Posted April 7, 2020. Good News: This year wild Atamasco lilies are more abundant and widespread along Cedar Creek than anytime in more than 45 years of my walking these woods. I suppose our wet winter and several floods are responsible for this explosion of beauty. Nevertheless, we’ve had wet years and floods before, but…
Posted March 26, 2020. This post is by Mac Brown, my close friend for more than thirty years: Rev. Chris Denny’s sermon title on Sunday March 22 was God Is With Us. He challenged us to think about when we last had “seen” God. I may not have “seen” God but I felt his presence on the preceding…
Posted March 1, 2020 Thinking about Culture Change: Frontiersman Daniel Boone once lived in the Yadkin River Valley of North Carolina not far from my boyhood home, and I began reading Boone biographies in middle school. At the time, I was also finding Native American “arrowheads” and “spearheads.” And, I imagined them having been left…