I went to two class reunions on Tuesday night of last week, one for 1940 graduates, the group five years ahead of my class and one for the class of 1950, who were five years behind us. I was just going to run in and out and take a picture or two, but it didn’t work out that way. There were too many folks I wanted to see at each of the reunions.
When I see or hear people trying to bully others into silence on the political issues at hand, I think that people have forgotten what freedom means. Our country’s founders often expressed their beliefs with passion and intensity.
For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 Some of us have had a brainstorm… we think it would be neat for everyone to wear their red 4th of July teeshirt on Tuesday before the 4th.
What has become of integrity? Have you noticed it has become more difficult to observe within our daily lives and well, when witnessed in politics, it’s like a unicorn sighting. Maybe it is something you have to value in order to realize it is missing or to recognize when you see it.
For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 I witnessed something Saturday that renewed my faith in the human race.
As citizens, living in what the world sees as a free country, should our state or federal government mandate the books we read, websites to visit, social media outlets to enjoy, who to love, and enforce reproductive laws? Would such a condition be classified as democracy? I’m not asking if these issues in and of themselves are right or wrong. The question is, should your state or federal government maintain this much control over citizens’ lives? Where does the freedom of citizens of the United States begin and end? The growth of Christian nationalism is alarming in our country.
For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 We are winding up for another great 4th of July celebration and it is going to be upon us before we hardly know it.
It is an extraordinary person who will offer up their own life in order for future generations to prosper and live in the land of the free as is the way of our military veterans. I’m humbled everyday by the bravery and the courage of our veterans and their families.
For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 I don’t know whatever possessed me to say I would do I, but I honest to goodness went up in an airplane last Thursday afternoon.
This week on May 8th, my favorite president, Harry Truman, would have been 140 years old. I have often wondered what Truman would have to say about the situation we find themselves in as democracy seems to be precariously hanging in the balance.