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It takes a significant amount of hubris to claim that you are “The Greatest” at anything in this world. Muhammad Ali was one who carried that moniker for most of his professional life. Today marks the anniversary of his death in 2016 and I had a brief encounter with Mr. Ali back in 1977.
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Recently my gentleman friend and I engaged in some of that late night telephone bantering that we often do. After being gone all day, he got home late and we talked while he unloaded his car. His late arrival had interrupted the schedule of his little dog Jellybean, who is accustomed to an evening dog biscuit, or as he calls it, “a cookie.” Just like everyone else who likes to give a dog a treat, he makes her “perform.”
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To lay a fellow service member to rest is the most solemn duty that a veteran or active duty member can experience. Members of the United States military act with selfless service, pride, and respect to the point that it is in our DNA. This is part of what makes a servicemember’s final sendoff so emotionally impactful. We are all in it together.
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As we have done for more than a decade, this week’s Examiner will celebrate the amazing seniors who are graduating throughout Grimes County. We put their names and pictures in the paper; we introduce you to their intended majors and high school hobbies. The Examiner celebrates these students as if they are our own—in some cases they are, such as my nephew Mark who is in the top 10 of his class at Navasota and has committed to TAMU. He and all of his fellow graduates make me proud of this community and the things we will achieve in the future. It is because of the students’ hard-fought achievements that we put together this section each year. Yet, this special section is one of the few things that will be “normal” for the 2020 graduates from Navasota, Anderson-Shiro, Iola and Richards.
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One of the most contentious and anxiety inducing topics to come out of the COVID-19 crisis is the infected patient’s right to privacy as opposed to the community’s right to know. Since the median age in the United States is 38.3 years (born in 1982), few are left who remember quarantine signs posted on the doors of those with diphtheria, polio, scarlet fever or smallpox, and many of those folks have now died from the virus. To explain how we arrived at this right to privacy would take more space than I have, but all I can say is that after reading some forgotten history, I’m conflicted.
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As students get ready to go back to high school in the fall, they’ll all have to meet the Board of Education’s time-honored requirement of studying two years of a foreign language. Different schools offer different options with regards to which languages they teach. The students will be trained to communicate to a foreigner “Where is Monica” or “Where is Peter going?” In case you are curious, he is going “To the lake.”
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I am a non-parent. However, I am a pretty awesome uncle.
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One of the things that this COVID-19 episode has brought home to me is that rural Texas has got to look out for itself, speak up for itself and elect people who will carry our message to Austin when we can’t. What I’m talking about is the dissemination of information related to coronavirus cases, or rather the lack of information, in rural counties.
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