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. It appeared just before The Communist Manifesto ennobled victimhood of one collective and victimization of another.

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.

To the thief who steals flowers from our deceased loved ones in Holdenville cemetery. They can’t see you but there is an all-seeing eye watching you. We make, buy and put flowers on our loved ones’ stones that have passed away. The flowers were tied on the tombstones and you, the thief, cut them off and stole them. I spend hours and hours, plus months making flowers for my deceased family, plus all my dear flower customers. I do that out of love for our family and my dear customers. You may be getting by with your stealing now but read II Corinthians 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may receive the things done in his body and according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Your stealing is bad, and you will answer!

As Memorial Day rolls around, I am reminded of a story that I heard. Though the exactness of it I cannot confirm, I am assured its basis is quite factual, and it’s message definitely deserves to be retold. The story is of a man, Andrew, who was known all his life for selfless sacrifice and good works. He always stood in defense of the defenseless, and toiled without tiring, standing up for the downtrodden and underprivileged. As he grew old, and people tried to honor him for his well-lived life of service, he was reluctant to accept the praise and attention that his community desired to heap upon him. It was then, for the first time, that he told a story that had burned deep in his heart and was hard for him to relate. Andrew was a young man, thirteen years old and living in Austria, when the Germans invaded. The Austrians, brave and proud, decided to fight back. In the town where Andrew lived, the men and teenage boys organized and destroyed a power plant that the Germans relied on to continue their war effort. The men and boys all knew this would cause great hardship on themselves as well, for they also relied on the power from the plant. But the thing they had not counted on was the swift and severe retribution that would come from the Nazi invaders.

Long ago and far away, In a land that time forgot, Before the day of Dylan Or the dawn of Camelot There lived a race of innocents And they were you and me. Ike was in the White House In that land where we were born Where navels were for oranges And Peyton Place was porn.

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