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Most Sundays, reading the opinion pages of the paper is the quickest, dirtiest way to rain on my personal feel-good parade. Public debates have never interested me. Heated, public debates make me want to curl up in a corner and disappear. Political debates seem to be an exercise in futility, and considered by many as permission to engage in name-calling. And from what I\u2019ve observed, name-calling never accomplished anything positive.<\/p>\n

So why bother reading the opinion page at all?<\/p>\n

Here are a couple reasons. First, to get a sense of prevailing thoughts on hot issues. Second, to become a more informed voter. Third,\u00a0 because our shrinking state daily rag sometimes includes book and art reviews, which I enjoy, in the opinion section. And fourth, because once in a while, the Iowa View column, written by guest writers, has something good.<\/p>\n

Sunday, November 7 was one of those days. What first caught my eye was the photograph accompanying the column. A sucker for pictures of old farm guys in tractors,\u00a0 I started reading the article by Jennifer Dukes Lee, a former Des Moines Register staff writer and young farm wife.<\/p>\n

A summary of the article can\u2019t do justice to its themes of love for the land, grief and sorrow, hope and harvest. No more than a description of the photographs will bring the colors and expressions to life. Instead, go to this link and read the article for yourself<\/a>. It will put you in the Thanksgiving mode. If you like the article, more of Jennifer\u2019s writing can be found at her blog,http:\/\/gettingdownwithjesus.blogspot.com<\/a>\/. Her writing is thoughtful and illustrated with vibrant, and sometimes quirky photographs.<\/p>\n

Editors include stories like Jennifer\u2019s draw a certain group of readers – a large, quiet group who don\u2019t like controversy and would never write a letter to the editor – to the Sunday opinion page. Those editors know what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

Their ploy worked on me, a sucker for stories about old farm guys on tractors. Does it work on you?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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