Sweet Talk
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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.”
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Simplicity without intelligence is sometimes best
“There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics … by persuading others, we convince ourselves.” – Junius, letter 35, 19 December 1769.
Zeal (noun) – enthusiastic, diligent devotion in pursuit of a cause, ideal, or goal: FERVOR. -
A woman in the oval office would make real change
“What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?” quote by Robert Southey, Poet Laureate of England during the mid-1800s
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Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be – president?
“I would rather be right than be president.”
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Seeing my way to thank local optometrist, staff
For double the vision my eyes do see, and a double vision is always with me
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Weighty words
This week’s column was supposed to be about the Wednesday night debate between “you Know Who” and “What’s His Name,” but as I became enmeshed in the “conversation” of the two men, neither with whom I am in perfect (or even a small bit) union, I decided that it was an infertile field in which to dig my political plow.
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Couldn’t take my eyes off Andy Williams
“The legend of an epic hour …”
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Keeping up with Mineral Wells via the e-edition
Not long ago, I noticed that there was an e-edition of the Index and I was a bit intrigued, but not too curious. I wasn’t sure that it was something for me, because I only use my computer for keeping up with friends and folks on Hotmail.
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World events a signal of the final event?
Reading the daily news or watching television these days is like watching the world around us unravel. Society has become like an old, worn-out garment – frayed at the seams and ill-fitting for those trying to live a productive, yet simple lifestyle.
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9-11 left a lifetime bonds and memories
In Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” his main character says to the doctor: “Canst thou not minister to a mind … pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow … and with some sweet antidote cleanse the bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?”
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Give thanks daily for your blessings
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