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The 22-Acre Woods Project 02

11/23/2018 — A Walk in the Woods 2-18-11 07 Panorama — 22-acre Woods, Indian Land, South Carolina, November 10, 2018 I repeat myself a lotbecause I only have one thing to say: Wake up!Be quiet!Seek solitude!Revel in the silence!Listen—particularly to yourself!Listen to me when I say,“Don’t Listen to Me!Listen to You!” See what you lookContinue reading “The 22-Acre Woods Project 02”

The 22-Acre Woods Project 01

11/15/2018 — A Walk in the Woods 2018-11 09 — 22-acre Woods, Indian Land, South Carolina, November 9, 2011 Jesus did not tell anyonewhat they expected to hear. The True Believersof his dayhad the Templeand 2,000 yearsof traditional understanding of—and faith in—The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And Jesus stood before themand said, “YouContinue reading “The 22-Acre Woods Project 01”

The 22-acre Woods

When my wife and I retired, we moved to a half-acre lot “cornered into” the 22-acre woods, which is how I refer to the wooded buffer-land between us and the developments, shopping centers and highways about three-quarters of a mile away. The woods are a mixture of hardwoods in the bottom land and pines inContinue reading “The 22-acre Woods”

One Minute Monologues 59

September 21, 2020 — October 26, 2020 09/21/2020 — Portland Headlight 9/26/2005 — Portland, Maine You don’t want to be living your lifewith an agenda in handand a schedule at the ready,with every day being another boutat implementation. This is not to be in accord with the Tao. People who think they know best–particularly withContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 59”

Introduction: An Old Preacher’s Manifesto

This is a blog post of my revised Kindle book available at Amazon.com for $2.99–and you can read it here for free. I used WordPress to revise the book, and am posting it here for people who don’t have a Kindle and don’t want to bother with a Kindle App for their PC or MacContinue reading “Introduction: An Old Preacher’s Manifesto”

Introduction: One Minute Monologues

When I retired as an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in 2011, I began writing a short, free-verse, daily exegesis of my experience of life. And here they all are! I have currently published 60 Monologues with 100 entrees per published Monologue, or 6,000 total, with more to come. I offer these toContinue reading “Introduction: One Minute Monologues”

Introduction: Loose Change

This is a collection of observations and reflections that have been helpful in my own life, and I offer them to you, hoping they will be helpful to you in your life. We have to look for what we need, without knowing what we are looking for, and being open to help from the unlikeliestContinue reading “Introduction: Loose Change”

Introduction: I Call This Poetry

This is the WordPress home of my Kindle eBook, I Call This Poetry available for $2.99 from Amazon, but here for free. I hope you find something here worth your time!

Introduction to Story Time

The nine stories in this collection originated as sermons in Amory, Mississippi. There were seventeen in all, before the congregation had enough and asked me not to do that anymore, but to return to the old comfortable way of telling them what they had already heard, and fully expected to always hear, as a confirmationContinue reading “Introduction to Story Time”

One Minute Monologues 058

August 10, 2020 — September 20, 2020 08/10/2020 — Coming to terms with how things areis the unending task of life. In every moment,there is how things are nowand how we feel about how things are now. If it didn’t matter to us how things are,we would have no problemwith how things are. That’s howContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 058”