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Jim Axelrod of CBS Sunday Morning had a Father’s Day conversation with A.J. Croce this past weekend. There were some interesting facts to come out of it.  AJ lost his father before he turned 2, his sight when he was 4 and, later, his home to a fire and his wife to a rare heart condition.  “When we lose someone we love, we can decide how we want to bring it into our life.  Do we want to dwell on it or find the best part of that person or experience and keep it with us”?

“Allowing yourself the room to do things badly and not allowing that to affect your mental state is a powerful survival tool.”  That statement was made by one of the guys on the survival show “Alone.”  I thought about that statement as I surveyed the plants in my raised beds this morning.  Garey has a large garden down the hill, but I have a few raised beds in a fenced-in area that was once a large dog pen.  This is my third year for raised beds. 

“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

Can God do anything??  You say yes, but He can’t lie, He can’t be untrue to His message or His nature.  Paul tells Titus in Titus 1:1b-2, “….in acknowledgement of the truth which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life which God, WHO CANNOT LIE, promised before the world began”. 

I am among the many who have been loving Yellowstone from season one, episode one.  Granted, when it first started, I wasn’t sure about it.  I’ve never really been a fan of the Western genre.  Yellowstone is a different type of Western, though.  This past Sunday on CBS Sunday Morning, correspondent Lee Cowan spoke to Kevin Costner and Taylor Sheridan separately about Yellowstone and Sheridan’s other shows.

I’ve been collecting bits of information from my recent reading. These bits and pieces are not related to one another, but simply things that caught my interest. I hope you see a snippet that interests you, too.

First, from The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2022 desk calendar, I found the following information:

BELTON, KY— Interim Joint Committee (IJC) meetings began on June 1. ICJ meetings always take place between sessions when both Senate and House respective committees meet together to hear information to begin or further conversations about issues that will potentially be addressed in the next session or to follow-up on the effects of legislation enacted in the past.

You know how when you’re a kid, and you tell each other stuff that might not be exactly the truth, but you tell it anyway just to scare the wits out of each other.  I hung on to a lot of that erroneous information for years.  Take the preying mantis, for instance.  When I was in the third grade, one of my classmates told me that her uncle put on his cap one morning, and, unbeknownst to him, there was a praying mantis hiding inside, which bit him, and he died.  Even though, years later, when I learned that a praying mantis does not contain venom,

This month brought us another horrific historical event. Nineteen dear students and two teachers from Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, TX, were killed in a random act of violence by an 18-year-old Salvador Ramos.

Leadership provided by the chairmen of the General Assembly’s Appropriations and Revenue committees – Rep. Jason Petrie, R-Elkton, and Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ryland Heights – over the past couple of years resulted in building arguably the strongest Budget Reserve Trust Fund, otherwise known as a “rainy day” fund, in Kentucky’s history.