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The Chinese symbol for “crisis.” It does not necessarily, as the infamous proverb goes, mean “danger” and “opportunity.” Danger is the first symbol, but the second, more accurately, means “that point in which everything changes.” I suppose one could view that as “opportunity,” but I like the more accurate meaning better… A crisis, filledContinue reading

Another Visit To The Golden Age of Radio directed by Gary YoggyAnother Visit to the Golden Age of Radio (19th annual edition) – Remember when gasoline was only 15 cents/gallom, the milkman came to your door, and families gathered in the evening to hear the popular radio programs? For the 19th time in as manyContinue reading

Show me what it’s likeTo be the last one standingAnd teach me wrong from rightAnd I’ll show you what I can beSay it for meSay it to meAnd I’ll leave this life behind meSay it if it’s worth saving me

I know I haven’t been posting much lately. It’s not that I’ve had no interesting thoughts, it’s just that most of my interesting thoughts are not things I wish to share with the known and unknown universe. I’m back at Subway, which is good for the bank account. I’m beginning to believe that I canContinue reading

Viewing the slideshow of Ron and Rachel (http://pictureinfinity.com/slideshows/east/) almost makes me want to get married. Well, I got over that in a hurry. I have no idea what the plan is here. What God is going to do with this broken, messed up, shattered thing I call my life; only that He is, like SandyContinue reading

Struggling.A girl I know killed herself Tuesday night. My bank account is empty, and though I should start substitute teaching soon(my application will be approved Monday night), it will be a few weeks before the check shows up in my mailbox. And because my clearances have yet to come in, it throws yet another wrenchContinue reading

All good stories start this way:I was walking down Franklin Street yesterday. You have to understand that I will not drive down Franklin. I hate red lights. I consistently will go a block out of my way and drive down Decatur instead of Franklin. There are a lot of people who think I do thisContinue reading

just for today, I will choose hope rather than despairpotential rather than limitationhealing rather than hurtingbelonging rather than isolation,and what the future can be,rather than what the past has been.

The happy couple, Rachel and Ron East The Moore cousins….the first time we’ve all been together left to right….my cousin Tami(the daughter of my dad’s brother), Rebekah, me, and my cousin Erica(Tami’s sister)’s fiance, Joe My toast to Rachel. She’s crying. Some of my favorite people…my cousins Jeremy, Emily, and Dan Some more of myContinue reading