Saw this while I was gathering eggs at my local Kroger grocery store this morning. I need about a million of these!

A meaningful powerful speech a most needed speech.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings. Still a little and they throw you in jail. Still a lot and they make you a king. -b. dylan

Take a look at Joseph’s House in DC, part of Church of the Savior, and the history with which they served the homeless living with AIDS.

Your nice mushroom photos keep me grounded. Thank you.

Going Started

Blackburn TikTok edition

It’s truly wild how @MarshaBlackburn thinks nobody will ever hold her accountable for anything. We see you Marsha.

“Intellectual Integrity Is Called For. The Coming Return of the Hostages and the End to the Fighting are the Work of Donald Trump” The cease fire confirmed what has long been obvious. The Biden administration could have negotiated an agreement if the president had not been such a feckless toadstool.

Ken Silverstein: "All the think tank experts, journalists, and everyone else who regurgitated White House talking points to justify its inaction on Gaza were accomplices of what Biden and the pathetic Blinken allowed to happen and played an essential role in facilitating."

Thank you to the editors of WAXWING for giving three new poems of mine a home--here's one of them. Grateful to be among so many amazing writers.

Here's the full issue: waxwingmag.org

What a gift from friend, Frannie! From left to right: Connie Pottle, me, unknown, Judy Card, and Frannie Taylor. On our way to the storytelling festival in Jonesborough, TN sometime in the 80's.

What a remarkable film, "A Complete Unknown" was. A perfect end to a perfect Christmas Day with family and friends. So grateful to have been here at the same time as all that was celebrated in this film.

Christmas Morning 2024 on Mt. Sequoyah, Fayetteville, AR

Stanley Booth dies: Memphis author, music historian covered Rolling Stones, Elvis and more Stanley Booth is best known for embedding himself with the Rolling Stones in the late ‘60s and writing "The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones."

Sad news out of Memphis: the great Stanley Booth - author, critic, historian and Rolling Stones biographer – has died at the age of 82. My obit on his life, work, and passing: www.commercialappeal.com/story/entert...

When you wake up on Sunday morning to this text from your granddaughter: "Syria is free!!!"

The Prison Story Project has a few updates. Check us out at www.prisonstoryproject.com

On November 6, 2024, my neighbor across the street stayed out in the pouring rain for over 5 hours washing her driveway and sidewalk with a water hose. It was perfect.