The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

It’s our nature to pay attention to the latest interesting news or fad. If it is something out of the ordinary, something beyond our everyday activity, we are naturally drawn toward it. Such is the case with a small collection of sea shells in the flowerbeds. I don’t recall how it is we came to have so many shells, particularly in land-locked northeast Colorado, but they are a wonder and a mystery for those of us who seldom experience large bodies of water, let alone whole seas and oceans.

It is precisely because we can’t walk out our door and pick up shells at will that greater value is impar...