Lemon Pepper Cougar and Feral Hawaiian Cats
Bob Welch is a columnist for the Register-Guard, Eugene-Springfield area’s local newspaper. It’s a mainstream column; Welch likes sports a whole lot, and writes about so-called human interest type stories in the area. He isn’t out there at all, (I remember a column he wrote some years ago where he made insipid fun of Bigfoot witnesses, yuck yuck) so it’s that kind of thing.
He had an little moment of synchronicty the other day which inspired him to ask readers to share their interesting odd moments involving synchronicty.(Mysterious, magical or just weird? ) In his recent column Mysterious, eerie events remembered
he shares some of those responses. My favorites: the story about feral cats in Hawaii, and the coach in Harrisburg who had a ghostly encounter with his mother.
Not to pick on Welch (though I’m not a fan particularly) but in another column, as well as a very different kind of column, he writes about a wild game feast in Potluck’s food is, well, a little wild At no point during the article does he address the ethical issues; it’s simply a golly gee kind of piece about, in a surreal juxtaposition, a local country church’s annual game meat fest:
The setting is beautiful, quintessential Americana, a white church steeple rising into the sky amid trees, fields and rolling hills about five miles northwest of Monroe.
The dress is primarily, well, camouflage.
And the décor is what I’d call country fish & game: guns, pelts, poles, antlers, traps, duck decoys and two giant elk mounts, including emcee Scott Ballard’s world-record “8 by 9” Roosevelt elk — eight points on one side of the rack, nine on the other.
After the prayer, we head through the kitchen to go through the potluck line.
The whole scene is bizarre; prayer, camouflage, dead animals on the walls as well as on plates, and the contrast between the country and the gun toting hunters.
Among the food offered: bear, bison, wild cow soup, Nutria, elk, and lemon pepper cougar. And among the door prizes for the event: waterproof Bibles.
Thank you m’dear. These were interesting stories, yours, his, and his. I appreciate the slice of life. Almost like being in your living room and talking story over a few glasses of wine (or bottles!) and a smoke or two. Love you, and miss you dearly. ~rr
P.S. Kung Hee Fat Choy! It’s today/tomorrow, y’know. New moon and all that…
Thank you Richard! I miss you and yours as well! And yes, Kung Hee Fat Choy!
In reality, no single religion could guarantee us a place in Heaven. In the end, what matters is how we a treat other people.`’,
it doesn’t matter what religion you have, just do good and avoid evil”~’