Sweating the small stuff

For Alternet, D. Earl Stephens wrote of some "people who refuse to give modern-day politics, and the sorry state of our fading nation the worry they so haughtily demand..." because "if the America-attacking Trump threatened imminent nuclear Armageddon, they'd be posting pictures of their trip to some Disney theme park with the snappy status update, 'Life's too short to sweat the small stuff ...' "

Well, as I wait for the next Congress to decide how much they're going to cut from Social Security and Medicare, I say life is too short NOT to sweat the small stuff. And it's ALL small stuff.

D. Earl Stephens says of the oblivious people, "if they forced themselves to pay attention to all the doom, gloom and trouble coming their way, they'd wipe those cheesy smirks off their sunny faces but quick."

In the meantime, I amuse myself with letters to the editor. I sent several pages of my previously written letters submitted to the LNJ -- published, unpublished and utterly ignored -- to my sister.

I wrote a note saying if she read any of my letters to the editor, it would increase my readership from zero to one.

-- Charles Kelley, Longview

"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies."

John 8:44