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There are days weeks, even
during which I marvel endlessly at
the luck and concern with which
this household is continuously
showered.
The showers of blessings of
which I speak come in the form of
deluges of mail, rained down upon
our rural mailbox by our devoted
and long-suffering rural postman,
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whose life is doubtless enriched by
having been a part of the delivery
of so much caring by those who
send out “greetings.”
Last week the showers were
overwhelming in their attempts to
improve our lives.
One really neat piece of mail
came smiling. Really it did.
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of this giant envelope were a few
dozen bright, smiling faces.
Stickers. Round stickers in red,
green, yellow, blue. Stickers with
wide-eyed faces, toothy grins,
smug countenances and winking
eyes. Made you feel good just to
look at them.
The stickers stayed. The ad
vertising for a children’s magazine
which was to greatly improve our
offspring’s lives was pitched. After
all, our offspring are into hunting,
running, cow and horse
magazines.
But we argued over who would
get to keep the stickers.
With the same shipment of
goodies came an offer for me to
attend a “minute management”
seminar.
Goodness knows I could use
some help in learning to manage.
The minute that most needs
management is the one in which
everyone sweeps into the house
before supper, bringing mud,
manure, hay and straw, and un
does all the cleaning it took hours
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to do.
The real winner of the week,
though, was the envelope that fell
out of the mail stack with this
message in big letters across the
front: “The more wrinkles she gets
the more beautiful she becomes.”
Convinced that these greetings
at least the part about the
wrinkles was solely directed at
yours truly, our son slashed the
envelope and dumped out the
contents. Which included a picture
of a stuffed dog, related printed
sales pitch of how stuffed, wrinkly
puppies are a perfect gift and a
headline promoting how “every
wrinkle made her more
desirable."
There are far more stuffed
animals around here now than we
need. In fact, there are usually two
or three of them trying to run
through the basement door
whenever someone goes in or out.
I tossed the promo literature
but considered developing the
headline into a rally song for those
of us finding more and more
wrinkles glaring back at us from
4-H Dairy Awards Banquet were; front row left, Seth Wolf
gang, first year member award; and Danielle Breaux, high
junior project score award. Back row left, Greg Moser, owner
breeder award; and Tricia Curtis, high senior project score
award.
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the harsh reality of the mirror.
Even the telephone joins the
mailman in bringing surprises to
make our lives more carefree and
at ease.
Consider the extreme luck if
you will of the farmer last week.
He won a burial plot. Ungrateful
recipient that he was, he turned
down the opportunity to have the
deed presented in person at our
front door.
After all, there was no guarantee
that, if he tried it and didn’t like it,
he could never get it back and get a
new location.
We surely sleep better at night
knowing that so many concerned
firms out there in big business land
spend so much time, effort and
money sticking their advertising
noses into literally every facet of
our personal lives.
If there were some way to
redirect all that energy into such
causes as pollution or hunger or
world peace, we just might ac
complish something worthwhile
and lasting on this planet.
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