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…

5/27/15 Peace, I’d Give

I’d give you peace if I could. But I can’t. I can give you advice. But that’s never wanted, and my advice could only come from my experience, which may not be yours. We should try, though, to bring peace to as many as we can, even if that means advice, and sometimes the best…

5/21/15 Feels Like Home

I have a big day today. Electrical work on the power grid that has taken months on the campus of The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) will get its final energization today, after some testing and verification. Part of the overhead system will be retired in favor of new underground power lines, further beautifying the…

5/17/15 Jesus and the Government

“My kingdom is not of this world.” Jesus We Christians often wonder what Jesus would do. We ask ourselves that, not in response to some bracelet that clever marketers dreamed up with the “WWJD” inscription on it. We ask ourselves this because it is a prudent thing to do. We also notice that liberals, leftists,…

5/9/15 Hurry up and do . . .Nothing??

CLL patients are all familiar with Watch and Wait. It is a maddening distraction for someone who wants to do something. It is not aggressive, nor even proactive, but reactive. This is despairing to anyone who wants to be assertive, take control, nip it in the bud, get it all behind them, move forward, take…

4/14/15 Seduced By Righteous Eating

I had been seduced by righteous eating. Steven Bratman, MD It was purely by accident that I stumbled across Steven Bratman, a physician who practices alternative medicine. He has written books and done studies on what he describes as a mental condition known as ORTHOREXIA, or the perhaps unhealthy compulsion to eat healthy foods. Goodness…