Miners

I wrote the bit below earlier this evening. I'll write just a tiny bit more, on a different subject. The painting and repair work on our house is progressing and, I hope, coming to an end in the not-too-distant future. We cancelled some of the work due to cost...I may try to do it myself. But what's being done is an improvement. The house is godawful dusty, though...a fine layer of white dust on EVERYTHING. It will take months to clean up. Tomorrow, the guest bath will (we hope) be painted a light shade of gray. Later, we'll jazz up the trim and mirrors and such. But at least the torn sheetrock and twisted wallpaper will be history.

I'm tired. More later...in the week.

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Today, the news from West Virginia was heartbreaking...first, the miners' families were told 12 miners were alive and well, then they learned they had died. That must have been a gut-wrenching, horrible experience.

I'm thinking of the miners and their families tonight. I can't empathize, because I've never experienced such a thing, and I hope I never do. But I do feel for the families. It must be awful.

I have much more to say, but I am leaving shortly to meet my wife for dinner. I will try to write more later. I may not. The mood is not right. It may change.