Don’t Believe …along the roadside of your belief the advertisers, the marketers, the profiteers of misdirection, the snake oil salesman’s pitch. …on the cobbled row of wise men those most to be pitied— the sleepers, doubters, skeptics, naysayers, deniers or a certain man’s shadowed hanging form. …on highways of jeering crowds your bottom line […]
Is there a Daniel in your life? There is, was, in mine. I have long lost contact with Daniel. Life, geography, time, and ambition distanced me from him. His life, personality, friendship, his impact remains in my memory and my person. Though separated now, an eternal bond links us. Daniel was my friend. I knew
The trip holds memories and metaphors best remembered. A bus ride up I-75 toward Sweetwater, Tennessee beckoned adventure as we arrived and hiked up a gentle slope to a hidden hole in the ground into which Blake Cheatham and I and a few more father-son pairs descended. A large cavern waited to house us for
Allowing intrusion to seep through as I’m oft to do – taking a phone call I shouldn’t, saying yes when I should say no, taking on frivolous endeavors, allowing the trivial to creep in – leads down a path going nowhere, designed for procrastination and avoidance, to be busy at all the wrong things and
