Jude And His Rabbits
Seven years ago, Jude was completely non-verbal and diagnosed as autistic. Now he won’t stop talking. In this video, he’d like to introduce you to his rabbits and explain how they eat and reproduce (among other things).
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Woman Unexpectedly Gives Birth On Plane
What are the odds there is a physician AND three NICU nurses on a plane? Or that a woman who doesn’t know she’s pregnant gives birth at 40k feet?
“Had a completely miraculous experience on Wednesday. In the middle of our flight Delta 306 from Salt Lake City to Honolulu, I was called to assist in the delivery and resuscitation of a 29 week old baby, very premature, when mom (who did not actually know she was pregnant… yes, this does happen) suddenly went into labor.
astoundingly there were not one but three NICU nurses on the plane from Kansas City who rushed to help Mom, who delivered in the airplane at 40000 feet over the Pacific. We used shoelaces, a sock (for a head warmer), plastic bags, microwaved water bottles (to raise temperature), an Apple Watch (which worked surprisingly well as a heart monitor),and an oxygen mask we made ourselves to get baby stabilized, keep him warm and help him breathe until he was safe enough to wrap him against moms chest.
We finally reached Honolulu three hours later. The pivotal moment came when after landing, we moved mom and baby into a wheelchair and he woke up and then, finally, for the first time he cried out loud. The whole plane applauded.
There have only ever been about 60 babies born on flights in recorded history. What are the odds this three pound preemie would have 3 Neonatal intensive care nurses, a physician’s assistant, and one semi-experienced doctor
Three Sisters Companion Planting
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How Allegri’s Miserere Should Really Sound
From Peter Kwasniewski : “If you get a critical edition of Allegri’s “Miserere,” you’ll discover that the version with which we are familiar today is not the original one — not at all, not by a long shot. In this fascinating video, we hear first what Allegri wrote in the 17th century, then its middle version from the 18th, and then the one from later on (19th cent.?) with the famous high C and other interesting musical developments. The video is cued here to the comparison.
Now, there are two reactions that can be made to this discovery:
1. “That’s not what Allegri wrote! It’s the wrong psalm tone! The high C is absurd – only a romantic would have come up with that! It’s overwrought. We should restore it to its more minimal, simple, pristine form.”
2. “Well, even if that’s not what Allegri had in mind, the embellishments amplify its beauty, making it even better than the original. It got richer and fuller over time, and we would be poorer if we went back to the original.”
And then the analogy struck me: the first is like the liturgical antiquarian or archaeologist, who thinks the unadorned earliest version of a thing is more authentic and more pure than the later developed version. The second is like the proponent of organic development, who sees that generations can improve upon what they have inherited, actually bringing out more fully what was implicit in the earlier. You can guess which school