As I sit and contemplate on a mid July morning, the 4th is past, and now we look forward to Labor Day, then Thanksgiving will be coming. Of course the Olympics will be coming soon. I can’t believe how fast time matches by. We don’t really appreciate the hot weather, but it is so much…
I was sitting in the parlor one summer afternoon just watching the storm outside the window. When the storm stopped there appeared the most beautiful rainbow. Just contemplating, I noticed the rainbow touched the ground just at the edge of the woods where we often went to gather May Apples in the spring. My brother…
Where the roses never fade. Listen… I hear Jimmy singing: “I am going to that City. Where the streets with gold are laid And the Tree of Life is blooming Where the roses never fade” My mind can’t conceive what heaven will be like but I like to think what our life might be like.…
I have often been amazed with the Appalachian people, and the stories they tell. I always wanted to visit the people that have very little education, seldom see a doctor, and perhaps never a dentist. I have gone to visit my daughter near Atlanta and have traveled l-65 to Nashville, l-24 to Chattanooga, then l-85…
I have recently run across a topic which is quite interesting. If I were younger you would be on my bucket list. Much of Appalachia’s history was passed down from person to person through hundreds of years, in stories. Stories of tragedy, faith, loss, and community. I know this story is true, because Dorothy was…
As one ages it becomes difficult to generate a great deal of enthusiasm for most things, but I had heard about the eclipse for almost a year. I told you a couple weeks ago I had thought about driving 20 or 30 miles from my home base. Leaving just in time to get there. According…
Phil and Amanda Miller had two beautiful daughters, that were the talk of the Town, Goring, Missouri. Phil and Amanda were strict Methodists in a town of Baptists, Presbyterians and Lutherans. The oldest daughter Shelby, fell in love with a Methodist by the name of Loring Johnson, of the respected Johnson family. He was really…
The first solar eclipse visible in our area in a long time will take place on Monday, April 8th, 2024, beginning at 1:53 p.m. The next solar eclipse will be in 2044 but it will be visible in South Dakota. You’ll have to travel for that one. Better get a pair of glasses pronto. A…
The story of a church builder turned pirate. One of the most mysterious stories, where was I when we studied famous cathedrals in the fourth grade. William arrived in the US from Scotland in 1691. He lived in New York City and was the talk of the Town. He was a handsome young man, lived…
Giving your only son. My granddaughter gave me a book of stories, written by a guy in Alabama, and I find it quite intriguing. He talks about his folks getting a divorce when he was age 9, and he would live with his father one weekend, and his mother the other weekend. He said this…
A couple of things have happened recently that have caused me to reflect on the past. You might say two projects, the first attempt failed, but I still feel like I can pull it off. But the second has a resolution, and it doesn’t seem to be a happy one. Thinking about the time we…
We go to back to the mid 1500’s and we see a man studying late into the night by candlelight. He is working on developing a medicine that will cleanse a person’s body from toxins. His name is Dr Franciscus Sylvius de la Boe, and he is a highly respected Dutch doctor. He did succeed…
I have difficulty with a verse by verse study of the Bible. I like to look for the story it is trying to portray. We might need to read the book several times, perhaps in one sitting. James repeats the main topics. Let’s give this a try and take a look at the entire book…
