Louis Roney: Then I said…

• Is it true as we heard on TV that Disney is bringing in foreign workers to take over jobs held by discharged Americans? And is it true that Disney is making the Americans train the new foreign workers or the Americans won’t get their benefits? Walt, where are you when we need you?

• On Feb. 29 b.w. and I celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary. It doesn’t seem that long, but that’s how it is when you’re having fun. We laugh a lot and try to keep sadness at a minimum. When b.w. and I bought our Florida dream-house, we said it was for fun, friendship, and music.

It has been just that for 36 years. We’ve decided to go for 37.

• The first Big Tuesday (March 1) is over with all its hulabaloo. And now the Big Big Tuesday (March 15) is over by the time you read these words. Aren’t you glad?

• “O, wad some Power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us!” — Robert Burns. I would say without hesitation that anyone who opts for writing a weekly article for anybody has got to be some kind of nut.

It is not pleasant using such nomenclature when you are referring to yourself. But Bobby Burns’ beloved “giftie” might well accept me as one of his modest boys, and I should surely rejoice at being so honestly recognized. And meeting up with that “giftie” might be a “nifty.”

• Many siblings for some strange reason never seem to be able to get along agreeably with each other. I have a sibling two years younger than I, whom I always tried to placate without much success. Today when the chips are down, our chips are rarely sugar-coated. One can be told that he is admired and loved, but actions speak naked truth. I expect to get some words from my readers saying I should just ignore childhood differences that probably date from childhood jealousies. Certainly it’s true that we can choose our friends but not our relatives. Patience is needed, but eventually, and unfortunately, is soon exhausted.

• A few days ago at our house we had six dinner guests and it became evident that six may be the magic number for dining and conversing with friends. Sometimes b.w. has a helper to make the evening even more pleasant. If feasible for the lady of the house, she returns to the kitchen and dishes are done and put away.

• I have always thought of myself as anthropomorphic — and I’m agreeable to being what it says — look it up.

• So now we know Winter Park will have a new library and civic center. Will the former library site be assigned to a tax-paying entity? Wouldn’t this be preferable to having a non-tax-paying entity such as Rollins College build there?

• While I was finishing my schooling in an admirable New England college, I learned that one of the best-loved local philosophers, Ralph Waldo Emerson had not said — as many had historically thought — “consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” To quote Emerson accurately, one must say, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” After all, being consistently wrong is no virtue per se. If one is wrong about his info, he had better get it right even if he’s being inconsistent in the process. Then be consistent from then on — and enjoy being right along the way!

• “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,” was probably said by Mark Twain. These words bespeak a truism that no one, I believe, would resent having his name attached to. Alexander Pope once supplied a thought that perhaps fits Twain’s cogitation:

“True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.”

• “Here comes the orator with his flood of words and drop of reason” — Benjamin Franklin. (Could this refer to Trump or Hillary?)