One morning from my hospital bed, I could see the sun rising above the South Dakota plains. What a beautiful sight. As a child, I grew up on the Nebraska plains. When I would herd the cattle along the countryside, I dreamed of being a writer and began writing poetic lines. When I was old enough to read the Columbus Telegram, I would read Edgar Howard's editorials. I will never forget his last editorial, for after that he laid down his pen. The editorial was about a Nebraska sunset and I would like to share with you these cherished words.

"I have never seen an Italian sunset. But last evening I witnessed a Nebraska sunset beyond compare it was more beautiful than an artist's dream. Peering through the haze, clouds of uncertain hue. The great orb of day flooded the landscape with the radiance of unspeakable beauty. I do not know what visions an artists beholds when he views an Italian sunset, but when I gazed last evening upon the marvelous Nebraska sunset, I saw visions of every sweet picture in my own memory mirror. I saw the peach blush bloom on the cheek of my boyhood sweetheart, the golden gleam of a true chums friendship. The Carmen tint of Holy Mother love. How many colors does God hang in the sky? When he paints a Nebraska sunset, more beautiful than any other climb has known. I could not count the colors. It was enough for me to know that they were in number to represent every fragrant flower from my conservatory of memory. Enough for me to know that they brought me face to face with every rapture of the years now dead. Enough to know that they appealed to me more eloquently than orators words or authors lines to struggle along the upward way. With promise sure that at the end of the journey, I may be privileged to behold upon the horizon of paradise, another sunset and in the radiance of it to count the colors of a welcome smile." Edgar Howard.

Warm Thoughts: Peace is seeing a sunset and knowing who to thank. Enjoy the sunset in your state!

Warm Thoughts from the Little Home on the Prairie Over a Cup of Tea by Luetta G. Werner

Published in the Marion Record on April 18th, 1996.

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