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David Lee, Mine Tailings (Boulder, UT: Five Sisters Press, 2019), 79 pages. David Lee was formerly the poet laurate of Utah and has been affectionally referred to as “the Pig Poet.” About the time I was leaving Utah, Lee … Continue reading
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What are you reading this days? Looking for a good book while you isolate yourself? Here are three books from books I recently read. It’s by sheer accident that two of them discuss Epictetus (but different parts of his philosophy): … Continue reading
David Sedaris, Thief by Finding (audiobooks, 1977) 13 hours 52 minutes. Years ago, I read Me Talk Pretty One Day. It was a very funny book and I’m not sure why it took me so long to get around to … Continue reading
Granddaddy Faircloth Christmas Day, 1966 Jeff Garrison I’m now ten years older than you were when I snapped that photo, a nine year old boy on Christmas morning with his new camera, a Kodak Instamatic. It took some persuasion for … Continue reading
A little over a month ago, I attended the closing session of the Pat Conroy festival. Most of the events were held in Beaufort, SC, but the closing one was held in Bluffton, which is just across the river a … Continue reading
Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolutions for Holy Beings: Poems. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2015) 139 pages. I picked up this book after learning that Joy Harjo has been appointed poet laureate for the United States. It’s exciting because she’s the … Continue reading
I spent last week at a church camp at the Ebeneezer Retreat Center near Rincon, Georgia. I led the outdoor activities for the youth, which included taking the middle and high school youth on a canoe trip. While they … Continue reading