Volume 1 , Issue 5

Courage & Endurance

It was April 8, 1999, that NW Okie had this Heart To Heart: "Courage & Endurance."

Thesaurus gives us these synonyms for survive, "keep alive, continue to live, subsist, last, hang on, hold out; live on, persist, endure, prevail, continue, abide, subsist, be extant, exist, live through, come through alive, outlive, outlast, live longer than... succeed in staying alive against odds, to live after some event that has threatened one.. outlive stresses capacity for endurance..."

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Spirit of Humanity (Plant the Seed - Spark of Humanity)

I was Thursday, May 20, 1999, NW Okie wrote this article, "Spirit of Humanity (Plant the Seed - Spark of Humanity)."

"The spirt of love and compassion, sadly missing from most news broadcasts, is alive and well in Oklahoma, and provides for me a deep sense of hope - hope that that spirit will spread across the land and rekindle the basic 'spark of humanity' that we need so very desperately." Quote by Rod Murrow, 12 May 1999, NW Oklahoma.

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Spirit of Oklahoma

It was Thursday, May 13, 1999, that NW Okie wrote about the "Spirit of Oklahoma (Heartland tornado Survivors, 3 May1999)." "To Believe ... To believe is to know that every day is a new beginning. It is to know that miracles happen, and dreams really do come true.

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Grandpa, Baseball 1904

This is what NW Okie wrote about her Grandpa Mcgill, on a Thursday, February 3, 2000, "Grandpa, Baseball 1904, etc."

The old copper shadow of Earth on the Moon was out Thursday. At a little after 10pm CST the skies cleared in time for the lunar eclipse to show it's full beauty as the shadow of the earth passed over the Full Moon when the Sun, Earth and Moon were aligned in a straight line with each other.

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Great Grasshopper Gala (Festival At Fair Valley)

July 1999 was a dry year to some extent and the grasshoppers were taking over Fairvalley and other grasslands in Northwest Oklahoma. This is what NW Okie jokingly wrote about Thursday, July 1, 1999: "Great Grasshopper Gala (Festival At Fair Valley)."

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Harvesters & Prairie Skyscrapers

NW Okie wrote this on a Thursday, June 3, 1999, "Harvesters & Prairie Skyscrapers (The Man with the whiskers Got the Job) [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Menacing Marauding Mosquitoes (Soggy Daze of Summer)

It was on a Thursday, July 15, 1999, NW Okie wrote this piece, "Menacing Marauding Mosquitoes (Soggy Daze of Summer)," because of the wet soppy, soggy weather we were having.

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