Lamesa Press-Reporter

Since mid-October, organizers of the third annual Mission Lamesa Food Drive have been collecting food items that make up the traditional Thanksgiving meal.

In 1994 there began one of the most horrific national genocides in the African nation of Rwanda. In a period of 100 days, nearly 1,000,000 people were murdered, mostly members of the Tutsi tribal population, by the opposing Hutu tribe. My wife and I watched the move, Hotel Rwanda, which portrayed the story of the slaughter. It was heart-wrenching. The killers and victims were both Africans, both Rwandans, but some belonged to one tribe, and some of another. Africans would call this tribalism, toward Jews it would be antisemitism and in America, it would be racism.

Do you scatter some of what you gather? If you do not, you have a balance due to society, family, and your colleagues. The very foundation of life requires us to give others the knowledge and benefi ts we gained. It can and does liberate the soul to share things that work… and own the things that do not work.

The numbers are getting smaller. More Texas counties are lifting their summer-time bans against outdoor burning and Dawson County’s chances of grassland fires have dramatically diminished.