October

October Posts

Shuttered Doors

Driving up Emery Street beside the graveyard, up from Carter’s Bottom, by the Flats, before today’s troubles fogged my ability to observe, there stood sentinel-like, one lone whitewashed marker, stark as a shuttered door. The stone pierced my eye before its message wakened me to the truth it wished to speak. Its thousand words rested

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A Parable

Good teacher, please tell us a story. There was a certain man who left his house to go camping. With him he took only his tent and a backpack. In the backpack were the essentials for his journey, enough food and water, and camping supplies. He journeyed toward the forest in search of a good

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Very Good

“Big deal, I’m used to dust.” Erma Bombeck suggested these words would be her epitaph. In her comedic genius, she spoke about life describing what we must all discover—each must stare death in the face and say, “Big deal!” Of dust, man was formed. And this begs a question. After each act of creation, God

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