In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose. - Jimmy Carte

“I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Another dashed-off entry on this blog, late at night and about to go to sleep. I figure a brief bolus of activity is better than none at all, a little rain to keep the plant alive for another day. After a little over 24 hours in Fl

Lord, I'm so tired How long can this go on? -Lee Dorsey, Working in a Coal Mine Sitting here watching the Bills stink it up again. Josh Allen got married, started hawking cars and pizza and pistachios, and now he's just dreadful. Few men can successfully navigate happiness and success. He's just one of us. But the real downfall of the Bills is their defense--genuinely gawd awful. I can't be too sad, however. I mean, it's the Falcons, and we had season tickets during their awf

"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave." - Don Henley My computer says it's 25 degrees outside, the valley draped...

“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” -Oscar Wilde A chilly morning out there, 35 with a frost...

I don't know a soul who's not been battered I don't have a friend who feels at ease I don't know a dream that's not been shattered Or...

All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are...

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence...

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do...

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. - Karl Marx...

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God....

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take...

Hee, hee, hee, hee, ha, ha, ha! Boy am I in luck! I think about my laughin' place, Yuk, yuk, yuk, yuk, yuk! Ha-yuk, yuk! Everybody's got...

Late getting into my day because Starlink was delivered in a pile on the front porch this morning, and between reconnecting and rebooting...

Homeward bound I wish I was Homeward bound Home where my thought's escapin' Home where my music's playin' Home where my love lies waitin'...

“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.” –...

Lord God, almighty and everlasting Father, you have broughtus in safety to this new day: Preserve us with your mightypower, that we may...

“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow?...

"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths." - Charles Spurgeon  Dean and I are spending...

I guess this qualifies as a placeholder. Peg and I slept in this morning at the condo after being up way too late Monday night/Tuesday...