Cataloochee in B&W
One of our favorite (and closest) areas within Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Cataloochee Valley offers trails and trees, wilderness, wild streams and elk. Good place for photographs too.
Do We Really See Our World?
I wonder sometimes. How dragonflies see the world (BBC) Amazement. . .
Saving Jesus, Again
Time for my annual “Secular Sermon” for “Holy Week.” If you feel a bit sorry for Jesus, or at least for what “His People” have done to him. . .well,…
Choosing New Trails and Bridges
No big surprise. There are now more Nones than Nuns. This latest survey finds “No Religion” is just about the Largest “Religion” in America: “For the first time “No Religion”…
When a Pastor Bites their Tongue
I used to be a Presbyterian minister, so I paid closer attention to this story from Raleigh, NC. The pastor of a white and wealthy Presbyterian church wants to keep…
Voices of Good in Greenville
After speaking to the Piedmont Humanists recently, I took a walk downtown Greenville, South Carolina. A new city for me, and quite impressive. Some cities seem to be embarrassed by…
Highlands of the Mind
I know that’s not much of a title, but it’s what hiked into my head after a first-Saturday-in-Spring saunter with Carol yesterday near Black Balsam off the BRP (Blue Ridge…
Mystifying
Nature mystifies me. It “bewilders” and “perplexes.” You think you see or hear or experience what is Right There, Right Here, and then find you’re being tricked by your…
