Reading David Harwell’s “community biography” of Walker Percy (Walker Percy Remembered), and the introduction begins: Many people cried when they talked to me about Walker Percy. This was a bit surprising at first. When I set out to fill in some of the gaps in the Percy story, I…
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A preacher? Really? One of my UPS co-workers got a little curious the other day, curious about where I’d come from and what I used to do before loading…
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—a dream whose content I remembered upon waking, and this doesn’t always happen. Plus I woke with an awareness that I was smiling (I’m serious), and…
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All of a sudden there it was in my Instagram feed, this clip from 1969 of Joni Mitchell and Johnny Cash harmonizing on “I Still Miss Someone” in front…
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If a friend of yours had a terminal disease, say advanced cancer, and your friend made the decision to end her life using medicines designed for such…
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. One thing I have asked of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of…
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As long as we’re talking about squirrels, for the last few minutes I’ve been watching a pair glide up and down then up again along a hickory tree behind…
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