![]() ![]() The Church, which not only excused and forgave the sins of its leaders but enabled them: with the Protocol and the market stocks, with muzzles and lashings and twisted Scriptures. Men like the Prophet, who lurked and lusted after the innocent, who found joy in their pain, who brutalized and broke them down until they were nothing, exploiting those they were meant to protect. ![]() ![]() Their pain was the great shame of the Father’s faith, and all of Bethel shared in it. They were the bones upon which the Church was built. It was all of the innocent girls and women-like Miriam and Leah-who suffered and died at the hands of men who exploited them. It was not the Prophet who bore Bethel, bound to his back like a millstone. He thought he was the one who made the true sacrifice, but he couldn’t be more wrong. “Immanuelle stared at him-this man who’d used his lies to make himself a martyr. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments My Pet Puppy by Honor Head![]() He was alert and expressive, with thick, wavy hair and a startled look on his face even when he wasn’t startled. ![]() (Greig also has a pig named Bikini, whose gravest condition is laziness, and a turkey named Cranberry, who is blind in one eye and has a disorder that makes him unable to hold his head upright when he’s scared or sleepy.) Until Edsel started having fainting spells a few years ago, he was as hale as could be. Woolworth, Raylene, Juanita, Willamena, Chalmer, Hertha, and Loretta-there are missing eyes, missing jaws, incontinence, and heart disease, among other infirmities the average age is fifteen. In the current crew-Melvin, Fernando, Cat, Mrs. Edsel, except for his bulging eyes, a wayward lower fang, and his advanced age, was in better shape than many of Greig’s other dogs. ![]() Greig, an accountant for an oil-and-gas company, was already several senior dogs into his calling-which is, namely, to share his home with a ten-pack of last-chance creatures likely to end up on a shelter blacklist. Lucky for Edsel, it was a right-time, right-place situation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Public transportation was the self-evident bedrock of working-class life. What’s striking is that no one watching in the fifties needed to think about any of this. When Ed and Ralph go to Minneapolis for a Raccoons convention, they take a sleeper car on a train. ![]() Neither the Kramdens nor the Nortons seem to own an automobile. ![]() He and his best friend, Ed Norton (Art Carney), who works in the sewers, make daily use of the subway and bus system, which was designed to whisk the outer-borough working classes into light-industrial Manhattan. His employer is the Gotham Bus Company, which seems to be the sort of private-public enterprise that, like the I.R.T., built the subways. ![]() Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason) is a New York City bus driver, deeply proud to be so and drawing a salary sufficient to support a nonworking wife in a Brooklyn apartment, not to mention a place in a thriving bowling league and membership in the Loyal Order of Raccoon Lodge. “The Honeymooners” (1955-56), the greatest American television comedy, is-to a degree more evident now than then-essentially a series about public transportation in New York. ![]() ![]() The question that Cuddy addresses is how do leaders show up when they don’t feel like they can inspire and motivate others? She suggests that you start by leveraging the power of your body to shape your mind. If you want a different perspective on presence, consider Amy Cuddy’s book, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges. In our 8-week course, Be the Leader Nobody Wants to Leave, we coach leaders on how to “show up” and how to project themselves using tone, body language, and communication style. We find visible and present leaders are more effective, especially when it comes to retention. At Baird Group, we teach that leaders to be both visible and present. Chances are that those leaders had great presence. Most people know at least one leader who inspired and motivated them to do great things. ![]() Written by: Amy Cuddy, Review by: Angela Fieler Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges ![]() |