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Robb Envy

My first stop on this drive was Memphis to visit my friend Robb.  He’s not someone I’ve been very close to through the years, but we were acquaintances back in grammar school. We reconnected through Facebook and seem to have found an affinity for one another so I thought it would be a nice first […]

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Austin, TX Constriction Amidst the Expansion

I spent some time in Austin a day or so ago with my dear friend LZ.  She’s an amazing Blues/gospel singer.  You can check her out at: http://www.lz-love.com/index.html and I encourage you to buy some of her CDs there as well. I arrived yesterday and she took me to a wedding of some friends of hers.  […]

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Bibles for China – Driving Through the Evangelical South

I’ve been driving for a couple of days now, leaving Chicago early Thursday morning, spending the night with an old friend of mine in Memphis, and then driving again today through Arkansas and eastern Texas to Palestine, TX (pronounced pal’-e-steen).  It’s been strange driving through the south.  I’ve never driven through Arkansas or Texas before […]

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Journey of Ashes – Beginning

Here I am at the beginning of this trip, a trip which will include disposing of my mother’s ashes. It is a pilgrimage of sorts, which is really just a subset of this larger pilgrimage in my life, to fully find and become my self, my true self, without overlay of past or future. It […]