Daily Journal February 16, 1998, William Thomas Thompson. I am painting on Adam naming all the animals in the garden! Good Morning as we say, every morning is a good morning. This is another day of rain with a double barrel storm bearing down on us from the Gulf of Mexico with very high winds from El Nino series. We are half way between New York and Miami yet it seems tropical. This is a holiday, president’s day coming or going? Our lakes are overflowing and we need a break from these destructive storms. What if the president would tell the truth on president’s day? The thought for today is truth. It has been said "that the human mind can only remember the truth." In the case of a habitual liar the person seems always to tell a story different every time. If God made the human mind to only remember truth, then truth should be our only resident for now and forever. Could our minds witness against us in that day? Let us speak the truth, let us hear truth, and let us witness the truth. Truth will prevail. Jesus said "that I should bear witness unto the truth. Everyone that is of the truth heareth my voice. John 18-37,"Pilate said unto Him, What is Truth?" Dear Lord, may we recognize truth as one of the first keys to a Godly life. May we surrender to truth and seek after truth daily. John 1-14,"And the word was made flesh (Jesus) and dwelt among us (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." Give us understanding dear Lord of thy Holy Word. John 14-6,"Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 8-32,"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Ephesians 4-15,"But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ." May we how listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit and serve your will O Lord" Rev. 18-9 "When they shall see the smoke of her burning" We drove out to the K&W Cafeteria for lunch in the blowing rain. People were rushing to get inside. I saw a woman getting out of the backseat of a car with a long cigarette wiggling in her mouth as she rushed toward the entrance she stopped to part with the thing letting out her last puff of smoke that drove across me as a wicked scent. I remembered what was said on T.V. that there are 100 poisons added to tobacco besides the poison of the nicotine, described "A poisonous alkaloid,C5H4NC4H7NCH3,derived from the tobacco plant and used in medicine and as an insecticide." What a shame, this person and a billion more in this world are hooked on this drug. This is one example of lie compared to truth, the death of millions due to dollar driven tobacco sales smoking plus habit making half the world miserable with this wretched weed. When we arrived inside inline, this person and her party of 4 came up back of us and again the stink was so strong it could ruin an appetite even as good as mine is. Soon the smell of hot food overcame the foul odor and we were served very well on fresh red salmon, sweet yellow corn full size ear, and fried potato cakes and boiled spinach. There is no taste in the entire world better than right fried potato cakes recalling my childhood days and making me feel young and very handsome again. I name corn as my favorite food for today. I say all around, corn is a complete diet food served in many ways. Better if the spinach had been raw. The potato cakes taste turn sour later in the day, the heavy grease I cannot handle, eat right.