Dear Season

This last weekend was the opening of deer season in this state for bucks with at least 4 points. Several of our folks are hunters and were gone. I do hope they got their deers. I took Chelly to run at Steamboat Rock State Park last Sunday evening and I saw that the smart deer in our area were comfortably grazing inside the Park. I saw at least 17 to 20 of various deers from doe’s, babies to bucks. The season will go on into November for each type of animal. I would like to propose that in this deer season that we at Pateros celebrate “DEAR SEASON”!

DEAR season would last as long as deer season does on the calendar. We would NOTICE how precious the “DEARS are to us in our lives! We would SPEAK to our DEARS with dearest words and feelings so that our DEARS would never miss how wonderful they are to us! We would ACT to our DEARS in ways to show them how marvelous they are to us. Surely they could not miss our intention to see that they are DEARS to us? Did you know that DEARS are people you believe in and as in the scripture when you believe in something you take action! You may even want to WRITE your DEARS and let them know that they are special to them! I realize that this might open a whole new type of businesses, such as DEAR mail, DEAR buttons, DEAR nights at restaurants, DEAR specialty stores! Well we are always looking for new jobs. You might even buy a “DEAR Gram” to put in the paper! Wait one more thought, how about “DEAR PHONES”, can’t you just see it now “DEAR M INUTES”.

Well by now I can see you beginning to have momentary lapse of attention. Go ahead and take two minutes and come back. Then when you come back you might have even thought isn’t that what we are suppose to do, and don’t we call it Valentines Day? I have to admit I might have gotten at least a little carried away with “DEAR DAYS”. But, if I was going to call it by a different name I wouldn’t use Valentine‘s Season, I would use Christianity! Dave