In the past few years, I have spent a lot of time reading material about and by Wendell Berry. I really admire him, both as a writer and a man. There are a lot of things such as moving to a farm, working that farm the old, manual way, remaining ludditious in his relationship with [...]
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My Southern Myth
Posted in Life, Uncategorized on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While Kathy and I were staying at the Hampton Inn in Nashville, I found a Newsweek article about how the Obama candidacy for President was changing the Old South. The author seemed to be saying that the fact that a Black American was running for the highest office in the land was somehow ripping the [...]
A Night with Just Poems
Posted in Life, Poetry on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Steve Gardner didn’t teach me how to write; he taught me how not to write. Dr. Gardner had us take the sharp knife of editing and pare away the superflous words from each line of our poetry. Snip out the gerunds, replace them with verbs. Don’t describe it, make it real. Write and make me [...]
God Did Not Die Alone
Posted in Life on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To continue my thoughts from yesterday. I realize that we think that the world was a lot simpler place in the 50′s and early 60′s. After all, America had won the Second World War and had forgotten about the stalemate in Korea–they could blame that on the United Nations, since it wasn’t really an American [...]
