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@notUSN_Capt @bridgelenderguy Who said it was college? K-12 tuition doesn’t work like college tuition does.

@bridgelenderguy As if colleges allowed for payments to be in arrears …. You pay ahead of the semester or you don’t enroll, Cletus

I met a well-known real estate developer this weekend and he told me that he is worth over $100 million, I asked him how liquid he is. He told me he is two months behind on his kids tuition.

@Catholichurch10 @ScottyNodak My friend just told me that happened at every school Mass when a girl forgot her veil. 1965ish at Shrine of the Little Flower, Detroit.

@ScottyNodak My older sisters said anyone who forgot their veil would put a kleenex on their head. It was common practice.

This elegant old lady showed up at our TLM (probably her first in 50 years?!? ) today and put a Kleenex on her hair when she realized she was the only woman with her head uncovered, I would die for her

@meepbobeep @SeanTrende Michigan has a wonderful Catholic home in Chelsea called the St Louis Center. Go visit!

@SeanTrende I need to find a place for my son (he's 19)

We don't tell enough happy stories here so: Thank you so much to Olentangy High School for setting up the "signing day" station for our son Judson. He has profound autism, and will attend Stewart Home & School in the fall, and likely for the rest of his life. 1/

@Kari65775454495 @holyhomemaking Assuming that autocorrect made you a vaxxer? You meant *not*? Good for you.

@holyhomemaking Don’t do it. Coming from the one who used to be just like your friend. I Went from requiring everyone to be vaxxed to be around my baby to now vaxing any of my kids. Best decision ever

my friend wants everyone who meets her baby to get the tdap vax but I’m only 21 weeks pregnant and didnt want to get it at all. any risk even minor of preterm birth, miscarriage, or iugr is not worth it to me. how do I decline without blowing up our already tenuous friendship?

@theholisticnick GUT

A client who'd been cleared of SIBO twice by two different practitioners came to me still dealing with the same symptoms. Same cycle every time: feel a bit better, never reach 100%, end up back where she started a few months later. Bloating, sulfur burps/gas, loose urgent BMs, mood shifts after meals, cystic acne around her period. Testing had only been breath tests and only measuring methane and hydrogen. Hydrogen sulfide wasn't being picked up. Ran a trio smart breath test, comprehensive stool test and blood work. Dug into symptoms, tolerances and patterns over the last two cycles. Things started making sense. Confirmed hydrogen sulfide. Several key bacteria deficient with low butyrate output. Suppressed secretory IgA, high inflammation and permeability. Low digestive enzymes, high bilirubin. This wasn't just SIBO. Simply throwing antibiotics at it the first round and antimicrobials the second with some probiotics afterward was never going to work. Within 12 weeks of addressing the issues, symptoms were gone. A month later, she was back to 100% this time and able to actually stay there. Have seen this a lot. It's almost always because a critical piece of the puzzle was never identified or not being addressed in the protocol. If you want a free guide on why issues return and the common mistakes I've seen, comment GUT and I'll DM it.

@bryan_johnson lol slower biological aging because you injected a bunch of chemicals and disease into your body? sure. who the heck really believes that? If your gut instinct is that this is true you need to think harder.

I'm getting two vaccines next week: Tdap and shingles. The Tdap because Kate's family has a newborn and we're visiting. Shingles for the potential longevity benefits. Data we're looking at: 1. Lower Alzheimer risk with vaccination in 1.6 million people, 8 year follow up, age 65+ + Tdap/Td: 30% lower relative risk + Shingles: 25% lower + Pneumococcal: 27% lower 2. Slower biological aging from shingles vaccination in 3,884 people, age 70+ Modest but significant improvements in inflammation, epigenetic and transcriptomic aging, and composite biological age. Molecular signals strongest within 3 years; inflammation benefits emerged later. 3. Better outcomes after breakthrough shingles in 38,092 people, age 50+, median 3.6y follow up In adults who developed shingles, prior vaccination was linked to: + 41% lower all-cause mortality + 21% lower MACE (MI, stroke, PE, sudden cardiac death) + 16% lower dementia risk Note: all three studies are observational. They show association, not causation. A randomized controlled trial on longevity outcomes is not feasible here as you can't randomize people to skip vaccines for years. The signal is consistent across independent large cohorts, which strengthens confidence, but the possibility of healthy vaccine bias exists in all three. People who stay current on vaccines tend to have better health behaviors overall. I find the mechanistic case for shingles specifically compelling. VZV reactivation drives neuro inflammation, and vaccination appears to blunt that cascade which is why we weight this evidence more heavily than the numbers alone.

@Stone19605Stone @Joeinblack @policywishes Not sure about number one but I pray for many deceased priests by name quite often. Priests from my childhood thru to my friend who passed away last August. They are not forgotten!

@Joeinblack @policywishes A priest told me two things are true: 1. Nothing less read than a dead pope’s encyclical. 2. Nobody more quickly forgotten than a dead priest. I couldn’t think of a rebuttal??

Harsh but correct. You will be a burden. The only real question is to whom.

@Gallo_Woodworks @beefington420 When kids came I made the choice to put wood handled knives in the dishwasher. Not especially high end but they felt like it to me. I knew someday they would die and I chose convenience over that fact. 25 years later I bought a beautiful new set & they get handwashed

@beefington420 You can put knives in the dishwasher

My husband the other day was like “can we stop having dishes we can’t put in the dishwasher?” Which I think is a very innocent completely masculine practical notion. And like, no I’m not getting rid of all my wooden cutting boards and spoons and also, hello, all knives, but

@SamanthaRedeemd There is a fantastic children’s book “The Weight of a Mass”. True Eucharistic miracle story, beautifully illustrated. Perfect gift for this.

One of my new friends invited me to celebrate her daughter's first communion next Sunday after mass ❤️ Any good first communion gift ideas for a friend's 2nd grade daughter? Or should I not worry about giving a gift? I feel like I should

@Q_wacko @Burnzzz0 Sounds like you are a new parent. Take some time to get well informed on vaccines and the many adverse events that affect many children. All diseases that have vaccines are survival in today’s world. Proceed with caution.

@Burnzzz0 Did they really?! What happened? Im pretty iffy on vaccines but I couldn't forgive myself if I skipped it and she ended up getting something like Polio later

STORY TIME When we went in for my daughter's 2 month doctor appointment we discussed vaccines. I had made my own schedule for what I thought was best for my daughter, which included delaying some vaccines and skipping some of the later doses. The schedule I made gives her great coverage against potentially severe outcomes of illnesses while also limiting potentially severe outcomes from overloading her with vaccines. Her doctor agreed with my plan and entered all of the vaccines we wanted and the dates we wanted them, into her chart so nothing would be missed or accidentally given. The doctor left and said the physician assistant would be back to give my daughter the vaccine we wanted for her 2 month visit. We only wanted DTaP at this appointment. The physician's assistant came in and stated that she was giving my daughter the DTaP vaccine. We left and baby girl handled the vaccine well. Fast forward a month later and I had received a call saying our next vaccine appointment was too soon. I messaged the physician assistant letting her know about the call, sent her the vaccine plan we had discussed with the doctor, and asked if we needed to push dates out. The physician's assistant said she would look into it. Later that day she messaged me back saying we were ok to come in as scheduled. She then sent another message saying that instead of just the DTaP vaccine, she gave my daughter a combo shot including Polio and Hep B at her 2 month appointment, which her chart indicated she should not have had the first doses of those vaccines yet. My daughter's chart was marked with every vaccine she should get through 52 weeks old, which dose it was in the series, and the exact dates she should get them. We discussed the vaccine plan that day, before her vaccine. The physician's assistant told us the vaccine she was giving her and did not inform us or ask consent to give her the Hep B or Polio vaccine. I AM LIVID We were planning on doing the Hep B and Polio vaccines at a later date (months later), but giving an infant a vaccine without explicitly stating what the child is getting is careless. In the medical field you should be reviewing your patients chart before giving them anything, you should know exactly what your patient needs & what you are giving them, and you should be getting consent for every specific medication/treatment/procedure you are doing. So, regardless of how much I may be over reacting, I am filing a complaint with the state's medical licensing board because her actions were reckless

@ken91358 @dissproportion Same here! I have band mom and church recipes from Michigan to Hawaii! Just made an awesome kahlua brownie with choc mousse, heath bits and whipped cream trifle for a birthday. Also best meatloaf recipe ever.

@dissproportion Whenever I’m in a thrift store, I look for church cookbooks. They always full of absolute banger recipes

Decades ago the old ladies in my family printed their favorite recipes into a little booklet as part of a church fundraiser or something. I just opened it to a random page of “Soups & Salads.”

@amanda_rou65845 @CatholicCharm Yes on the lifeguarding. Have to be 16 if I remember right. Not physically demanding but the utmost responsibility. Work the snack bar or maintenance until 16. My kids worked country clubs I could never afford.

Thinking about what would be good for a first job for a 14/15yo kid that would teach them hard work and conflict resolution without putting them through fat grown adults verbally abusing them over french fries

@GusQuixote @pmarca A wise philosopher in 2005: The problem is "dictatorship of relativism," where the lack of objective moral truths leads to a society ruled by self-interest. The more relativism becomes the accepted way of thinking, the more it turns into a new form of intolerance and dogmatism.

"Marc, why do you care about SPLC's crimes & other activists/companies/gov't agencies who may have done the same/complicit?" I sat in so many meetings for a DECADE where these groups determined who got cancelled/debanked/censored. Wholly un-American. People need to go to jail.

@CA_Worman @ccpecknold @michaeljknowles Cred to @FrMichaelPOrsi for one of the few homilies I can recall even 25 years later. Every homily was a great theology class.

@CA_Worman @ccpecknold @michaeljknowles 3 DP “rights” society that was set askew by the heinous crime 4 by ending his life with DP you may actually save his soul for eternity bc he knows his death date and may repent vs life in prison and “I’ll get around to thinking about Jesus someday”

“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. For example, if a Catholic were to be at odds with the Holy Father on the application of capital punishment or on the decision to wage war, he would not for that reason be considered unworthy to present himself to receive Holy Communion. While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia.” — Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger

@DorothyGale57 @ick_real ❤️

@ick_real Well, I know this post was made 10 hours ago so you've probably picked a name from the numerous choices that have been given but an "old" name that's still timeless is Anna. Can't count the amount of Anna's that I've met on one hand but 90% of them have an untouched uniqueness.

I'm looking for a ridiculously old-fashioned girl's name for our new born . Think great-grandma name. Very old and rare. Any suggestions asap pls?

@TiffaniMarie483 Btw she is an awesome 24yo now. Her intensity never stopped but I tried hard to not stop her. Sometimes even now pushes the envelope but she excels and is loved by many. Hang in there.

@TiffaniMarie483 I had terrible 4s w/ my girl. My advice is learn what hills to die on. The answer is not many. If you say no to too many things you will be punishing always & you don’t want the kid to hate you that often. Littles need dinner earlier than adults. Don’t wait til the witching hour

Who else has an INTENSE little one? My almost 4yo wanted a cracker, so I gave him two. He wanted three but I said no. He then proceeded to crush up both crackers and throw them on the ground. Instant punishment of course. But wow kid. That was super hard core.