Faces & Places

“If you have carefully examined a hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read one hundred different books.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

We received this letter courtesy of First United Methodist Church of Rotan Pastor Jeff Sedburry. It is from Bożena Daszuta, with cooperation of Pastor Damian Szczepańczyk, whose church along the Polish-Ukrainian border continues to aid war-torn refugees.

2 CENTS WORTH

Never know what is going to happen next, had to come to Rotan this morning and write my two cents worth setting where I use to set looking out the sliding class doors and onto the deck.

FOLKLORE IN A FUDGE SHOP

Dean Jones grew up in Carthage and worked in different businesses around town since he was 16. Many of those businesses have closed and most everybody has forgotten about them. But Dean tries to jog their memory. Every Tuesday he’ll post a clue about a forgotten retail business on Facebook.

Believe

People believe all kinds of things. Often, what we believe is a product of our surroundings, current events, the influence of friends and family, experience, and our religion, or lack thereof.

Faces & Places

What’s the weather like where you are? Usually, spring comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, but in the part of Texas where I live, it’s been a lion and a bear – high winds and fires.

Sheriff’s deputy dies in wildfires

An Eastland County sheriff’s deputy died Thursday as wildfires swept through several small Texas communities west of Dallas, destroying at least 50 homes and charring more than 54,000 acres as of Sunday. Deputy Sgt.

Old Glory News

Wind, Wind, Wind, I believe we have had our share of wind, but I guess we will have a little more. So many fires, so sad, folks have lost their homes and all their possessions. All of that along with the war with Russia, it is so heart breaking. Pray & Pray.

What to Do with Cremated Ashes

Dear Savvy Senior, A while back I saw an article on different ways to scatter a person’s ashes after they’re cremated, but I’ve misplaced it. Can you help me with this? I’m preplanning my funeral and would like to include instructions on what to do with my remains that my family will appreciate.

The scale of things

I ran across some remarkable photographic work from a teenage kid in Washington recently, and while working on some ideas for upcoming photography projects of our own, I have been thinking along about the size and scale of things.