As I slide down toward another weekend, my feedreader brings me this from Mark Peacock at Appalachian Treks…
Appalachian Treks: Serene Majesty
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
–Washington Irving (1783-1859) American Writer
The beauty of Rocky Fork is [...]

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Occasionally a blog entry will touch a spot in me that makes me do something…Cate’s “ramble” today was one…
Beyond the Fields We Know: Looking for…
Some places arrange themselves perfectly in eye and viewfinder, and yet they do not speak or sing. Others, often on cold, dank and foggy days, arrange themselves easily in neither [...]

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Eugene Robinson – The Surge Turns Into the Stall – washingtonpost.com
Of course, Bush long ago lost any credibility with Congress and the American people on Iraq. It’s understandable that he hides behind Petraeus’s breastplate of medals and Crocker’s thatch of gray hair, sending these loyal and able public servants to explicate the inexplicable: What [...]

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A daily thought from Eknath Easwaran is delivered to my inbox by The Blue Mountain Center of Meditation. Each thought causes me to reflect a bit as I prepare to leave the house each morning. I found this one particularly thought provoking…
Thought for the Day
March 26
Thy desire is thy prayer; and if thy desire is [...]

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Thanksgiving Day was the last decent weather day we had through the long holiday weekend. Friday, Saturday and Sunday were all wet, windy and cold. Most decidedly cold for the wife. Forty degree weather in this neck of the woods qualifies as winter, not fall, so throw in the rain and the wife was miserable.
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As the sun sinks slowly behind the trees to the west the heat of the day begins to approach the lowly mid-eighties. Mid summer on the Texas Gulf Coast is always a charmer unless you live here, then it just becomes a dodge the mosquito chore of sweaty clothes and damp everything else…
I probably did [...]

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From Washington
Forgive me a few moments of happiness at the news from Washington. The one bit of uniting not dividing to come out of the White House in six years…Karl Rove is resigning.
One of the few good quotes I’ve seen about the resignation of Karl Rove…
“Buh-bye, Karl Rove. On your way out of the White [...]

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Fragments From Floyd: June 2002 Archives
June 5, 2002
Summer LightningThe animals have been tended, my wife and son have left for work, and I am alone watching the first rays of a humid, empty day through the windows. I am in my slippers, merely waiting, early into my second month “between jobs”. Waiting: on epiphanies, [...]

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