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Reading David Harwell’s “community biography” of Walker Percy (Walker Percy Remembered), and the introduction begins: Many people cried when they talked…
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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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July 2022

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…
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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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Streamsofconsciousness
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June 2022

I’d been staring at a screen all morning—work, emails, Zoom call, all that. Contrary to it enlarging your world, I feel if you spend too much time in…
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Meredith Lee and I will mark 32 years of marriage in a few days, June 30th to be exactamundo. 32 years, that’s a lotta years. How do you stay married…
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I write about everything. My friend Jordan Green commented that writing about “everything” isn’t always good for marketing purposes, but good for frames…
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