Soon after lighting a fire cracker, at about the age of 10 (which was about the same time I started appreciating clanging coins in my pocket) I made a lifetime commitment: To stop bursting money into the air. And, I ain’t done it since!
I love having money and spending it for needed and practical things. There are obviously all kinds of reasons to shoot off fireworks, and that’s fine if it isn’t my money. For celebrations, military occasions, fairs, ball games, etc., I can be patriotic, get chills, bow my head when it’s called for with others, but I will not donate money to shoot it in the air.
I donate money for more than a few causes ? and I’m going to review those causes to see if they blow my money into the air.
* * *
? Can common sense be taught? Let’s have a Harvard school take it to the Supreme Court and force it on public schools.
? Blessed are they who run around in circles, for they shall be known as big wheels.
? Don’t you and I qualify as certified bedding experts after sleeping on one for a decade? If not, can I get certification at Harvard?
* * *
Nobody is more widely known in Oxford than Helen Smith! She’s been what you call ‘involved? in this community all her life, and that’s quite a while. Her daddy started Smith Silo Company here, and by nature she worked with him a long time.
She has spent a huge amount of her time advancing student education, sports and other community causes.
Recently she had another health setback, which left her recuperating in a Lake Orion nursing home.
Among her visitors on the same day were Pastor Bob Holt and funeral director Bill Huntoon. And, out of Helen’s mouth came a typical Helen remark, ‘You boys trying to tell me something??
* * *
? I’ve been given the same instruction on boiling eggs hard. I can do that. Now will someone tell me how to peel those egg and not have them end up in 1,000 little chips of shells.
? Usually I’m not a quick go-to-sleeper. Some years ago a friend suggested I repeat two words a few times when I lay down: serenity and tranquility. Works for me.
? Fellow Oxford Rotarian Joe Tunac was born on one of the 7,000 islands in the Philippines. He told me when he was in his early teens his mother sent him to another island. Not an uncommon occurrence, he said. His profession now is medical and wit.
I haven’t learned yet what truths he profounds, but he seems to have me figured out, humorously.