What’s in a Word?
(From The Woodsman’s Notebook)

Later, bye, see ya! until then means only one thing, the meaning to these words are I will see you again. Summer Spring Winter and fall are seasons we observed since the day we were born. Every season of every year just like clock work they come and then disappear.
People are born and then they die for a time of mourning we will cry. But there are two words that can cut like a knife and for most of us they never mend. The words Good Bye are the beginning to the end.
                                      
                                                  The Woodsman 5/29/2005
The Old Tire
(The Woodsman’s Notebook)

I picked up an old tire the other day, figured I'd need along my way. I stopped at a station to filler up, was to my surprise what I read on the pump. Twenty-Five cents is all it said, I stood there awhile and then just shook my head. I went up the road for just a piece, to my favorite diner to get me a feast. I went right in and sat right down betwixed to fellers from out of town. We gabbed a little while we ate. We talked about dangers of truckin' from state to state, I giggled a little as I said, my only worry was to make to that Pearly Gate. We got talkin' a little about my old ride. I said it's nothin' much but its right outside. They followed me as I went out the door, both of their mouths dern near hit the floor. They didn't know just what to say; they'd seen it all that very day, as me and my tire went on our way.
                                                        The Woodsman 3/01/03 
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