YES, I AM STILL HERE peeking out my window on Main Street, and I expect to hear from popular songstress Taylor Swift any day now.
She’s not real happy.
She’ll want to know why I didn’t send her and Travis Kelce a nice wedding gift, and why I skipped the swell party afterward.
It’s simple, Taylor, I never send a gift if the happy couple hasn’t at least sent an engagement photo and article to the newspaper.
I’ve been looking real hard, Taylor, and I just can’t find your engagement article in our paper.
As to the party after the wedding ….. I’m not real big on fancy parties anymore.
One other thing, Taylor, Kansas City Chiefs fans are not real happy with the way you have distracted Travis.
Give him back to the team, please. It’s been awhile since they won a Super Bowl.
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ONE OF THE difficult things you must do when you have been a member of a local church for many years is giving up your regular seat when new people mistakenly sit there.
I had to find a new ‘regular seat’ Sunday at St. Martin’s Catholic Church. I had been sitting in the same place in the same pew long enough for me to call it ‘mine.’
But we got a new priest Sunday. Where we once had Sunday Mass in separate English and Spanish languages, the new priest combined the two. And he has us coming in an hour earlier on Sunday morning.
This young new priest is really cool. I took his picture following the service. You can see the joy in his face as he met his new parishioners. He had a huge grin under an impressive moustache. He wore sandals and he had a ponytail. Was absolutely fluent in both English and Spanish (I mysteriously know this despite NOT being fluent in either language).
The Mass is the same, of course. It’s always the same ritual whether it’s in Capetown or Singapore or Montreal or Munich or Seoul or El Paso. The spoken language of the Mass changes but everything else is exactly the same.
I find that I enjoy trying to keep up with the worship service when it is alternately in English or Spanish.
Also, I will really try to keep up with the new Spanish songs that are used. The Latinos know the songs by heart; also the prayer responses which are also sung, and they sing with so much joy. I want to share that.
I kinda like my new regular seat, too.
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OH JOY! An article in Sunday’s “Texarkana Gazette” sez that state and federal authorities are warning us that the presence of the Lone Star Tick has reached epidemic proportions in our area. The bite of the tick can cause “alpha-gal syndrome” which makes you allergic to red meat and other important stuff.
It’s all the fault of deer hunters, the article inferred, because of the growth of the deer population. Evidently the tick just loves to get on the deer; hunters are not killing the deer; deer and the Lone Star Tick populations naturally grow; more ticks get on more humans; and the humans become allergic to Ribeye steaks; which makes our cattlemen unhappy.
I want to emphasize that we cannot rely upon Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK, Jr., and his department to come up with a solution.
It’s not all RFK, Jr.‘s fault. He’s been busy getting rid of some of those useless researchers.
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NEXT SPORT in the Olympics? In the same issue of the ‘Texarkana Gazette’ was an article on competitive pogo-bouncing.
No one has gone professional, yet, but apparently there are fans at an event called “Pogopalooza.”
Somethings are sure to change or evolve. The article didn’t say anything about female pogo-ers.
Surely — if there are Olympic sports such as curling or synchronized swimming — there is room for another sport to bounce in.
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MORE THINGS I LEARNED from opening an email: A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
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WORD GAMES. I love oxymorons. Like: There was a disappointingly Small Crowd at the President’s late night patriotic rally.
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HE SAID: “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” Leo Buscaglia, author & motivational speaker
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SHE SAID: “I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.” Mae West, comedic actress
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SWEET DREAMS, Baby
