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Movement of Jah People I’m not a huge fan of the Grateful Dead, but must admit it’s been a long, strange trip since our previous post. In the past year I’ve been kicked out of a halfway house because of no income, slept in a drug dealer’s car for a month, figured out how to…
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Or, Last Call at the Tavern 2015. I was on three years probation for my third (and thankfully last) DUI in Ulster County, that should have been a felony, save for a sturdy defense lawyer and 18 months of court appearances. With my charge finally reduced to a misdemeanor (thanks again, Tom Petro Esq) I…
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Willy’s Tale William J. Guldy Jr. July 18, 1938 – June 23, 2024 Hold the Jameson and pass the tissues, please. My friend and mentor, William J. “Uncle Willy” Guldy Jr., a truly unique legend in the post-Woodstock music scene, passed away 10 days ago. It took me five to stop weeping. The expression, “words…
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Or, My Six Months a Rock Star If you didn’t know, the formal definition of Rumspringa is “a rite of passage during (male) adolescence, used in some Amish communities.” (Wikipedia elaborates here.) For these young men, Rumspringa normally begins at age 16 and ends between ages 17 and 21, when they choose either to be baptized in the Amish church or to leave…
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Here in the rehab house we’re blessed to have a weekly prayer circle hosted by two local pastors, one an ordained minister and the other an elder in his church. Professionally, both are interstate truck drivers, so we’re fortunate if they’re in town, but when not, we DIY the readings ourselves. Happily for us Brother…
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Q: If April showers bring may flowers, what do may flowers bring? A: Pilgrims! (Sorry, couldn’t resist that one.) Blame it on Mercury coming out of retrograde, but the universal energy lately has been a little funky. Perhaps it’s due to distant saber-rattling from Russia and South Korea, or our President’s drug-friendly son being indicted…
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In a previous post (“It Is To Laugh” from August 5,) I promised you, dear readers, some praises on Hollywood’s two greatest (IMHO) comedic film directors; Billy Wilder and Mel Brooks. “But wait,” movie buffs might argue, “what about….Chaplin, Howard Hawks, Blake Edwards, Judd Apatow, Kevin Smith(!) et al?” Agreed, the list goes on and…
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Author and religious scholar C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) is well-known for his popular fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia, but also for his many collected essays on Christianity. Recently someone gave me a boxed set of his theological books, including The Four Loves, that I read (OK, mostly dozed on) in college. But 40 years and…
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Have you heard this one: What do you call a person who’s dyslexic, an insomniac and an agnostic? Someone who stays up all night, trying to decide if there really is a dog. (Badum-dum.) The point being, even this old dog can learn a few new tricks. And remember what we say about no coincidences…
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When reforming one’s life, whether making amends for past mistakes or just turning over a new leaf, those two letters “RE” often come into play. Change for the better is good, especially when those retributions are under your own control. In the fight against addiction, some turns are mandated for us, even if we don’t…
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