Leon Hale: Fill ‘er Up?

Take a trip down memory lane (at least if you are anywhere near my age)…

Leon Hale: Fill ‘er Up?:

“Fill ‘er Up?

Service stations? No, I’ve gone back to calling them filling stations because you go in and pump the gas yourself and if you want any help you pay extra.

But I remember [...]

Leon Hale | Affirming the power of music

Leon Hale | Affirming the power of music: “Music is one of the reasons I like Round Top, the little country town in Fayette County. You can be at the Post Office talking to farmers about the weather and a classical musician from Europe might walk in. He’d be there because of James Dick’s Festival [...]

Home and Heart

Reading Fred First is like conversing with myself. He manages to say things in a much more articulate and beautiful way than I probably would. Take the following excerpt:

Home and the Heart

Why is there ‘no place like home’?

Because I am away from home, I am wondering just what it means to feel [...]

Ambivalence: Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu

It has long been a theory of mine that the myth of our lives is created in the reflection we see in the eyes of our loved ones and friends. It is through our trying to live up to the myth created around our lives by those who watch that we surpass the mundane.

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