We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
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Let’s face it, we’ve all faced some dreadful days lately. Don’t even try to deny it. As I write this, voters have yet to go to the polls. Even today, I dread going to the mailbox only to find it stuffed with paper representations of money well wasted. I dread answering the phone when it nags in the evenings. I dread turning on the TV at home, turning on the radio in my car, even checking my e-mail that’s spattered with click-bait political ads. And I’m convinced that you dread these things too. By the time this little monologue goes to press,...
It’s amazing to consider the vast diversity of life. From the tiniest of microbes to ultra-massive black holes, from single-celled organisms to complex body structures like plants and animals, or even earth’s biomes or interstellar gas planets. The variety is enough to blow the mind. Let’s consider the mere scale of creation for just a moment. They say over one million earths could fit into the sun. And yet, the sun is just a speck amid the vastness of the Milky Way. But at 100,000 light years across, our galaxy is merely average in size....
Recently during the all class reunion I, a former graduate from someplace other than Chinook, was granted the privilege of marching in the alumni band for the parade. It was great fun to dust off the ol’ clarinet and play a little part in the CHS fight song. It brought back nostalgic memories of my own high school band whose amazing director took a bunch of goofball teenagers and taught us how to march in step with one another on the field and to play some of the most melodious overtures on stage. While it was heartwarming to reminisce and j...
