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I have to say I’ve not been this excited about new technology in a long time. It reminds me of the feeling I had the first time I listened to a DVD. My Facebook friend Leo Gallant responded to my lamenting that only CBS had an AppleTV app. He told me about YouTube TV. I…

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes, 16 seconds About three years ago, I returned to the mountains of Tennessee, like a modern-day Thoreau, with the intention of getting lost in the woods. After several years of living in the hubbub of downtown Franklin, TN and Austin, TX where I networked, convened conferences for creatives, worked with a…

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1) You can’t make this stuff up. 2) The eerie similarity of my time on a Southern Baptist mega-church staff executive team to that of the daily spin of the Trump White House. 3) The eerie similarity of Trump to my mega-church pastor. 4) The book helped this media-averse recluse make sense of the convoluted…

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I have always been a voracious reader and living in the wilderness at Kalien Retreat I finally have time to dive into tomes (some weighty, some guilty pleasures) I have not previously had the time nor energy. This year I read 11,768 pages across 36 books. Here are my top ten: 1.) Modern Man in Search of a Soul (C.G. Jung) Widely…

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes, 51 seconds. Many Christians have come to believe dehumanization of others is an acceptable—and yes, a necessary practice. Dehumanizing others is the process by which we become accepting of violations against human nature, the human spirit, and, for many of us, violations against the central tenets of our faith. How does…

Estimated reading time: 30 seconds In America today everything goes and nothing matters. But there was a time in our nation when words still had weight and value. I am a man with feet of clay, as are we all, but at this time in my life approaching sixty years of age, I embrace a philosophy…

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 23 seconds. It really doesn’t take much to sincerely say, “Life is good.” 1) A Companion 2) Simple Food & Drink 3) A Good, Sound, Warm, Dry Room 4) A Table, Chair, and Bed 5) A Place to Walk And only five more to say “Life is Great” 6) A Companion…

(Estimated reading time: 3 minutes, 43 seconds)   I first met Jerry 24 years ago when he was already old. At least I thought so. He was 69 at the time, wore a toupee, and drove a white stretch Cadillac with a navy blue cloth top and garish yellow gold accents. He was a type-A…

(Estimated reading time: 3 minutes, 54 seconds.) I am an artist. There, I said it. I was born into a dubious, ahem, an eccentric tribe. These bizarre ones have been known to chop off an ear (one of their own) and give it to a prostitute, reside for years in a funeral home with a…

Most of us (especially religious people) have not been allowed to ask questions. To question things. History has subjected us to an awful lot of know-it-alls, men (almost always men) who know what is best for everyone, who can articulate exactly what we all must think, believe, do and avoid. I am increasingly suspicious of those…