dual personalities

Here is the Christmas card that my grandparents sent back in 1938 or 1939. My mother (on the left) is about 12. Her sister Donna is about 5 and Susanne is 14 or 15.

Times change, of course, but people still like to send out photo cards, don’t they? It is a lot easier nowadays. You can design them on your phone and order them in a jiffy, as my daughter-in-law did, sitting in my living room the other day when she was reminded that time was a-wastin’!

Well, I like receiving Christmas cards–with or without family photos! It is a good tradition.

We wish a happy birthday to Don Johnson who was born on this day 73 years ago in Flat Creek, Missouri. I still maintain that he is the most handsome man ever to grace television screens. Perhaps that proves how shallow I am, but c’est la vie.

We’ll also toast another Missouri native son, Walt Disney, who died on this day in 1966. Walt grew up on a farm in Marceline, Missouri where he learned those values he encouraged in the films he produced–individualism, decency, love for our fellow man, fair play and tolerance.

Disney received 59 Academy Award nominations, including 22 awards–both totals are records. I’ll watch one of those movies. Luckily I own a few DVD’s, because most of his old movies are not available, even on Disney Plus, because they are deemed unacceptable nowadays. Zut alors. (I will note that there are several Disney films from the old days which are available to rent on Amazon Prime. Go figure.)

Well, I am beginning to sound like an old grouch, so I will end this post before it becomes a full-blown vent.

But first, I will also note that yesterday was the fifth anniversary of the death of R.C. Sproul, “the greatest and most influential proponent of the recovery of Reformed theology in the last century.”

Soli Deo Gloria