The Bodock Post ~ January 2011

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~ Ben Franklin

It is cold this morning as I write this. Me and Mimi once said, after living three years in Nebraska one winter, that if we survived, we would never complain about winter in our beloved South. I’m having to bite my tongue as I write this.

It is 16 degrees this morning with wind chill index near zero: a balmy day in Nebraska where the locals would be griping about having to turn the heat on in their homes. But that’s pipe freezing, battery killing, three dog night weather in Bodock Land.

But every cloud has a silver lining. Granddaddy would have talked about the cold killing bad bugs, and Uncle Aubrey says we wouldn’t appreciate the summer without the winter. And most of us have good memories of the sound and smell and heat of a wood fireplace, and getting our britches too hot on one side and burning our legs when we walked away.

My New Year resolutions are simple and mostly the same as last year and that is to be a better servant in His Kingdom, be a better husband, daddy, granddaddy, friend, and neighbor, and to make the world a little brighter and happier for those around me.

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