Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

Just two brief observations today for this upcoming, seemingly never-to-get-here, never-to-end, 4th of July holiday (since today is still June, July 4th isn’t until next Tuesday and Tom is going to have to work long hours part of the weekend and all day Monday, as well). The first is written and the second graphic. Observation [...]

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If you haven’t lived in a small town somewhere in the south, you’ve missed a whole lot of things in life. And living in a small town in the heart of the south – in Mississippi – is the ultimate living experience. Only in small town Mississippi do some things in life take place. Like [...]

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Due to circumstances beyond any control any of us thinks they have, the Finding Direction “Summer Desktop Photo Contest” Deadline is being extended one more week until next Monday, July 3, with the winners to be announced shortly thereafter (maybe even 4th of July) so get those tree photos in people. Several of you have [...]

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It’s hard to believe, y’all, but it’s been a year ago this week (already?!) since our last annual trek to the Mississippi Press Association Summer Convention. You see my picture here (from last year, if it looks familiar) as the guest “Blogger” among all of the illustrious journalists present. If you remember, I tried my [...]

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Well, it’s been a quiet week here in Blogger Land. Sort of a lazy, laid back southern summer week even here in Katrina Zone. But some of us are already getting ourselves in gear for the upcoming college football season. It’s never too early for southerners to start making detailed and intricate plans for fall. [...]

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We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. The only profitable relationship to others – and especially to our weaker brethren – is one of love, and that means the will to hold fellowship with them. [...]

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(Reminder: The “Finding Direction Summer Desktop/Screen Savers Photo Contest” is in full swing, but many more entries are needed, so you all need to get busy and email me your entries. All of the “rules” (rules? those are rules) can be found right here. Deadline is June 25, so get your tree pictures in, ya’ [...]

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