Random thoughts
In the Light
Well, thank you!
If you check out The Courier News Facebook page you’ll see a post about our pink rock (we also found a blue one later).
If pet rocks were still cool, I’d adopt these little fellas.
Check out #paintedrocksclinton.
Then say you’re not impressed.
Whoever you are, come by the office and let us do a story about this because, seriously, it’s neat.
• President Donald Trump was awarded the Royal Order of the Shazzbah.
Okay it’s really the “gilded Collar of Abdulaziz al Saud.”
Apparently it’s that country’s highest civilian honor.
Sorta like the Stanley Cup in Canada.
I don’t mean to make fun of this, but c’mon … You just have to.
• Speaking of Lord Stanley’s Cup … Suddenly everybody and their brother are Nashville Predator fans.
Just like last fall, when a lot of people I know were “long time” Cubs fans.
You know what? Go Blackhawks! Go Sox!
• We lose music icons too frequently.
Chris Cornell died last week. The cause of death is still not clear, though there is a lot of speculation.
Either way …
Cornell’s voice gave Soundgarden it’s distinct sound — separating the band from other grunge monsters Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Alice in Chains.
And Audioslave would have just been Rage Against the Machine Light.
The man had a voice.
And yet, Keith Richard still lives.
• Congratulations to all graduates at all levels.
It seems like only 65 years ago that I crossed that cow pasture in Scandinavia and accepted my sock tablet diploma, which I proudly use as a table in my sun room.
For most graduates whatever it is you think you are going to do in the next five years …
Well, it will probably change.
Because life is an adventure. Make the best of it.
• I heard the news of the bombing in Manchester at an Ariana Grande concert.
It’s sad that we live in a world where terrorist attacks as cowardly and heinous as this one is, don’t shock us.
We’ve become used to this kind of hate and stupidity.
I was asked if I had heard about the bombing “at the Ariana Grande concert in England” this morning.
Shocked? No.
Sad? Yes.
• My son, Drew, is traveling through parts of Europe (France and Italy) with my brother this week.
Knowing such senseless acts as the Manchester bombing are a reality in our world, I worry a lot — and I’ll worry until he arrives home.
But is he safer once he gets home?
I think so. At least at home I feel that I can stand in front of anyone who would mean to harm my children.
• Went to Kentucky last weekend and hung out with family.
We took last weekend to visit the graves of my grandparents, the markers of my mother, my aunt Lynn, and my uncle Bob.
Bob was a 30-year veteran of the Air Force, so we had an early Memorial Day and put up a new flag.
“We’re still waving it, Bob. Thank you.”