On the Religious Population
From 1850 to 1946, the U.S. Census counted religious communities and structures. If one is aware of the history of the 20th Century, and the role played by Holl...
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Almost Heaven
Climbed the fire tower on Sounding Knob with some of my children this morning, and after overcoming the vertigo looked out over the oldest mountains in the worl...
Faded Fluorescent Light, Dirty Tile, and an Enveloping Sound
One humid summer night, passing through Maryland on a long road trip, I stopped for gas and a pack of smokes. In those days gas stations weren’t often open at...
Lost in ?
It was 18:30 just a few minutes ago and the sun had no thought yet of setting. Now it’s black out, and my computer woke up to tell me it is going to sleep. â€...
A Visitor
Luna, the smallest and youngest of our cats, has in her short time here cornered two snakes behind a door in the basement. And somehow she climbs the concrete w...
Tonight
Strong breeze tonightWarm breeze tonightLow breeze tonight The clouds above, unmovedThe stars above, unmovedThe dipper above, unmoved This breeze, low, aroundth...
So Tonight I Might Sleep
Thursday afternoon the frogs who cling to the trees nearby gave voice to their mating song. A few daring fellows first, by evening constant singing rose from th...
A May Day
A luxury of working from home is the occasional opportunity to sit outside well away from the darkened lair of the computing beast. There is some small guilt in...
But where will the money come from?
I had to turn off the radio this morning after this stupidity. MARTIN: Where is President Biden going to find more than $2 trillion? HORSLEY: He wants to send t...
Nitpicking Marvel’s Verisimilitude
My children and I enjoyed Disney’s WandaVision, particularly catching the references to other television shows and comics. We even laughed at their mistak...
Sunday
After a day out with the Scouts, listening and chatting while they helped with an Eagle project, I settled down around 15:30 to read in the sun as it traced an ...
A Full Snow Moon
Rain was forecast. And snow fell overnight and softly falls this morning. The deer herd are up to their breakfast wandering each tree to tree, pine to pine for ...
Each morning I wake up
Cricket, one of the cats, stands patiently next to my head. She’s purring quietly. I will notice her and remember she is /waiting/ for food. Luna, the oth...
The White Rose
My family has the strange habit of buying books whenever possible, so sometime in 1984 or so I read the 1983 edition of The White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943 (1952)...