GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS

A REMEMBERAMBLE for Monday, March 03/02/2026

I hope this morning is your personal launching pad to carry you through a bodacious week. Warmer weather is all around, and I am pretty sure I saw pollen last week. Yessir, and yessum, trees are budding out and spring with be hugging us soon, so glad to see us again after summer came and whupped it's t-hiney, then it had to sit on the sidelines as fall and duked it out with winter, and winter gave it a cold shoulder and icy stare, daring it to make a comeback. Those two, winter and spring will still spar a bit, but even winter knows this is its last hurrah, even after winter flings itself at us once more after Easter, it is her own death blow. It puts me in mind of the bird "legend" from Colleen McCullough's "The Thorn Birds," that is said to remain silent until it finds a proper thorn to impale itself upon, and does so, and in its death-throes as the thorn pierces its heart, it sings its most beautiful song as it dies there, with the thorn of death bring forth beauty. Well, that is too-little like the change of seasons, I reckon for the comparison, but it came to mind and I gladly share it with you, to make what of it, you will. I gave up television for the most part when I had to forego cable television a few months ago to save on spending. When I had cable, I did like most of us do, I turned it on at the start of my day and turned it off only when going to sleep for the night. After having my cable service and landline phone cancelled, keeping high speed internet only, I had to become accustomed to not watching television. I did put up an antenna, and get all of the channels over the air that I would care to watch. But I had grown used to not having it on, I still do not watch it very much at all. I have officially arrived at "old fogeyness," in that unless an extremely interesting show is on, it bothers me to have it on. I have a Netflix subscription but am going to cancel it because I have not once watched anything on it, ever. I might have mentioned this before, but I cannot watch movies, and have not watched a movie in years, my ADHD will not allow me to sit and enjoy anything for that long. I normally eschew hour long programs also, I will watch a half-hour show, but none longer than that. Let's jump over here to one last topic for today, and that is the Harlem Globetrotters, and their star for our generation, the fabulous Meadowlark Lemon. If a Sunday "Wide World of Sports" program featured the Globetrotters, we loved it. And Meadowlark Lemon was the greatest showman of them all. He was a genuinely kind man, who loved his job playing the entertainment variety of basketball that they excelled at so magnificently. The humor that went with it, made it a fun experience for kids of all ages. He was a Christian minister, a family man and a great ambassador to the world for Jesus Christ, and entertainment basketball.

The one and only, Meadowlark Lemon

The Harlem Globetrotters are still at it, as they have for one hundred years, and that is well, but we knew and loved the "Real Harlem Globetrotters,"...I guess you had to be there. I am glad we were. Thank you for your time, and "may God richly bless you, my beloved," as the great Dr. . Vernon McGee would say.

Numbers 6: 24-26, KJV

we boyz three, babee conway, lil merle, & me