Opinion

If you get to hang around this planet long enough, you’ll notice that most things get rebranded sooner or later. For example, my grandmother wore a girdle.

“Monty Python and the Holy Grail” fractured my brain as a young adolescent.

O ur world is divided. This is neither new nor startling news. Truth-be-told, our world has always been divided.

When you stream a movie, pull up driving directions or connect with a doctor through telehealth, there’s physical infrastructure behind all of it. And increasingly, that infrastructure is right here in Louisa County. Amazon’s roots in Virginia go back to 2006. Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $190 billion across the Commonwealth, including infrastructure and compensation to our employees. And we have created more than 45,000 full- and part-time jobs. In Louisa, we’ve put more than $1 billion into data center infrastructure so far, supporting more than 1,850 jobs annually and contributing an estimated $376 million to the local GDP, and we are just getting started.

Acouple of times a year the men of one of my churches gather in the church kitchen (yes, we have special permission from the kitchen overseers). We get together to make cinnamon rolls to sell at the annual Bazaar and every other year for the Yard Sale. These rolls are popular with folks because they have a unique recipe - they are made from a yeast dough. Because of the special properties of yeast, the rolls come out light and chewy (unless we add too much flour).

“Once in a blue moon,”as an expression, speaks to a rare event. It rolls off the tongue much more easily than ‘once in a total solar eclipse’. Two full moons in a month is not as spectacular as the moon blocking the sun but May will start and end with a Full Moon and both of them are a bit unusual.

Irecently stopped at a rest area along I-64 and saw a heartwarming sight.