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Small Towns Do Big Things (aka, America Is OK)
A text from my sister prompted this post. She lives in a small, rural mountain town in Maryland. It read as follows: “We had a luncheon after church for our lead singer/guitarist. He is moving to Williamsburg, VA. We are also taking a collection for a church in the Kentucky floods. A couple is going down to take the supplies and funds.”
I asked my sister, is that the chubby guy that sings? I remembered him, as I watched those church services online during Covid. Her pastor’s very encouraging and passionate sermons were an inspiration during that time, and I remembered this talented musician.
Here’s a sample about six minutes into the video:
In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a landmark report in which he contended that the rising number of black families headed by unmarried mothers would reduce the prospects for Blacks to rise out of poverty, in spite of that era’s landmark civil rights legislation.
I saw the headlines on the Texas elementary school shooting flash on the TV screen, like most of you. My husband said, “I don’t want you to see this.” It didn’t work. I laid awake with my own mental pictures and tried to put the pieces of a distorted, senseless, fragmented, and tragic puzzle together. The pieces didn’t fit. I read the story this morning — an 18-year-old Hispanic boy who had a dark, online life and somehow acquired guns.
We just moved. I’m in a new neighborhood, a new town, same state – thank God (for Gov. DeSantis). It’s a 55+ community because me, my husband and our cat are over 55. He picked the community – when we cashed out in spades selling our old house, and our real estate agent told us about our current town. We like it here, but it’s been less than two weeks. There’s construction – because half the country is moving to Florida – and older folks.
