Category Archives: Opinions
Wherever you are, He is with you
For those who try to live for the Lord and want to please Him, I’m sure you know what I mean when I say there are times when the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
When it comes to maintaining a red-hot enthusiasm for the Christian life, we are not robots, but rather we are 
emotional humans who have good days along with other times that are clouded with with feelings of melancholy. It does the heart good to quietly sit alone as we search within our soul trying to figure out what is wrong. It could be a nagging sin where we should have stood strong against it but instead we gave it control. God promises that in the midst of our misery there is nothing we can do that will make Him love us any less. Or maybe our hearts are weighed down with
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Courier Letters to the Editor
Playing the national debt challenge
Dear Editor,
Back in the 1950s, rival teenage hoodlum gangs would play out a challenge with their fast hotrod cars. Two boys would race toward each other, or toward a cliff. The first to swerve or bail out would be the loser — the chicken. Playing the national debt game has become like that. So has the federal budget with the government shutdown game.
Adult men and women in Congress and the executive branch, charged with governing a nation, have divided themselves into rival gangs, fighting each other over political turf, power, control, influence. They hold the debt limit or budget hostage for ransom or blackmail until one side or the other backs down and turns chicken. Meanwhile, the nation and people suffer the consequence, like the neighborhoods did when the hoodlum gangs
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Facebook’s influence
So, somebody accidentally pushed the wrong button at Facebook and brought the whole evil empire crashing down last week — for a few hours at least.
It didn’t bother me a bit.
I used to enjoy Facebook, back in 2009 when I first got on it. It was just a fun way to share your life with your friends and family and see what they’ve been up to.
That’s the way Facebook was intended to be used — or at least that’s what they say.
Gradually, though, it started taking up
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Courier Letters to the Editor
A Dia de Muertos in America?
Dear Editor,
In Mexico it is called Dia de Muertos, which translates into English as Day of the Dead.
Many here in America misunderstand it to be like Halloween. It’s worlds apart from Halloween.
The day is set aside to remember family members who have passed away. A kind of honoring dead loved ones. The families will get together and have a good meal, then go to the cemetery to clean off the grave of deceased loved ones. They also leave flowers on the grave.
I think it would be good in America if we had our own Dia de Muertos. When I was growing up, we had something called family reunions. We would get together and
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Hagood Mill rocks
Located in the town of Pickens, Hagood Mill knows how to rock. It has rocks that are useful, remarkable and 
mysterious.
Useful rocks have been shaped into huge millstones used to grind grits and cornmeal. Remarkable rocks, like a medicine wheel and a mortar and pestle, have been gathered to form a trail of rock history. There are rocks everywhere. It is the rock that is covered with extraordinary drawings called petroglyphs that is both puzzling and mysterious.
Recently deceased archeologist Tommy Charles, one of the discoverers
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Addressing money matters
Here’s a subject I think all of us can relate to:
Money.
What, exactly, is it?
I hardly ever see any of my money. It exists only as numbers on a computer. When I buy something, the number gets smaller. When some money comes in, the number gets bigger.
Does money — hard cash — ever really move from one place to another?
It would keep a fleet of couriers bigger than the combined forces of Amazon, UPS and the U.S. Postal Service busy to tote money from here to there to account for every transaction, just in Pickens County, I imagine.
So in reality, money doesn’t exist. It’s imaginary.
What got me to thinking about this lately is the wrangling that has been going on in Congress over its idiotic practice of directing the government to spend money it doesn’t have and can’t even borrow without raising the “debt ceiling.”
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Courier Letters to the Editor 10-6-21
Much ado about nothing
Dear Editor,
Here’s something to think about.
According to some, nothing created everything. Makes no sense, since nothing made the seasons to change. Nothing made the sun to rise and set daily. Nothing made love. Nothing made life. Nothing made thought itself. Nothing made nothing, too? Nothing made you. Nothing made me. Nothing wrote this. Nothing is reading it. Nothing pays your bills. Nothing would be owed if bills did not exist. Nothing itself is something, as in it would never be, as in nonexistence, if it didn’t exist. Nothing must not exist then. Which makes no sense. Confused? Me too.
So that’s a lot of nothing for nothing not to have created it, isn’t it? Whew!
Eddie Boggs
Westminster
Getting through hard times with Matt and Andy
During these trying times, I’ve become very careful about what TV shows I watch. I can’t watch anything with disturbing endings or anything depressing. So that eliminates a lot of what we used to consider entertainment.
Although being informed about current events is necessary, too much news isn’t healthy. So that reduces TV viewing time dramatically.
We’ve fallen back on old shows being rebroadcast.
We’re working our way through the black-and-white years of Gunsmoke. It was considered an
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Anger in the air
Being hired to be a stewardess was like turning into Cinderella. It meant you were beautiful, single, slender, under 30 and had a college degree. Some airlines requested modeling expertise, necessary to serve those seven-course gourmet dinners with charm and grace, in mid-air.
Stewardesses wore uniforms designed by Balenciaga and Pucci. They sported perky hats, wore high heels and had matching luggage. They traveled to exotic locations.
As time went on, planes got bigger and carried more passengers. The gourmet dinners were
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Well, it has been worse
I was out for a walk a while back and came upon one of my neighbors walking his dogs.
“It’s a shame the way things are going in this country, isn’t it?” he said, shaking his head after we had dispensed with subjects of more immediate concern such as the weather and the dogs.
“Well, it’s been worse,” I said, which put an abrupt end to that topic.
There is plenty to worry about nowadays: climate change, especially. And the disinformation divide. Those are the biggies, I think.
But when a lot of people complain about how bad things are nowadays, I think they’re harking back to a golden bygone era that some of us remember — maybe in the 1950s and early ‘60s.
It was a simpler time, when everyone sat on their front porches in the evening and told stories
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