The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 84, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Page: 5 of 26
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The Boerne Star
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The Breadwinner’s cell phone
payment was all set to go into
the mail when my dad offered to
take it by the local store instead.
I didn’t know such a place even
existed so I happily took him up
on his offer.
“Sure hate to see that stamp go
to waste,” my father said. Oblig- ous path that stretched between
ingly, I worked carefully at the our two houses. We’d gotten a
edges of the stamp, finally maneu- couple of bids, but decided we
vering one corner loose enough to could probably do the work on
rip off an uneven layer of paper our own for a lot less since, after
from the envelope’s corner, all, we saved some money earlier
I trimmed the excess paper away this year when we reupholstered
from the stamp, found the Elmer’s my couch, nevermind how we’d
glue in the junk drawer but the repeatedly hammer-smashed our
bottle was - as we say around here fingers and blistered ourselves
Elena Tucker
There is not enough Blue Emu
to be found on the shelves of
Boerne right now. On the other
hand, our walkway looks great
and my dad said to me, “I’m
glad we didn’t have to pay you
what you’re worth.” I’ll just bet
he is. Me too, actually.
When I’m not enjoying myself
as a writer or Ugly Dog com-
panion or maid or gardener, I
occasionally do freelance work
for which I will normally invoice
at a rate of $40 per hour. I don’t
know for sure what my mother’s
time is worth.
At any rate, figuring that I alone
put in about 34 hours on this
-“all plogged up.” silly with the hot glue gun and job, and figuring in the price of
I dug around some more and jolly-well almost killed ourselves materials, we saved ourselves
found the corkscrew, using its in the process. couple hundred dollars - all of
sharp point to unplog the Elmer’s. Clearly ours is the kind of fool- which, given much of a chance,
Adhered the stamp to another ishness that’s been genetically I’d willingly trade right now for
envelope. Blotted away the excess passed from one generation to a massage, a manicure, a series
glue. There - 42 cents saved - just another. of chiropractic treatments, and a
like that. At any rate, I myself, who am steam facial to unplog my dusty
At 80-something years of age, technically verging on “old,” and pores. That’s just me - the “old”
my grandmother saw a penny on my mom, who is much more lady. I can’t imagine how the “old,
the church parking lot - she bent impressively “old, old,” found old” gal is feeling.
down to pick it up and lost her ourselves shoveling the pebbles However, that’s just how we do
balance. A broken knee and two out of the worn-out pathway, things around here. It’s our way
fractured wrists later she was one wheelbarrowing two yards of sand of feeling like we’ve sneaked one
penny richer. from one pile to another, moving over, found a shortcut, been amaz-
On a bit grander scale, my mother three tons of stone, and learning ingly clever. More than once I’ve
and I built a walkway last week, more about mortaring than we used up $10’s worth of time to fill
replacing an uneven and precari- ever really wanted to know. out $2 rebate forms, or used up
$5‘s worth of energy to leverage a
dime out of crack in the sidewalk,
or $100‘s worth of irritation in
trying to talk the manager into a
$10 discount - I’ve used half a day
to painstakingly re-use a 42-cent
stamp. Or, as happened this past
weekend, I put five years’ worth
of wear-and-tear on an “old” body
that could scarcely afford it, in
order to save a couple hundred
bucks.
But I can’t help it.
I’d do it all over again in a
handclap.
Anything to save a stamp
Or a couple hundred dollars
Or even a penny.
As an “old” lady, I come by it
naturally,
So does my “old, old” mother.
And I suspect my grandmother
had it in her genes as well dince I
never once heard a word of regret
out of that “old, old, old” lady
regarding the thrift of her church
parking lot penny.
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The truth of this act, believed by
Christians, has not erased from our
psyches the feeling that transgres-
sions must be paid for. Christians
may pray for forgiveness on the
basis of the one great sacrifice,
and will receive it, but not being
perfect cannot altogether give up
the idea.
We cannot reconcile the neces-.
sity for actual physical restitution
or physical loss in repayment,
with the God-given forgiveness.
Here we get into the area of spir-
ituality rather than religion. And
so to the extent we believe in
forgiveness, to the same extent
we believe in voluntary sacri-
fice to God, but still realize that
physical transgressions must be
paid for.
To the extent we believe this is a
measure of our guilt. Sometimes
This week there was an article
claiming that people in the U.S.
were becoming more spiritual. As
proof it stated a plethora of sta-
tistics concerning the percentage
of people who claimed to believe
or perform the particular question
asked on a poll.
There was nothing to indicate and Xenophon was attempting to
whether the people polled were lead 10,000 soldiers on a retreat
broadly representative, but then out of the heart of persia hack
that is a very difficult thing to do, to their native Greece. This was
and when you get into the area of a perilous task and he must have
spirituality and religion, the two felt the need for all the help he
often do not coincide. could get.
The author of the article did not This need to sacrifice is tied
seem to make much distinction, to the belief that gods require
but never mind. . us to give up something valu-
It set me to thinking about some able in order to atone for having
aspects of religion - defined here done something wrong, or in the
as some sort of organized belief in alternative, give up something
some sort of god - and one aspect valuable in order to gain their
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to all at all times. enn harvests, rain, winning battles or we go around with guilt feelings
There seems to be an inbred most any other thing we feel to be after both forgiveness and restitu-
sense that all gods require sac- out of our hands. tion have been made. Both inside
rifice in order to grant requests This simply goes along with and outside Christianity sacrifices
or extend favors. Go back into another inbred feeling that some - the giving up something of value
recorded history as far as you can things are right and others wrong, to us - is practiced because of this
or into culture, however remote, otherwise there would be no need feeling that nght and wrong are
and you will find this to be true. to pay up after doing something not subject to debate.
In some cultures it seems more wrong This is why robber barons give
likely that sacrifice was intended In other times the belief and, away Ihcir money when they get
to propitiate demons rather than in fact, the truth that blood is the old, or less sacrificially, fat-cat
petition gods, but the distinction essence and sustainer of life led politicians give away somebody
is vague. to the belief that blood sacrifices else 8 money.
While reading “Xenophon’s were the most valuable. The Bible 1 am sure 1 do not know or am
Retreat to the Sea, I noted that is witness to this fact, but did not able to explain altogether what
he would record something like, push it to the level of human sac- 1 am talking about, but 1 believe
“Rising in the morning and find- rifice for the most part, collectively, polls notwithstand-
ing the day propitious, we made This, of course, was the basis ing, we have some debts to pay.
a sacrifice and then took up our for the ultimate blood sacrifice of
march. The sacrificial victims Christ so that this ritual would no
were slaves. This was in 400 B.C. longer be needed for salvation.
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"The best defense against usur-
patory government is an assertive
citizenry."
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
“Person “A” observes something
which seems to him to be wrong, x
from which “X” is suffering, “A” 1
died, but he also wanted their
children to pay a second levy, a
new inheritance tax, when they
inherited the money.
Ken Some members of Congress -
Nietenhoefer those to the President’s left, pushed
for even more punishment for
——— the rich. Meanwhile, some were
BREATH OF FRESH AIR
talks it over with “B,” and “A” . T
and “B” then propose to get a law tnP ansaavanegea the tonsure poor,
passed to remedy the evil and help His promises were bold, exciting
- heir aw always proposes to and inspirational. The nation was
dederainrowhat Whoel and C mesmerized. He convinced that
15 C There was nothing the “last frontier" had long been
meonx HoweverPecomies for the "princes of property," the
57 wealthy, to share their resources,
the forgotten man, the man who Growth would not provide for th
paid, and “A” and “B” have done Growth would not provide tor the
nothing (but they feel better about onxedjstriburionscerild
States of Ameni A became a habit- ance the’budget.
ual bully pitting Americans against Despite the fact that some in his
one another, making Americans T
own Democrat party had some
feel worse than ever. Some more : , 1:
1 . reservations and fears regarding
enlightened Amencans knew than the President's programs, he was
“any man of energy and initiative resolute •
in this country can get what he 4I know the problem inside my
wants out of life, Rutixaeorinit, party, but ■ intend to appeal from
tiveisc pp Pyes . mnory it to the American people and to
a tax system which denies him the go steadily forward with all that I
right to receive a reasonable share have,” said the President.
of his earnings, then he will no He found it difficult to find fault
longer exert himself and the coun- with his own party and he routinely
try will be deprived of the energy compared the opposition to "Nazis
on which its continued greatness and blackguards”
and Diackguaras.
P . 11- : 1 There was, of course, hostility to
Most intelligent individuals know the enemies that the President had
that high taxation, even if levied big companies emplovers
upon an economic basis, affects the the wealthy and the utilities. Class
prosperity of the country. warfare was out in the open. Kids
. A new type of public speak- were chanting: "You’re my man!
lng’ one with a reasonable voice. When the time comes! I ain’t got
would win the nation over to the a cent! You. groceries! And
President’s way of thinking. Never acentorenty my grocenes. And
before, had Americans heard such The President wanted rich fami-
effective oration. Never before, had lies to pay an estate tax when they
speaking about recovery, but busi-
ness activity was still way below
normal. It was, in fact, a jobless
"recovery." Taxes were causing
enormous damage. Again, accord-
ing to Shlaes, “Though robbing
the corporate nest sounded amus-
ing, to take the cash away was like
taking the egg away from the bird,
the offspring that was the insur-
ance for future growth.”
But, despite public pleas, dis-
sention and protests, the President
treated disagreements as so much
background noise.
According to one of his advi-
sors, “He closed, one by one, the
windows of his mind. Perhaps this
is a disease that haunts the White
House.”
In any case, the President began
losing his capacity as a political
leader and statesman. However, he
used this phenomenon as a tool to
attempt to hold on to his office.
“After all,” he said, “I see many
in this nation ill-housed, ill-clad
and ill-nourished.” This, in his
opinion, gave him a mandate to
establish a “new order of things,”
demanding, of course, a govern-
ment of unprecedented boldness.
One of his attempts was, of course,
to nationalize health care.
Oh, incidentally, just in case
you are wondering, the foregoing
description was that of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s.
Sound familiar?
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Cartwright, Brian & Velvin, Candace E. The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 84, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 20, 2009, newspaper, October 20, 2009; Boerne, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1667449/m1/5/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Patrick Heath Public Library.