Category Archives: Love
TBT/GTS##4&5: Jimmy and Joey Parker: “Mastering Life”
How I Knew Them James Boyd (Jimmy) Parker “Tommy,” Leath Nunn said to me one afternoon as he was heading out for Madame Danilova’s ballet class, “I asked my friend Jimmy to come tonight. I hope that’s okay.” “Of course … Continue reading
A Photo Essay: Revisiting The 2015 Cedar House Garden
[NOTE: I first posted this garden tour eight years ago, two years before the fire, so there’s nothing new here, but the truth is, it was beautiful, and while the art, like a Cristo installation, may be long gone, the … Continue reading
PART III: The Love of God: Uncut Diamonds (Seventh and Final)
“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
PART II: The Flow of God: Living Water and All That Missing Matter (Seventh and Final)
Let me begin with two fundamental tenets of my belief system: First, I utterly and without question believe the Universe we inhabit was made by a singular, living, creative, brilliant, loving God (Whom I happen to call “Father” but you … Continue reading
The Love of God: Uncut Diamonds
“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
The Flow of God: Living Water and All That Missing Matter
Let me begin with two fundamental tenets of my belief system: First, I utterly and without question believe the Universe we inhabit was made by a singular, living, creative, brilliant, loving God (Whom I happen to call “Father” but you … Continue reading
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
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
