I would walk 500 miles, And I would walk 500 more
I thought of that song (which many incorrectly think is titled “I Would Walk 500 Miles”), but these folks did much more than that total.
A family, to honor their deceased daughter, walked 4,000 miles from Disneyland to Disney World.
Not even walking 4,000 miles across the United States can come close to the pain of losing a child.
At least, it isn’t close to the aching the Cobb family still feels every day almost two years after 8-year-old Julia died from a rare bone and tissue cancer, Ewing’s sarcoma.
For ten months, the family walked about 20 miles a day on its trek from Disneyland in Southern California, where it had gone months before Julia’s death, to Disney World in Orlando, where she died on her Make-A-Wish trip in October 2013. They became the first family to walk across the U.S. when they made it to Florida’s Magic Kingdom on June 21 — Father’s Day.
Throughout the 320-day, 4,000-mile journey, the caravan, including Jonathan’s wife Jennifer, their three kids and 14-year-old dog, stopped to speak at churches, schools and businesses. They wanted other families dealing with childhood cancer to know that they weren’t alone.
You can read the Palm Beach Post article in its entirety here.
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Heritage, not hate?
Confederate flags placed around King Center, Ebenezer Baptist Church
Several Confederate flags were found around the King Center and Ebenezer Baptist Church Thursday morning.
According to Ebenezer Baptist Church Rev. Raphael Warnock, Atlanta police and the National Parks Association have removed the flags from the campus. Atlanta police confirms four small flags were found laying on the property.
Atlanta police chief George Turner says surveillance video showed two white males placing the flags at the King Center and Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Atlanta police say the people who placed the flags could face charges including criminal trespassing, terroristic threats and littering.
Ebenezer Baptist Church consists of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s boyhood home and the original Ebenezer Baptist Church, the church where King was baptized and both his father, Martin Luther King, Sr., and he were pastors.
Some people who state the flag is about heritage have the best of intentions and don’t intend for there to be any malice, these are not those kind of people.
Bag of Randomness
- While I wait for delivery for my new lawn mower battery, I thought it would be a good time to sharpen the blade. To my surprise, I found a local place that will do it for just eight bucks, which I think is beyond reasonable.
- As if it isn’t already hard enough get around Dallas without paying a toll – LBJ East freeway project needs some tolls, planner says
- Mulder and Scully holding Mulder and Scully Lego figures.
- I don’t know much about hip replacement surgery, but I was surprised to see Jerry Jones walking around training camp yesterday after his surgery on back on July 21.
- Our former governor has challenged Trump to a pull-up contest – “Let’s get a pull-up bar out there and let’s see who can do the most pull-ups,” said Perry, once an Air Force captain, when asked by a reporter if he had any message for Trump.
- I’m just not an outdoors person and hunting isn’t for me, but I don’t have any issue with those that do hunt responsibly. The dentist that’s in the news for shooting a protected lion in Zimbabwe is stating that he thought he was doing everything legally, and pointed the blame at the local professional hunter guides and is claiming ignorance that he didn’t know they lured the lion from protected land by tying a dead animal to a vehicle and driving to unprotected land. But the dentist, Walter Palmer, has a shaky past that includes sexual harassment and “In 2008, he faced prison time and eventually was placed on probation after admitting to making a false statement to a federal agent in connection with his hunt of a black bear in Wisconsin. Palmer shot a black bear in 2006 about 40 miles outside the zone where he was licensed to hunt, and then lied about it to a U.S. Fish and Wildlife agent, claiming he shot it in the correct zone. Palmer was ordered to pay $2,938 in restitution and was placed on probation for one year, court records show.”
- Taco Belle
- Dallas Establishments With Top Gross Alcohol Sales For June 2015 [updated link]- Gexa almost pulled in a million.
- GIF – Tug-of-war between one horse (a Belgian horse, I think) and about 20 humans.
- My father would often say, “Holy mackerel kingfish.” It wasn’t until after his death that I learned it came from Amos ‘n’ Andy, and that it was actually, “Holy mackerel, Kingfish.”
- DaughterGeeding has long been aware that her mother has a glass eye, but for several reasons, WifeGeeding has held out removing it in front of her. However, yesterday DaughterGeeding asked her mother to remove it, and she obliged. I recorded the moment if you are interested in how a mother would talk to her five-year-old about such a thing. If you are sensitive about such a thing, the camera is far enough away that you can’t see any detail of the eye or the ocular cavity.
- I had a friend that was a pastor’s kid, and his father would burn the SI swimsuit issue and allow him to watch Spaceballs only with the volume turned off. He was also barred from watching any Rated-R movies, until Oliver Stone’s JFK hit theaters because it was “educational”. I don’t think he did much research about the film, but then again, that was before the Information Super Highway was at our fingertips.
- Infographic – Wedding Dresses Through Time
- Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin was the guest on ‘The Daily Show’ last night to plug her latest book which is about LBJ. Oddly, I think it’s only going to be an e-book. She mentioned that it was LBJ who encouraged Nixon to have a tape recording machine in the Oval Office because it would be hard to recall things and remember what frame of mind you were in twenty or so years after an event, and this would be important for U.S. history.
- Kearns has an interesting history with LBJ. She was a White House Fellow during his administration and involved in the anti-Vietnam war movement. She wrote an article which laid out a scenario for his removal from office regarding his conduct of the war which appeared in the New Republic, and she was later assigned to the Department of Labor. After his presidency, she lived at his ranch and helped (some say ghostwrote) with his memoirs.
- Rick Springfield was a guest on Kimmel last night and participated in a funny recorded skit about the origin of “Jessie’s Girl” in which he dressed up like he was in 1981 again. In the skit, his drummer is named Jessie and his girlfriend is there when Rick comes up with a new song, and Jessie doesn’t handle it well.
- Christina Applegate was also a guest on Kimmel and a clip of her chugging an entire pitcher of beer in the new Vacation movie played. She admitted that in reality the pitcher was empty and the beer was just CGI. Is nothing sacred any more?
- There’s a news story going around about a man who cut off his own manhood to stop pleasuring himself and many are falling for it, but it’s fake, so don’t you fall for it.
- Girls Scam ISIS on Social Media for Travel Money
- Mom Throws Dream Party for Personal Injury Lawyer-Obsessed Toddler
- I wonder if the bat-signal was used for roadside service – Batmobile breakdown leaves traffic chaos on Ontario highway
- Imagine a life in which you could no longer eat – Utah Teen Discovered He’s Allergic to Food — All Food
- Good info on the upcoming Batman v Superman movie, but beware of minor spoilers.
- How Brisket Conquered The BBQ World – The once lowly hunk of beef has eclipsed pork and ribs to become the power-player in the ‘cue circuit.
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