Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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MERRY CHRISTMASES
When I was young, the excitement of the Christmas season usually started with a tree being brought into the house to be decorated. In rural areas the tree was often a cedar tree cut on a family’s personal property. City folks bought their trees from Christmas tree lots which sprang up around town. Lights were…
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Thanksgiving Prayer Request, Another Repeat
Nov. 24, 2015 / by Charlcyann We will gather this week with family and friends to give thanks for our many blessings. Ken and I are thankful for the wonderful young people in our family. Our two youngest granddaughters are beauties, both inside and out. They are conscientious, studious, hard working girls. A…
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Thankful for Spotted Cows
I do not have any new posts for Thanksgiving This is a repeat from two years ago. 14/11/25 at 4.55pm / by Charlcyann / 0 Comment Gratitude should be constantly expressed and not just on a special day. If we practice thankfulness, we have less time for complaining. We will have…
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OBNOXIOUS CEDAR TREES
As a child I heard occasional comments about a cedar tree in the country cemetery at Necessity, Texas. It was obscuring my grandfather’s tombstone. I began to notice it more and more after my grandmother’s death in 1950. My grandfather had died seventeen years earlier, and the family had placed a double stone at his…
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BREAKER, BREAKER
Long before we had cell phones, we had CB (Citizens Band) radios. Our family had one in every vehicle. The units were small and fit under the dash of the car or pickup. The boys did some farming when they were in high school, and they had one in the cab of the combine. The…
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ENGLISH TEACHER
August 1956, was a busy month for Ken and me. He was stationed at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia, fulfilling his 2 year military obligation. He had a week of leave .during the last week of that month. During that time, we bought our first new car, a 1956 Chevrolet. I graduated from North Texas…
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GRANDSON LOGIC
Children say cute things and exhibit unusual reasoning. We usually laugh and forget it until the next cute or wise remark. I try not to bore people by quoting my great-grandchildren, but sometimes I cannot resist. Our four-year old twin great-granddaughters often discover a new word, like the way it sounds, and repeat it for…
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The Day The Dogs Were Shot
(Note: I wrote this in 1972 in Georgetown, Texas. It is also on this website under “Butch The One Of A Kind Dog.” It was published on another blog site, which I no longer have, in 1914.) I can’t sleep for trying to think of answers to the questions that came today and that…
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A TOWN CALLED NECESSITY
Necessity is located in southeastern Stephens County, Texas. It was first called Mountain Valley and later Cotton Plant. It got the present name when the community applied for a post office. The application stated that it was a necessity that the town have a post office. The approval came back for a post office at…
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PETE
Meet Pete. He is listening as I talk to him from our sun room. He looks as if he would step inside if I opened the door. If I did open the door, he would bolt and run. He is friendly enough, but don’t let that fool you. He does not want to be…
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