Horse Sense
They wear shoes so they don’t hurt their feet when kicking their owners [Why Horses Wear Shoes, October 2020].
Bobby Barron | Via Facebook
Co-ops Count
Who knew our electric employees “are so much more than power providers”? How can so few get so much done in all types of weather year after year, often under treacherous conditions [By the Numbers, October 2020]?
Jane Patterson, Bowie-Cass EC | Texarkana
Encountering SRV
I was a limo driver in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. One of the approximately 100 celebrities I met was Stevie Ray Vaughan [Letters, October 2020]. I picked him and his mother up in Oak Cliff. This was the same month that he died in the helicopter crash.
Vance K. Apple, CoServ | Frisco
Bittersweet Keepsake
The best Christmas gift I ever got was a cassette player with a cassette still in it, which my parents had used Christmas Eve while setting out presents [Finish This Sentence, October 2020]. On the cassette they were laughing, joking and talking about us three girls. I never told them about the cassette, nor did I tell my younger sisters. I am the oldest of three girls and was 10 then.
The reason this is so very special is that on March 30, 1975, just three months later, Daddy was murdered, and those were the only words I could hold and continue to have of him. My youngest sister was only 2, and for her these were the only words she would ever hear from her father.
Dedria Tanton, Sam Houston EC | Rye
