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Like so many other things Sunday has changed dramatically over the years. As a youngster, after church we would go home for lunch and spend the afternoon visiting or napping. No work was done on Sunday unless it was an emergency and there was no shopping.

I was listening to a preacher recently and he spoke on what we perceive as news and what someone else sees as less important. He used as an example, a news date from September 5, 1997. Princess Diana Spencer had been killed in a car wreck in Paris, France a few days before.

And so there is. In the Bible, the book of Ecclesiastes, a famous King and familiar Bible character, King Solomon, wrote a book on philosophy. You can read a lot of different ideas into this book in the Old Testament. But the most familiar thing is that word time.

FREEDOM IS NOT FREE

Born in the 1930s and early 1940s, we exist as a very special age cohort. We are the “last ones.” We are the last, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the war itself with fathers and uncles going off.

Measures to prevent the spread of the flu virus take on an added urgency during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health professionals say efforts to minimize infl uenza may help preserve hospital capacity that may be needed if COVID-19 cases continue to rise.

My knowledge of stagecoaches is from watching those old black and white movies of the 40’s.

Just how much longer must we wait? And on who? Well, it is coming they tell us. And we might just add: “come soon.”

For four years, my sole responsibility was to prosecute domestic violence cases. I’ve met countless endangered women and children. I have seen the cycle of violence played out time and time again.

The North wind was about as strong as you can imagine on a bright January day, long ago on a hilltop called Highland Cemetery South of Stonewall. My wife’s Uncle Jack had died the week before and he wanted to be buried there in Stonewall. So here we all were.