by Ora Shay Ed. Note: Ms. Shay, our token Republican, agreed to write
for us only with the stipulation that no editorial hands touch her words. Thus we publish
this, her twenty-third column (see bottom of page for complete list), exactly as it came
in over our email transom. We would remind the reader that Ms. Shay apparently never wrote
a run-on sentence that she didn't like.
My resultant efforts were met with much success, including being reprinted by the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Midland-Odessa Rotary Club as a needlework and/or embroidery pattern and sold quite well at their ever-popular annual bake and rummage sale. Struggling with the onset of midlife, well, late-midlife, depression exacerbated by the increasingly vitriolic attacks on Midland’s own favorite son in the White House in spite of his valiant on-going efforts to set the world right again, leading to a good old-fashioned case of Writer’s Block these many months or what Hud refers to as The Attack of the Silent Keyboard, but now having, thanks to the ministrations of Midland’s all-time favorite psychiatrist Hiram Pritzkov, M.D., Ph.D., D.D. and his creative administration of a series of truly wonder-working modern chemicals and pharmaceuticals, your correspondent has overcome same, and it seems I just can’t stop the words anymore both of the spoken and written variety PTL. With plenty of time on my hands what with Hud having suddenly betaken himself on an
extended hunting trip in Southern Chile (I’m sure my newly clattering keys had
nothing to do with that little jaunt!), the inspired thought came to me that I really
ought to share my hard-won tips with a larger world and that they in fact with just a bit
of rewriting would lend themselves to offering guidance to good citizenship generally:
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—Midland, Tex. Brother Billy Bob Quisenberry, lead pastor of the
Permian Basin Baptist Church of Inerrant Immersion here in Midland of which Hud
and I have been members lo these many years, recently asked me to compose a series of
helpful reminders for the back cover of the program to be distributed at the service
celebrating the 25th anniversary of Brother Quisenberry's ascension to the pulpit,
entitled "Ten Tips on Being a Good Christian in Tumultuous Times."
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