Category: Sage Pages
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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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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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Really, what I should have done is log every book I read on the jail tablet during my 10 1/2 months at the Backwards Correctional Center. But fate being what it is, my court date was moved up six weeks and I was transferred to the rehab house on short notice. Fortunately, as mentioned, I…
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Hi again and thanks for stopping back through. I know the previous post’s message came heavy, but I can’t and won’t apologize for the reality check. The experience I had, seeing death first-hand, was no joke and comparatively tame compared to those who have been there and made it back. Say a prayer that you…
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Good advice, yes? It comes from one of the many Gilded Age books I read on the jail tablet, but for once I forgot to note the author and book. Still, words to live by, especially in polite company. But I did remember to chronicle wit and wisdom from the host of authors and other…
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OK dear readers, time for a levity break, and thanks (I know, I say it alot) for allowing me in recent posts to cogitate on some simple connections between western and eastern tenets. My jailhouse journals were overflowing with thoughts I needed to “get down on paper,” as it were, and I’m relieved to have…
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When COVID hit full stride in 2020 I went with the flow and stayed close to home, trying some of the popular methods to keep busy such as bread-baking. (I was and still am a lousy baker.) A master chef and baker I once worked for explained it perfectly thus: “Cooking is an art, baking…
Behold, Happy Is The Man 