Early in September, I had the pleasure of being able to attend the Monroe Mandolin Camp held in a beautiful setting in Kingston Springs, Tennessee, just West of Nashville. Mike Compton and Heidi Herzog went to great efforts to produce and host a delightful experience. What a good time I had. If you are interested…
I have not written in a while. I have wanted to, but have not been so motivated, overtaken, perhaps, with a general torpor of laziness….too lazy to get out my laptop and put my fingers to the keyboard; too lazy to think enough to be able to write something. Then, I find inspiration in what…
The August malaise, having passed with its sweltering oppression, has me recovering my words and ready to write, or at least anxious to start back writing. Have you ever wondered just what happens when you flip the light switch at your home? What do you expect when you do? How do you feel when the…
On July 7, 2015, at a house party in Ottumwa, Iowa, it is reported that Hillary Clinton commented, “Let’s not be afraid of the gun lobby, which does not even really represent the majority of gun owners in America.” Really? And what if they did? Would she have any different view? In a June 17…
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…
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…
“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…
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