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GOOD MORNING, FELLOW AMERICANS...

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SUNDAY MORNING, GOING DOWN...DANG, MY MAIL-BOX THIS MORNING WAS ALMOST AS BARE A MOTHER HUBBARD'S CUPBOARD...USUALLY I HAVE SUCH AN ABUNDANCE OF MAIL, I DON'T EVEN BOTHER OPENING THE ADS AND OFFERS...THERE ARE SO MANY OF THE LATTER..FOLKS WANTING TO COAT YOUR DRIVE, SHINGLE YOUR ROOF, PROOF YOUR VENTILATION SYSTEM...I OFTEN FEEL BY PUTTING MY E-MAIL ADDRESS ON THINGS REQUIRED, THAT THEN MY ADDRESS IS BLOWN TO THE FOUR WINDS...YEAH, SUNDAY JUST NEVER HAS SEEMED LIKE THE BEGINNING OF THE WEEK FOR ME...IT SEEMS LIKE THE END OF IT...I SUPPOSE AS A FARMBOY, THERE WAS A SMALL BIT OF REST ON SUNDAY...MORE SO THAN THE OTHER 6 DAYS OF INTENSE AND BACK-BREAKING LABOR....STILL YOU HAD TO MILK THE COWS TWICE A DAY...FEED AND CLEAN AFTER ALL THE ANIMALS AND FOWL...THE RESTING TIME MAY COME IN THE FORM OF THE ICE YOU'D GOT THE SATURDAY NIGHT IN TOWN WHEN YOU TOOK THE EGGS IN TOWN TO SELL AND GO TO THE PICTURE SHOW...THAT ICE WOULD BE USED NEXT DAY IN THAT OLD HAND-CRANKED ICE CREAM FREEZER....IF THIS IS A MYSTERY TO THE READERS OF THIS, MOST IOWA FARMS DID NOT HAVE ELECTRICITY YET...KEROSENE LAMPS AND LANTERNS SUFFICED OR YOU WORKED IN THE DARK OR WITH FAVORABLE CONDITIONS, BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON! SUNDAY, IF THOSE YOU LIVED WITH WERE SO INCLINED TO GO TO CHURCH, THAT WAS A RESTING PERIOD FOR TIMES SPENT THERE... I WOULD, AND DID, GO TO THE CHURCHES FOR FAMILY FUNERALS..I REMEMBER ONE TIME WHEN MY GRANDPA HANKINS PASSED AWAY ABOUT 1948...ALL WEEK BEFORE THAT I'D BEEN HAULING LARGE ROCKS AND STONES FROM THIS VIRGIN FIELD TO RAISE MORE CORN AND SOY BEANS...MY TEAM OF HORSES, PETE AND PAT GRUBBED ON THE VEGETATION GROWING THERE BECAUSE I RELEASED THE SNAPS ON THEIR HALTERS SO THEY COULD LOWER THERE HEADS...THERE WAS A SONG MY GRANDPA HAD REQUESTED SUNG AT HIS SERVICES...IT WAS AN OLD CHRISTIAN SONG ACCOMPANIED BY MRS. AMERS POUNDING ON THE OLD CHRCH ORGAN...'ROCK OF AGES' ....I HAD NEVER HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE 'AND LET ME HIDE MYSELF FROM THEE' I MUST HAVE BEEN PRODDED BY THE SONG MATCHING THAT WORK I WAS DOING GATHERING THOSE ROCKS...DO YOU SEE THE TIE-IN? WHEN DOING THAT TYPE OF WORK THERE IN THAT ROLLING PRARIRE AREA OF DELAWARE COUNTY IOWA, I'D FIND A LOT OF INDIAN ARROW HEADS AND A FEW FLINT STONE SPEAR POINTS...MOST THE ROCKS WERE SMOOTH, IGNEOUS (VOLCANIC) ROCKS THAT I LEARNED LATER WAS CALLED, GLACIAL TILL. EONS OF TIME BEFORE, WHEN THE ICE GLACIERS PROGRESSED FROM NORTH TO SOUTH OVER THE LAND, AND THE GLACIERS MELTED, THOSE ROCKS AND STONES WERE DEPOSITED BEHIND...THOSE TYPES OF ROCKS GATHERED AS I WAS DOING WERE USED FOR FENCE LINES AND EVENTUALLY, BRUSH WOULD GROW AROUND THEM AND BECOME HEDGEROWS... HERE IT IS SUNDAY...THERE I GO, REPEATING MYSELF AGAIN... MY SUNDAY PLANS ARE PRETTY REPETITIOUS ...WHILE MARY IS IN CHURCH, I MOP THE FLOORS, CLEAN THE BATHROOMS...MOP THE GARAGE DECK...THAT'S THE TALK OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD...THAT OLD GUY MOPS HIS FRIGGING GARAGE DECK...I SUPPOSE HE PULLS THE WINGS OFF BUTTERLIES TOO, THEY PROBABLY SURMISE! IT HAS BECOME VERY TEMPERATURE FRIENDLY HERE IN THE DESERT SOUTHWEST...THERE WERE A FEW MONSTOROUS AND RECORD SETTING AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL THIS SEASON...AREAS IN THE VALLEY ARE STILL TRYING TO RECOVER FROM THE FLOOD DAMAGE..FEMA GOT INVOLVED SO THAT HAS SLOWED THE RECOVERY PROCESSES SIGNIFICANTLY...I DIDN'T BEGIN THIS MESSAGE AS IT HAS EVOVLED INTO...IT WAS GOING TO BE A PERSONAL THING AND THEN I BEGAN MY RAMBLING..I DO HOPE FELLOW AMERICANS THAT THIS MSG FINDS YOU ALL WELL AND PROSPEROUS...CONTENDING WITH THE NEVER ENDING TRIPE ABOUT ELECTIONS ON RADIO AND TV... I SWEAR, IF EVEN THE SAVIOUR WERE INVOLVED IN THIS UNHOLY PRACTICE OF THE ELECTORAL PROCESSES, FAULT FROM EACH OTHERS CONTENDERS WOULD OVERWHELM EVEN HE, THE HOLY. I HOPE YOU GET BACK TO ME AND TELL ME THAT YOUR SUNDAY WENT WELL...THIS GRAND AND GLORIOUS NATION OF OURS NEEDS SOME MORE PRIDEFUL CARE THAN WHAT IT'S GETTING...LET US GO BACK TO THE PRINCIPLE OF MAJORITY RULES AND IF SOME SPLINTER GROUP AMOUNTING TO A MERE DECIMAL PERCENT OF THE POPULATION DOESN'T WANT TO UTTER THE WORD 'GOD' IN THEIR PUBLIC DEALINGS, RUN THEN OFF THE RANCH! DON'T ALLOW THE LEGAL BRANCH OF OUR GOVERNMENT RULE SO OFTEN IN THESE UNFAVORABLE CITIZENS DEMANDS AS THEY SEEM TO DO...SEPARATION OF POWERS MUST BE ADMINISTERED WITH COMMON SENSE... MY GOOD GOD...MY COUNTRY...I LOVE HER SO. I PRAY IN MY OWN FASHION THAT THERE NEVER IS A PUBLICATION OR MANUSCRIPT HERE ON THE PLANET TO BE TITLED, 'THE LATE, GREAT, AMERICAN EXPERIMENT!
JOHN IN GLENDALE
 
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