Holiday Toast
(Ruminations • )
The family’s all safe and warm this morning and the harvest continues apace. Most of the leaves have fallen, but the pecans still are coming and there are enough persimmons to freeze, can and (if things work out for my bro-in-law’s food safety students) ferment. The peppers continue to flower and fruit even in the cool evenings, and the green tomatoes approach tennis-ball size.
On this day at this moment, it feels right to give thanks to God for friends, family and readers, and for a year’s worth of blessings and protection from the worst of the ravages of the world.
Happy Thanksgiving!
→ B.Dunn, Nov 26, 2009, 07 13 am
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Land of Opportunity
(Ruminations • )
True Facts from today’s Wall Street Journal:
The richest 1% of Americans made 21.2% of all income in 2005, the latest figures the IRS has available.
Half of all Americans – the 50% at the bottom of the income scale – made 12.8% of all income during the same year.
→ B.Dunn, Oct 12, 2007, 08 48 am
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Step Into The Light
(Ruminations • )
Suddenly, just since Friday morning, we have a back yard and a front porch again. You can go out to the garden or down to the river and not come back with your shirt drenched in sweat.
Summer – even longer, hotter and steamier than usual – finally came to a close sometime during the night on Oct. 6.
The pecans trees have started dropping a few leaves here and there; soon it will be time for the nuts. Hundreds of them all over the lawn. Fall tomatoes, time to put the tent up on the riverbank and set out some catfish poles.
Time to fire up the smoker, toast the weather and watch the boy learn to ride his bicycle.
Time to remember what it is about this place that we like so much.
→ B.Dunn, Oct 09, 2005, 11 19 am
Where'd the month go?
(Work • Ruminations)
Wow, I guess I dropped off the face of the blog for the past month. Sorry to both my readers out there; it’s kind of an embarrassment to claim ownership to a blog in which blogging hasn’t been done for four weeks. Especially since, in past blog-writing incarnations, I’ve argued that it isn’t a blog of the content isn’t kept up.
I’ve been keeping my head down, working to merge design and automated functions into a web site for the new business venture I’m preparing to launch. I’ll have way too much to say about it, soon, but for now I can’t really talk more about it. Except to say it will have a news component and a video component.
The design work has been slow because my youngest daughter is only in day care portions of two days a week, and when she’s here, which is most of the time, she’s a rather demanding handful.
Besides having let this blog slide for the past few weeks, I’ve had to forgo participating in the Evolution of the Green Thing, a terrific concept hatched by Luxomedia’s Renegade.
And, while I’ve shot footage here and there, including little Emily’s first steps, I’ve stayed away from video editing.
My goal is to maintain self-discipline and stay focused on what I hope to be the last business in which I become involved, one that will benefit my community and my family as well.
→ B.Dunn, May 19, 2005, 10 35 am
