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It’s been six years since I completed my 57 and final year as a teacher and I’ll be honest with you, in many ways I am glad that I am not having to face the classroom (and out of classroom) challenges that teachers are facing in this topsy-turvy year of the COVID and the situations it creates.
Read moreLast 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. The old South, as we knew it is gone. The idea of white people being able to enslave people of dark skin is long gone. And that’s a good thing in our land of freedom such as the USA basically is.
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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. A lonely old man eventually found the note among the autumn leaves and read her plea for love. That was the beginning of a beautiful and warm friendship that both of them desperately needed.
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Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions a year ago? The University of Scranton did a study and found that 92% of people who make New Year’s resolutions fail to keep them. With such a high failure rate it’s no wonder people give up on making them.
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CHRISTMAS WEEK! We have enjoyed some very interesting letters to Santa, Christmas memories and other Christmas items from area youngsters. They are all so interesting and fun to read. However, at the top of the list is the subject of Angels when explained by Children . . .
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Leftovers from last week’s suggestions for holiday gift giving:
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“OH, WOW, YA’LL HAVE CHRISTMAS!” Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com
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