We're Going Through a Test

The Gazette ^ | Dec 17, 2007 | Carlyn Ray Mitchell

[archy]

Good point. I have a Kukri knife mounted near my fireplace I broght back from Nepal pre 9/11. It’s a very ominous looking weapon.

Use it. Live with it. Carry it daily, and find to your amazement what a swell tool and weapon it really is.

The other day in the steak house where one of my kid's pals is a manager, we got the usual flimsy rounded-point, no-edge offerings with our meal. My kid grinned and pulled his folder out of his pocket and popped the blade open with one hand.

I pulled my kukri out, didn't have to *open* it, and had my steak nicely sliced and back in its scabbard almost as a reflex. Naw, kid, THIS is a knife....

[Balata]

LOL! Man, you needed some serious elbow room for that.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

Guess I watched too many Westerns, huh?

I think so. Some people are introverts, and don't talk. Some people are extroverts, and there is nothing more natural to them than talking about what they've been through. In fact, if they've been through a crisis and you ask them to shut up, it's like smothering their personhood.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

Church leadership does not make these sort of decision without going through biblical reasoning, he must have provoked them.

Depends on the people involved.

There are many, many places, both in business and in volunteer organizations, where the rule from Dilbert applies:

"Don't step in the leadership."

[Rte66]

Speaking of “stepping in it,” I remember Bourbonnais said the first thing he did was yell at Murray and call him a “sh—head.”

He apologized for saying something like that in church. I’m guessing he is somewhat outspoken - I know that everything I knew about the shooting was from the detailed descriptions Bourbonnais gave in interviews right afterwards.

And he unfailingly bragged on Jeanne Assam, over and over. I was quite impressed and glad that someone else witnessed it all so close by. His praise for her was quite admirable.