Not the Easter Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdJhx8xNATQ I love this band. That’s pretty straightforward, I suppose. The 2nd Chapter of Acts’ first album, With Footnotes, featured a song called “The Easter Song”. What a classic! This isn’t that song….but….how much more classic can lyrics get than … Continue reading →

Billy Edd Wheeler

I heard an interview with this guy on WNCW the other day. What a great songwriter. He wrote a bunch of songs that Johnny Cash did….”The Reverend Mr. Black”…. “Jackson”….a whole bunch of other songs. And….he had a great sense … Continue reading →

desperate to “arrive”

Here’s Seth Alexander talking about self-help materials. I like self-help materials. There’s worse ways to spend your time than listening to or reading things that might empower you….that might motivate you. I know that there are things in the world … Continue reading →

what nature teaches….

I wonder if the really important things I know were learned on an early morning run or sitting around a campfire with family and friends? I suspect that most of the really good thingsĀ I know I learned outside of “school”. … Continue reading →

Facebook=Off

I stopped looking at or postingĀ on Facebook a while back. It looks like other folks have too. Who knew? Something about it started to feel a little bit creepy. And…it is a little creepy. Who knew? … Continue reading →

Fifty Shades of Appa

Our Great Pyrenees loves our chickens. Too much. Strangely, considering the outcome of the “loving” for the chickens, they love Appa, too. They’ll fly into his enclosure to be with him. This has happened a few times, so when I … Continue reading →