Kids say the darndest things School is definitely back in session and it is like no other school year we have ever known, but some things remain the same. Namely, the humorous (often) true things that kids say and they don’t even know they are funny.

START A FIRE — Wadded-up newspaper is the traditional beginning for bonfires, fireplaces and camp grills. Computers, not so much — they’re hard to light and the smoke they produce will make you ill, if not downright kill you.

I just learned this past week our local Church of Christ minister will soon be leaving for another church. He will be greatly missed.

From his yard, Alden often sees his neighbor Thomas Sewell, a “New-Englander of the elder type” on the other side of his stone wall. Sewell has a “piercing yet so kindly humorous blue eye that loses none of its colour with age but seems to grow more vivid and vital.”

In 1841, American writer-philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) published “Self-Reliance,” placing the ingenuity of the individual above an unquestioning acquiescence to the collective.

With school beginning, I thought this was the perfect time to share this… He is Only a Boy “A parent’s plea” Please don’t curse the boy down there, He is my son you see. He’s only just a boy you know, He means a lot to me.

Division of the human family into two distinct political groups began some 12,000 years ago. Humans existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains in the summer and would go to the beach and live on fish and lobster in winter.

Ever been looked squarely in the eyes and bluntly told you are a bitter, angry person? Probably not. After all, who in their right mind wants to be within twelve feet of a bear and throw heavy stones at that huge, furious mass of muscle and bone? Nobody wants to face that.

Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org. Death and taxes are the only certainties, I’m told.

Friends In Low Places It was very cold. The sleet storm had caused D.