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  • On Being Interesting: Gay Burkhart

    On Being Interesting: Gay Burkhart
    2025/05/04
    “I must CONSTANTLY remind myself to think and feel more deeply. There is a sadness and shallowness that comes with living in today’s world—particularly in the United States. Fewer and fewer families remain for generations — let alone a single generation — long enough to create empathetic bonds. We lose a depth of understanding and, […]
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    8 分
  • Being the Banks of the River

    Being the Banks of the River
    2025/04/27
    A few weeks ago, my brother-in-law sent photos of flooding in northern Kentucky. Heavy rains caused the Ohio River to run over its banks, causing massive flooding in low and not-so-low lying areas. Recent storms moving through our area reminded me of the unpredictable power of nature as 70 mph winds roared horizontally across a […]
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    7 分
  • What Now? Journeys and Arrivals

    What Now? Journeys and Arrivals
    2025/04/20
    Behold, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession. Deuteronomy 1:8 For the umpteenth time, we watched The Way last night. As I type this, I am both surprised that “umpteenth” is actually a word and that I’m referencing watching this movie for the umpteenth time. But I digress. The movie […]
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    8 分
  • A Good Week to Remember We’re All Wired for Betrayal

    A Good Week to Remember We’re All Wired for Betrayal
    2025/04/13
    “The soul up there whose punishment is worst,” the Teacher said, “is Judas Iscariot, whose feet stick out and who is chewed headfirst.Of the two others with their heads hung down, the one who hangs from the black snout is Brutus. See how he writhes, and does not speak a word!Cassius the last, who looks […]
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    8 分
  • Why Do You Want to Know?

    Why Do You Want to Know?
    2025/04/06
    In Canto 26 of Dante’s epic poem, Inferno, the poet meets the Greek hero, Ulysses. In Greek and Roman mythology, Ulysses was the clever mastermind behind the Trojan Horse which led to the fall of Troy. His journey home was told in Homer’s Odyssey. We find him in the 8th Circle of Dante’s Hell, condemned […]
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    6 分
  • On Being Memorable. Is It Giving or Receiving?

    On Being Memorable. Is It Giving or Receiving?
    2025/03/30
    New York. That icon of American history, personality, and moxie. The city is a melting pot of all the best and worst of what we are as America in the most elemental and profound form. Stepping from the jetway to the Uber, one feels the kinetic energy of millions of people pressed-in upon each other, […]
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    5 分
  • You Are Standing on Holy Ground

    You Are Standing on Holy Ground
    2025/03/23
    God called out to him from the bush, “Moses! Moses!”He answered, “Here I am.”God said, “Come no nearer!Remove the sandals from your feet,for the place where you stand is holy ground. Exodus 3:4-5 A daily ritual of our home is the morning care of our dog, Edie, which includes feeding her and letting her out […]
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    5 分
  • I Thought I Was Supposed to Be the Great One

    I Thought I Was Supposed to Be the Great One
    2025/03/16
    Maybe a real hero is the last one to hear about it. James Stewart as Wylie Burp, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West For some reason, this post came to my mind this week. I wrote it almost exactly a year ago. Maybe it’s watching my grandson play basketball, or another grandson play in the […]
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    7 分