Spirituality. Politics. Music. Life.
Whenever you feel like curling up in the fetal position, and no matter how challenging or hard things may get, keep chipping away. And as you wield your own rock hammer, inhale/exhale the chorus as a mantra for you, and me, and our broken world.
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JEFF DAVIS WAS TRYING TO GO TO TEXAS Jeff Davis, he was trying to go to Texas.Thought that he could find some Rebels there.Robert Lee already had surrendered.Loss lay heavy in the Southern air.He tried to sneak across, from down in GeorgiaWhile all the rest, they fled to anywhere.But Jeff Davis, he was trying to […]
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SEEKING STILL All my life I’ve searched for inner peaceTo make the voices ceaseA sweet releaseThat leads me to a calm And now and then I find a pathway thereSome moment without careA jewel rareLike truth inside a song But soon as I arrive, the destination’s goneI’m back upon a path that’s always winding and […]
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I’ve been writing longform over on Facebook for more than a decade now, but never had anything approaching the reaction to this week’s post on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. 10,000 shares?Are you kidding me? Wowza.So, thanks again to everyone for sharing/reading this post…and for re-enforcing my faith in humanity. It’s very clear that, like […]
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During this Christmas season, I’ve written meditations on one of my favorite literary works of all time:WH Auden’s “For The Time Being.” (FTTB) Here are links to each section.Feel free to keep this page handy, for easy future reference. Unpacking WH Auden’s “For the Time Being.” Section One: “ADVENT.” Section Two: “THE ANNUNCIATION“ Section Three: […]
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The Final Section of WH Auden’s “For the Time Being” (FTTB)(For the Previous Section: Click Here.) So finally, today, I offer a our final mediation on this great Christmas Play. Those who celebrate the Commercialist Christmas —who believe Christmas ends on December 26th— you no doubt see it as ridiculous that I’m still writing on […]
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Earlier this week, I shared about Ash Wednesday, a year ago…some time I spent by the Roberts Forest fire pit, praying, crying, playing guitar. What I didn’t say then was that a song, in honor of my Mom, poured out of me that night. The whole thing took shape in about 20 minutes. I pulled […]
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I believe sometimes our loved ones visit us in dreams, after they are gone. This happened to me when I was about ten. Just after my grandfather Frankie died, I dreamed he drove down to Dallas in the 1965 Mustang that, in the waking world, would eventually become mine. He woke us up and gathered […]
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