Off with the old, on with the new. Nature turns the page. * * * It’s a quiet Saturday afternoon. I stand on the back patio peeling a last-year’s orange. I watch last-year’s leaves falling effortlessly from the giant water oak overhead. It’s their time to say goodbye. The acorns already have. Shards of sunlight …
The solar calendar still reads winter. The South Georgia almanac says: “Spring.” * * * We’re driving on a sandy dirt road somewhere in Atkinson County, Georgia. No map, no GPS, no hurry. The morning sun casts long shadows through the oaks. A sack of sausage and biscuits sits on the seat between us. Cups …
Not since Orson Welles’s radio version of War of the Worlds aired in 1938 has such panic ensued with the sighting of a white Chinese balloon overhead. How do we make sense of it? Read on. There it was, for days, visible with the naked eye, this white balloon, a gigantic surveillance eye in the sky, causing …
“I’m older now but still runnin’ against the wind, against the wind.” Bob Seger lyrics * * * It’s mid-January already. We’re running full throttle ahead, merging into the fast lane of 2023 where we got off a few days ago. Today I’m busy purging the over-stuffed library in our home. Books everywhere, too many …
“To every thing there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 * * * The words above were written sometime in the 10th Century BC by King Solomon, supposedly the wisest man who ever lived, a claim that might be disputed by certain latter-day politicians. But it’s a good …
10-9…Whoa, slow down, relax. You’re getting ahead of yourself. It’s not time. It’s coming, soon enough. Meanwhile, the dealer still shuffling the deck, more hands to deal. The 2022 year’s game is still in play. We shouted it in, but it soon settled down, And got down to business and stayed. But now it’s time …
There is a pocket-sized booklet of quotes from such notable dispensers of wisdom as the Dalai Lama, Lao Tzu, Suzuki, Matzu and Jiddu Kaishnamati and others. Now these are not necessarily household names, but their quotes perpetuate the myth that wisdom only comes from the Eastern Zen masters. It sorta makes some sense that anybody …
“Lay no foundation upon which you build yourself a cell.” Father Abbot Zeno, Zen Buddhist * * * ‘Tis the season to be jolly, the carols sing. Christmas is near. And here I sit getting acquainted with my newest body part, a knee. Maybe the Christmas season is not the best time to replace failed body …
“Hey, children, hear that sound, everybody look what’s going down.” Buffalo Springfield * * * Listen. The music has stopped. The sound you hear is the herd stampeding to the exits. What’s going down? It disappeared faster than a lightning bolt. With just the click of a computer keyboard, billions of crypto currencies vanish without a …
“There’s nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor…that it was from the hand of God.” Ecclesiastes 2:24 Thanksgiving…the very concept conjures up evocative nostalgia. A silent bell tolls in our hearts, reviving the infused pilgrim spirit inherited from the Plymouth Plantation. …