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Smoke Screen: An action or statement used to conceal actual plans or intentions.

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Proverbs 18:21
reads that: Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.

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I don’t know what got me thinking this morning about the future but I found myself imagining a job in a think tank. You know those places where knowledgeable people sit around noodling about what
things might be like in 5, 10 or 15 years: and get paid for it as well.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.  –T. S. Eliot One of the reasons I have nearly abandoned blogging is an unshakable feeling that no matter how articulate or understanding I am, in reality, nothing is going to change … Continue reading →

Part One:

Rarely does a writer ask for a readers indulgence at the very beginning of a story. But I feel it is imperative at this moment to to
explain myself before we enter into the narrative that I have been living the past week or so.

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I recollect I’ve seen this scene in the movies a dozen times over the past 20 years: girl friend/wife/lover walking alongside the road at night while husband/boyfriend/lover slowly drives beside her,
window open, head bent, pleading with her to get back in the car. There’s been an argument/disagreement/blowup and in her mind walking away was the only option she had left. It really doesn’t matter
who started what: the scene is all that matters.

Many people have this sort of drama in their everyday lives—more so I guess when young. I myself have …
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Ecclesiastes is one of my favorite books in the Bible. I guess part of what I like is the poetic nature of the writing. Some the the images that are formed when I read this book are as truthfully
profound as anything I have ever read.

As pertains to the title of this post, Ecclesiastes 1:9 informs us:

That which has been is that which will be,

And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing …

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I don’t listen to a whole lot of music these days except when I am driving around town, off to a bike ride or on my way to work. It’s not like the old days when it seemed that music was a way of
life—and by the number of CD’s I still have at work and by my computer at home, you would know that I am telling the truth.

Much of what I listen to these days is archived on my old Ipod. Most of the time I leave it on shuffle and …
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At this stage in my life that could be called “the late stage” I have more or less concluded that most of what we say we agree on is really just a matter of perspective. The picture you have in … Continue reading →

As I have grown older and lived through many winters, springs, summers and falls in the mountains of North Carolina, I have come to the
conclusion that it is easier to drink a glass of wine of an evening than it is to creatively blog/ponder life in my somewhat stream of consciousness syntax.

Don’t get me wrong, after writing 248 blog posts during the past few years, I am still captivated by the process of putting my thoughts …
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