About seven or eight miles from my home in Texas, is Interstate 45. It’s unique among the nations interstates in that it is the only highway, with the designation of a Federal Highway System Interstate. that is completely contained within one state. To the north of Dallas I-45 merges into I-75 . Traveling south from Dallas […]
Category Archives: Where This Road Goes
Exploring the logical consequences of our choices
MARVELS OF MODERN NUTRITION
I was cooking up the three hundredth bowl of oatmeal for my eighty-four year old mother, when I decided to add the new product that I had discovered in the grocery store.
I took the jar out of the cabinet and scanned the label with increasing satisfaction; folic acid 20%, vitamin E 20%, magnesium 10%, thiamine 15%, phosphorus 10%, zinc 10%.
_________ Wheat Germ-toasted. Boy, she’ll be running laps around the block with this stuff, I thought.
Dishing out a portion of oatmeal, I sprinkled two tbsp. of the miraculous powder over the top and proudly set the bowl on the table.I stepped back in order to better see the look of struck dumb amazement and delight certain to appear on her face.
” Whats this?” I whipped out the jar and set it in front of her.
She tilted her head back to peer through the bottom of her bifocals, slowly mouthed the label ,and said;
“Oh yes, daddy used to buy hundred pound bags of this to feed the hogs and cows.”
Do It Right
Dec 25
In the twenty some odd years of working in construction, with and for my father, I heard him asked by at least two dozen different customers ” How do you fix a bad foundation?” They usually would enumerate the various methods ” foundation repair ” companies advertised; mud jacking, I-beams driven down to bedrock, wrapping tension […]
Christmas Day
I think it’s instructive to remember that when Christ was born in Bethlehem, Judea, the official announcement by Heaven that the greatest event in human history, up to that time, had occurred, was given in a dark field, outside of the cities and towns, to a handful of anonymous shepherds.
While emperors planned, and powerful men and women spun designs for conquest and acquisition; the event that would shape the destiny of all mankind, that would change the face of the entire earth; that would establish forever the point from which time itself would be measured, had played itself out in a forgotten corner of a minor province. And no-one knew except a handful of shepherds.
I’m not certain where shepherds stood on the social scale of Judea, I suspect they were closer to the bottom than the top. But for one glorious night, in an empty field, while all the world slept, they alone knew.
Angels in the Dark
Dec 20
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No one knows what angels look like. There are a wealth of popular images, in movies ,books, and on television. There are songs, plays and paintings, but no one really knows. Why? Because angels usually come in the dark. Why? Because that’s where the people who need them the most usually are. In the dark. In December […]
The Birds and the Bees
Dec 18
It seems that the young people in our world have lost the wisdom , or never acquired it , that their mothers and fathers were blessed to have received from their elders , or by bouncing their face off of a brick wall untill the light turned on. I’m thinking in particular of the complex and perilous task of communicating […]
Democrat & Republican
Dec 10
Democrats believe that you should give a man a fish and thereby feed him for a day. This is an all together good and virtuous thing to do. Republicans believe that if you teach a man to fish, it won’t be long before he needs a Bass Boat and motor, and a trailer […]
Cut the Rope
Dec 9
The most jarring, visceral, scene in a movie I have ever seen, is the first fifteen minutes of the film “Vertical Limit”. A father, son, and daughter are climbing guides leading two customers up one of the tall spires in Monument Valley. The clients are in front, the father next followed by the son then the […]
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