Just a couple of us hunkered down here on the porch, this is the time of year when you get what I call the true southern winter. I will try and explain that as best I can. It’s been raining here where I live anywhere from a light mist to a light rain to an occasional downpour now and then and the temperature it’s just 53°. To me one of the coldest feelings I can get is a cloudy, wet, winter southern day, it will chill you to the bone. I guess that’s kinda hard for people to understand, but at this time of year around here in the south, nature is kinda working on the landscape, we call it fall. The leaves are turning, and things are beginning to look rather bare in certain places. But it seems like when you add that cloudy overcast, a slight mist and the temperature sitting in the 50s, that’s a southern winter. You can find a lot of things to ponder about this evening on the porch, but I believe we just can’t seem to get away from the fact that our country is in pretty sad shape. Now I’m not particularly and neither or any of those that are here advocating, any particular political party but we both recognize the fact that we have a situation in this country with the government’s being shut down now for 30 days and to me, it’s nothing more than a schoolyard fight between two bullies. We are in agreement that the object is really not to make things better for people, but to consolidate their power, whichever one can hold out the longest wins. Let’s get away from that sort of thing right now it’s too depressing but when we turn around and we look at the shape of the country as far as now is concerned it ain’t easy to move on. Everybody’s mad at everybody, more and more cities are having to deal with escalating crime and civil disorder, and believe there is actually a faction within our nation that are spending quite a bit of time trying to redefined exactly what criminal behavior is. It turns out that it’s really not about justice, but it has become a war of words and civil disobedience. Remember that famous Clintonian line…. “it depends on what is is.” I will say that here on the porch we all agree that the situation is simply this …if you came into this country in any way, other then through the means that are provided by law then your here illegally. There is no one to my knowledge that are even suggesting that you’re not human or that you don’t have some rights of expectation to be treated fairly, but you’re here illegally, which simply means you don’t have any rights other than human rights, and all we have to do is look around the world and we get a picture of how that particular thing, human rights, are looked at.

Take a moment and step back in time just a little bit. Walt Disney made a movie many years ago called Song of the South. The movie eventually ended up being banned so to speak because of racial overtones, need I say anymore. There was a song in that movie that is going to end up being our ponder for today. When was the last time that you had a Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah day? The lyrics are pretty encouraging and the song kinda makes a statement of what a wonderful day with plenty of sunshine headed my way. Now those of us here are on the porch are going to take that sunshine headed my way as simply meaning there’s something good coming. And then the lyrics talk about a Mr. Bluebird on my shoulder and that’s the truth. It’s actual and everything is satisfactual. Now I’m going to take that lyric is simply meaning that the Bluebird is a symbol of truth… and we get so little of that in today’s world. I guess it’s time to bring this porch time to a close by simply hoping that each of you has a Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Day. May your days ahead bring you a lot of good things and let truth come your way. Until then…Ponder This… Where have all the Bluebirds gone?

Kurt