Christian fantasy literature, and commentary on assorted subjects
I don’t know if I have written about Lee’s katana This is a very sharp lethal weapon. A sword. He purchased it from his judo sensei (teacher) a number of years ago. This is not a replica or a toy. Think of a 3 foot long razor blade and you have it about right. Lee had to work with the bokken (a wooden sword) for over six years before he was allowed to train with the katana . After Lee’s passing, one of my first worries was where to sell this item. You can’t do it on eBay. The school that he had attended had closed quite a while ago. I mean a number of years ago. I did contact a couple of judo schools, but they did not do sword work.
Yesterday, when I was going through Lee’s papers, I came upon a small slip of paper, quite yellowed and old, with a man’s name and telephone number on it. Also on the paper was a note saying the man was a sword student of Lee’s sensei. I really doubted that the number would be good, as I have run into a number of dead-ends with phone numbers–people are switching to cell phones–but I called it anyway. The number was live. I was ecstatic and left a message explaining the situation and giving him my number.
Mid morning today the phone rang and it was sensei himself. I never expected to hear from him, but evidently the man I called had called him and told him my story. Long story short–he (sensei) said he will do the legwork and ask around and he probably will be able to find me a buyer. He also said he would try to get me more than I paid for it.
I will never complain again about Lee saving everything.
Pray for our troops.
God bless everybody.
Patty
From May 18, 2019
We got a communication yesterday, unsolicited, from an alleged adult who says he’s “sick of rich old white men” running for president. We must note that he himself is a rich old white man.
Is it possible there are registered voters out there who really, truly think that skin color, sex, and age are important things to be considered, in choosing a president? I mean, does this guy even understand what a president is, and does? That “president” is a job–and that to do it well benefits the whole world, but to do it poorly can bring to large numbers of people hardship, frustration, loss, and even wounds and death.
As for being “rich,” let’s see… hmm… when was the last time an indigent was elected to high public office in America? [Riffles through history] Ooh-ooh–never! No poor homeless person has ever been elected to anything!
What we are hearing from, here, is a silly old ass who seems to think being “a woman of color” or something, or at least young and poverty-stricken, would by some weird alchemy make you a good president. It is a shame that he can vote. It can’t be a good thing to let utter chowderheads vote.
Heaven help us, if they ever again get to choose a president.
From July 25, 2012
Once in a blue moon, a Democrat accidentally tells the truth. Chicago Mayor Rahm “Never let a good crisis go to waste” Emmanuel recently slipped up when he said, “Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values.”
He meant it, of course, as a slap at Chick-fil-A, whose owner has incurred the wrath of pwogwessives by supporting real marriage–a man and a woman–against same-sex pseudomarriage. For this thought crime, Democrat commissars of large cities like Chicago and Boston are determined to drive Chick-fil-A out of their cities. So now we know that man-and-woman marriage is not a Chicago value. Not that that should come as news to anyone.
Some of us crave fantasy because, quite simply, it’s better than reality. America’s leaders and their intellectual advisers are destroying her. It’s a sorry spectacle, and there seems to be very little we can do about it.
And so, from time to time, we sneak off to Narnia or Middle-Earth or (dare I say it?) Bell Mountain, and leave all those Chicago values behind. As a fantasy writer, I hope my creations provide my readers with a welcome respite from a world governed by Chicago values. And finally, if we can at least imagine a world in which Chicago values do not rule, then maybe we can find that elusive first step toward making the world we live in more like the one we can imagine.
From March 29, 2013
I have never in my life seen anything as bizarre and chilling as the present decay of our civilization.
With immoralists driving both public policy and culture, they will lead people into behaviors that will cause national birth rates to crash and national economies to collapse. They have put us at risk of God’s judgment… but of course that’s only “Bible-thumping,” isn’t it?
We must remain faithful to God and to God’s word. We must endure.
Because, as the Bible teaches us (I Corinthians, Chapter 1), God uses weak things to overthrow the mighty, things that are despised to overthrow the things that are exalted, the foolishness of holiness to overthrow the suicidal wisdom of this world–and even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are.
Someday this age of calamities will be overpast. As sure as Christ is risen from the dead, this evil age will end. God already knows the exact day and the exact hour of its ending. If there is still a United States of America afterward, that will be a pleasant surprise.
Pray, and speak the truth.
We must endure.
Today I finally put out Lee’s handwritten manuscripts. It was a lot harder on me than I thought it would be. These are all for books that are already published and printed. It was still hard, though.
Then I read how the Iranian conflict is spreading and escalating. More countries are involved. Russia is helping Iran and China is playing both sides of the fence. No surprise there.
I am just out of gas and I will see you all tomorrow.
Pray for our troops.
God bless everybody
Patty