THAT TRAMPOLINE IS KEEN!

Look at the movie and you will see
The trampoline's the thing for me.
First I pop up over the rim
And then I'm off with all my vim.
It's up in the air for a cannonball,
Down, and then it's standing tall
With arms all spread and twirling around
Then down on my knees and up I bound.
This time up I touch my nose
Then put my hands out on my toes
Sitting down, then up I vault
And turn a little somersault.
Then land on my back, next time way high
I reach up to touch the sky
  And next,  just  like a circus clown,
  I  lay out on the pad face down,
  Jump up and twist three times around
  And sit up when I touch the ground
  Then fold my arms and bow my head
  And land again with legs wide spread
  There's lots more of these tricks, I know,
  I'll learn new ones wherever I go
  They'll be the best you've ever seen
  Oh boy, that trampoline is keen!

The Y's Way to Get Wet

If this dry season makes you drool
What you need is the swimming pool
Exercise is what you'll get
All the while you're getting wet.

        Chorus:

    Ho , ho, ho for you and me
     The pool is where you want to be

The swimming pool is full  of folk
Who like to paddle, kick and stroke
And if action's what you wish
They'll swing their tail like little fish.

They all are groupies, you must know
Sabrina helps to run the show
Jackie's the conductor, and
Colleen dances to beat the band.

It happens every weekday morning
And so I tell you, here's a warning:
It's not raining  inside, not yet -
Come to the Y and you'll get wet!

 The rains will come, they always do,
We'll all get dampened through and through
Outside it's dry, so get together -
Enjoy October's bright blue weather!

SABBATH

The Hebrew word SEVEN is SHABBAT.  And long before history was written, the seventh day of the week had significance for the Hebrew people.  Writers attributed that special day to a desire for servants's need for rest. 

When the people of Judah (southern Israel) were expelled to Babylonia, the religious authorities were pressed to retain their national customs lest the people become domesticated to their captors' ways. They focused on circumcision and Shabbat as irreducible elements in their religious practice.

However, since the Hebrews had no account of the world's creation, they adopted the Babylonian story of creation arising in eight acts.  But in order to fit the time-honored seventh-day of rest, they condensed the creation sequence into six days, with two acts of creation squeezed into two separate days.  That account, although a bit clumsy, survived as the opening chapter of Genesis. 

In order to reinforce the Shabbat element in their history, the writers inserted seventh-day observances into David's story, for example.  And that practice resounded into the Jesus story as well.  The Christian heritage followed that pattern of weekly-day-of-rest, and western civilization followed suit, despite the oddities that causes in the calendar. The world has adopted that rhythm, so we have today a religion-based order of days.