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Giving Life to Art: A Profound Event
We didn’t know it at the time, but the summer of 1996 proved to be a turning-point of enormous proportions for the world – and especially our little corner of it – because that was the season when we first … Continue reading
Posted in AIDS, Angels, health, Holy Spirit, Love, miracles
Tagged Art, Art Show, Cedar House, Fire Island, Fire Island Pines, Gallery, Gallery Positive, VisualAIDS
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The First Day of April, 1957
[Excerpted from my as-yet-to-be-named memoirs (a lifetime’s work in progress) recalling the day we moved from Grayson, Alabama (in the middle of the Bankhead National Forest) to Century, Florida (on the Alabama/Florida State line) in 1957. A friend posted photos … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, Love
Tagged AL, Alger-Sullivan, Bankhead National Forest, Century, Century Elementary School, First Grade, FL, Grayson, Mill town, School
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Betty’s Bradford Pears Twenty Years On
[I originally published this post in April of 2014, but a friend of ours posted this beautiful photo of the Bradford Pears peaking in Dallas on Facebook today and it inspired me to realize that it was exactly twenty years … Continue reading
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Ode to a Pew
With apologies to all my lawyer friends… I’ve decided to leaven all the long-form posts I’ve either posted or have in the pipeline with occasional poems from my 1998 compilation, “Ups and Downs”. I called it that because they chronicle … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, poetry
Tagged Law School, M. Leigh Harrison, teaching, University of Alabama, University of Alabama Law School
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The Family of God: Uncle Jesus
[Note to my readers: If I am presumptuous enough to write a blog honoring angels, then it behooves me to periodically lay out for you exactly what I believe; to define, as best I can, just what my religious inclinations … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, faith, God the Father, Holy Spirit, Love, prayer, religion, Uncategorized
Tagged Angels, Connections, Cousins, faith, family, Family Tree, Geneaology, Goodness, Grayson, Holy Spirit, Hope, Imaginary friends, Jesus, Joy, Life, Light, love, Prayer, Truth
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See It. Know It. Do It.
Okay, so I realized a few days ago that, as of December 20th, I’m exactly two-thirds of the way to being a hundred years old. Wow. Not that I’m concerned about it. I’ve always said – you can ask any … Continue reading
Posted in Angels
Tagged Angels, Beauty, blogging, Cedar House, faith, family, Fire Island, Fire Island Pines, flowers, Gardening, Goodness, Joy, Life, Light, love, Truth
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A Burning of Stories, Part I
Good afternoon, everyone. My apologies for being so long away from this blog, but I have the best excuse ever. Our house burned down. Yes, that house. Cedar House. The one from which so much of this blog has sprung. … Continue reading
Posted in AIDS, Angels, belief, Death, faith, God the Father, Holy Spirit, Love, prayer, Rebirth, religion, Uncategorized
Tagged burning, Cedar House, Fire Island Pines, HMS Queen Elizabeth II, housefire, hydrangeas, memories, mermaid, peasant skirt, stuffed animals, tea dance, teddy bears
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Mama’s Butterscotch Pie
The main reason I decided to take up cooking for myself – many years ago – was purely selfish: I wanted to taste again all the wonderful foods that Mama had been so good at producing, and, given that she … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, caramel frosting, cooking, desserts, Love, recipes, Uncategorized
Tagged Butterscotch, butterscotch pie
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A Word, if You Will, about My “Gone too Soon” Profiles
[Dumbledore says, in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.” Which is why, perhaps, I have found this such a difficult piece to write. No magician … Continue reading
Posted in AIDS, Angels, belief, Death, faith, health, Love, poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged ACT UP, AIDS, Ancestry.com, Civilian Warfare, David Haney, Dean Savard, family trees, Fire Island, Fire Island Pines, gone too soon, Mark Simpson, Michael Bishop, Profiles in Grace, Ruffin Cooper, Tim Dlugos
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The Love of God: Diamonds in the Rough (Fourth Annual Posting)
“We have nothing, if not belief.” – Sir Reepicheep, Chief Mouse of Narnia, Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis) “Do the arithmetic or be doomed to talk nonsense.” – John McCarthy, A.I. trailblazer [1] We are the uncut diamonds … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, biology, cells, diamonds, faith, God the Father, Holy Spirit, Living Water, Love, physics, prayer, quitting, quitting smoking, religion, smoking, Uncategorized
Tagged atoms, cells, compounds, DNA, evolution, geology, Life, living cells, primordial ooze, progress, RNA
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