The Letter C: Shall we gather at the river....

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The Letter "C"

The year 1971 brings up some scattered memories:  Hot pants (I had two pair--purple striped and bright red with a star on the back pocket), marijuana (not for me, but the rest of the dorm floated high on the weekend), Vietnam War, protest marches, falling in love, keeping my scholarship, and home.

Home meant church to my family.

In the late fall, it was decided to have a photo made of the church body, to commemorate the congregation of that time.  The elderly founders of the church (mostly widows by this time) were seated in the center front row, with the attendees surrounding them.

I wasn't there.  But I remember the names, the faces.  

For some reason, my Grandma Amy was not included in this group, although she deserved to be.  Politics, I suspect.

Nebo Church of the Nazarene, 1971

Today, the letter C stands for Church.

When I write about Nancy and her church, this is the source from which I draw.

Sadly: The Letter B

The Letter "B"

Sunset and the Buffalo

It had been a decade or more since I had seen "Dances with Wolves". In this movie, Kevin Costner was young and impassioned; Graham Greene was awesome in his stolid humor; and the buffalo were nearing their near-permanent decline.

A male buffalo is not to be trifled with or around.  They are wild animals who may seem to be made into a pet, but this is just not so.

For some reason, when the trains were barreling across the plains, buffalo were considered to be easy-pickins', which I guess they were.  The result of this needless slaughter was the almost genocide of the Native Americans.

Today: Pay for your own buffalo hun

The letter for today is B for buffalo.  May this magnificent animal find resurgence.

To be made into fertilizer

Behold: The Letter A

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The Letter "A"

The letter "A" sets off this day, April 1st.  It is hard to be so creative at the starting line, wondering if brilliance will somehow kick-in by the time we get to "H".  Oh well.

"A" starts probably the most important word at this stage of my life and the history throughout a nation's existence:

Amendment

The dictionary definition writes that an amendment is a change or addition to a law or a bill.


The Constitution of the United States has come under attack, with branches of our government trying to erase or at least smudge the lines separating the powers of branch.

For a gardener, an amendment is a mulch and soil addition to existing soil to enrich the existing soil in order for it to successfully grow plants.

Soil amendment = an addition to the a law or bill?  Don't know.

See you soon? ?!

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Hope all this seriousness does not impede your searches!  Now, off you go, then.