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Friday, October 13, 2023 12:41 PM

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Dr. Henry Virkler (Administrator)

Articles from the Week of October 13, 2023

Let’s all be in prayer for the people of Israel and Gaza

Interesting Quotes

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good just because it's accepted by a majority."

Booker T. Washington

Grant me courage to serve others; for in service there is true life.

Cesar Chavez

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better.

Ingrid Bergman

You know you’ve reached middle age when you’re cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.

Joan Rivers

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

Phyllis Diller

I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don’t have to.

Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Albert Einstein

Fascinating Facts (from InterestingFacts.com unless otherwise noted)

“Babies are born with almost 100 more bones than adults.

“The human body has 206 bones — unless you’re talking about babies, in which case the number is closer to 300. Many of a newborn’s bones are actually made of cartilage, which is much more malleable and allows fetuses to curl inside the womb as they develop. As children grow, cartilage turns into bone in a process called ossification, and the excess bones fuse together. (If you’ve ever wondered how those “soft spots” on an infant’s head — technically known as fontanelles — become stronger, bone fusion is the answer.) This is also a big part of why calcium is so important for babies: New bone tissue can’t grow without it.

“Ossification doesn’t happen overnight, however — it continues until a person reaches their mid-20s, which is around when humans reach their peak bone mass. In much the same way that we’re constantly shedding our skin, our bones are constantly changing as well, with old bone gradually destroyed and new bone material formed. The process is called remodeling, and it helps keep the skeletal system healthy long after we’ve settled down at 206 bones.”

“Forks were considered sinful in the Middle Ages.

“In the Middle Ages, many Christian Europeans considered the act of eating with a fork to be a sinful affront to God. According to some clergymen of the time, God had already given human beings 10 natural forks, in the form of the fingers on their own hands, so daring to use an artificial accessory to spear food was an offense to the Lord and his divine gifts. Not only did using a fork insult the fingers that God gifted to humanity, the thinking went, but it also insulted the food God had provided: To use a fork meant you thought the Lord’s bounty was unworthy of being touched by your hands. Forks were so frowned upon in medieval European society that when a Byzantine princess living in Venice died of the plague, her death was said to be God’s punishment for her ostentatious and hubristic custom of eating her food with a fork.” [Quoted material from InterestingFacts.com]

William Phelps Eno, the inventor of the Stop sign and sometimes called the “father of traffic safety,” never learned to drive.

Counseling Articles

How Christianity Invented the Hospital

This is not strictly a counseling article, but I think history shows how Christian compassion had a major role in creating the first hospitals, and that same compassion is probably what motivates us as counselors to do what we do.