Many men who grew up without fathers will not listen to advice from older male friends, employers or in-laws. They prefer their own way. This becomes a large problem as they stumble through life.
Men who grew up with good fathers have a distinct advantage. They may not always agree with their father’s advice or see the wisdom of it, but often they will follow it out of respect for what their fathers have done for them.
Very often, that fatherly advice turns out to be quite good, and the son avoids some of life’s plentiful pitfalls.
What is the key to assuring more children in our society have good fathers in their lives? I don’t hear that policy agenda being discussed by our politicians today at election time. Money and power are dangled before their eyes rather than the best interests of children.
Our governments, schools, churches and employers cannot succeed with their own agendas when there is such a vacuum of male wisdom in the home.
Kimball Shinkoskey
Woods Cross, Utah
Dictators,
lawyers
After watching, reading and also talking to my neighbors about what politics in America has become to date, I have come to this conclusion: There seem to be about 33% of voters who want a dictator or some form of authoritarian rule for our country. A good percentage of these are immigrants or first or second generation. Is this because they came from this background and that’s all they know? I was under the impression that these people wanted freedom and the benefits of our way of life and the pursuit of happiness.
Why are so-called Americans giving lip service to Russia and its dictator Vladimir Putin? Why do senators Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham want to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failing to faithfully enforce this nation’s laws, saying a gross dereliction of duty and violations of his oath of office, when they both refused to convict Donald Trump for his seditious actions on Jan. 6, 2021? Have they no shame?
Why are they still called lawyers? I am under the impression that they are considered to be members of the court if they are lawyers. Is this why the court is losing its credibility?
Bill Williams
Palmview
Dear Mr.
Pelosi
Dear Mr. Pelosi,
We have never met.
I was listening to poet Ellen Bass,
when my husband came home from the cancer center.
That’s how I learned about a man who stormed your home
yelling for your wife’s whereabouts.
My husband heard the news on the car radio.
It was reported the same man beat you with a hammer.
I was in two places at once. I wanted to know
if you were all right, not dead, that is.
or horribly injured. The other place
was my kitchen where I ponder what meal
to cook almost every day.
Your wife escaped violence a second time,
once in the seat of government,
now in your own home we all thought to be safe,
the same way we feel our home our home to be safe.
We are so sorry for you both.
Please take new precautions.
If we lived next door to you two,
I would make my special pasta
and invite you over for dinner.
I would serve both red and white wine.
We would honor you,
and feel honored if you could come.
We do not even own a hammer.
Shirley Rickett
Alamo
