When you live in the mountains and among mountain people there are occasions that you come upon what can only be described as beautiful squalor. A ramshackle house and a porch cluttered with useful things, tools, and a tawny scraggly cat or a raspy furred dog soaking up a sunbeam or snoozing in the rain. It is not the palace of a king or queen, but ( Read more... )

The brakes were grinding again, not the typical squeek but the deep metal on metal that means I have let it go too long again. So I swing by O'reilly in Big Stone and get a set of pads, no biggie. I get them home loaf around a minute to let the sun go down and when I go to put them on I notice that its the wrong pads. I have just enough time to ( Read more... )

In ny Facebook memories today there was an entry where during the pandemic a person was trying to encourage me because J was still trying to preach albeit virtually. Three uears later that person isn't coming to church because, I assume, I was doing virtual church too much. Harlan had been having close to 1000 new cases a week so I went virtual. ( Read more... )

I watched her stare at the pigmented fired glass pictures of skies. They were skies from all over but a few of them were skies we had seen before. The sea, nowhere else on Earth quite has skies like near the sea. It's bright, clear, open and big. Yet standing in a gallery at the William King Art Museum in Abingdon they were small, perfectly ( Read more... )

Today was my mothers birthday, she would have been 62 if I'm not mistaken. She was not perfect as a parent. She, like every other parent who ever lived, made mistakes and had faults and was sometimes a frazzled mess of emotions. She would gossip and she blew her stories about herself out of proportion. She painted the divorce up completely ( Read more... )

Shall We Stroll unashamed in the moonlight?
So unafraid of the limelight that basks us in its glow,

or

Shall We Waltz confidently to the tune?
So unabashed as the music through us rolls

and

Shall We Wander bravely by the twilight?
So undeterred as the darkened shadows grow

We must.
We must Go.

So the church in Campbellsburg was a no go surprisingly enough. We have no idea why the sudden change of heart or mind towards us, nevertheless there was one and so here we are again. I will again pour over church classifieds looking for a church to apply to. The interview process, the questions, the phone calls etc. then the examination the ( Read more... )

For a short while we lived in English Indiana while I was a kid. The old house we lived in was an old Amish built house. It had been converted but not completely, my stepdad had to fix the bathroom. It was a small space that was separated from the rest of my room by a curtain, or at least that is the memory that has planted itself in my head. There ( Read more... )

"It's quiet, a little too quiet"-Zippo Man ( Read more... )

The hardest thing in the world is knowing there are things coming in the future and having to wait.
Gotta keep my head down and push on.