Memphasis > We Have To Talk
October 17th, 2013
THE CYNICAL TRUTH IS, WE JUST CAN’T TALK ABOUT IT. Cynicism about politicians isn’t new. “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office,” Aesop, 2,500 years ago. “Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome,” Benjamin Whichcote, 400 years ago. “In ...
Memphasis > Know Your ABCs
October 10th, 2013
THE ABCs OF PRE-K. If we are to pass the half-cent sales tax increase to fund Pre-Kindergarten for every child in Memphis, the newly appointed Memphis Pre-K Commission will need to learn their ABCs or get schooled by the voters again. The commission appointments have checked all the right boxes – black and white, male and female, educator and preacher, ...
Memphasis > Good Dog
October 3rd, 2013
TRICKS YOUR DOG TEACHES YOU. Last weekend, the Lawson’s church retreat was interrupted by loss. A dog had to be put down – more than a dog – Posey had to be put down. The fact that she had long been failing didn’t make the vet’s call any easier to answer, the drive north from Mississippi’s Camp Bratton Green any shorter. Posey came ...
Memphasis > #1 in Blue
September 26th, 2013
BLUE IS A COOL COLOR. The warm colors are the reds and yellows – daylight, bright edges, clear boundaries, absolute rights and wrongs, the white-hot heat of righteousness and those who glow in it, sunshine on the surface. The cool colors run from blue green to blue violet – twilight through deep night, eyes you get lost in, music from hard lives that moves ...
Memphasis > Take A Hike
September 19th, 2013
LEARN TO WALK ALL OVER AGAIN. The couple at the next table was of a certain age – say mine, younger than radio but older than television – and each had the other completely tuned out. He fiddled with a bowl of something between glances at SportsCenter; she pushed some lettuce around between glances out the window. More was said at my table than theirs and I ...
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