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Today, TUESDAY with CM, 1 Sep 2015

Haiku by Robert Stone for September 1, 2015:
Unbridled child claims
this world a world of laughter,
not a vale of tears.
--Robert Stone, Tuesday, 1 September 2015.
-1000 haiku countdown finished, now for some more days, Day 1449

Most popular today, and it's from CM archives
A picture from almost two years ago, December 12, 2013: Travel, Forbus General Store: Whittling man, Roosevelt Upchurch which accompanies the story, Day Trip Travel: Another visit to Forbus General Store . The caption for the photo reads:
"Couldn't help but think of back home - Slower days, better days, when whittlers lined the benches at the Adair County Courthouse. Roosevelt Upchurch, the lone whittler Saturday, December 21, 2013, offered to let me sit and whittle with him. Even in this bastion of preservation, he among the few who practice this rural combination of art, meditation and relaxation. Couldn't help but remember John Shelley's famous poem, "The Whittlers," or the promised - still to be fullfilled - intentions of Hill & Jones to re-establish the honored practice in Columbia, and Wid Harris' manifested standing offer of free cedar whittling sticks at Town Barber Shop - and the sadness that no one is taking them. In Fobus, with devotees like Roosevelt Upchurch, the institution seems safe. "

A Note: Sadly, Mr. Roosevelt passed yesterday, August 31st. five weeks prior to his 80th birthday. According to the funeral home (Jennings, in Jamestown , Tenn.), arrangements are incomplete as of this morning, but this link Jennings Funeral Home has a link to his name. Hopefully, a complete obituary will appear later today or sometime tomorrow. - jim

QUOTE of the DAY
Politics is nothing more than friendships. - Billy Joe Fudge




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