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January 16, 2012

Sweet Talk: Our long road of marriage taking an interesting turn

Anonymous Mineral Wells Index The Mineral Wells Index Mon Jan 16, 2012, 08:03 AM CST

By Guinn Sweet | sweettalk@mineralwellsindex.com

Robert Burns, in an obviously poetic and pensive mind, wrote to a friend, sometime during the 1700s, “To make a happy fire-side clime, to weans and wife, that’s the true pathos and sublime of human life.”

Whatever Dr. Blacklock, his friend, might have been thinking as he received this poem/message, it couldn’t have been more comforting and warming than I felt after Colon had made a happy fire-side clime for me, his wife and his “weans” (whomever that word references) this past Thursday night when the temperature had fallen into the upper 20s just outside the door.

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Sweet Talk

• Reminiscing on columns

  The older I get, the more reminiscent I become … and I think that is the normal process of memory when we pile it up behind us. This is the nineteenth year of my writing a series of weekly columns, articles and travelogues for the Mineral Wells Index. I have observed the changing complex of reporting, beginning with my old original typewriter and continuing through the electric typewriter, the word processor and, now, I have worn out three or four computers. Since the latest one is nearly eight years old, I can see ahead to being forced to advance to a new one, an iPod or even becoming a “texter” on a little bitty hand-held thingy.

  February 2, 2013  

• Longing to Quench a Spiritual Thirst

  “Blessed is the (wo)man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are thy ways, who going through the vale of misery use it for a well … they will go from strength to strength”

  January 28, 2013  

• Sweet Talk: Guinn’s Guns

  “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed,” states the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court has ruled that this right is not limited to a connection with an organized state militia.

  January 19, 2013  

• Between ‘prissy clean’ and ‘post-tornado’

  “It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house,” Proverbs:21:9, KJV

  January 14, 2013  

• Sweet Talk

  When I was a great deal younger, the only things that talked back to you were your children. Nowadays, every toy, stranger, automobile and kitchen utensil has something to convey to anyone who listens and others who would rather have quiet. The world is seething with idle conversation, insults and instructions, be it desired or not. Some of these things I invite into my life; some are intrusive and unwanted. Some are complete surprises, yet are talking to me as if I were an idiot cousin, come for an extended visit.

  January 6, 2013  

• SWEET TALK: What would you title this?

  A long time ago, English poet, Thomas Moore wrote, “Oft in the stilly night, ere slumber’s chain has bound me, fond memory brings the light of other days around me.”

  December 23, 2012  

• Of Payback and Coast Fishin’

  “Break forth into joy, sing together…for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem”  (Isaiah 52:8, kjv)
  Colon fell this morning.

  December 17, 2012  

• The Lord provides words, strength when needed most

  “Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” Joshua 1:9, Holy Bible, KJV.

  December 10, 2012  

• Stan Musial was truly a hit with my father

  “But he ‘his musical finesse was such, so good his{eye} ear, so delicate his {swing}touch made poetry a mere mechanic art; and every warbler has his tune by heart.” – William Cowper.

  November 26, 2012  

• Give thanks daily for your blessings

  “Oh come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving: and shew ourselves glad in him with psalms.”

  November 19, 2012  

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