January 2025

Do It Again

They call it mountain time. I call it otherworldly, surreal in some ways, slow and dripping like that Salvador Dali painting. Things, people, even deer, stand still on this mountain or move so slowly as to evade discernment. The Cumberland Plateau is just this place, slow, dripping with an ethos calling to a deeper sense, […]

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The Math is Simple

“But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our

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I have come

I have come to believe. This statement evokes thought. If the emphasis is placed on the word “come,” the word suggests time and place. If I have come, I have come from somewhere and at a particular time I arrived. Arrival becomes the essence of the word and expresses some truth or something true I

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A Reminder Prayer

For most of my conscious memory, I have hated cold weather. Shivers do not warm me. Toboggans are useless. Gloves are for fashion, and scarfs just decoration. Snow is pretty on postcards! I have heard the Norwegian saying, “There is no bad weather, only bad clothing.” The Norwegians may be happy with good clothing, but

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