Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Here is a sampling of police, sheriff and fire calls for: Monday - 12:42 a.m., Caller reported a fire in a bar ditch, near state road 209 and Curry road 22. - 12:44 a.m., Caller reported a small child drank bleach, 700 block of North Main Street. - 1:03 a.m., Caller reported a large animal was hit but not sure what it was, 700 block of state road 467. - 6:58 a.m., Caller reported pack of Pit Bulls tried to kill her two calves, 4100 block of Cottonwood Drive. - 8:38 a.m., Caller reported her mother bitten by two dogs, 5800 blo...
"The Online Etymology Dictionary." That's the name of a website I discovered recently. No, it's not a site devoted to knowledge about bugs. That's "entomology." Etymology is indeed a "-logy" so it's "the science of" something. But not creepy-crawlies. Etymology is the science of word derivations. The site's owners describe it as "a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English." Nicely put. I'm glad somebody created such a site. I'm imagining them as a group of under-appreciated, underpaid, societally under-valued, mildly...
In an old issue of "Leadership Journal", Haddon Robinson retells the story of a very talented young musician who was crestfallen as he sat reading the critics' reviews of his recent concert. The negative words stung his soul like fire. It was an older and more accomplished musician, the famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, who comforted the young man by patting him on the back and remarking, "Remember, son, there is no city in the world where they have erected a statue to a critic." Maybe that's at least partly what Jesus...
