Thursday, November 28, 2024

Eating healthy in today's world can prove to be a major challenge. I just ran across a very old book in my collection which has intrigued me.

I have a friend who grew up in the Midwest, and now lives in Florida Just a few weeks ago, she wrote and lamented the differences in her life now as compared to her childhood days.

We have watched civilization marching forward, one invention at a time, over the past couple of hundred years.

"Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Throughout the history of mankind, stories of war have forever been a part of the landscape. Stories of amazing survival and incredibly staggering deaths in massive numbers, faced with courage, have been woven through the fabric of our history.

It has been said that of all the things available to human beings, the land of our Earth is one thing that is taken far too much for granted.

Daring determination and the ability to block out the fact that you just might get a whipping for even attempting it

The days of summer on our dairy and grain farm were anything but lazy days. What seems to stand out most of all in my memory of summertime is the small army of young men who pitched in to help.

You don't always get what you want. That lesson seems so simple and yet can be so complex over the course of a lifetime.

While reading the book written by Bettie Youngs, I couldn't help but notice many similarities to so many farm families I have known over my lifetime.