barnett died on March 22nd 1990. He was a unique and wonderful man. You can read about his extraordinary wife Betty Barnett and more about this couple whoI grew to love. https://paulluverajournalonline.com/weblog/2010/03/i-write-this-in-memory-of-my-wifes-father-hollis-hall-barnett-whodied-in-puyallup-washington-on-march-22-1990-at-the-a.html Hollis Hall Barnett died in Puyallup, Washington at the age of 83. Hollis was born in Buckley, Washington on May 3, 1907 and spent his younger years at Mt. Rainier National Park where his father, Herman "Herm" Burke Barnett, was a National Park Ranger….
The concept of karma teaches a cause and effect function in life. Good intent and good deeds contribute to good karma and future happiness, while bad intent and bad deeds contribute to bad karma and future suffering. The same idea is found in Ralph Walter Emerson's famous essay "Compensation" where he argued life has a cause and effect rule. He wrote: "Every act rewards itself, or, in other words, integrates itself, in a twofold manner; first, in the thing, or…
My maternal grandfather Peter (Petar) Babarovich was born April 12, 1861 in the village of Splitska on the island of Brac in the Adriatic Sea. He died in Anacortes, Washington March 5, 1935. I was born 12 days after he died. It must have have been a very difficult time for my mother, to lose her father and then give birth to me. He and my grandmother had seven children all of whom, except my mother, Mary, who was born in Anacortes,…
