FUNNY, HOW PERSPECTIVE CHANGES -- Just A Minute Radio for Monday 100614

Howdy on a Monday –

 

Hope you had a sterling weekend.  I did – I don’t think I forgot anything… much… Friday was my youngest son’s birthday… Can’t believe he’s 53… that’s an old man isn’t it?  Maybe I’ve forgotten something.  Oh yeah… when you’re almost in your 80’s the 50’s seem way back there… pretty young – maybe not so pretty.

 

Today is Flag Day… in case you hadn’t remembered.  I think I saw the soldiers going through Arlington Cemetery – that’s a big passle of flags to put out.  But they deserve to be placed there.  Wasn’t there a lot of stories about the mixups at Arlington over the weekend?  Maybe it’s the oil spill… either that or global warming… only I think nowadays we’re suppose to call it ‘climate change.’  Even if we’re not sure it’s really changing.

 

Memory – it’s a funny thing. I recall getting dressed for church on Sunday …. Clipping my note-taking ball point pen to the neck of my Tee shirt… about 15 minutes later I was looking all over for that pen that was ‘hiding’ somewhere… I didn’t find it until late afternoon… when I took off my shirt with the tie… and there it was still clipped to the tee shirt neck…  And to think --  I used to make fun of people who lost their sunglasses pushed up on their foreheads… I don’t now.

 

Age is part of perspective.  I read an old NYT essay about how poetry is useful as a factor for self-awareness. Funny, I never thought of poetry as being useful that way – I guess I still don’t.  I don’t know why… it’s just me. The script today shows how we change our perspective on things – at least I think so – as we get older… or at least as time goes by. Well, perhaps when I outgrow adolescence I’ll change my thinking about things.  I dunno… it’s too early in this week to make those kinds of plans. (J) at least that’s as far as I’ve gotten with it so far.

 

Have a great Monday… I’ll see you here again on Wednesday with all the gang.  Oh – yes… I forgot.  I hope you didn’t miss Miz Pearlie’s run down on the ‘lections of last week.  She made a guest appearance on Friday’s JUST A MINUTE program.  Next thing you know she’ll be wanting her own time slot.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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FUNNY HOW PERSPECTIVE CHANGES

 

Just a Minute: -- Here’s a front page headline in the week-end  WALL STREET JOURNAL.

It reads – “A School Prays for Help.”  Is the ACLU alerted? The story says Americans United for the Separation of Church and State have a retired Baptist pastor on the case.

The story originates in Lakeland, Florida, but cites instances near San Diego and documents occurrences of businesses and public schools combating budget cuts – example: school principal of Combee Elementary School welcomed The First Baptist Church at the Mall, “adopting” the school when his budget for pencils, and other essential supplies was cut by a third… they stocked the school supply room with five thousand dollars worth of supplies.  The Principal is delighted and so is Pastor Dave McClamma who told the Journal, “We have inroads into public schools that we have not had before. … By befriending the students we have opportunities to visit homes to talk to parents about Jesus Christ.”

 A picture shows the principal and pastor praying outside the school –

Oh – Wait ‘till the ACLU hears about this <> I’m Jack Buttram  (END)

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