Had a wonderful bike ride with my electric assisted bike. With the motor on you easy move through the 5 speeds and peddle when you want. I tested the reverse gear and turning. With trikes you have to turn at lower speeds. My initial trip was steady up an incline and the trike easily when 11-12 miles an hour.  One and two levels go about 2 to 5 miles an hour. Level 3 goes steady at 7 miles an hour. On my return trip going steadily down ward the engine purred at the higher levels. Breaking can be down three ways, lowering the level and two ways to break, engine or coaster breaks like a kids bike. It was a hot day but no sweat.
Looking forward to many rides.

Challenge my walking

Today I walked 20 minutes by walking two 8 minute walks and one 4 minutes walk. Last night I rode my recumbent bike at a good pace at a top speed for the bike for 20 minutes. I felt pretty good moving intensity in the first 3 levels. I am for the moment without my foot brace so the bike is a cool way to move. 

Moving around the country today checking out the heath sections I learned a new movement I can do sitting at my desk, Leg raises from a desk chair challenged the tightness in my CP. Having CP gives me a preview of challenges we will all face as we get older. Muscle strength, flexibility and range of motion. Having muscle strength gives us a better chance to keep doing things for our selves. Flexibility and range of motion expands our ability to move with a side benefit of decreased pain in the joints. 

Walking right now I am challenged with. It is easy to give up on it, but that is not me. I read

From LA near the city are great walks

an article four 15 minute walks are just as good for the body as a one hour walk. If you are walking at a 20 minute pace that is 6,000 steps. If you walk at a 15 minute pace per mile that is 8,000 steps. If you walk two miles an hour that is 4000 steps. We are close to this when we go to the zoo, store, museum, a romantic walk on the beach. When I did day field trips I walked anywhere from 5,000 to 8,000 steps. I did a field trip with Dee Moore in Chicago with the kids and did 9600 steps. If you know Dee she is a fast and active walker, hard to keep up.

Taking frequent breaks for exercise make me feel better.  Keep walking

Learning to be cool in the skin we are in

Is there a need to develop healthy Caucasian self-image? Is there a need to develop a pride in the role that Caucasians have given to American culture? Where in school or media is it shared that it is OK to be white; there are good white guys and girls? Or does that affirmation only given in a racist or fascist ideology? Am I for raising these questions, to be branded a racist?

In my 30 plus years in education I cannot recall one direct affirmation that it's okay to be white. In an important subtopic it is rarely heard that it is okay to be male. What is heard a lot, is how white guys in history are the bad guys in regard to racism and feminism? This message is repeated over and over again. 

Has there been a bullying of the male self image where we can see the results of lower achievement, ambition and actualization? What is offered in our culture to develop healthy view of self as a white male? 

What is heard a lot in schools are the ideologies of white supremacists from the culture of slavery and racism? Because World War I and World War II being so big we hear a lot about the fascist pure race and extermination of impurities (non German) especially Jews. 

Are we surprised young whites given little positive support to develop healthy self racial identity to look at the elements that have been repeated over and over again; negative role models which are high-profile racist and “neo-Nazi” ideology.

In our inner-city we have seen gangster movies where the bad guy gets it in the end, but enjoyed the pleasures being a gangster rewarded. How many young people offered only a fast foods careers are lured into the gang life. We need better options than gangs, drugs, racism, and terrorists ideology. Nazism was first and foremost a terrorist group.  

Schools need to focus strategies and curriculum that put more balance between affirmation pride of all races and sexes and the deep seeded problems we still deal with. Schools like parenting, have a goal to produce healthy people ready to take their place in the adult world. We cannot alienate our boys in the process of growing. They need positive cultural experiences where they are valued for who they are. There is no way any generation can pay for the sins of their fathers.

Each child should be proud they are part of the human race made up of so many variations. We should feel cool in the skin we are in even white skin.

Neo-Nazi, KKK, hatred is to be condemned. When we choose violence to spread ideology our very actions are one of the terrorists. The acts are a threat to our national security. They are actually playing into the hands of our foes who are planning their next moves. These small-minded supremacists are making it harder to develop strong personal and collective identity for people of all colors. Keep walking 

Today I'm craving around a virtual cave - Travel to Qumran

Today I will be taking a tour of the Qumran caves and the Dead Sea Scrolls. 

https://walkingthebiblelands.waynestiles.com/dashboard/

I've visited a website that will interact with the scroll itself. Cool

http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah#2:3

You can click on a particular chapter and verse and I will give you a translation of that verse. Note the translation is of the scroll itself which was a translation used by the Essenes group. Dr. Wayne Styles gives the following information of the group.

“At the northwest corner of the Dead Sea, a small community at Qumran meticulously copied the Hebrew Bible and other literature—from the 2nd century BC to around AD 68. These Essenes were zealous for God’s law, and they retreated to this secluded area in order to devote themselves to the study of the Hebrew Scriptures and other literature, as well as to the preservation of these texts.”

When this scroll was discovered in 1947 it was a Hebrew text 1000 years older then the text that we had. Its discovery has shown us how careful we are when it comes to the translation of the Bible. 

It was not the translation that Jesus learned from as a child in his synagogue. Nor was it the translation he used in his ministry. Jesus was familiar with the Septuagint, LXX which was a Greek translation from 200 BC, by the Jews in Alexandria, Egypt. Jesus spoke mostly in Aramaic. Today language is used on one Mountain in Israel with less than 600 people speaking it. Most of the youth in Israel today speak Arabic, Hebrew, or English. It has been predicted that the language of Jesus is dying out.

Here is an example from the 9 to 11th century Aramaic of John 3 :16

ܗܟܢܐ ܓܝܪ ܐܚܒ ܐܠܗܐ ܠܥܠܡܐ ܐܝܟܢܐ ܕܠܒܪܗ ܝܚܝܕܝܐ ܢܬܠ ܕܟܠ ܡܢ ܕܡܗܝܡܢ ܒܗ ܠܐ ܢܐܒܕ ܐܠܐ ܢܗܘܘܢ ܠܗ ܚܝܐ ܕܠܥܠܡ ܀

16 For, Alaha {God} has thus so loved the alma {the world}, in such a way that He would give His Only-Begotten, so that whoever might believe in Him, shouldn't be lost, but rather, may have for them lives which are eternal.

http://www.thearamaicscriptures.com/johns-gospel.html

 In the Hebrew Scriptures parts of Daniel and Ezra are Aramaic as well as parts of the New Testament.

Having a reliable translation is indeed a blessing. Read the books of the Bible one by one. If you have never read the Bible there are many good ideas to do so. If you want to find faith and walk with God read the gospel of Mark (action) and Paul’s letter to the Romans. Both books were written to the same city Rome. Romans 1-8 answers the question of how God makes sinners saints. Romans 9-11 gives information concerning God's future work with the Jews? Romans 12 to 16 shares how to practically walk with God as a saint.

Saints (Romans 1:7) are made by God when one believes in the good news of Jesus Christ. They are far from perfect and there is growth and development after one becomes a Christian. 

Each book you decided to read has its own theme and structure. For example the Gospels, the first four books in the New Testament are not the same. There will be differences which will and help understand the whole.

Mark off in your Bible the books that you have read. After you have read the Bible now you will have real questions and insights. You will be amazed. Keep walking