2 CENTS WORTH

Wasn't the snow out of this world awesome Joe took pictures to send to Ann and Korel so they could see them. Korel said, "I don't ever remember snow like that," She loves the cold weather and we tease her she needs to live at the North Pole.

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government,...

WRITER'S CORNER

Pray for someone It doesn't matter who. As you go through your day lift someone up in prayer. Ask God to show you the person that needs help. Whether it is a kind work, food, helaing, vehicle, perhaps a warm home. Focus on God.

Faces & Places

“The fetus wished to live. Stubbornly, sometimes astonishinglythe fetus struggled to live. But the power of its life-or its death-had to reside with the mother. No other alternative was possible.

It’s Still Okay to Not Be Okay

WARNING: this essay might be a difficult read. It is an important read, though, for each of us. (I published this essay just a few months ago in September 2020. As I started writing today’s intended essay, I felt a nagging urge to re-publish this essay.

GOING BACK HOME TO MERKEL

There must be a strong pull for people who grew up in Merkel, left to have successful careers, then returned to their hometown. I met a bunch of them recently. They are confident, poised and happy to be back home. One is a former NASA scientist who is now writing poetry.

Reach across the aisle in the spirit of Lincoln

I don’t think I’ll find many that will disagree that our nation is in turmoil. From an election that a large minority of our friends and neighbors feel was stolen, to an assault on our nation’s Capital, the concern about what will come next is eerie.

CHECK YOUR MIRRORS

As with most of you, I have thoughts about January 6 and the events at our nation’s Capitol. Of course, I want to write about “it.” My gut is telling me not to go there this time. Yes, I did write last June about George Floyd's incident and its aftermath relating to race.

New House speaker lays out challenges

The 87th session of the Texas Legislature opened Tuesday with COVID-19 encompassing every aspect of what the lawmakers do, according to new House Speaker Dade Phelan. “COVID, obviously, it will be a blanket over the entire session,” Phelan told his hometown TV station, KFDM Channel 6, in Beaumont.

Old Glory News

WOW, isn't this beautiful. That is the most snow we have gotten in a long time. So beautiful, large flakes, and it seems to be sticking to everything it falls on, but it's melting some. I just want it to melt off all the electric lines, I don't want to be without electricity again.