Are the ducks out yet?

In her New Lucy Show, Lucille Ball was trying to impress a new friend so she went duck-hunting with him one early morning. There, she discovered her talent to make duck calls to attract them.

Sometimes, we become sitting ducks to scammers.

Camp Dartmouth

This sign on a tee-shirt makes one think that sometimes we have to put to rest an overactive mouth.

Being Human Beings

"When asked to define his role in a community that was sometimes uncooperative with law enforcement, a sheriff didn't flash his badge or respond with the rank of his office.  Rather he offered, "We are human beings who work with human beings in conflict." (Our Daily Bread)

Could be a mediator speaking, too.

Greta Thunberg

She is geeting to be a youthful thorn in the side of those denying climate change's worst case scenarios.

Sometimes it takes the concern of the most affected would-be victims to bring out urgent solutions to problems we face.

Mediating Media

Diana, goddess of hunting, became the hunted, as pointed out by her brother.  But she hunted for the link to author Andrew Morton. Victims sometimes victimize too.

Crown in Glory 3

Prince Philip's uncle Lord Mountbatten forced out of military leadership was tapped by the Bank of England to head a coup. He outlined its requirements:
1. Control of media
2. Control of economy
3. Administrative target/s
4. Loyalty of the military

Sounds familiar again

Take a Number

Our Daily Bread reflected on "bad" days  when fate seems to be conspiring against us.

Better to settle conflict in mediation than count the number of years in a court suit.

Crown in Glory 2

When it was Prince Charles' turn to be invested his crown as Prince of Wales, he was forced to leave his budding drama career in Cambridge to learn Welsh for three months in a university in where else, Wales. There, he was welcomed by boos from anti- monarch nationalists, principally his tutor. The latter took pity on the lonely prince and invited him for dinner at his home. When it was time to tuck in their son, his wife was struck by the look on Prince Charles' face whom they had to momentarily leave at the dinner table. "His look was shattering," told the wife to the tutor, "He must've never experienced such." 

Crown in Glory

Back in Netflix, the Queen refuses at first to condole with the surviving coal mining families in Aberfan, Wales. She declares to the Prime Minister that the monarch doesn't put on a show. Later, PM Wilson confides that as an academician, he prefers cigars but uses a pipe in keeping with his Labor Party status.

Mediation is certainly not a show, but penalizes no-shows in sessions.

Bird Brain

Pardon the expression, but mayas are really small. One got into my room, so I opened one little  screen window to let it out. For several long minutes, this creature swung from one window to another before it finally found its way out.

Like some disputants.