APHORISMS

(I'm going to try to post some of these smart aleck proverbs often in order to correct those less perfect than I.)

Cleanliness is next to  Godliness. But Godliness is next to nothing.

It's not charity if you put you name on it.

Beware of those who are doing well by doing good.  They're very apt to be doing well for themselves and doing very little good for anyone else.

"I just can't understand why they keep trying to sneak into OUR country!" (Maybe it's because they don't want their children to starve.)


"I just can't understand that!" I could make it simpler, but then you'd be a simpleton, and I'd be a liar or a politician.


After your side wins, you're still the same loser you've always been.

Teach a man a skill, and it's good for him.  Teach him to read and it's good for everyone.


How can you tell who's the dumbest one at Panera's?  They're the ones talking the loudest on their cell phones.


If you're amazed at how people can't see how simple the answer is, it may be because you're simple.

My Classmates Went to a Different School

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      A statue of Mary, mother of God housed in a farm shrine built by a German Catholic with salvaged bricks he brought from my brother-in-law's derelict milk house located near the Wisconsin River near Saulk City Wisconsin.  My wife's family were German Protestant.  Their Evangelical  United Brethren congregation  devoted Reformation Sunday to attending sermons denouncing the Pope as the Anti-Christ.  The only connection between this photo and the following post is that this is the culture I grew up in, the background that led to the stories coming out of the class reunion that lead me to start a blog of bio tales.

      Reminiscing with my classmates at our 50th class reunion, I was amazed to learn that we hadn't gone to the same high school.  They had been more successful, more heroic, and more accepted than I; therefore the stories that follows are my version of what happened back then, or maybe they're just figments of my imagination.  Names have been changed to protect against retaliation.  Similarly, characters in the story are composites to further cover my trail.