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A Day At The Fair: 8/11/2013
This is what I saw at the fair today, in between spurts of lashing rain…
Posted in Culture, Life, Men, Music, Photography, Weather, Women
Tagged Appalachia, culture, dancing, fairs, Life, music, nature, tourism, videos, West Virginia
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Rejecting the Refrigerator
Is anyone else tired of chicken? Not just any chicken, the plain chicken you get in the grocery store that you have to take home and put in the refrigerator. That chicken. That kind of food. I’m tired of tasteless. … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Culture, Food, Health, humor, Language, Life, Men, Nature, Photography, Politics
Tagged America, Appalachia, chemically addictive ingredients, conspiracy theories, culture, food, fried chicken, health, intelligence, Kentucky Fried Chicken, KFC, Mike Myers, movies, photography, purpose, refrigerators, rejection, relationships, The Weekly World News
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Meeting my favorite artist
I didn’t have it on my “bucket list.” I had no idea he would be there. But when I walked into the art gallery this evening, my favorite living artist stood near my favorite painting in the whole wide world. … Continue reading
all the friends in the world…
I gotta admit, I don’t like some people. I love them. They’re the kind of people you want to make laugh- the kind of people who smile like when the sun comes out, the kind of people who just brighten … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Culture, humor, Life, Men, Relationships, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged America, culture, friends, happiness, Life, loneliness, Mama Boucher, men, movies, processes, relationships, smiles, social networking, the blues, the world, women
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When you can’t love yourself
When you can’t love yourself and can’t seem to grasp not the world at large but the window before you- find a safe little place for some supernatural space and wait for the appearance of God.
Posted in catholicism, Christianity, Dreams/Goals, Life, Men, Morality, Pentecostalism, Poetry, Relationships, Uncategorized, Women, Writing
Tagged Christianity, God, love, Morality, peace, poetry, prayer, writing
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In the dusk of a world sick with sin
I submit to you that that are many people out there who do not love anyone, not even themselves. Recently, I read a short news article reporting about the multiple rape of a thirteen year old girl by a posse … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Life, Men, Morality, Politics, Relationships, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged Bob Dylan, Christianity, culture, Glenn Beck, Life, Morality, news, rape
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Step Away From the Laptop: How To Wipe Out Writer’s Block
And now for something so different, so amazingly useful…that you will never ever get writer’s block ever ever again! Ten Ways to Defeat The Evil “Writer’s Block:” 10. Step away from the laptop. Next, put on some “outdoor clothes,” get … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Culture, Fiction, Food, humor, Language, Life, Men, Music, Nature, Relationships, theater, Uncategorized, Women, Writing
Tagged Bach, Beethoven, Bite the wax Tadpole. music, broccoli, Characters, chemist, cloaking device, culture, Language, Life, math, Mountains, naked mountain climbing, Star Trek, Writer's Block, writing
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Justice and mercy
I struggle with diabetes. Many years ago, I worked in a high stress, high performance, high profile career that contributed to a food and health lifestyle that lead to the development of that diabetes. It didn’t help that I made … Continue reading
Posted in catholicism, Christianity, Culture, Dreams/Goals, Food, Health, Life, Men, Morality, Pentecostalism, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged diabetes, faith, food, health, humility, job search, jobs, justice, kindness, Life, lifestyles, meaning of life, mercy, nutrition, purpose, stress
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bookends part 3
In the meantime of the day, when the clock just doesn’t quite strike a primary number, Albert assumed a cup of Java into his routine. It sat before him, it sat beside him. It even sat between his legs. But … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Culture, Fiction, Language, Life, Men, Rail Travel, Relationships, Uncategorized, Women, Writing
Tagged bookends, cheese, childhood, coffee, common man, fiction, Ireland, Java, Language, Life, office, relationships, time, train travel
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bookends
When sudden blossoms wilt and fade, and springtime withers under desperate suns, the common man may notice a shift in temperature within…or…may picture the autumn a promising season, in light of that terrible sun. It is in these times that … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Culture, Fiction, Language, Life, Men, Rail Travel, Relationships, Uncategorized, Women, Writing
Tagged bookends, Characters, common man, fiction, Life, point of view, readers, relationships, train
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