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8/18/24   This past weekend, Rett and I had the great pleasure of joining our children and their spouses and our three granddaughters at...

painting by Andrew Wyeth 1947 It's a lazy afternoon And the beetle bugs are zooming And the tulip trees are blooming And there's not...

Admiral William McRaven Some of us remember the phrase “Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche” that was the title of a book that  had started out as...

7/21/24 The blame partially goes to Gene Logsdon (11/5/1931-5/31/2016) RIP, and to his friend and mentor, Wendell Berry.  Sometime in the...

Lura Mae Swift Robinson July 14, 2024 For many years, Rett has sung the Irish lullaby, “Tura-lura-lura” to our children and now to our...

THE GOOD U.S. Constitution Article III Section 1. The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior , and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office. From SCOTUS website: "EQ

This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island, From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters;...

Cherry-Ripe Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry Full and fair ones; come and buy If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer: There Where...

Consider this:  what if the sun began to slow down its decent toward the horizon, and you were able to experience perpetual daylight? ...

It is with great love and pride that I quote my daughter, Caroline, from an article she wrote for YWCA Columbus -“Y Now: The time is...

The Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci Who is this person (self) who wakes from sleep each morning, becomes aware of wakefulness, stretches, begins to assess the needs of the day, and devises a strategy for living life to its fullest potential? This person named Charles Patrick Woliver is as old as life itself and is simultaneously a continuum of change.  This “I” is a human body-mind, an autonomous and dynamic system that arises in dependence upon human culture (what we are

Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd; Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks, I don't care if I never get back. For...

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY Dorsey Lou Justice Woliver Tribute to Mother A picture memory brings to me; I look across the years and see Myself...

How many of us, given the opportunity, have the knowledge and/or experience to literally build our family a new house?   Last week my...

The April 25, 2024 edition of  “The Morning” from the NYT included a piece about campus protests in the US over the Hamas/Israeli war. ...

On Earth Day 2024, how (in-form-ed) are we about this miraculous sphere on which we exist?   Have we stopped long enough to recognize...

Imitation is the highest compliment mediocrity pays to genius. Sometime around the year 2000, I found myself with enough leisure time to...

If cloud cover permits, on April 8, 2024, residents living at 6090 Junk Road, Mount Sterling, Ohio will be able to see a 99.7% solar...

3/24/24 Unfortunately, there is a strong attempt from the conservative political right to turn back advances in diversity, equity, and inclusion. I offer words from Langston Hughes: I look at the world I look at the world From awakening eyes in a black face — And this is what I see: This fenced-off narrow space Assigned to me. I look then at the silly walls Through dark eyes in a dark face — And this is what I know: That all these walls oppression builds Will have to go! I lo

On this Saint Patrick's Day 2024, I offer words from two of Ireland's favorite poets and from one "want-to-be". My love is in a light attire My love is in a light attire Among the apple-trees, Where the gay winds do most desire To run in companies. There, where the gay winds stay to woo The young leaves as they pass, My love goes slowly, bending to Her shadow on the grass; And where the sky's a pale blue cup Over the laughing land, My love goes lightly, holding up Her dress w