Local Notes -- Nothing About The Bakken -- February 19, 2021

PSA: From Sophia's school district today, Grapevine - Colleyville Independent School District (GCISD):

GCISD Families,

121 Community Church (2701 Ira E. Woods Avenue - near Mustang Panther Stadium) is offering pre-packaged food boxes to any GCISD families in need.

Boxes can be picked up beginning tomorrow, February 20, at 10:30 a.m. and will be available while supplies last.  Boxes will include milk, meat, produce, and yogurt.

Families are asked to enter off of Ira E. Woods Avenue and follow volunteers for directions. Also, please watch for additional emails soon regarding possible water distribution.

This service is separate from GCISD’s curbside meals service. 

Professional sports: on another note, a professional athlete is moving in across the street from Sophia. Whoo-hoo. It's not Jordan Spieth, although Jordan is from Dallas. Grapevine is also historically close to the annual NFL draft.  

Television: Sophia's favorite cable television series is a series about an avatar, Korra (female). Sophia teaches me a lot. Tonight, she clicked on series 1, episode 1 to "bring me up to date." LOL. 

So, now I'm watching The Legend of Korra with Sophia, the very first episode. 

An avatar you ask?

The first definition, Hinduism, a manifestation of a deity or released soul in bodily form on earth; an incarnate divine teacher.

Then this, chapter 10 from the source:

That Jesus Christ is a God-man is generally acknowledged. That he is the Incarnation of God is dogma in the Christian religion; that he is an Avatar is to view him through Hindu eyes.

In the West there has emerged a gradual recognition of Jesus Christ as an Avatar, and it developed circuitously, partly through secret societies, mystery schools, esoteric groups, and non-Christian religions such as Islam.

It has already been shown how in the 1870s, Ramakrishna embraced Jesus as an Avatar and placed him within the Hindu pantheon. Half a century later a Hindu convert to Christianity, V. Chakkarai, in his book Jesus the Avatar, stated that according to the Christian view Jesus Christ was ‘the Avatar of God’. And it has been shown in Chapter 3 how Christ replaced Krishna as a Western Avatar.

Absolutely fascinating. Some years from now it will be interesting to discuss this with Sophia.

Anatomy: tonight Sophia was using her Barbie dolls to teach me anatomy -- don't jump to conclusions. She was explaining Barbie's upper extremities. It is important to know / note that Barbies come in different versions: some with more, some with fewer joints. The Barbie showed me tonight was "Elizabeth, the athlete" which has jointed limbs at the shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips and knees. 

I remarked that I liked Elizabeth because this particular Barbie can both supinate and pronate her hands. Sophia remarked that it was natural for Barbie to hold her hands in pronation which is the "normal" way to hold one's hands. 

She then went to to say that to supinate her hand, Barbie has to turn her entire arm (actually her entire forearm. I was blown away. She is exactly correct; to pronate/supinate one's hand, the entire forearm must turn (at the elbow). I asked her if she knew why. 

This is what she said: "When we turn our hands we have to turn our whole forearms because the wrists are made of carnival (sic)."

I was confused by "carnival." 

When I asked her to explain, she said wrists were made with carnival, and then pinching her nose, said, just like our noses are made of carnival and so are our ears. 

So, there you have it.

Carnival.