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By Brian Whitmore

Friendship and love.

These words mean a lot of different things to people. In our social media society, neither means much.

By BRIAN WHITMORE

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It’s official, my family and I are enjoying the Yak Life.

The week of Easter, I purchased kayaks for the family and this past weekend was the maiden voyage, a trip to Boyd’s Mill Pond on both Saturday and Sunday.

It was a family adventure and we didn’t have to leave Laurens County.

We had a blast. My daughter, Lydia, really took to kayaking quickly.

Against my better judgment I did not work the evening of April 25 and the daytime of April 26.

It was not something I had planned, and when I was told I was going to miss work that Thursday night, I was a little annoyed. My faithful, but sometimes managing wife had planned something else.

During World War II, my daddy served in the US Navy and was stationed on an island in the Pacific Ocean. My father-in-law also served in the US Navy and was stationed on a ship in the Pacific.

Sometimes it feels like there is an all-out war on women in this country.

The City of Clinton recently received its own Mueller Report. In a manner of speaking.

Those paying attention will remember that reporters asked, repeatedly, how much it was going to cost to split the Department of Public Safety into separate police and fire departments.

Pass on what you have learned. Strength. Mastery. But weakness, folly, failure also. Yes, failure most of all. The greatest teacher, failure is. Luke, we are what they grow beyond. 

– Yoda, Star Wars VIII – The Last Jedi (2017)

There is a television show on The Discovery Channel with an intriguing name: Naked and Afraid. I am not making that up.

I confess at this moment that I’ve never watched it, so I’m offering you my opinions about something I know very little about. (I’ll pause now while all my faithful readers turned to the person with whom they plan to spend the rest of their lives and say, “So what’s new?”