We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
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We don’t run out of these terms of which we might think there are only a few, but they crop up all the time. A few months ago, on my way to farthingale, I came upon fascet. It’s pronounced the same as facet yet is nothing like it. With the c, it means a tool for carrying glass bottles to the annealing furnace, a process in glass making. Without the c, it is a facet, a plane (flat) surface cut in a diamond to make it sparkle. Gambol and gamble look so much alike that it is a surprise to see the dictionary distinguish them from one other. The...
Ah Jonah, Jonah, Jonah...God had given him the mission to go to Nineveh to deliver a prophetic warning, “In forty days Nineveh [will be] annihilated!” But Jonah, in an effort to outrun God’s will, left immediately for Joppa in order to set sail from there to Tarshish, which was 2,000+ miles away from Nineveh. Jonah, having failed to outrun the will of God, earned a three-day ‘time out’ in the belly of an enormous fish/whale, during which Jonah repented of his disobedience. He was then vomited onto dry land and, as requested, finally delivered...
This weekend is Memorial Day. What memories that brings back. First, my family would all visit the graveyard and I noticed that the amount of graves we decorated on what used to be called Decoration Day gets larger each year. What started out as putting flowers on Grandpa Lucke’s grave and mother’s little brother Bobby has now grown into around ten graves to decorate with something or other. It used to be a simple matter. I used to put geraniums on the graves, then go and get them after Memorial Day and plant them in a planter right next to...
A good game one can play with oneself is to look at new words that crop up here and there and try to figure out what they mean, before consulting the dictionary.. A “tool kit” of basic Greek and Latin roots will take you a long way along the path of making friends with oddities such as acromegaly and vadose. How about proscenium? When I first ran into this utterly mysterious word in high school, I could not imagine what it might mean, nor that any normal person could pronounce it or understand it, still less ever find a use for it. The dictiona...
Mother’s Day has just passed us by. I remember Mother’s Day of my childhood very well. When we went to church on Mother’s Day, and we did go to church, most of the congregation wore carnations on them somewhere. Red if your mother was living and white if your mother was dead. That tradition died out, like so many more, for some reason unknown to me. I was blessed with having two mothers and two grandmothers and for a time even a great grandmother, Augusta Behrends. Although great grandmother Behrends did much to make me frightened to this...
Almost as I am writing these words on a May Saturday afternoon, the Kentucky Derby is being run. It has attracted the rich, the poor, Royalty and most everyone else through the years. It is the reason I started writing this sports column. Many of you remember the writings of Doris Johnson (aka FlazT) did in “The Journal” Well, FlazT loved horses and she loved writing about them. Once in a column I wrote I referred to a horse as a nag. That really offended FlazT and she wrote a column in retaliation. As I got to know FlazT better, I found out...
By Kay Russo Alice and Weston arrived at Grandpa and Grandma’s house at lunch time. After some food, Grandpa took them out for a walk to enjoy the perfect spring weather. Grandma had a deadline and stayed home to do some desk work. Back in the house, a stack of board games left over from their parents’ time caught the children’s attention. “Herd Your Horses,” “Top Dog,” and “Mastermind” had to be lifted down from a high shelf and examined. Neither Alice nor Weston is even close to reading, so the main charm of the games seems to be throwing th...
This is going to sound like a whine column but I can see why people no longer answer their telephones. It used to be that when the phone rang you answered it. Now days I call someone and I get an answering machine 90 percent of the time. I asked a good friend why he didn’t answer the phone and he said there were too many crazy people calling him. I answer my phone and he is right. I think I get a scam call at least once EVERY day! Of late it has been a man with a far Eastern accent who tells me that there is something wrong with my Windows o...
Several years ago, the Blaine County Library withdrew from circulation a thick book titled Gestures. I found this book on the cart in the library entryway. Never before having seen anything on this topic, I gave the librarian my 25 cents and took the book home. How could I guess what to expect? The book was a surprise in more ways than one. Four scholars from Oxford University in England had made a detailed, in fact, minute, scholarly study in a branch of anthropology seldom explored. Let me quote the first sentences of the Preface: “The i...
A few days ago, I found myself in the midst of a discussion about the widespread greed “nowadays.” One person said, “Everyone wants benefits but no one wants to work.” Much agreement with this lamentable observation followed. This was a casual moment, not an evening’s serious pooling of knowledge and sober appraisal of the current state of our national situation, so I didn’t jump in with facts or points of view to the contrary. Afterward I was thinking about the reality that, yes, we do hear of a few people who want to receive public fund...
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” We see and hear John 3:16 frequently at sports events, in songs and sometimes in regular conversation. Not everybody who hears John 3:16 knows what it is about, the words, or maybe even what it is. An important pastor down in Stanford, MT in a little beautiful church taught me that every scripture has different meaning to different people. It has it’s basis of what it means but from there the meani...
