I can’t believe how fast time is moving. No doubt the older you get, the faster it goes. It’s not just time that’s flying. The world seems like it’s sliding down a mountainside. At first, it was just a bit of instability but as it […]
Author: Nick
Be Proud to be a Kohathites
It’ been kind of a rough week. One of my favorite ladies at my church died. She survived only a short time after her diagnosis. She was a “frontier” woman. She raised her family alone. She raised animals. There seemed nothing she couldn’t do. At […]
The Wimpiest Generation
My Dad’s generation has been rightly called, “The Greatest Generation.” After all, they defeated Nazism, Fascism, and Communism at least for their times. They came back from the war and educated themselves and re-built America. They were fearless. This generation seems scared of its own […]
Why Am I Still Alive?
A few months ago I started taking the local papers: The Advertiser and The Advocate. I skim both papers every day. I do the Sudoku puzzles in both. It’s my desperate attempt to keep mentally alert at 71. The other thing I do because of […]
RIchard Rohr on the Book of Job
I receive Fr. Richard Rohr’s postings each day. Frankly, I don’t usually read them. It’s not that I disagree with them. It’s that most of them are over my head, spiritually speaking. At 2 a.m., this morning I woke and, is my custom, I […]
Never Going Back
If you are to survive all that has and is happening in 2020 get this through your thick skull: You can never go back. This can be a hard truth, especially for us older folks, but we need to accept it to survive. Let me […]
The Last Psalm
I haven’t posted since April. It’s not that things haven’t been happening. There have been lots to comment on. I just didn’t know what to say. What hasn’t already been said about COVID-19? There seem to be only two positions: The danger has been […]
A World Changed Forever
I get the feeling that our world, through this pandemic, is being changed forever. I have been working out of my home for decades. After this is over, I think it’s obvious that many will work “remotely” from now on. It will be a dramatic […]