PEA RIDGE — The human mind scares me some times how it can compute forward or backward and even stall out sometimes. A man had stopped to visit with me while I was working in a flower bed at the Rogers Wellness Center. His mind stalled out while he was trying to pronounce the name of a flower he was fond of.
He could only come up with a few syllables. I was very sympathetic as it happens to me a lot.
I was folding clothes out of the dryer the next day trying to make the name of a flower from the syllables, it turned into the nameof a person I had come in contact with over 75 years ago. I was only around this person for a couple of days. How strange that my mind would bring up that memory and for what purpose. But as I recall this boy, the age old question came into play. Was it nature or nurture? Either way it was incredibility sad and now my mind computer came up with this memory. Thiselectronic phase we are going through is unbelievable, but will never come close to what the human mind is capable of.
Wanda Bennett spent eight days in Gilroy, Calif., in the home of Faye Price.
They are the oldest of second cousins.
The Brightwater E.H.C.
meeting will be Wednesday, Feb. 2, in the Fellowship Hall and the Avoca group will join them for the meeting. Jackie Buttram is president of the Avoca group and Millie Peters of the Brightwater group.
The United Methodist women group will meet9:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, for a regular meeting. They are holding a craft workshop once a month to prepare for the October bazaar.
It was good to see Elsie Reynolds up and going well after her knee replacement. Now her brother Bruce Bowen is getting ready to have his own. I sure hope he gets along as well as Elsie.
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Editors note: Edith Lammey has been a resident of the area for nearly 40 years. She can be contacted through The Times at 451-1196 or [email protected].
Opinion, Pages 4 on 02/02/2011