Archive For December 16, 2020
‘I am here, forever, to protect you. To help you, to love you. To keep you happy.’ It was an oath that every elf knew, but never had to say. There was no prompt. At a certain age, two elves of nearly the same name would meet. Then one would say the oath, simply because…
The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals. Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children. The sermon this morning: ‘Jesus Walks on the Water.’ The sermon tonight: ‘Searching for Jesus.’ Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale. It’s a chance to get rid of those things not…
I’m no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in wonder….
Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by Cola-Cola, fast food, and beer. Who’d have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously? – Bill Watterson A loving couple were in a busy shopping center just before Christmas. The…
If we can have transgender, why not transracial? Black lives matter. Axiomatically true. Suppose you go through life feeling like a brother from another planet. Just suppose. I’ve been profiled more than once. I ‘fit the description.’ Alone, under the thumb of The Man, just another cog, nothing you do, ladders without rungs, glass ceiling,…
Nothing about the virus has changed. And the vaccine isn’t here yet. More than 42 million Americans live below the federal poverty line, about the same as a decade ago despite economic growth since the Great Recession. The median income of Black households has increased only slightly in the same time frame, while households headed…
Fortune sides with him who dares.― Virgil Originally titled “Rodgers Moves North” from Track & Field News, November 1980. Toronto, October 5 – A few short hours after placing seventh in the Diet Pepsi 10K, Bill Rodgers jetted north to run the Labatt’s Toronto Marathon. “I’m probably not going to win in New York because…
The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot. ― Chris Lynch The magic mind moves until it touches down upon the plastic grass of the plastic town. The peeple walk stiffly conjoined by their fears their eyes have no visions but their heads…
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives… and to the “good life”, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be. – Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway I know…
He wasn’t a bad man and he never meant to hurt anybody. Same could be said for her. If you had to pick one song for somebody to dance to, what would it be? Barker Ajax always joked about “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” by Creedence Clearwater Revival. The long version, of course. But…