“Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark.”   ~R. Tagore The earth rotates around the sun, not in a circle, but in an elliptical orbit. Oddly enough the earth is closest to the sun in January (91.3 million miles) when it is the coldest in Nebraska and farthest from the sun in the searing heat of July (94.4 million miles). ...

“Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark.” ~R. Tagore December is the busiest time of the year. It is the tail end of the calendar year and the beginning of the Church’s liturgical year. It is the time when commercial enterprises find themselves in the “black.” With yearly expenses covered, December sales are profit – pure profit. ...

“Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark.” ~R. Tagore The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye – and a very tall elephant at that! It doesn’t seem all that long ago that the by-ways of Southwestern Nebraska were flanked by endless fields of green corn fingerlings, brown earth at their base, waving gently in the summer breezes to all who passed through their domain. ...