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It don’t come easy. Link to audio on Spotify Decades ago, I came to believe that there is no higher calling, no nobler goal that anyone can aspire to, than to merely be a decent human being. To be honest, to be loving, to be giving and forgiving; to be kind; to be industrious or diligent; there is really no more that anyone can ask of a person, than that. To be faithful to one’s partner; to walk one’s talk, whatever that talk may be. It doesn’t happen by chance. It doesn’t h

I was unable to embed this reel. Here is the link — https://www.facebook.com/reel/2011892216032635/?s=fb_shorts_profile&stack_idx=0 — and a transcript: Democrats need to lie to you in order to maintain power. Democrats will never tell you what they actually believe in. Instead, they will use focus group-approved buzzwords. For example, they will say, “We need affordable housing in our cities.”  Now, they can’t tell you that affordable housing really means that we’re going to

A Friend recently shared this post on Facebook: Back in my job-hunting days, now and then I'd have to consider an ad from CSX seeking freight train conductors. I never applied: I wasn't fond of the image of myself outdoors, alone, in the middle of the night, in freezing weather, in the middle of nowhere, banging away at a frozen switch with a sledgehammer. Then I came across a report of what the hiring process actually entailed. 100 applicants would be assembled in a room to

It distresses me that those on the Right, and ONLY those on the right, are prone to dispute this.

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I am reviving the blog and the podcast. I mean to post new blog material every Saturday, and a new podcast the first Tuesday of each month, beginning June 2. There are some serious design issues with the blog, and I'm going to have to hire an expert to fix them, which is going to cost a bundle. There are also issues with the 1,600+ posts I imported from the previous blog. Every one will need to be re-formatted, and the tags dealt with, and the links edited. If I tackle on

My response to the election. This text has been pending for several months, but the only way I can write it now is very different from...

Born in 1916, Rosemary Brown was an Englishwoman who claimed to be psychic, and claimed that the souls, so to speak, of quite a number of...

The Kunsthofpsssage in Dresden, Germany... - History of Music | Facebook

This gargoyle depicts a little monster biting a man’s cheek. The stonemasons had a great deal of freedom. From a different angle,...

Midges are tiny, biting flies that are common in Scotland. They come in huge swarms, and their bites are very painful. Highland midge...

This song has been an earworm for me for at least the past four months. I suppose there’s no accounting for how one’s subconscious...

The FaceBook post says, “The ‘Stairway to Heaven’ in Hawaii, officially known as the Haiku Stairs, is a trail that spans Ko'olau Mountain...

Oklahoma order to teach Bible meets resistance from schools (usatoday.com) Oklahoma state schools superintendent Ryan Walters recently...

This is likely to be far briefer than I anticipated. I stood on my back steps, looking out over the back yards behind mine, and the...

This story from Ambrose Worrall’s The Gift of Healing[*] illustrates that not all prayer, however well-intentioned, will necessarily...

What SHOULD be is not What Is.As long as one sets one’s heart on “what should be” instead of What Is, one’s plans will fail. I have a jar...

These are arranged in order from "least" to "greatest." Best Violin Concertos: Greatest Top 10 (udiscovermusic.com)