6/27/15 Opinion about Recent Opinions

As of late, with monumental Supreme Court ruling opinions and dissenting opinions, there is an over-abundance both of reasons to opine and opinions themselves. They flit about like gnats on a windless summer night; aggravating, most are too small to successfully swat, leaving one with no sense of satisfaction like one might feel upon seeing…

6/12/15 Ode to Jim Ed Brown

Some of the most delightful singing I have ever heard on this planet came from the harmonious voices of Jim Ed Brown and his sisters, Maxine and Bonnie, who were simply known as “The Browns.” The Browns were rightfully inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame just a few weeks ago; they deserved their…

6/10/15 Going to Miss California This Summer

Every year for the last several years I have had the great privilege and pleasure to go to the beautiful Sierra Nevada Mountains in California for a fabulous music festival where I not only play, but enjoy exciting music from around the world, all in a heavenly setting. I will not make it this year…

6/10/15 The Permanence of Change

Change is the world’s only permanence. Everything else is ephemeral, fleeting. The very terra firma upon which we lay out our foundations is as dynamic and fluid as the water we know to be so. The land seems solid, though that knowledge of its solidity is a falsity since its solidity is based solely on…

6/5/15 Apologies for Privilege, Please

I had the great privilege of being born in a rural part of one of the poorest parts of the poorest state in the United States of America, during a period one might legitimately call reconstruction. Some might not call that a privilege. I can understand that. It was not a particularly good time for…