Labor Day Forgotten In North Dakota

We just celebrated Labor Day. No, we didn’t. Labor was forgotten while most of us only noticed that we had a holiday and spent it lounging, fishing, swimming, sunning, camping, playing – everything but recognizing the reason for the holiday. One thing for sure, we took no time to honor labor.

KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1793 “Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by English dead.” (the beginning of the poem “Greater Love” by Wilfred Owen, 1893-1918) IN THE WOMB On Sept. 1 the U.S.

Along the Way

“How do you free yourself? In the deepest sense, you free yourself by finding yourself.” - Michael Singer The journey merits its own expansion as we travel through the experiences we are destined to have. In the precious saturation of balance is found the healing capacity of acceptance.

Ask Rusty

Dear Rusty: I’m 66 years old and still (self) employed as a home builder. I have not taken Social Security benefits yet, and don’t need to at this time.

From my Window

When everything looks bleak, God sees it differently. They say our country has spent a trillion dollars over the last 20 years in Afghanistan. Countless lives of men, women, and children were at least for a season given freedom from oppression and coercion. Now people are fleeing for the mountains.

Bowesmont Lives

Saralee Hoselton entertained a group of ladies for supper Monday. These included Marge Marciniak, Clarice Mosolf, Jan Maurstad and Donna Siewert. During her walk Wednesday afternoon Saralee Hoselton stopped to admire Joyce Tuttle’s flowers and had a nice visit with Joyce and “Molly”.

Dakota Datebook

Theodore Roosevelt Visits by Jayme L. Job September 6, 2021 — It was on this date in 1912 that Theodore Roosevelt visited Fargo by train during his Progressive campaign. Footage from the event shows the President being greeted by massive crowds at the Northern Pacific train depot.

History teaches us that nothing stays the same...

Following every major event in history we wait for life to return to normal. The truth, however, is that we always must adapt to a new normal. Nothing is ever completely the same as it was previously.

Life in the Slow Lane?

I consider myself to be a reasonably intelligent person, although I am not highly educated. I never finished college, but I did attend for two years. With everything going on in our world in the last couple of years I am having trouble making sense of it all.

Looking Down Main

I have been saying this for about thirty years now, and I have maybe written about it in this space before. If I have I apologize as I am about to write about it now. “This country needs a good depression”. There, I said it and by golly I mean it.