Success Sometimes Comes Unexpected
“Be on the lookout for the sleeper.” Many meanings come with that advice. Show prospect pig, lamb, and meat goat auctions prevalent now made us think of it, but the counsel applies to all of life.
Duty To Assist Tragedy-Stricken
“Who will be next?” That’s the question frequented on peoples’ lips. “It only happens to somebody else” philosophy prevails until disaster hits home, or close-friends, then there’s no denying vulnerability is without bounds.
Reprieve For Wrong Turns
“Exit only if that’s the right place.” Something about those markers that seem to give us orders that we have an urge to follow when we really shouldn’t. Whether in a building or going down the highway, whenever an “Exit” sign appears, unconsciously we want to go there.
Belief Essential Along With Score
Percentage-wise maybe we aren’t doing all that bad. Math never was our best subject. We got along fine with addition and subtraction, but high school geometry set us back, and we barely passed college algebra. So, accuracy of our calculations may be more philosophical than mathematically sound.
Nothing Is Ever Like Before
“That will never be the same.” Perhaps, “there’s nothing new under the sun,” and “history repeats itself.” But, two things are never precisely duplicated. Our fence will never be like it was the day completed.
There’s Still No Place Like Home
“Of all the things we don’t want to do, that’s one of them.” Without reservation, we refused an opportunity to attend another activity. Made us think about how people scamper here, there, and back again, always in turmoil.
A Second From Here To Eternity
Such a fine thread between now and beyond. Often we are reminded of that, have expressed about such previously, and again it’s come home with intensity in the past couple weeks. The phone rang; we hollered: “Answer it, please.” There were only two rings, so we assumed she had.
Duty Is To Assist Upon Call
Nature always calls at the most inopportune time. “A heifer just had a calf,” the cow-manager hollered as we were pulling up covers for a good night’s rest. Grumpily, but without a word, we tugged our chore-clothes on, and stumbled through the dark frozen clods, dreading thought of carrying that wet, slimy newborn into the […]
Readiness Is Blessing When The Call Comes
“That can’t be right, I just talked to her yesterday morning, and she was fine.” An acquaintance called to inform us that May Morrison, a good friend and wife of our teacher-mentor Gordon Morrison had passed away. We argued in denial that it had to be wrong, and we’d straighten out the mistake.
Financials Essential In All That Is Done
“Everything depends on the almighty buck.” It wasn’t said exactly that way, but same point was made by a community leader at a recent meeting. Truth is “Whatever anybody does, there has to be consideration given to the economic impact.”