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How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of Him who bringeth glad tidings - Isaiah 52:7 "I don't understand. Most people around here don't even notice that mountain. I…

Fear Part 1 A portion of Nancy's yard It’s March and Charlie and I are enjoying sunny Southern CA at my sister Nancy’s and her husband Rick’s home as I…

My sister Nancy has a cat named Shiva -- the Hindu destroyer god. When she was a little kitty, everything was to be chewed and torn apart. Shiva is the…

From Charlie’s essay But even so, we are very far from the quiet life of fungi, who spend their lives doing only what they were designed to do: sending out threads…

Striving to Be Still                 We humans are, so far as I can tell, the only creatures that strive—that strive to be better, to be more, to be different from…

In My Father’s  house there are many mansions – John 14:2 In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to…

My comment was always, “I never bought a pen in my life,” whenever Charlie would show me his latest writing utensil acquisition. Sponsor booths at conferences related to my work always…

Journal entry: Monday March 1, 2021.  I have begun restoring pens again.  So far, just well-used “third-tier” pens like this Viceroy combo (both pen and mechanical pencil) that I’m writing…

I’m one of a few people who have the honor of addressing Rev. Charles Layton as Charlie. Lots of people call him Chuck or Pastor Chuck, but close family members…

David has been my big brother my whole life. That relationship has had its ups and downs—or rather, its downs and ups. As kids, we were always at each other.…