GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS

A REMEMBERAMBLE, OCTOBER 13, 2025

(A reminder, recently, more and more, I leave out words when I write, and when I go back over my writing before posting it, I still do not see those omissions, so bear with me, and try to figure it out the best you can.) ..... Just another manic Monday! Well, that is what the Bangles said it was.

As for me, I have not experienced a manic Monday, nor a manic Tuesday through Sunday either, not for many years. I do not miss mania at all. I love calm, peace, quiet, and solitude when I want it and quietude with others as needed.

Some folks crave the presence of another at all times, it is their nature, while some of us crave aloneness as our nature. I am an odd mix, I love and need solitude, but need others in my life too, but on my schedule. Some might label that as selfishness on my part, but I see it as selflessness, because I must be true to my character.

If not, how could I be a friend to anyone? If I need time away from you, and you deny me that aloneness, who is being selfish? Just a little philosophical pondering this morning. If you never think of such things, how can you make yourself a better friend or companion?

I daresay, few desire self improvement, they expect others to yield to them, and make those adjustments, so they can continue their course unaltered. If you have never made any course corrections, you will run aground like a five masted schooner on the shoals of Carolina. If you know me, you expect me to delve into philosophy now and again.

Even as I dabble in satire, history, and the love of God. Mine are eclectic compositions. I reckon many'a time you shake your head, and move along in hopes I will drop the proverbial "bone I am chewing," when I bog down in the deep, and return to the shallows and make you laugh, I can do that too.

I can imagine a new reader coming upon my words, and wondering if I am insane, or if they need to call for help. Those of you who are old hands here, can smile and tell them, "that's just Wade, he'll be onto something else in a minute." And you would be right. I am loving the cooler weather, as well as the overcast days.

I like for Halloween, Friday night high school football, the county fair, deer season as well as dove season, and fall in general to be accompanied by cool weather. I can recall sitting in the bleachers at the old Mitchell Field in Swainsboro, with friends on Friday nights, and drinking that good hot chocolate they sold, and huddled together to stay warm.

Let me tell you, that is high school football at its best. I went to one daytime game, in warm weather, and it was not at all the same. Once, for some reason we went to the fair in daylight, and it was warm then too. It was a great let down. A family member was traveling recently and we were talking on the phone.

That person told me they had lost their credit cards and drivers license. They found them finally, so no harm was done. But it made me think of travelers checks, something once so common but now an obsolete thing of the past. I used travelers checks decades ago, when we were on our senior class trip on a cruise.

Then, as well as the first time I flew to Las Vegas. Most banks no longer issue them. It was a pain in the patootey (I hope spelled that right) to get and use them, but it would protect you from loss. Money orders are another money related thing that have all but faded away too.

Once, most convenience stores sold Western Union Money Orders, or were agents for Western Union wire transfers. That is a thing of the past too. Postal Money Orders are still available, and easy to get and use. That is the safest method of sending funds through the postal system. Folks seem to forget about Postal Money Orders.

Do you recall how antiquated many things seemed to us in our youth? We found it so quaint that older folks had used wooden telephones, ice boxes, ration books, shoes with buttons, hand cranked automobiles, kerosene lamps, sad irons, and the many things that today fill antique shops and museums.

Well, "bunky," the stuff we grew up with is already quite humorous to young folks, and are being sold or displayed as "ancient" curiosities...well, maybe not ancient curiosities, but at least are becoming "collectable." By the way, do you know the one single thing that is valueless as a collectable, and will never increase in value?

I know you savvy collectors are leaning closer to the screen now, so as to not miss this sage and rare knowledge I am about to impart to you. Okay, if you are desirous of this important moment of edification, here it is: the only thing that will not, nor ever will be collectable, is anything that said it was a collectable when you bought it.

I graciously gift to you this gem of knowledge. You can thank me later. I am going to keep my appointment with Dr. Randall Brown this morning, at 10:30, he is going to start to work on trying to fix my heart. He is one of the most well respected and gifted cardiac and thoracic surgeons in the southern United States.

We are blessed that he came home and opened his practice here. His grandfather, Dr. Randall Brown was our physician when we were kids and we loved him. He was a Brown, and those Browns were and are crazy, all of them, but we treasured them. I could tell you tales of Dr. Randall Brown and his brother Baby Brown that would curl your hair, and you would not believe.

Mr. Dolan was the only one of those brothers that kept it between the ditches, so to speak, but he could be "entertaining" too when he felt the need. "Outrageous," and "outlandish," were words coined for them. I will touch upon one more topic before I go this morning. That is, "great American brand names" that we loved.

The cars and trucks were made in America, so were the appliances, the tools, machinery, electronics, electrical components, the farm machines, industrial machinery, and so much more, and made by companies that had long proved their worth.

Maytag, Amana, Hotpoint, Coldspot, Frigidaire, Firestone, BF Goodrich, Goodyear, Allis Chalmers, Case, International Harvester, Oliver, Minneapolis Moline, John Deere, Ford, General Electric, Black and Decker, Canon, Kodak, Stetson, Florsheim, Bell and Howell, Xerox, Bushnell, Remington, Browning, Winchester, Colt, Coleman, McCormick-Deering, Stanley, Armour, Smithfield, True-Temper, and on and on.

Some of the names remain but are hollow shells of their heritage, in name only. So many owned by foreign companies, with low quality across the board. Okay, rant over. God bless you and we thank you for your faithfulness here.

..... NUMBERS 6: 24-26 KJV

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