“SOMETIMES I WONDER WETHER THE WORLD IS BEING RUN BY SMART PEOPLE WHO ARE PUTTING US ON,OR BY IMBECILES THAT REALLYMEAN IT.”
Mark Twain
Oh yes Springtime, that time of year that renews all that is old. Oops, the Legislature is still in session. OH! Congress is still in session. Potus is not on the links in Hawaii yet, he still has his phone and pen. Well at least nature is in that time of renewal. Oh, earthquake in Nepal, volcano in South America, big eruption in Hawaii, quakes in Kansas & Oklahoma. Well at least here it is a wonderful spring. Someone said the earth moved again in town.
Well at least the Kansas Sampler Festival was grand. The cattle are now in the pasture. Wheat is pushing heads up. We had some rain and the days are great.
The kids got graduated and are free. Have a great summer so you can start building your next 35 years of debt in College. Yes things are sweet. The hummingbirds are back and so are the ants.
You know I am going to have a good spring in spite of all the madness in the world because I decided to. Attitude is the key ingredient in how things go. You have to be stubborn sometimes to resist getting down by those who would pull you with them. Believe there is no hope and there won’t be. It is a self fulfilling prophecy.
Believe that things are going to be good they will. It may take some elbow grease and fortitude but you can decide that things can be looking up.
You know that the name of my column is ROGER’S VIEW FROM THE HILLS. I call it as I see it. The overwhelming support that I have had does help me continue to vent. I do have those who think I am nuts, ‘place label here’ (dumb, stupid, ill informed, uneducated, dunce,) just pick one or create your own.
But if you would do as one recently did and declare that he did not agree with me so I have no right to express myself, I appreciate the challenge and the opinion. But to believe that because he doesn’t agree with me that he can invalidate my right to an opinion borders on the insane, or liberal.
I enjoy the give and take of ideas it helps me to grow and stay sharp. But as a famous man once said “if everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking”.
Disagree with me, but don’t say I have no right to express my views. You can find that mentality in any Fascist or Communist country.
I am now adjourning to my new bench on the deck to contemplate.
