This weekend my wife and I slipped off to spend a little time with friends of ours who have built a wonderful home just off the Blue Ridge Parkway near Sparta, NC. The quilt is just one of about a hundred that were on display at the Quilt Festival. I loved the colors –reminded me [...]
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
Hooked On The Horns Of Citizenship
Posted in Observations, Philosophy, Politics on Jul 24th, 2008
The sport’s cliche, No Pain No Gain, is surprisingly applicable to a number of other less athletic endeavors. One which springs immediately to mind is the much ballyhooed and equally enigmatic pillar of democratic society: Citizenship. What is it really? What is implied when one says one is a citizen? What are one’s responsibilities at [...]
Eating Locally, Warming Globally
Posted in Food, Odds & Ends on Jul 4th, 2008
Although drought continues here in Piedmont North Carolina we had fresh corn on the cob last night–the first of the season for us. In addition to the corn we also managed to find a few ripe grape tomatoes, green bell peppers, and jalapeno peppers. The three different varieties of summer squash that we planted are [...]
All The Young Dudes Carry The Good News
Posted in Fun, Observations, religion on Jul 2nd, 2008
Last Saturday night we caught the final performance of Godspell at the Open Space Cafe Theater in Greensboro. A good friend had recommended this particular production to us with glowing terms; she found the musical very entertaining even though she admitted that she was a bit weak on the finer points of the New Testament [...]
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