The Meaning of Community

“A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other’s lives.

TAMALE THURSDAYS IN FORT STOCKTON

Every Thursday a store in Fort Stockton sells tamales. “We start cooking our tamales at one o’clock in the morning,” says JB Gallegos, owner of The Comanche Tortilla and Tamale Factory. “I come in, put them in the steamer and at seven o’clock they’re ready to go.

CHECK YOUR MIRRORS

Since 1991, Ukraine has been an independent country—one with almost eighty million acres of farmland.

WRITER'S CORNER

No matter how hard Satan uses depression to press down on us, God is there to pull us through it. No matter how much we feel defeated we know there is victory in Jesus our Lord and Savior. No matter how high or low the water gets Jesus is our anchor.

A take on the headlines

While this week’s edition offered a smaller space to share editorial commentary, I figured I would weigh in briefly on a few headline-grabbing events, of which there have been several in recent months.

2 CENTS WORTH

I thought sure we were going to get rain last night, thunder sounded good, but no rain, might have been a sprinkle but that was it. Talked to my son, Jay, and he got an inch on one place and 6 tenths on the other place and the barn.

A Quiet Place

Let’s talk about a quiet place. Hold on. Don’t fret. This is not a review of a horror film released in 2018 or its 2020 sequel. I’m talking about a true sense of quiet. I’m talking about the quiet places (wherever you find them) that are both peaceful and calming.

THE LARGEST 6-SHOOTER IN TEXAS

When Gary Humphreys of Del Rio was in high school, he and a friend were hitchhiking back from San Antonio to save the $6 bus fare and they got a ride with a rising star. “Marty Robbins picked up in a 1956 Chrysler pulling a horse trailer with THE MARTY ROBBINS BAND painted on the side of it.

CHECK YOUR MIRRORS

A newspaper’s comics section does not hold the fascination it once did to a child. Families in the 1960s and 1970s made a dash for the printed frame-by-frame jokes or stories. On Sunday, they were in color, which made for a Holy War before church.

Faces & Places

“Christopher Robin came down from the Forest to the bridge, feeling all sunny and careless, and just as if twice nineteen didn’t matter a bit, as it didn’t on such a happy afternoon, and he thought that if he stood on the bottom rail of the bridge, and leant over, and watched the river slipping...