#try to spot james like a where's waldo

[chrysaurus]

This took perhaps 20 seconds to make and is perhaps the most relevant thing I’ve ever drawn

#try to spot james like a where's waldo #sorry to post something that doesn't have james in it :( maybe next post will feature him or something #james #james pokemon #pokemon #pokemon fanart #fanart #icon #doodle #pokeani

[romancatholicreflections]

23rd February >> Daily Reflection on Today’s Mass Readings for Roman Catholics on the Memorial of Saint Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr (Hebrews 11:1-7, Psalms 145:2-3, 4-5, 10-11 & Mark 9:2-13).

Lectionary:340

Praying Ordinary Time

Weekly Guide for Daily Prayer

On the playground of my elementary school my classmates and I ran and jumped and let loose peels of laughter during our recess times -- a wonderful outlet for the overflowing stream of energy that runs through children. One of our favorite games was hide and seek. As the seeker counted to 20, eyes concealed, we all darted into what we hoped would be the most inconspicuous spots. I prefered the inside of a set of tractor tires that were painted white. As an adult, I don’t remember the last time I played the game in a real sense, but I do play it every day in a figurative sense with God. The real joy of the game on the spiritual playground is to recognize that we are called not just to seek, but to allow ourselves to be sought by God.

Each morning, when we are given the gift of another day of life, our feet hit the floor beside our bed and the earth beneath us becomes a playground. The question is, “How will I engage my faith today?” This is the faith that we hear about in today’s first reading from the letter to the Hebrews: “Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.” (v.1)

As I look out on the landscape of my life each day, am I able to trust that God is on that playground waiting to be found even when I feel I cannot see God’s presence? In many ways, that belief in what cannot be seen is the first step. A shift from an “I’ll believe it when I see it” mentality to one that says “I’ll see it when I believe it!” For me it has been helpful to stop thinking of the landscape as something akin to the childhood books “Where’s Waldo?” that imply that God (or Waldo, in this case) is hiding in some specific spot “out there”, but to recognize that God is to be found everywhere! This was what St. Ignatius of Loyola was getting at when he encouraged people to “find God in all things” and it’s what Jesuit paleontologist and geologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin meant when he wrote, “God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my pick, my paintbrush, my needle -- and my heart and my thoughts.”

Further into today’s Hebrews reading we hear, “He rewards those who seek Him.” (v.6b) God takes delight in our pursuit of God! Notice, it does not say that God rewards those who find God, rather it is about our desire to seek God out. I would add that God takes great delight in pursuing us no matter how many tricks we play or masks we wear to try to hide from God. Similar to the image of God painted by Francis Thompson in his infamous poem “The Hound of Heaven,” God pursues us like a dog does a rabbit...with unceasing focus and energy. Am I willing to allow myself to be found by God? Do I desire to be found?

God sought out Peter, James and John in a startling way in Mark’s Gospel today! Leading them on a hike away from the crowds and the crush of life, Jesus takes them to the top of a mountain. Then, seemingly without warning, something amazing happens: Jesus is transfigured. He becomes light. My wife and I recently acquired an alarm clock that uses light as well as sound. As our desired wake up time is approaching, a soft illumination will progressively get more intense so as to bring us out of slumber. The room is transfigured from one heavy with darkness that encourages sleep to one that is bursting with light and calling us to arise. God’s voice booms as Jesus is illuminated, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.” (v. 7b) In other words, “Wake up!”

by Kyle Lierk

Creighton University's Campus Ministry

[feelingbluepolitics]

Senators Lankford and Scott, Here is the Better Solution, For Every Day

Reference Article:   The Hill, "GOP senators renew effort to bridge US racial divide with 'Solution Sundays,'" Olivia Beavers, October 10, 2017, 11:10 PM EDT

  http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/354851-gop-senators-continue-push-to-bridge-us-racial-divide-in-new-video/?amp=1

Two Republican Senators, James Lankford (white) of Oklahoma and Tim Scott (black) of South Carolina, released a video suggesting a grassroots movement to begin breaking down racial divides in America by encouraging families to invite a family of a different race to share a meal.   Speaking from different locations as the video cuts between them, both acknowledge their suggestion as a starting point.  Perhaps some Republicans share their concerns, and will listen.  Perhaps some conservatives do see their serious problems, from top to base, on the issue of racial division.   Truthfully, the Senators' idea is a good one.

It is just that there is a much bigger and more powerful way to address racial divides in America.  Join the Democratic Party.

Anyone who wants to consider solutions for America's issues of racial barriers and division, go beyond watching this video by a pair of Republicans.  When you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.  When you are an inadequate part of the solution and on the wrong side of it, you are still part of the problem, regardless of whether your personal beliefs are blameless.

Look at footage or pictures from Trump's campaign rallies, before or after inauguration.  You will see a black man.  He is the odd man consistently and conspicuously behind Trump's elbow.  This man calls himself "Michael the Black Man," and you can find more about him by searching "black man at trump rallies" online.  If you accidentally type "men," as in plural, the search will find "man," and bring up many articles about Michael.  Finding another face that is not white is like a high-difficulty game of finding Waldo.

Now look at footage or pictures of Democratic rallies, or look at images from liberal protests on any issue where diverse people who share values come together, drawn into solidarity by what they care about in this country, and what they hope to resolve.  If you are interested in solutions for racial division, join our crowd.  If this issue bothers you, or if another--any other--issue stemming from prejudice or bigotry bothers you, and you are a conservative, you are on the wrong side on these issues.  Join us.

Republican and conservative clustered bigotry is no secret.  Of course they are not all bigots.  But put into perspective Senator Lankford's encouragement for people to try--to begin--to start to "engage each other."  Lankford has said that on these issues, Trump's "rhetoric is not artful."  Referring to Trump's active efforts to divide America into 'other'-based antagonisms by using such extreme understatement risks credibility on the topic of racial divides in this country.  Tim Scott met with Trump after Charlottesville to speak powerfully about racial issues, but to no avail.

Resident Trump has used flashpoint politics to divide America along every pressure point of gender, sexuality, race, religion, country of origin, state of residence, wealth, education, rural or urban lifestyles --to name just some of his efforts.  These efforts by Trump bear an interesting similarity to reports of Russian pro-Trump interference, which pressed Putin's thumb firmly on America's sorest spots by buying and spreading online pro-Trump racist messaging.  These efforts by the Russians and by Resident Trump show a clear collaboration of purpose:  To damage America and the way that we as Americans have defined our values during the course of our painful history.  When you vote Republican, you are standing with them, and you are a collaborator endorsing their efforts.

We Democrats are together in all the diversity we celebrate and engage to protect, and we hold it as a core value to keep working against those who oppose a respectful equality of opportunities for all.  So yes, "do something."  Go ahead and share a meal.  But to really push back against divisive behavior and efforts, join the Democratic Party, and vote.   Become part of everyday work towards solutions with Democrats:  all of us together, who wanted to be stronger together.  We are working every day with people who want to heal rather than foment America's divisions.

#essay #lankford #tim scott #better solutions

[spaceorphan18]

Finding Kurt Hummel: Nationals

Masterpost

3x21: Nationals

So, Glee has its handful of bad episodes, but most of the time, I just find it boring, or a mess of an episode.  There are very few episodes that make me want to throw things at it.  This episode makes me want to throw things at it.  But why, SO? This seems to be a beloved episode by a lot of people.  I know.  I know.  So let me give you a list. 

The fact that after the first four minutes, there’s no tension in this episode at all as a New Directions win was pretty telegraphed since the end of season two. 

The fact that Carmen Tibideaux actually gives into Rachel’s request and shows up at Nationals. 

The fact that it lends to my theory that NYADA is dumb, as we learn it didn’t let in Jesse St. James (and then Adam Lambert, Kurt on his first try, and Blaine willingly doesn’t go back)

20+ minutes of this episode is just musical performances, which leads to basically no plot.  

I’m not a fan of New Directions’s set list (which I know is subjective because a lot of people love it, so I’ll let this one go) 

The Judges session which features both Perez Hilton and Lindsay Lohan not being funny. 

The Tongue Tied montage that features Finchel making out, Brittana making out, Tike making out, random chicks mauling Rory, and Klaine are barely featured let alone acknowledging the other one exists because, and yes I do quote, “Kurt doesn’t like PDA.” (Fuck you, RIB) 

Emma giving her virginity to Will as a ‘gift’ for winning nationals. 

Will winning teacher of the year, despite this exact year he was told off for being a crappy Spanish teacher, and probably isn’t any better at history, and I’m doubtful he even taught the kids that much about music. 

Finchel giving Will teacher of the year. 

God, I cannot with this episode.  I’m grateful Kurt’s barely in it. Here we go.  

MC Hummel and His Bitch

That meme will forever be stuck in my head. 

So -- anyway, the opening where everyone’s gone crazy practicing for Nationals is actually quite entertaining.  Kurt mostly stays out of it (way to practice your dancing sitting on that table, Kurt ;)) -- and is really only giving updates on what Vocal Adrenaline is up to.  

Nationals

So, this is interesting.  It was the Where’s Waldo of scenes, my god.  This is the show circle scene, where Finn talks about how amazing Will is.  And I groan a lot.  And interestingly there is no, not a single shot of Kurt in this scene.  In fact, I watched it over a few times thinking he wasn’t even it, but when I paused it here, I finally found him.  Right next to Blaine, lol.  

Okay, so I’m including this here to be thorough, even though this moment is pretty skippable, and barely noteworthy.  But Finn’s giving Rachel a pep talk about doing her best, etc, and Kurt’s giving her a sympathetic, I’m here for ya look throughout.  It’s just nice, cause he’s a good kid, and there isn’t much Kurt to talk about in this, so I figured I’d add it. 

I am slightly amused that Glee remembered Klaine long enough to give them two lines and a little dance sequence during Nationals.  Little cuties. 

I’m not sure if I can pull anything out of their lines:  And we're glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife.  

I mean, do with that what you will, kids. 

So -- there’s a sweet little moment here when Kurt and Mercedes come to wish Unique good luck (I’m a little sad this friendship doesn’t end up going into season 4.  It’s like none of this ever happened.)  Unique is freaking out and both Mercedes and Kurt offer up wisdom because of the kind souls that they are.  

It’s also interesting that there’s a little meta moment in here, too, where Unique says she’s having issues because now that she’s out as Unique -- she’s expected to be the poster child for anyone who’s different.  And man, the look on Kurt’s face.  Because yeah, Chris had that spot for so long.  It works on a lot of different levels here. 

Oh, hey, the episode remembers Klaine is a couple here, too.  Interesting.  

Oh, and um, New Directions wins first place.  And I realize that the competition aspect of this show has never really done anything for me. 

Tongue Tied (or that part of the episode that still enrages me even though it’s been almost five years.)

Lol.  Oh, Kurt bb, ilu.  

No, okay, here’s my thing.  There are some really fun and neat things in this montage, but yeah, I’m sorry I go to a resentful place that everyone gets to celebrate -- except Klaine.  And Kurt’s a little cutie here, with his shock over confetti, and being mauled by hockey players, and really the only super egregious thing is the Emma giving up her virginity because they won, but it does make me a little sad that Klaine couldn’t get a moment in all of this.  We don’t even really get any Kurt (or Blaine) celebration during this after the opening few moments.  It feels like being excluded.  :/ 

Kurt, you’re so far in the background that you’re standing behind Sugar and Rory.  If that isn’t symbolic for this episode, I don’t know what is. 

I’m going to bypass Finchel giving Will teacher of the year and go straight to We Are The Champions -- a song forever in my heart because it’s so attached to my first childhood obsession - The Mighty Ducks. 

Anyway, Kurt gets some lines: 

I've taken my bows And my curtain calls. You brought me fame and fortune, and everything that goes with it. I thank you all.

It almost feels like a meta moment, does it not?  

:) 

#finding kh #kurt hummel

[wineanddinosaur]

How a PGA Tour Event in the Desert Became The Wildest Party In American Sports

On Feb. 6, 2016, Ryan Palmer lined up his putt on the 10th hole at TPC Scottsdale, the annual venue of Arizona’s Phoenix Open. He pulled back his club, ready to caress the ball into the hole, when a nearby spectator cried out “miss it!” just as Palmer was mid-stroke. The player stopped, composed himself, and once again readied his stroke. Again, the heckling voice shouted out, “miss it!”

After a third call came out, James Edmonson, Palmer’s caddy of 18 years, jumped into action. “I walked all the way around the green and went right up to the rope [separating the crowd from the course]. I pointed at him and I was like, ‘Hey, come here!’” Edmonson says, describing the heckler as a “frat punk” wearing a “stupid little tie.”

“I was going to pull his tie and pull him over the rope,” he recalls. “‘Cause once you get inside the ropes, you know, it’s fair game.” The fan backed down — “like a keyboard warrior on social media” — but when the next group of players arrived on the green, his antics resumed. Security staff soon decided enough was enough and kicked him out. “I’ve never seen anything like it before,” Edmonson says.

Professional caddies’ typical duties include carrying golf bags, calculating shot lengths, and determining which club their player should use to make a shot. Altercations with “frat boys” is not, as the old adage goes, par for the course. But the Phoenix Open is an event like no other on the PGA Tour.

Officially billed as the Waste Management Phoenix Open, the tournament is better known among golf fans as the “Greatest Show on Grass.” The event eschews the sport’s rigid etiquette, with raucous crowds, a festival-like atmosphere, and extra-curricular activities that extend well into the night. Its annual attendance figures closer resemble music festivals than sporting events.

The tournament is notorious for its spectators’ epic alcohol consumption. In a bid to curb overindulgence and crackdown on DUIs, the Scottsdale Police Department introduced free breathalyzer tests as part of a “Know Your Limit” campaign in 2012. Meanwhile, the event’s costly corporate boxes, which are sold with “open” bars, set a 10-drink limit per person a few years back. Even with that in place, multiple sources told VinePair that bartenders are happy to ignore the limit when tipped generously.

“The way I try to explain the Phoenix Open to people that have never gone is, ‘Imagine a humongous bar or outdoor party, and in the middle of it, there’s a golf tournament going on,’” Edmonson says. “I mean, 90 percent of the people attending don’t really care about the golf.”

His estimate, though unscientific, is telling. The seven-day event takes place during Super Bowl week and concludes the first Sunday of February. The competition itself spans Thursday through Super Bowl Sunday; but practice rounds on Monday and Tuesday, and Wednesday’s celebrity Pro-Am, which has previously featured the likes of Mark Walhberg, Michael Phelps, and Aaron Rogers, draw crowds of up to 70,000.

In terms of attendance, there’s only one winner between the Super Bowl and the Phoenix Open. The highest-attended Super Bowl in history barely breached 100,000 spectators. In 2018, more than 200,000 fans turned out at the Phoenix Open on Saturday alone. Over the seven-day period, close to 720,000 people crossed its gates.

The Phoenix Open’s attendances don’t just trounce almost every event on America’s sporting calendar, they make Burning Man, which receives some 70,000 visitors annually, seem like a county fair by comparison. Only Coachella, the celebrity-stacked music festival that takes place over six days on two separate weekends, boasts similar numbers.

The jewel in the tournament’s crown is the legendary par-3 16th hole, hailed as the “most electrifying” in all of golf. It holds a singular place within the sport, owing to the 20,000-capacity grandstand that completely surrounds the hole. On competition days, thousands of spectators queue from as early as midnight the night before gates open to try to claim a spot in the stands.

The calm before the storm on the 16th hole at the Phoenix Open. Credit: WM Phoenix Open / Facebook.com

When play begins, the raucous crowd is ruthless. Players enter the golfing coliseum through a makeshift tunnel before stepping up to the infamous tee. Find the green with their shot, and the stadium celebrates with rapturous fervor; miss it, and the 20,000-strong crowd erupts with catcalls and jeers.

Players “can embrace it and play along with it,” Edmonson says. “But if you try to fight it, they’ll crucify you.”

Tiger Woods embraced it. In 1997, with a 9-iron in his hand, as he reached the top of his backstroke, the TV caller said: “They’re going to go nuts when he hits this thing.” Less than a second later, Woods’ ball took off from the tee box, and the noise from the crowd reached the level of a Boeing 747 during takeoff.

When the ball finally hit the green, it bounced twice and dropped into the hole. The crowd practically broke the sound barrier in celebration. After high-fiving his caddy and playing partner, Woods turned to the crowd and alternated between fist pumps and “raise the roof” motions for the entirety of the 152-yard walk to collect his ball from the hole.

Some of the players even encourage the crowd to cheer and make noise while they’re hitting their shot. “No other hole in golf really has that,” says Ryan Conlogue, an insurance group service operations supervisor who attends the Phoenix Open every year.

Just another day at the Phoenix Open. Credit: WM Phoenix Open / Facebook.com

Like many spectators, Conlogue turns up to the event in fancy dress. Cast a gaze across the stands that line 16, and you’ll see gorilla suits, caddy overalls, Sesame Street characters, and Where’s Waldo (if you can spot him).

Conlogue arrives dressed as professional golfer Rickie Fowler, a one-time winner and two-time runner up at the tournament, with whom he bears a striking resemblance. “People do some wild things out there, so it’s just what I do to kind of be funny,” he says.

Like Edmonson, Conlogue estimates that most people in the crowd are not there for the golf — nor to enjoy just one or two drinks. “People are there to drink all day,” he says.

When play eventually stops, the party continues at the Coors Light Birds Nest, a 50,000-square-foot live music venue and the official afterparty that takes place every night from Wednesday through Saturday. Its headline acts span musical genres from country to punk rock to hip-hop.

On Feb. 1, 2019, Snoop Dogg took the Birds Nest’s party atmosphere to “a whole new level,” according to local news site AZCentral, when he brought pole dancers, “blunts,” and worked the crowd with iconic hits like “Gin and Juice” and “Drop It Like It’s Hot.”

“It’s just a really cool atmosphere — people hanging out, enjoying music, and enjoying some beverages,” Conlogue says.

TPC Scottsdale’s 16th hole is the only one on the PGA Tour that’s completely enclosed by stands. Credit: WM Phoenix Open / Facebook.com

Among all the partying, some still find time to use the event for their business interests. Patrick Shaughnessy, a 67-year-old finance industry veteran, has attended the event for more than 20 years. Through his work, he gains access to one of the corporate “Skyboxes” that overlook the 16th hole.

For $53,000, the corporate package includes 34 Skybox tickets per day, and perks such as complimentary food (breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon buffet) and an “open” bar. While general admission costs between $45 and $60 depending on the day, Shaughnessy says the $1,500 per person for the Skybox is a canny investment and describes it as the “best business development tool ever.”

The tournament offers similar, slightly cheaper packages on the 17th and 18th holes, but it’s 16 that holds the biggest pull. “My clients always wanted to go, so I had to take care of them,” Shaughnessy says. “And then they’ve wanted to bring their friends — prospects in my world. So I’ve gotten many, many introductions to people from all over the country who come here for this thing.”

Shaughnessy calls the 16th hole “the madhouse,” and says Friday and Saturday at the event are “just insanity.” But when there’s potential business to be done, just like the golfers, “you have to be on your game,” he says. “I have a tendency to pace myself out there because I know it’s a marathon, not a sprint.”

Perhaps the most subtle of the tournament’s quirks is its title sponsor, Waste Management. In place of the requisite insurance companies, investment banks, cell phone networks, or luxury carmakers that tend to align themselves with elite sporting events, the Phoenix Open has been supported by a company that specializes in trash disposal and recycling for the last decade.

In a way, it comes full circle. “When you put 160 to 170,000 people on a property, and you have to open up the next day and play golf, that property looks like the remains at Woodstock,” Shaughnessy says. “The place is a mess.”

While spectators get wasted, Waste Management cleans up the mess. Shaughnessy believes it’s a perfect fit. “I’m telling you,” he says, “they couldn’t have found a better sponsor.”

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[johnboothus]

How a PGA Tour Event in the Desert Became The Wildest Party In American Sports

On Feb. 6, 2016, Ryan Palmer lined up his putt on the 10th hole at TPC Scottsdale, the annual venue of Arizona’s Phoenix Open. He pulled back his club, ready to caress the ball into the hole, when a nearby spectator cried out “miss it!” just as Palmer was mid-stroke. The player stopped, composed himself, and once again readied his stroke. Again, the heckling voice shouted out, “miss it!”

After a third call came out, James Edmonson, Palmer’s caddy of 18 years, jumped into action. “I walked all the way around the green and went right up to the rope [separating the crowd from the course]. I pointed at him and I was like, ‘Hey, come here!’” Edmonson says, describing the heckler as a “frat punk” wearing a “stupid little tie.”

“I was going to pull his tie and pull him over the rope,” he recalls. “‘Cause once you get inside the ropes, you know, it’s fair game.” The fan backed down — “like a keyboard warrior on social media” — but when the next group of players arrived on the green, his antics resumed. Security staff soon decided enough was enough and kicked him out. “I’ve never seen anything like it before,” Edmonson says.

Professional caddies’ typical duties include carrying golf bags, calculating shot lengths, and determining which club their player should use to make a shot. Altercations with “frat boys” is not, as the old adage goes, par for the course. But the Phoenix Open is an event like no other on the PGA Tour.

Officially billed as the Waste Management Phoenix Open, the tournament is better known among golf fans as the “Greatest Show on Grass.” The event eschews the sport’s rigid etiquette, with raucous crowds, a festival-like atmosphere, and extra-curricular activities that extend well into the night. Its annual attendance figures closer resemble music festivals than sporting events.

The tournament is notorious for its spectators’ epic alcohol consumption. In a bid to curb overindulgence and crackdown on DUIs, the Scottsdale Police Department introduced free breathalyzer tests as part of a “Know Your Limit” campaign in 2012. Meanwhile, the event’s costly corporate boxes, which are sold with “open” bars, set a 10-drink limit per person a few years back. Even with that in place, multiple sources told VinePair that bartenders are happy to ignore the limit when tipped generously.

“The way I try to explain the Phoenix Open to people that have never gone is, ‘Imagine a humongous bar or outdoor party, and in the middle of it, there’s a golf tournament going on,’” Edmonson says. “I mean, 90 percent of the people attending don’t really care about the golf.”

His estimate, though unscientific, is telling. The seven-day event takes place during Super Bowl week and concludes the first Sunday of February. The competition itself spans Thursday through Super Bowl Sunday; but practice rounds on Monday and Tuesday, and Wednesday’s celebrity Pro-Am, which has previously featured the likes of Mark Walhberg, Michael Phelps, and Aaron Rogers, draw crowds of up to 70,000.

In terms of attendance, there’s only one winner between the Super Bowl and the Phoenix Open. The highest-attended Super Bowl in history barely breached 100,000 spectators. In 2018, more than 200,000 fans turned out at the Phoenix Open on Saturday alone. Over the seven-day period, close to 720,000 people crossed its gates.

The Phoenix Open’s attendances don’t just trounce almost every event on America’s sporting calendar, they make Burning Man, which receives some 70,000 visitors annually, seem like a county fair by comparison. Only Coachella, the celebrity-stacked music festival that takes place over six days on two separate weekends, boasts similar numbers.

The jewel in the tournament’s crown is the legendary par-3 16th hole, hailed as the “most electrifying” in all of golf. It holds a singular place within the sport, owing to the 20,000-capacity grandstand that completely surrounds the hole. On competition days, thousands of spectators queue from as early as midnight the night before gates open to try to claim a spot in the stands.

The calm before the storm on the 16th hole at the Phoenix Open. Credit: WM Phoenix Open / Facebook.com

When play begins, the raucous crowd is ruthless. Players enter the golfing coliseum through a makeshift tunnel before stepping up to the infamous tee. Find the green with their shot, and the stadium celebrates with rapturous fervor; miss it, and the 20,000-strong crowd erupts with catcalls and jeers.

Players “can embrace it and play along with it,” Edmonson says. “But if you try to fight it, they’ll crucify you.”

Tiger Woods embraced it. In 1997, with a 9-iron in his hand, as he reached the top of his backstroke, the TV caller said: “They’re going to go nuts when he hits this thing.” Less than a second later, Woods’ ball took off from the tee box, and the noise from the crowd reached the level of a Boeing 747 during takeoff.

When the ball finally hit the green, it bounced twice and dropped into the hole. The crowd practically broke the sound barrier in celebration. After high-fiving his caddy and playing partner, Woods turned to the crowd and alternated between fist pumps and “raise the roof” motions for the entirety of the 152-yard walk to collect his ball from the hole.

Some of the players even encourage the crowd to cheer and make noise while they’re hitting their shot. “No other hole in golf really has that,” says Ryan Conlogue, an insurance group service operations supervisor who attends the Phoenix Open every year.

Just another day at the Phoenix Open. Credit: WM Phoenix Open / Facebook.com

Like many spectators, Conlogue turns up to the event in fancy dress. Cast a gaze across the stands that line 16, and you’ll see gorilla suits, caddy overalls, Sesame Street characters, and Where’s Waldo (if you can spot him).

Conlogue arrives dressed as professional golfer Rickie Fowler, a one-time winner and two-time runner up at the tournament, with whom he bears a striking resemblance. “People do some wild things out there, so it’s just what I do to kind of be funny,” he says.

Like Edmonson, Conlogue estimates that most people in the crowd are not there for the golf — nor to enjoy just one or two drinks. “People are there to drink all day,” he says.

When play eventually stops, the party continues at the Coors Light Birds Nest, a 50,000-square-foot live music venue and the official afterparty that takes place every night from Wednesday through Saturday. Its headline acts span musical genres from country to punk rock to hip-hop.

On Feb. 1, 2019, Snoop Dogg took the Birds Nest’s party atmosphere to “a whole new level,” according to local news site AZCentral, when he brought pole dancers, “blunts,” and worked the crowd with iconic hits like “Gin and Juice” and “Drop It Like It’s Hot.”

“It’s just a really cool atmosphere — people hanging out, enjoying music, and enjoying some beverages,” Conlogue says.

TPC Scottsdale’s 16th hole is the only one on the PGA Tour that’s completely enclosed by stands. Credit: WM Phoenix Open / Facebook.com

Among all the partying, some still find time to use the event for their business interests. Patrick Shaughnessy, a 67-year-old finance industry veteran, has attended the event for more than 20 years. Through his work, he gains access to one of the corporate “Skyboxes” that overlook the 16th hole.

For $53,000, the corporate package includes 34 Skybox tickets per day, and perks such as complimentary food (breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon buffet) and an “open” bar. While general admission costs between $45 and $60 depending on the day, Shaughnessy says the $1,500 per person for the Skybox is a canny investment and describes it as the “best business development tool ever.”

The tournament offers similar, slightly cheaper packages on the 17th and 18th holes, but it’s 16 that holds the biggest pull. “My clients always wanted to go, so I had to take care of them,” Shaughnessy says. “And then they’ve wanted to bring their friends — prospects in my world. So I’ve gotten many, many introductions to people from all over the country who come here for this thing.”

Shaughnessy calls the 16th hole “the madhouse,” and says Friday and Saturday at the event are “just insanity.” But when there’s potential business to be done, just like the golfers, “you have to be on your game,” he says. “I have a tendency to pace myself out there because I know it’s a marathon, not a sprint.”

Perhaps the most subtle of the tournament’s quirks is its title sponsor, Waste Management. In place of the requisite insurance companies, investment banks, cell phone networks, or luxury carmakers that tend to align themselves with elite sporting events, the Phoenix Open has been supported by a company that specializes in trash disposal and recycling for the last decade.

In a way, it comes full circle. “When you put 160 to 170,000 people on a property, and you have to open up the next day and play golf, that property looks like the remains at Woodstock,” Shaughnessy says. “The place is a mess.”

While spectators get wasted, Waste Management cleans up the mess. Shaughnessy believes it’s a perfect fit. “I’m telling you,” he says, “they couldn’t have found a better sponsor.”

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How a PGA Tour Event in the Desert Became The Wildest Party In American Sports

On Feb. 6, 2016, Ryan Palmer lined up his putt on the 10th hole at TPC Scottsdale, the annual venue of Arizona’s Phoenix Open. He pulled back his club, ready to caress the ball into the hole, when a nearby spectator cried out “miss it!” just as Palmer was mid-stroke. The player stopped, composed himself, and once again readied his stroke. Again, the heckling voice shouted out, “miss it!”

After a third call came out, James Edmonson, Palmer’s caddy of 18 years, jumped into action. “I walked all the way around the green and went right up to the rope [separating the crowd from the course]. I pointed at him and I was like, ‘Hey, come here!’” Edmonson says, describing the heckler as a “frat punk” wearing a “stupid little tie.”

“I was going to pull his tie and pull him over the rope,” he recalls. “‘Cause once you get inside the ropes, you know, it’s fair game.” The fan backed down — “like a keyboard warrior on social media” — but when the next group of players arrived on the green, his antics resumed. Security staff soon decided enough was enough and kicked him out. “I’ve never seen anything like it before,” Edmonson says.

Professional caddies’ typical duties include carrying golf bags, calculating shot lengths, and determining which club their player should use to make a shot. Altercations with “frat boys” is not, as the old adage goes, par for the course. But the Phoenix Open is an event like no other on the PGA Tour.

Officially billed as the Waste Management Phoenix Open, the tournament is better known among golf fans as the “Greatest Show on Grass.” The event eschews the sport’s rigid etiquette, with raucous crowds, a festival-like atmosphere, and extra-curricular activities that extend well into the night. Its annual attendance figures closer resemble music festivals than sporting events.

The tournament is notorious for its spectators’ epic alcohol consumption. In a bid to curb overindulgence and crackdown on DUIs, the Scottsdale Police Department introduced free breathalyzer tests as part of a “Know Your Limit” campaign in 2012. Meanwhile, the event’s costly corporate boxes, which are sold with “open” bars, set a 10-drink limit per person a few years back. Even with that in place, multiple sources told VinePair that bartenders are happy to ignore the limit when tipped generously.

“The way I try to explain the Phoenix Open to people that have never gone is, ‘Imagine a humongous bar or outdoor party, and in the middle of it, there’s a golf tournament going on,’” Edmonson says. “I mean, 90 percent of the people attending don’t really care about the golf.”

His estimate, though unscientific, is telling. The seven-day event takes place during Super Bowl week and concludes the first Sunday of February. The competition itself spans Thursday through Super Bowl Sunday; but practice rounds on Monday and Tuesday, and Wednesday’s celebrity Pro-Am, which has previously featured the likes of Mark Walhberg, Michael Phelps, and Aaron Rogers, draw crowds of up to 70,000.

In terms of attendance, there’s only one winner between the Super Bowl and the Phoenix Open. The highest-attended Super Bowl in history barely breached 100,000 spectators. In 2018, more than 200,000 fans turned out at the Phoenix Open on Saturday alone. Over the seven-day period, close to 720,000 people crossed its gates.

The Phoenix Open’s attendances don’t just trounce almost every event on America’s sporting calendar, they make Burning Man, which receives some 70,000 visitors annually, seem like a county fair by comparison. Only Coachella, the celebrity-stacked music festival that takes place over six days on two separate weekends, boasts similar numbers.

The jewel in the tournament’s crown is the legendary par-3 16th hole, hailed as the “most electrifying” in all of golf. It holds a singular place within the sport, owing to the 20,000-capacity grandstand that completely surrounds the hole. On competition days, thousands of spectators queue from as early as midnight the night before gates open to try to claim a spot in the stands.

The calm before the storm on the 16th hole at the Phoenix Open. Credit: WM Phoenix Open / Facebook.com

When play begins, the raucous crowd is ruthless. Players enter the golfing coliseum through a makeshift tunnel before stepping up to the infamous tee. Find the green with their shot, and the stadium celebrates with rapturous fervor; miss it, and the 20,000-strong crowd erupts with catcalls and jeers.

Players “can embrace it and play along with it,” Edmonson says. “But if you try to fight it, they’ll crucify you.”

Tiger Woods embraced it. In 1997, with a 9-iron in his hand, as he reached the top of his backstroke, the TV caller said: “They’re going to go nuts when he hits this thing.” Less than a second later, Woods’ ball took off from the tee box, and the noise from the crowd reached the level of a Boeing 747 during takeoff.

When the ball finally hit the green, it bounced twice and dropped into the hole. The crowd practically broke the sound barrier in celebration. After high-fiving his caddy and playing partner, Woods turned to the crowd and alternated between fist pumps and “raise the roof” motions for the entirety of the 152-yard walk to collect his ball from the hole.

Some of the players even encourage the crowd to cheer and make noise while they’re hitting their shot. “No other hole in golf really has that,” says Ryan Conlogue, an insurance group service operations supervisor who attends the Phoenix Open every year.

Just another day at the Phoenix Open. Credit: WM Phoenix Open / Facebook.com

Like many spectators, Conlogue turns up to the event in fancy dress. Cast a gaze across the stands that line 16, and you’ll see gorilla suits, caddy overalls, Sesame Street characters, and Where’s Waldo (if you can spot him).

Conlogue arrives dressed as professional golfer Rickie Fowler, a one-time winner and two-time runner up at the tournament, with whom he bears a striking resemblance. “People do some wild things out there, so it’s just what I do to kind of be funny,” he says.

Like Edmonson, Conlogue estimates that most people in the crowd are not there for the golf — nor to enjoy just one or two drinks. “People are there to drink all day,” he says.

When play eventually stops, the party continues at the Coors Light Birds Nest, a 50,000-square-foot live music venue and the official afterparty that takes place every night from Wednesday through Saturday. Its headline acts span musical genres from country to punk rock to hip-hop.

On Feb. 1, 2019, Snoop Dogg took the Birds Nest’s party atmosphere to “a whole new level,” according to local news site AZCentral, when he brought pole dancers, “blunts,” and worked the crowd with iconic hits like “Gin and Juice” and “Drop It Like It’s Hot.”

“It’s just a really cool atmosphere — people hanging out, enjoying music, and enjoying some beverages,” Conlogue says.

TPC Scottsdale’s 16th hole is the only one on the PGA Tour that’s completely enclosed by stands. Credit: WM Phoenix Open / Facebook.com

Among all the partying, some still find time to use the event for their business interests. Patrick Shaughnessy, a 67-year-old finance industry veteran, has attended the event for more than 20 years. Through his work, he gains access to one of the corporate “Skyboxes” that overlook the 16th hole.

For $53,000, the corporate package includes 34 Skybox tickets per day, and perks such as complimentary food (breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon buffet) and an “open” bar. While general admission costs between $45 and $60 depending on the day, Shaughnessy says the $1,500 per person for the Skybox is a canny investment and describes it as the “best business development tool ever.”

The tournament offers similar, slightly cheaper packages on the 17th and 18th holes, but it’s 16 that holds the biggest pull. “My clients always wanted to go, so I had to take care of them,” Shaughnessy says. “And then they’ve wanted to bring their friends — prospects in my world. So I’ve gotten many, many introductions to people from all over the country who come here for this thing.”

Shaughnessy calls the 16th hole “the madhouse,” and says Friday and Saturday at the event are “just insanity.” But when there’s potential business to be done, just like the golfers, “you have to be on your game,” he says. “I have a tendency to pace myself out there because I know it’s a marathon, not a sprint.”

Perhaps the most subtle of the tournament’s quirks is its title sponsor, Waste Management. In place of the requisite insurance companies, investment banks, cell phone networks, or luxury carmakers that tend to align themselves with elite sporting events, the Phoenix Open has been supported by a company that specializes in trash disposal and recycling for the last decade.

In a way, it comes full circle. “When you put 160 to 170,000 people on a property, and you have to open up the next day and play golf, that property looks like the remains at Woodstock,” Shaughnessy says. “The place is a mess.”

While spectators get wasted, Waste Management cleans up the mess. Shaughnessy believes it’s a perfect fit. “I’m telling you,” he says, “they couldn’t have found a better sponsor.”

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You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. – Zig Ziglar • I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. – Elie Wiesel • I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. – Maya Angelou • I love you – I am at rest with you – I have come home. – Dorothy L. Sayers • I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself. – Oprah Winfrey • I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom. – Andy Warhol • In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be. – J. G. Holland • Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom. – John F. Kennedy • It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere. – Danzy Senna • Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there – Walter Cronkite • Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do. – Mother Teresa • Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home. – Mother Teresa • My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world. – Billy Graham • My home…It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul. – Michel de Montaigne • Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. – Alice Walker • Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter. – Madison Cawein • One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. – Hermann Hesse • One’s home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening – the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life – and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up. – Daniel Handler • Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven’s spectators, who support us according to God’s infinite wisdom as they prepare our welcome home. – Billy Graham • Peace, like charity, begins at home. – Franklin D. Roosevelt • People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace. – Zig Ziglar • Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. – James A. Baldwin • Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. – Steve Jobs • The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. – Maya Angelou • The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration. – Billy Graham • The chickens have come home to roast. – Jane Ace • The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks. – Gilbert K. 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A true mother is one of the holiest secrets of home happiness. God sends many beautiful things to this world, many noble gifts; but no blessing is richer than that which He bestows in a mother who has learned love’s lessons well, and has realized something of the meaning of her sacred calling. – J.R. Miller • The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home. – E. W. Howe • There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. – Smedley Butler • There are things you just can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he’s ready to see you, and you can’t go home again. – Bill Bryson • There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits. – Robert Southey • There is no place more delightful than home. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home. – Edward Everett • There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. – Jane Austen • There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home. – Rosalynn Carter • Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity. – John Muir • To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise. – Augustus Hare • We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families. – George Pataki We’re all just walking each other home. – Ram Dass • What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly. – Agnes Meyer Driscoll • Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace. – Vernon Baker • Where thou art, that is home. – Emily Dickinson • Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. • You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right. – Maya Angelou • You can’t go home again – Thomas Wolfe • You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. – Anita Baker • You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home. – Og Mandino [clickbank-storefront-bestselling]

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• A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. – Benjamin Franklin • A house is not a home. – Polly Adler • After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend to its strange and beautiful texture, which of course, it was impossible to express in words. I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page began to speak directly to my inner self. They were no long expressing ideas that were simply interesting intellectually, but were talking directly to my own yearning and perplexity. – Karen Armstrong • All language is a longing for home. – Rumi

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'Home', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '4', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_home').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_home img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need. – Sarah Ban Breathnach • Charity begins at home. – Terence • Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don’t get him on the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch…as I was saying to Mr. Crouch… Mr. Crouch is of the opinion… Mr. Crouch was telling me… They’ll be announcing their engagement any day now. – J. K. Rowling • Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest. – Henry Van Dyke • For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room. – Abraham Cowley • God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk. – Meister Eckhart • Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! – Charles Dickens • Here’s kind of my motto – if you’re not happy at home, you’re not happy anywhere else. – Angie Harmon • His native home deep imag’d in his soul. – Homer • Home – that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel’s wings. – Lydia M. Child • Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners. – Charles Henry Parkhurst • Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one. – Charles Dickens • Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. – Charles Dickens • Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room. – Harriet Beecher Stowe • Home is a shelter from storms – all sorts of storms. – William Bennett • Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved. – Ann Douglas • Home is any four walls that enclose the right person. – Helen Rowland • Home is not where you live but where they understand you. – Christian Morgenstern • Home is the best place when life begins to wobble. – Elizabeth von Arnim • Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule. – Frederick William Robertson • Home is the place we love best and grumble the most. – Billy Sunday • Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. – Robert Frost • Home is where one starts from. – T. S. Eliot • Home is where the books are – Richard Francis Burton • Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. – Vernon Baker • Home is where the heart is. – Pliny the Elder • Home is where you feel at home and are treated well. – Dalai Lama • Home is where you hang your architect. – Clare Boothe Luce • Home is where you hang your hangover. – James Crumley • Home is where you hang your head. – Groucho Marx • Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. – George Bernard Shaw • Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. – Robert Montgomery • Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. – John Cheever • Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. – Bill Cosby • I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. – Zig Ziglar • I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. – Elie Wiesel • I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. – Maya Angelou • I love you – I am at rest with you – I have come home. – Dorothy L. Sayers • I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself. – Oprah Winfrey • I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom. – Andy Warhol • In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be. – J. G. Holland • Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom. – John F. Kennedy • It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere. – Danzy Senna • Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there – Walter Cronkite • Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do. – Mother Teresa • Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home. – Mother Teresa • My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world. – Billy Graham • My home…It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul. – Michel de Montaigne • Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. – Alice Walker • Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter. – Madison Cawein • One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. – Hermann Hesse • One’s home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening – the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life – and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up. – Daniel Handler • Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven’s spectators, who support us according to God’s infinite wisdom as they prepare our welcome home. – Billy Graham • Peace, like charity, begins at home. – Franklin D. Roosevelt • People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace. – Zig Ziglar • Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. – James A. Baldwin • Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. – Steve Jobs • The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. – Maya Angelou • The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration. – Billy Graham • The chickens have come home to roast. – Jane Ace • The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The home is the chief school of human virtues. – William Ellery Channing • The home should be the treasure chest of living. – Le Corbusier • The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. – Edward Coke • The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. – Amelia Earhart • The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. – Louisa May Alcott • The Rosary is the most beautiful and the most rich in graces of all prayers; it is the prayer that touches most the Heart of the Mother of God…and if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the family Rosary. – Pope Pius X • The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O’er all the pleasant land. – Felicia Hemans • The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. – Confucius • The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies. A true mother is one of the holiest secrets of home happiness. God sends many beautiful things to this world, many noble gifts; but no blessing is richer than that which He bestows in a mother who has learned love’s lessons well, and has realized something of the meaning of her sacred calling. – J.R. Miller • The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home. – E. W. Howe • There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. – Smedley Butler • There are things you just can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he’s ready to see you, and you can’t go home again. – Bill Bryson • There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits. – Robert Southey • There is no place more delightful than home. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home. – Edward Everett • There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. – Jane Austen • There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home. – Rosalynn Carter • Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity. – John Muir • To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise. – Augustus Hare • We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families. – George Pataki We’re all just walking each other home. – Ram Dass • What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly. – Agnes Meyer Driscoll • Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace. – Vernon Baker • Where thou art, that is home. – Emily Dickinson • Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. • You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right. – Maya Angelou • You can’t go home again – Thomas Wolfe • You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. – Anita Baker • You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home. – Og Mandino [clickbank-storefront-bestselling]

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[tabernacleheart]

"On the playground of my elementary school my classmates and I ran and jumped and let loose peals of laughter during our recess times -- a wonderful outlet for the overflowing stream of energy that runs through children. One of our favorite games was hide and seek. As the seeker counted to 20, eyes concealed, we all darted into what we hoped would be the most inconspicuous spots. I prefered the inside of a set of tractor tires that were painted white. As an adult, I don't remember the last time I played the game in a real sense, but I do play it every day in a figurative sense with God. The real joy of the game on the spiritual playground is to recognize that we are called not just to seek, but to allow ourselves to be sought by God.

Each morning, when we are given the gift of another day of life, our feet hit the floor beside our bed and the earth beneath us becomes a playground. The question is, "How will I engage my faith today?" This is the faith that we hear about in today's first reading from the letter to the Hebrews: "Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen." (v.1)

As I look out on the landscape of my life each day, am I able to trust that God is on that playground waiting to be found even when I feel I cannot see God's presence? In many ways, that belief in what cannot be seen is the first step. A shift from an "I'll believe it when I see it" mentality to one that says "I'll see it when I believe it!" For me it has been helpful to stop thinking of the landscape as something akin to the childhood books "Where's Waldo?" that imply that God (or Waldo, in this case) is hiding in some specific spot "out there", but to recognize that God is to be found everywhere! This was what St. Ignatius of Loyola was getting at when he encouraged people to "find God in all things" and it's what Jesuit paleontologist and geologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin meant when he wrote, "God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my pick, my paintbrush, my needle -- and my heart and my thoughts."

Further into today's Hebrews reading we hear, "He rewards those who seek Him." (v.6b) God takes delight in our pursuit of God! Notice, it does not say that God rewards those who find God, rather it is about our desire to seek God out. I would add that God takes great delight in pursuing us no matter how many tricks we play or masks we wear to try to hide from God. Similar to the image of God painted by Francis Thompson in his infamous poem "The Hound of Heaven," God pursues us like a dog does a rabbit...with unceasing focus and energy. Am I willing to allow myself to be found by God? Do I desire to be found?

God sought out Peter, James and John in a startling way in Mark's Gospel today! Leading them on a hike away from the crowds and the crush of life, Jesus takes them to the top of a mountain. Then, seemingly without warning, something amazing happens: Jesus is transfigured. He becomes light. My wife and I recently acquired an alarm clock that uses light as well as sound. As our desired wake up time is approaching, a soft illumination will progressively get more intense so as to bring us out of slumber. The room is transfigured from one heavy with darkness that encourages sleep to one that is bursting with light and calling us to arise. God's voice booms as Jesus is illuminated, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him." (v. 7b) In other words, "Wake up!""

By: Kyle Lierk

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[victoriagloverstuff]

Jackpot! 8 Recent Rare Book Finds in the Wild

You’re pawing through a stack of old books at an estate sale and suddenly you spot a first edition of The Great Gatsby in its coveted dust jacket (worth upwards of $100,000) or a vintage Batman comic book (worth ten times the Gatsby). Think it couldn’t happen? It may be a bit like a lottery win, but it happens often enough to disprove the notion that all the great discoveries have been made, or that the Internet has made book hunting a hopeless pastime. In the past four years, three unrecorded copies of the first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays (1623), known as the First Folio, have come to light—a rate that practically defies logic, and expert opinion. These eight vintage volumes have turned up recently, too, sending a shiver up the spines of all optimistic bibliophiles.

Courtesy Swann Galleries.

Thomas Paine, American Crisis

A major discovery of what book collectors and dealers call Americana once again demonstrated that “anything can be anywhere,” as Larry McMurtry wrote. It was a paperbound volume containing the first edition of parts one and two (1776-1777) of Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis, which famously begins, “These are the times which try men’s souls…” Only four were known to exist—until the summer of 2015 when a Utah couple unearthed this copy from their garage where they had been storing a bunch of boxes of inherited stuff for years. They sent the pamphlet to a New York auction last month, where it sold for $50,000.

Courtesy Weiss Auctions.

Detective Comics #29

If vintage comics are more your style, try shopping the local tag sales. One lucky fellow bought this copy of Detective Comics #29, originally published in July 1939, at a tag sale for $20 and then consigned it to a Long Island auction earlier this year, where it reached $53,675. (And if this comic book fairytale sounds familiar, that’s because it’s happened before.) The comic’s condition wasn’t perfect, but still it was an early Batman, and the cover featured the first appearance of Doctor Death. “The fact that it was picked up at a tag sale for twenty dollars only added to its cachet,” said auctioneer Philip Weiss.

Courtesy Joseph Unis Jr.

Ralpho Waldo Emerson’s copy of Marcus Aurelius

No doubt Ralph Waldo Emerson read The Thoughts of Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus. Sounds like him. And now there’s the proof: Three years ago, Joseph Unis Jr. found himself at a flea market outside of Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he noticed a small green book with some neat and dense but unsigned script covering a couple of the back pages. Intrigued by an inscription to Emerson, he bought it for $1 and set out to determine whether the Sage of Concord had owned and annotated this volume. He did, and Unis sold the book to Harvard’s Houghton Library earlier this year for an undisclosed sum. Unis told The Times-Tribune, “It’s like finding buried treasure, honestly, that’s how I look at it.”

Courtesy Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers.

 The sketchbook of Thomas Bewick

While browsing the offerings at the Californian Antiquarian Book Fair in San Francisco five years ago, antiquarian bookseller Anthony Smithson of Keel Row Books, stopped to take a closer look at something that turned out to be the only surviving sketchbook of English engraver Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). The 230-year-old pocket-sized book contains Bewick’s drawings of farm animals. “My first reaction upon seeing it was how innocuous looking it was, it was encased in a rather dilapidated and unattractive pebbled leatherette cover,” said Smithson. “I have handled a lot Bewick material down the years so upon examination of the interior I instinctively knew it was right, although that was almost immediately tempered with dealer diligence in making sure it was right.” Collaborating with Brian Lake of Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers, Smithson secured the five-figure sketchbook for collector David Bolam.

Courtesy Dominic Winter Auctioneers.

English edition of Crime and Punishment, 1886

Bought for $17 and sold for $17,000? That’s the story out of Lancashire, England, where a rare first London edition of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment surfaced in 2017. Part of a local auction ‘box lot,’ i.e. a box of miscellaneous books sold as is, the 1886 volume was initially purchased by a woman who told the Guardian she hadn’t noticed anything terribly interesting about the box’s contents. When she realized her luck, she emailed Chris Albury of Dominic Winter Auctioneers to get his opinion. Even though it looked pretty pedestrian, Albury knew it was something special—no copy of this edition had appeared at auction since 1991, and according to Albury, fewer than ten survive in institutional libraries.

Courtesy the Internet Archive.

 Base Ball in Cincinnati

As the editor of Spitball magazine and the owner of 3,500 books about baseball, collector Mike Shannon knows a thing or two about the game and its literature. Which is why, when he was perusing the shelves of a Cincinnati-area Half Price Books, he knew straight away the difference between a 1907 first edition of Harry Ellard’s Base Ball in Cincinnati and the 1987 reprint, even though both were priced at $8. Only 500 copies of the 1907 edition were printed and sold by subscription and then hand-numbered; astonishingly, Shannon’s copy is No. 1. (For limited editions, the lower the number, the more highly coveted it is by book collectors.) A few copies of the first edition are currently available through dealers, all priced well above $1,000.

Courtesy Hansons Auctioneers.

Charles I, Reliquiae sacrae Carolinae

In 2016, a Derbyshire auctioneer was chuffed to discover a first edition of Reliquiae sacrae Carolinae, a sympathetic collection of Charles I’s speeches published in 1650, in a box full of modern paperbacks recently dislodged during a house clearance. This is one of those tomes whose age distinguishes it more than anything else, and the condition left something to be desired, too, but the illustrated frontispiece of the mustachioed king is eye-catching nonetheless, and a bidder won it for the equivalent of $130.

Courtesy Heritage Auctions.

T.S. Eliot, Ara Vos Prec

When T.S. Eliot’s family was ready to clean out their attic, they called James Gannon, director of rare books at Heritage Auctions. “I had one of those incredible experiences of going through the attic with Eliot’s great-niece Priscilla Talcott Spahn (née Priscilla Stearns Talcott), who is the last living relative to have known and had a personal relationship with T.S. Eliot,” said Gannon. Boxes of old photos, art, and books awaited, including this hand-corrected first edition of the poet’s 1919 Ara Vos Prec (on vellum, no less) inscribed to his mother, Charlotte. It sold for $57,500.

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[ayoungsummersyouth]

100 OF THE MOST INSPIRING TRAVEL QUOTES OF ALL TIME

Words and pictures are intense. They have the ability to move points of view and touch off change. Here is a gathering of the 100 best travel quotes to move and rouse you to gather your packs and begin investigating! From exceptionally old pilgrims to cutting edge truisms, let these words move you to carry on with the life you've generally needed.

Who doesn't love travel cites?! They're a little cut of motivation ideal for any circumstance. Regardless of whether you're getting ready for an outing, recuperating from a trek, engaging post-trip blues or are simply searching for a touch of a comment you a lift, there's a statement out there that can address whatever you require. There are travel quotes about excursions, travel cites about self-disclosure, experience cites, and – my top pick – travel cites that rouse you to live without bounds – with two or three travel tips tossed in for good measure! Prepared for a little hunger for new experiences moving lift me up? Obviously, you are

MOST INSPIRING TRAVEL QUOTES OF ALL TIME

1."The gladdest minute in human life, methinks, is a takeoff into obscure terrains." – Sir Richard Burton

2. "Be valiant in the quest for what sets your spirit ablaze." – Jennifer Lee

3. "Travel makes one unobtrusive. You see what a small place you possess on the planet." - Gustav Flaubert

The second travel quote by Jennifer Lee is one of my untouched most loved expressions. What I adore about it is that it applies to everything-not simply travel. It instructs you to be intense in seeking after your interests and the things you are keen on. For me, it's movement. For others, it might be a business wander, a way of life change, or even only a major life choice. Whatever you are energetic about, seek after it persistently.

4. "Voyaging – it abandons you stunned, at that point transforms you into a storyteller." – Ibn Battuta

5. "Preferred to see something once over catch wind of it a thousand times"

6." Adventure may hurt you however dullness will execute you."

When I was a youngster, I used to peruse books insatiably. I would read page after page and fixate on faraway terrains. Just when I began voyaging did I understand what the movement quote "it's smarter to see something once than find out about it a thousand times." As a movement author, I attempt my hardest to depict spots and goals of my perusers. In any case, there are only a few things and encounters that are excessively wonderful, making it impossible to place down in words.

7. "Our battered bags were heaped on the walkway once more; we had longer approaches. Be that as it may, regardless, the street is life." - Jack Kerouac

8."All you have to know is that it's conceivable." - Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker

9. "To Travel is to Live" – Hans Christian Andersen

10. "The life you have driven doesn't should be the main life you have." – Anna Quindlen

11. "The most excellent on the planet is, obviously, the world itself." - Wallace Stevens

12. "Work, Travel, Save, Repeat"

13. "The voyage not the landing matters." – T.S. Eliot

14. "What you've done turns into the judge of what you will do — particularly in other individuals' psyches. When you're voyaging, you are what you are in that spot and after that. Individuals don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays out and about." - William Least Heat-Moon

15. "Set out to carry on with the life you've generally needed."

16. "Travel and change of place give new life to the psyche." – Seneca

17. "We live in a superb world that is brimming with excellence, appeal, and experience. There is no conclusion to the enterprises we can have if just we look for them with our eyes open." – Jawaharial Nehru

18. "And after that there is the most unsafe danger of all — the danger of spending your life not doing what you need on the wager you can get yourself the flexibility to do it later." – Randy Komisar

19. Nobody acknowledges that it is so excellent to movement until the point when he gets back home and lays his head on his old, recognizable pad." – Lin Yutang

20. "Try not to tune in to what they say. Go see."

21. "Life is either a challenging enterprise or nothing by any stretch of the imagination." - Helen Keller

22. "One's goal is never a place, however another method for seeing things." - Henry Miller

23. "On the off chance that you dismiss the nourishment, overlook the traditions, fear the religion and maintain a strategic distance from the general population, you may better remain home." - James Michener

24. "Go, fly, wander, travel, voyage, investigate, travel, find, enterprise."

25. "All adventures have mystery goals of which the voyager is ignorant." - Martin Buber

26. " Travel improves a savvy man yet a trick more terrible." – Thomas Fuller

27. "The world is a book and the individuals who don't travel read just a single page." - Agustine of Hippo

28. "To my psyche, the best reward and extravagance of movement is to have the capacity to encounter regular things as though out of the blue, to be in a situation in which nothing is so recognizable it is underestimated." - Bill Bryson

29. "Not every one of the individuals who meander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien

30. "Our most joyful minutes as visitors dependably appear to come when we discover a certain something while in quest for something unique." - Lawrence Block

31. "Try not to take after where the way may lead. Go rather where there is no way and leave a trail" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

32. "Voyaging is a ruthlessness. It constrains you to put stock in outsiders and to dismiss all that natural solaces of home and companions. You are always shaky. Nothing is yours with the exception of the fundamental things. - air, rest, dreams, the ocean, the sky. - everything tending towards the unceasing or what we envision of it." – Cesare Pavese

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33. "Each man can change the world from one of dreariness and dullness to one of energy and experience." - Irving Wallace

34. "Life is short and the world is wide"

35."We travel, a few of us perpetually, to look for different states, different lives, different souls."- Anaïs Nin

36. "A decent voyager has no settled plans and isn't determined to arriving." - Lao Tzu

37. "Life is a voyage. Make its best."

38. "He who might travel joyfully should travel light." - Antoine de St. Exupery

39. "I have discovered that there ain't no surer method to see if you like individuals or abhor them than to movement with them."- Mark Twain

40. "Travel is the main thing you purchase that makes you wealthier"

41. "A trip is best estimated in companions, as opposed to miles." - Tim Cahill

42. "Man can't find new seas unless he has the valor to dismiss the shore." – Andre Gide

43. "Like every awesome voyager, I have seen more than I recollect, and recall more than I have seen." - Benjamin Disraeli

44. "Expectation is the main thing more grounded than fear." - Suzanne Collins

45. "Since at last, you won't recollect the time you spent working in the workplace or cutting your yard. Climb that goddamn mountain."― Jack Kerouac

46. "To go is to find that everybody isn't right about different nations." - Aldous Huxley

47. "Favored are interested for they will have experiences."

48. "Keep in mind that bliss is a method for movement – not a goal." - Roy M. Goodman

49. "You can shake the sand from your shoes, yet it will never leave your spirit."

50. "The greatest enterprise you can ever take is to carry on with the life you had always wanted."

so these are the top 100 travel quotes i hope you will love this article if do you have any suggestions then feel free to ask

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