star gazer

Cosmic baseball region

By PAUL DERRICK

With the baseball season now underway, it’s fitting that the Cosmic Baseball region is prominent in the early evening sky.  It doesn’t take much imagination to hear the fans cheering as the players round the bases – but perhaps your imagination needs a little help finding the bases.

Baseball …

The Idle American

Behold the hail

By Dr. Don Newbury

Jesus assures in St. Matthew that the gates of hell will never prevail against the church, but the Good Book is silent on protection from hail damage.

Lubbock minister David L. Wilson figures he’s got hail to deal with on this side of the River Jordan. Dr. and Mrs. Wilson built …

Here’s to your health

The healing power of music

By KEITH WOMMACK

Henry Garza, guitarist and vocalist with Los Lonely Boys, wrote the lyrics to their song, Heaven. It was a prayer; a prayer motivated by his families financial and emotional hardships, combined with the death of his first-born son from sudden infant death syndrome. The prayer expressed his deep desire for …

Golliver – Afghan empire graveyard

the rambling boy – cattle brands and the stories they tell

By LONN TAYLOR

In the late 1970s I had a job that was a Texas historian’s dream. I was the curator of history at the Dallas Historical Society, in charge of a collection of some 10,000 objects relating to Texas history. The collection, which included Santa Anna’s spurs and Fannin’s watch – the one he gave …

Dick Decent – legislating morality

Correspondence

Thanks, citizens of Marfa for returning me to the office of city council for the third consecutive time. Serving has been an honor and I will approach this coming term with as much enthusiasm and determination as my first term. Thanks again for having confidence in me and my ability to try to do what’s …