A friend and I were talking last week, and he mentioned to me that the old store building of Teoc, MS had finally fallen in. (It was the only building in Teoc except for a tractor shed!) He and I both bemoaned the old places we knew thirty -forty years ago crumbling and falling or being torn down. I mused that the reasons it distressed us so much was not only the loss of memorable places & things but also it was another sign that we are going to die. It struck us both as funny, but, alas, true!

It is odd that our walk in this world is simultaneously a "time of trouble" and the "good old days".

Life is a struggle and a pleasure, a worry and a treasure. I can see us, Jerry, in another, better realm, speaking of these "good old days"!

Ken