Born in the Big Sky Country of Montana and now living in the Buckeye State of Ohio, Richard is the creative mind behind Big Sky Buckeye. Retired after 40 years of teaching, I enjoy writing, photography, traveling, and following a healthy lifestyle.
It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.
From Hebrews 13:5: “Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for He himself has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”
George Lorimer (1867-1937) was an American author, journalist, and publisher. One of his most enduring accomplishments was editing THE SATURDAY EVENING POST from 1899 to 1936.
This informative post will be posted on Saturday along with my usual writing. You are invited to participate with the opening question.
Brain Teaser Question
What’s the answer when you divide 40 by 1/2 and add 20? Try it without a calculator if you dare!
(answer found at the end of this post)
Featured Facts
The American bison once roamed the Great Plains and prairies of North America in unbelievable numbers. Estimates run between 40 and 60 million bison. Today, approximately 350,000 bison inhabit the region.
Bison are frequently called buffaloes, but this term is meant for bovines inhabiting Africa and Asia. With a height of 5-6 feet, length of 7-11 feet, and weight up 2,000 pounds for bulls, they are the largest land mammal in North America.
Here are a few more interesting details about bison:
Sheds its thick, shaggy mantle in the spring.
Due to nearsightedness, vision is poor, but retains keen senses of smell and hearing.
Average life span runs between 12 and 20 years.
Today, nearly 30,000 wild bison are located on national parks and wildlife reserves. Yellowstone National Park is home to nearly 5,500 in two large, migrating herds. Ranches contain over 300,000 animals, who are treated more like livestock.
Both photographs were taken in Yellowstone National Park (courtesy of Pinterest).
Answer to Brain Teaser Question
100
Watch what you are dividing. You’re not dividing by 2, you are dividing by 1/2. Remember your basic skills. Dividing by 1/2 is like multiplying by 2.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
English novelist and journalist, George Orwell (1903-1950), was an outspoken political commentator, but he was much better known for his literary works, including the novels 1984 and ANIMAL FARM.
Montana’s Yellowstone River east of Columbus (left) and east of Livingston (right).
Mighty Yellowstone
Accepting her role
Endless, flowing river
Onward journey, its goal
Creation’s design
Starting near Yount Peak
In and out of mountains
Deepest canyon she seeks
Marked with persistence
Tumbling over falls
Upper, Lower, Tower
Energy never stalls
Currents running free
Leaving her alone
Man forsakes building dams
Nature’s free-flowing zone
Destiny calling
Joining up as one
Big Muddy’s faithful mate
Yellowstone’s cherished run
Yellowstone River falls in Yellowstone National Park (from left to right): Upper and Lower (courtesy of Pinterest).
During its 692 mile journey, the Yellowstone River journeys from the depths of Wyoming’s Absaroka Mountains and Yellowstone National Park into Montana. Upon merging with the Missouri River just across the North Dakota border, these two mighty rivers become one. The confluence is located near Ft. Buford and Ft. Union historic sites.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only–and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) was an English-born comic actor and filmmaker. His iconic portrayal of “The Tramp” will always remain one of the film industry’s most important characters.
From Isaiah 30:15: “For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest you shall be saved;in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.“
From Psalm 28:7: “The Lord is my strength and my shield;in Him my heart trusts; so I am helped, and my heart exults,and with my song I give thanks to Him.”
Let’s quit trying to be the hero. God is the hero. I am only part of the rescue plan.
From Isaiah 55:9-11: “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,so are my ways higher than your waysand my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from heavenand do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout,giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purposeand succeed in the thing for which I sent it.”
Jess Connolly (born 1984) is an American writer and life coach. Much of her writing focuses on family and faith. She assisted her husband, Nick, in starting a church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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