Amish write too much poetry!

From Blackboard Bulletin, Feb. 2007

<>Life is shaded Through and through
Mostly by man’s point of view.
Count your troubles—you’ll be sad.
Count your blessings—you’ll be glad.

From Plain Interests March 2007

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The editor tries to discourage contributing poets: Most people can express themselves in prose better than poetry. Poems take up more space than prose, and poems take more time to write than prose. However in an effort to use poetry, Plain Interests is trying a new technique: they are printing poems in prose form. If you read it correctly, you’ll catch the rhythm and rhyme.

From the column “Jottings”, written by an Amish neighbor of mine (in this rural area, you include as neighbors people up to 10 miles away)

“Who first said: ‘Of the people, by the people, for the people.’ The first 99 persons out of 100 will reply, ‘Lincoln’, and the 100^th will add ‘in his Gettysburg Address.’ But this famous phrase actually in 615 years old and appeared in John Wycliffe’s introduction to his translation of the Bible, published in England in 1382.