Ignorance of a nation’s people is the devil’s best tool for overthrowing the world. America was a plum prize. God knew in the beginning that evil would eventually subdue the world. All along we have stood firm, kept the faith, maintained our strong faith in God, even as we were unable to withstand the . . . → Read More: The Writing on the Wall has Never Been More Clear
“Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor – and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People . . . → Read More: THANKSGIVING DAY, 1789, PROCLAMATION, ISSUED BY PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON Friday, November 22, 1963, began like any other day. Because it was drizzly, I wore my new, blue raincoat. As I drove to the elementary school where I was a first year teacher, I heard a peculiar flapping sound outside the door. Not until I had reached my school and parked, did I . . . → Read More: A DAY THAT DIVIDED AMERICAN HISTORY I remember the day the desk came down the lane, brought home in a farm truck by my father and a brother. It had been purchased from the estate auction of an elderly gentleman – for five dollars – certainly, a small sum for even 60 years ago. The desk’s massive size would . . . → Read More: THE DESK The beautiful fall day when I left home in southern Indiana to drive to northern Indiana — to begin my first year as a public school teacher — my mother walked out to the car with me. In her parting words was a message that has gone with me lo —through out these . . . → Read More: WORDS TO FOREVER REMEMBER Be kind to thy father, For when thou were young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that Fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee. ~ Margaret Courtney (1822-1862)
. . . → Read More: FATHER’S DAY QUOTES AND COMMENTARY When I was five, my father began to accumulate a dairy herd for our farm. The cows were purchased a few at a time from other farms around our county, and brought home by Dad in his stock truck. They were then given names that began with the same letter of the former . . . → Read More: MY FATHER’S DAIRY HERD Two marriages ─ and going in ─ one could say today’s title was fit for both. We know the outcome of the first. We’ve faith the second will endure.
Fourteen years have come and gone, since the world was stunned by Princess Diana’s August 31st, 1997 death. A whole new . . . → Read More: A STORY BOOK MARRIAGE: HE’S A PRINCE AND SHE’S CHARMING  2 comments  Uncategorized  I close this post with faith that the words of Shakespeare's storied king will hang true: "All is well ended" ─ Act V, Line 336 from "All's Well that Ends Well")., Princess Diana's death stunned the world ... Princess Diana's lasting legacy and most important contribution to England ... William and Kate in mind, Scene III They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty scepter O’er lesser powers that be;
But a mightier power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world William Ross Wallace, 1819-1881, American poet
. . . → Read More: KNOWN AND LITTLE KNOWN MOTHER’S DAY QUOTES April brought many reader’s comments – lovely comments ─ to help dispel April’s chill. I much appreciated the ones that were sincerely written from the heart. For this post, I selected and edited some that best lent themselves to easy/quick replies. Regretfully, time did not allow more than appears here. I thought readers . . . → Read More: RESPONDING TO APRIL’S COMMENTS |