I need to think more clearly of results
of using words without intention filled
for careless phrase resounding high exults
but hollowly astute pretended skilled.

I need to feel more deeply joy and pain
of sudden sight and dogging ignorance
for lessons set aside the same maintain
but briefly, shadowed by still more intense.

I need to love more wisely here and now
those timely chances to express concern
and kindnesses undone not disavow
but set as guides for worthy goals to learn.

To do impossible I exercise
imperfect me but have to improvise.

- Robert Stone, 27 May 2012

Congratulations to Sharon Ronoh!! Sharon will be a senior nursing major at Lindsey this fall. Nursing is a very rigorous and academically challenging major. Sharon manages to excel in her classwork and clinicals, work at Lindsey, and succeed as one of the College's outstanding athletes. On behalf of the Nursing Division and nursing students, congratulations Sharon, we are so proud of you!! --Dr. Marian Smith

Multiple Party yard sale at 400 Merchant Street (BIng Map), Columbia, KY, 8amCT - ??? on Thursday, May 31, 2012 and Friday, June 1, 2012 8 Items include: furniture, electronici items, sterling silver/household items, clothes . . . too many to list. - Kathy Coomer Cox

Speaking of the Columbia Church of the Nazarene, it is one of the best churches I know. You would be hard pressed to find a church anywhere in the county with people as friendly or caring. I often say, it has the atmosphere of a little country church set in the middle of town. When I began searching for a church for my family, I visited several before I wound up there. I didn't make it out the doors that first Sunday morning before several people stopped me to tell me how glad they were to see me. Most of them had no clue who I was. That was 6 years ago, and I've been proud to call it my church home since.

This church is a place with good, sound teaching, great activities going on for kids and youth, a supportive family, people who love you, community outreach programs, and much, much more. I love it there!

We have a blue merle Australian Shepherd dog missing from the North 61 area around the Veteran's Memorial Bypass, Jim Blair Recreation Area and J. Downey & Son Lumber, Inc. He was last seen on Friday, May 25, 2012, when he followed our truck up the road a very short distance. He usually always returns back to the sawmill, but this time he did not return.

If someone should have picked him up thinking he is a cattle dog, he is definitely not.

He has become our family pet since he runs cattle, horses and hates cats.A reward is offered for his return. Please contact, Bobby Downey at 270- 378-1221 if you know where we might locate our dog. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks - Kathy Downey

Ed, as the same way the majority of your classified items are done, my listing, (Ad No. 9765, is the same. I would like to ask you to remove my golf cart that was for sale to be taken off before the expiration date of the classified ad. I read on the Columbia Magazine where items are sold almost immediately after their listing. My listing had the same result. Thank you so much for this service. It is greatly appreciated! --Bob Barnes

Juggling entertains
not by endless repeating
but by constant change.