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  • My sister Julia is making Kleenex people.

  • gleanings from this morning's sermonExhortations to set our minds on things above, not things below, often leave us wondering, deep down, how you can be any earthly good if you're as heavenly-minded as all that. Well, ho…

  • Have you noticed that we've grown lazy when it comes to the way a thing is said? Well chosen sentences from a polished writer may appear to add up to the same meaning as a two-sentence summary. But sentences have souls, …

  • "After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, follow…

  • Have you noticed that avoiding God while we try to get "back on track" is our default response to affliction? What foolishness. The cry of faith is to God. It's during despair, temptation, and bitterness that we need Him…

  • Carolina Ballet is presenting Swan Lake May 19-22 at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. My attachment to classical ballet began when I was three or four, but until today I'd never seen even a filmed version of this most famous…

  • For you shall go out with joy,And be led out with peace:The mountains and the hillsShall break forth into singing before youAnd all the trees of the field shall clap their hands . . . . . . . Isaiah 55:12

  • Mens sana corpore sano is an old summary of whole and healthy humanity. A sane mind in a sound body. I haven't found that college promotes or even halfway assists either sanity or soundness.

  • I taught my first "official" piano lesson Tuesday morning. My first student (I have two) is a mannerly and intelligent young man of eleven who has studied the piano for about a year already. He was unfamiliar with handy …

  • Y'all, resident Campbell photographer Ginnie Colquitt has given me a CD with 142 pictures from various musical events this past semester. There are some absolutely magnificent ones. Anybody who wants a couple pictures, …

  • I'm leaving tomorrow to go to the Virginia mountains for a few days. My grandmother rents a cabin near Mount Rogers during the spring and fall, and is always hospitable. It will be lovely there at this time of year. I'm …

  • College is reportedly where the strangest things happen, but I haven't found anything there half so random and entertaining as I've found my first week back at home. Wednesday, coming home from work, I stopped for a red…

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