“Sometimes it hard to know what to do.” Bukowski ********** With COVID putting the pinch on us, we’re getting down to the nitty-gritty of insufferable solitude. The pent-up energy is volcanic. It’s fish or cut bait time. Open up, let us out, or else. Something’s gotta give. The day began being mildly ticked off. Not …
Great decisions pivot on small points. Where’s The Great Unus to deliver us? ********** Are you peering through your peephole of life, looking for another Moses to suddenly appear, someone who can part waters, calm fears and call down bread from heaven? Dismiss the illusion. We elected the wrong candidates. Life hinges on balance. Like …
It’s necessary to write…to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment. Anonymous ********** These are strange times, weeks of being cooped up in the confines of our homes like parakeets in a cage. It’s an appropriate analogy since incessant chatter often carries no significance and amounts to little more than noise. I know …
“And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men to myself.” Words of Jesus, John 12:32 (The COVID-19 pandemic is making the news grim. Like a ghost ship in the night, Holy Week is passing largely unnoticed. Easter celebrations will be muted due to governmental lock-down orders. Notwithstanding the horrific events of …
(Our nation is living in lockdown due to the coronavirus. The news is grim. Survival is critical, physically and economically. It helps to put things in perspective. I hope this Weakly Post will lighten your spirits and give you reason for hope.) The Luck of the Draw There are 52 cards in a deck and …
To paraphrase W. C. Fields, “There comes a time when we must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.” This is one of those times. ********** We’ve got a mess on our hands. Routines have been replaced with the reality of quarantine. Once unthinkable among Americans, it has been dusted off and …
“For in one hour so great riches are come to nothing.” Revelation 18:17 ********** It was bound to happen. Everybody knew it would. When, or how, nobody knew. Such is the way with plagues. Cry safety, and the world collapses. Chaos rules. Chaos has no rules but one: crap happens. Since rolls of toilet paper …
Wednesday was my birthday. I got a new pair of shoes. ********** Birthdays at advancing age tend to be heavy affairs. No more hot-breath doozies that youth brag about. Such are now only fumes of faded dreams long past. Getting long in the tooth tends to load us down with burdens grievous to be borne, …
“I was born into politics, a wedded man with a storm for a bride.” Huey P. Long ********** Political campaigns are never over. Politicians are like fleas, impossible to eradicate. The Blue team has ventured into the deep South where the cannon smoke of Ft. Sumter and the spirit of rebellion still hangs heavy in …
Look around, somebody’s always trying to prove a point. Maybe you’re one of them. ********** Sometimes it difficult to know if someone’s boasting or just disgusted. On the surface it might be taken either way. Recently I received this weather report from friends in St. Paul, Minnesota. Here it is. You decide which. Now if …