We didn’t listen

Wes | October 15, 2008

“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” —Thomas Jefferson
Well, we sure haven’t listened too well, have we. As you have heard many pundits say, our children and grandchildren will be paying this off. It is really not likely that they will be paying it off, they will be bent [...]

Followup on King and homeless

Wes | October 9, 2008

I moved the previous post from my old blog (I am reconfiguring my whole web site over the next 30 years or so.) I received the following comment:
1 just me // Oct 7, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Mr. Cowley,
Your comments affected me very much. I met Willam Alan King more than 25yrs ago [...]

A Meaningless Life and Death

Wes | October 8, 2008

William Alan King died early Sunday morning on the street near my home in Lakeland. Who was King?  I don’t really know.  I talked with him several times at the Sunday School on the sidewalk across for All Saints’.  But I didn’t know him.

Photo courtesy of the Ledger
King was homeless.  I had seen him for [...]