Opinion

Summertime, Summertime, and the living is easy or so goes the old song. Somehow it seemed more so in my childhood days, especially back home in Indiana.

MIKE ON MY PUMICE STONE... “I don’t know what that gray bar of soap is in the shower but it will take your hide plumb off...and it smells like feet.” I got nothin, annihilation, aught, blank, cipher, extinction, fly speck, insignificancy, naught, nihility, nobody, nonbeing, nonentity, not anything, nought, nullity, obliteration, oblivion, shutout, trifle, void, wind, zero, zilch, zip.

Over the years, cats have had a way of “miraculously” appearing at my house. I would have to think about it, but just off the top of my head, I can think of a minimum of a dozen or more which have appeared since living at my current address. Another one appeared over July 4th weekend two years ago. She now rules the roost – or thinks she does.

Gail Torok, Pocahontas I have lived in Arkansas over 50 years. In that time, I can recall missing only one school board election.

To be hopeful in the midst of corrupt times is to be brave. There are agendas being set in motion that threaten the American way of life. We know that throughout the history of the world, people can be mean, greedy, controlling and even vindictive, but we must never forget that there are people who can counterbalance and dare I say, defeat, the evil among us through great amounts of kindness, mettle, compassion and heroic efforts.

Deeming the amusing and/or profound sayings of Randolph Countians worthy of another column, I have wrought one. Winnowing from hundreds of utterances is a difficult enterprise. Both the sensibilities of conservatives and the erudition of the cognoscenti must be considered.

I walked onto the deck ahead of my client. She pointed out the landscaping in the back yard. I moved closer to get a good look and glanced down at the flower pot on the rail. Upon a second glance, I noticed a snake hanging out of it. As I tried to fly backwards to no avail, I took out the chair, the client and the dogs’ water bowl before being stopped by the back door. My client said “Oops!” and grabbed the rubber snake out of the pot. “I put that in there to scare off the birds. I guess it works on Real Estate Agents too.”