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…
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…
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…
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…
“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,…
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…
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…
I read an interesting editorial in THE NATIONAL REVIEW which said a lot about what I think of Phil Robertson and the reality show, Duck Dynasty. It chided those who want to defend Phil and his controversial remarks. Here is a link to the editorial: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/416048/stop-defending-phil-robertson-youre-embarrassing-yourself-katherine-timpf Phil Robertson is Phil Robertson. I was a conservative,…
Yep. That’s me. I am immuno-compromised. But what does that mean? That means, so far, I have been extremely fortunate, though I have the misfortune of not ever being able to eat my favorite oysters on the half-shell. It is my part of the compromise of immuno-compromisation. I don’t eat the oysters, and they don’t…
I borrowed the title from Buzz Lightyear. Thanks, Buzz. I’ve had my eye on infinity for a while, now. I think I might be gaining on it. We’re all actually gaining on it whether we know it or not, really. It’s a morbid thought, or it’s an expansive one, depending on what my frame of…
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