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For today’s column, we’ll talk a little about the recycling of electronics, including the reuse of them or components. Let’s start by going a little north to Dallas.

My journey this week takes me to Dr. Daniel M. Gruver of San Marcos and his mission to an indigenous people group, the Kunas, of northeast Panama. They occupy a strip of land on the Kuna Yala (formally known as San Blas) Islands and in the mountainous mainland. They are known for their seclusion, fishing, farming and artwork. They have been intentional about preserving their culture, language and way of life.

My first experience of swimming in really deep water came on a long-ago trip to Australia. As part of the tour, we boarded a large boat and motored out over the Great Barrier Reef.

Grillmasters insist that just about everything tastes a little better when cooked over a flame. Even though grilling often is reserved for lunch or dinner, there’s something to be said about preparing breakfast on those hot grates as well.

Cyrus Cassells, a professor in the Department of English at Texas State University, and three-dimensional artist Jennifer Ling Datchuk, an assistant professor in the School of Art and Design at Texas State, have been named 2021 Texas Poet Laureate and Texas State Three-Dimensional Artist by the Texas State Legislature.

As strange as it sounds, my secret garden is a daylily garden. It started a couple of years ago when Mrs. Jan said the side of our house was an embarrassment, and we needed plants. To be honest it was rather a sort of Garden Guy Gully.

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My journey this week takes me back to a memory of a mother’s love that has forever stuck in my heart. I witnessed this on a Memorial Day over 50 years ago at the Fort Bliss National Cemetery in El Paso. I saw a mother on her knees, leaning over a military grave marker with her arms clasping the cold stone for support. I saw a literal puddle of tears on the red dirt below the marker from her weeping so hard — her son was dead. Memories…