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Lately we have all watched in wonder and some distress as Russia’s Putin announced that he was going to invade the Republic of Ukraine. Reasons given were sort of vague.

I turned another year older St. Patrick’s Day. It seems that the older I get the more I enjoy it. One of my favorite pastors, Chuck Swindell once said, “there is something grand about old things that are still in good shape.”

Editor’s note:This column first appeared in the April 2006 AFA Journal.September 2021 – My email address is public so, as you can imagine, I get plenty. Mostly just advertisements for Mexican banks, Canadian drugs, or items of an extremely personal nature.

One of the more popular expressions knocked around by people in my age group (OLD!!) is “used to be.”That is certainly true of our mothers, past and present.

In a few weeks baseball’s Spring Training is supposed to start. There’s a labor dispute that may prevent that but, regardless, in February my mind turns to baseball.

Sometimes you just can’t win. I remember long ago when I was in the Navy. We had just completed a port call in Yokosuka, Japan. Its duration was two weeks but the first day we pulled out I saw this real long line of sailors on the hanger deck.

Seek First the Kingdom of GodOne of the Creator’s most important directives to Mankind, tells us, to seek first the kingdom of God.

Andy is a typical early riser. Meaning he is usually up, dressed and sitting at the desk in his office by around seven every morning. Which causes him to see the sun began to filter cautiously thru the blinds and get stronger as morning passes.

Last December, the Virginia Military Institute removed a big statue of Stonewall Jackson. They are now hiding him in a museum. He was just one of many “celebrities” of the old south to vanish as American tries to change its history. I guess there really isn’t much wrong with the idea of change.

Years ago, songwriter Mac Davis penned the lyrics to a song about a tiny orphan girl who evidently longed to experience being loved. In the song, “WHOEVER FINDS THIS, I LOVE YOU” she writes a note containing those words, and it into the wind.