Archive100Past Articles from 2004 until last year.  Many important lessons can be found in each of these articles.

 

How is it that things can change so quickly? Something new enters the picture and has the ability to shield you from the former emotions you felt so strongly. As I hear the wind hit the building with great force I know a storm is approaching and I think about how appropriate its timing is. One day we talk about how cold it is or how it’s been a strangely warm day in winter and then a stormy cold front enters town and changes all that. Sure, we may mention something about how the day before was so different but we don’t really think about it that much because we’re so enthralled by the current situation.

Walking through Hechts with my wife the other day, I found further evidence to reinforce my theory that women’s fashion reached its zenith in the late fifties (about the time Loretta Young was doing her TV show), and has been on a decline ever since – recently at a more accelerated rate. It was nasty enough that the fashionistas combined shoulder-pads and push-up sleeves in the eighties, and brought back low-ride jeans (for all waist sizes) in the nineties (so the American female could achieve that “old guy plumber” look), but now they’ve brought back coulots (or gauchos or whatever those hideous things are called). Even as a hick kid in West Virginia, wearing my patched bell-bottoms, and my bicentennial tee-shirt I knew that gauchos (or coulots or whatever those hideous things are called) was about as flattering on 99% of females as Speedo swimwear is on 99% of males. Why dredge up the worst fashion ideas from 30 years ago, can’t the trend setters come up with their own wretched ideas?

Well, we are home from Katrina’s calm, after a week of exhausting and satisfying labor. We come home from this labor more refreshed and energized than when we left, as we knew we would.
Nine of us: Mike Woodfin, Scott McKeever, Lezlie Mann, Kristi Mann, Janet Johnson, Deborah Binkley, Larry Houff, Richard May, and I, left immediately after fifth Sunday fellowship, October 30, to work with the Rodenburg Ave. Church of Christ in Biloxi, MS. Two of our original team, Chuck and Jana Leasure, were unable to make the trip because each had a parent in very ill health. Three of us, Deb Binkley, Janet Johnson, and I, returned a day early because John Tucker was in dire medical distress (He has since stabilized and gone home).We had two auxiliary members of the relief team who didn’t plan to travel the thousand miles southeast to Biloxi. David Binkley connected with the Rodenburg Ave. congregation (he and Deb had been members there), and made the preliminary plans for us to go. Lurty Houff loaned us his truck, a faithful steed we used every day.

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