Beech Tree News Network

I’ve made mention before, sometimes screen writers compose worthy scripts.  

In the movie The Natural, actress Glen Close tells Robert Redford:  “We have two lives; the life we learn with, then the life we live with.”  

In one of his old movies, Gary Cooper, speaking of violence, said, “If the Earth were made of gold, would men still be billing each other over a handful of dirt?”  

I’m reminded of the true story I’ve shared before:  A fellow agriculture teacher in Eastern Kentucky had a boundary dispute with a neighbor, over twenty feet of road, concerning right-of-way.  

My friend said he would settle it.  He hired a surveyor.  The surveyor came and was setting up his equipment.  The neighbor came with his gun and killed my friend, his wife, and the surveyor.  

Three lives were lost over twenty feet of dirt.  Sad.  

What is it with men growing old?  I guess I’m considered old at eighty-five.  I see women I once thought looked ok.  Now when I see them they are beautiful.  

Jackie Kennedy is an example; when I was younger I thought she looked alright.  Now when I see her from back-when on TV, she is absolutely gorgeous.  Is this my old hormones fighting to stay alive?  

Changing horses in the middle of the stream:  I once heard someone say, “We don’t need to be so Heavenly-minded, that we are no earthly good.”  How can anybody be too heavenly-minded?  What a silly thing to say.  Earth is not the final resting place of the soul.  

I’ll quit here.  As a Texan would say, “Be happy as a gopher in loose dirt,”  or as a Kentuckian would say, “As a coon on a roastneer.”  

Kindest regards…