The News from Coffee Springs Thursday, September 02, 2004

The Same Yet Different

Today everything is the same in Coffee Springs, yet on the other hand everything is different. This is a new day with new thoughts and opportunities. Every day when we get up we see the world through different eyes. We see things and hear things that give us a slightly different spot on our frame of reference for living. Sometimes it is a small thing that we might hear that starts a chain of thoughts that eventually lead to great changes in our perspective. Then again these events might just produce a slight anomaly and we move on with the same bearing on our course of life. At any rate these are good because they give variety to life. Life continues the same here in Coffee Springs as anywhere else on earth. If it were not for the modern era of the World Wide Web these thoughts derived from the outside world might arrive here more slowly. It might be an example of the old saying, "We live so far back into the sticks that we don't get the Grand Old Opera till Monday night." But, alas, we cannot live so serenely isolated any more but we must be pulled out of the eddies into the mighty current of the world. So, we can hardly ever find a place to run and hide.
This morning, instead of looking out across the fog over Beaver Creek swamp and watching it float, I have to think about how much bounce that the Republican National Convention will give George Bush's ticket. The idea of bounce surely doesn't give much credit to the average American's ability to reason and think. I suppose the Press doesn't believe that the average American has any of that kind of ability. If they could only see themselves in the light that we see them and how stupid they often appear it might produce a slightly different perspective in them. But when you are a conceited or pompous ass it is very seldom that you can see yourself in any other eyes but your own. Uh oh! There I go getting cynical again and I thought I was going to keep my writing today on a positive slope. Well, I guess when you are a curmudgeon you are always one. Anyway, tonight, they say is the big night. W Bush will give us the low down. It almost makes me wish that I had the incentive to watch it. We all need a circus to entertain us.

News from Coffee Springs Tuesday, August 31, 2004-
The Buzzards were out in force this morning

The buzzards were out in force this morning when
I drove over the old bridge into Coffee Springs. They were having breakfast on an armadillo that had tangled with a vehicle They stay well fed on the armadillo population so these immigrants from the south serve some useful purpose. It seems that Coffee Springs is a prime place for them to settle, both the armadillos and the buzzards.
I attended the bible study this morning and we had a very good study and fellowship. It is good for diverse people to get together and have fellowship. I think it promotes good will and lets people get to know each other better. We have several people here who are suffering with cancer. That is a very evil disease that is responsible for much suffering and death. About the only ones that benefit from it are the doctors and the undertakers. But the undertakers are going to get their due sooner or later. We seem to have very few dedicated doctors any more except dedicated to putting more money into their pockets. But when one needs one of them there is very little recourse to paying them a visit.
Frankie Jones gave me an application to get into the dominoes tournament at Hartford coming up next month. I probably will go to it and try my hand at playing. It seems to me that luck at dominoes is kind of fickle; it will be with you one day and not the next. But the fun comes in not in winning the game every time but how much enjoyment you get out of playing the game.