a bad idea

Our worlds are off-kilter. Our priorities, exceedingly off-base. Most of us are only awakened  to what “means the most to us” when tragedy strikes, when something is threatened to be taken from us. Oddly, it is in something’s absence that we most fully realize its presence. How is it that we’re such a largely blind [...]

Posted at 5am on 4/17/07 | no comments; | Filed Under: broad strokes | read on

voto

 
It’s weird being from Nashville. Most cities shuffle into oblivion. Kansas City. Lincoln. Columbia. Waco. But Nashville lingers. It has a reputation. Sometimes inaccurately countrified, but occasionally dead on. To those who know it, they love it. They see it for the quirky, dive bar, Flying Saucer, not-quite-vintage town that it is. It’s where people [...]

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For West is where we all plan to go someday. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered.  It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and see the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar’s gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go–R.P.W.

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