Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

Well, that’s not really true, the blank mind* part. Rather there is so much tumbling around in my brain that I think it’s created a bottle neck. I wish I could figure out a way out of that. Not that I can’t just sit down and yammer on – obviously I can. But when it [...]

Because it seems we sure didn’t used to. Reading lately about the underground railroad (great stuff!) and other things dealing with the antebellum South, and I got to wondering…  when enslaved persons ran away, how did people recognize them? For instance: This says, in part- $150 REWARD Ranaway from the subscriber, on the night of [...]

I’ve just finished (well, all but a few pages) the underground railroad book. What a read, I don’t want it to end. Well, I do because I think it ends at the Civil War, but I’d love it if it was twice the size, with more stories of the various escapes and the workings of [...]

I am not so interested in dictating to others how they should remember their past. Let the Lost Cause find itself, our search lies within. And when it’s over, we will put Ida Wells up against Nathan Forrest, on any day of the week, and leave the generations to judge. Sooner or later, in the [...]