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28
Jul

scottish pipes and scottish ties

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A couple of weeks ago I spent a weekend in North Carolina at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games. I was camped with my grandparents in their RV right next to a small clearing in the cramped camping area. A clearing where the pipers and drummers would play in the evenings after the end of the [...]

21
Jul

writing break

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First draft of the screenplay is done. Second draft almost done. In the birthing process, it has eaten part of my brain. I am off to fill the now empty space in my [...]

12
Jul

how can a poor man stand such times and live?

Category: local, music, politics, society | Leave a Comment

Sitting here watching Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band on PBS and thinking. As bad as times may be, as dark as the storm may be, we as a species and as a nation have known worse. We’ve survived countless natural disasters, we’ve survived the charnel house of war, we survived thousands of years [...]

12
Jul

taking the high(land) road

Category: computers, personal, technology | Leave a Comment

So the night of that storm, my internet connection went down.

5
Jul

so small, so big

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One of the things I disliked about the house where I lived for the past three years was the lack of a porch. It had only a small peaked roof over a three by four foot slab of concrete at the front door, too small for really sitting and appreciating the world. I don’t sit [...]