Posts Tagged ‘Rhett’

Yesterday and Today

Yesterday was the fourth of July and as many of you may know, that is the day that my brother Rhett died four years ago.  For the population in general it’s a national holiday, for me it’s a depressing anniversary.  This year it wasn’t nearly as difficult as the years proceeding.  I miss him and [...]

Writer

For the last five years I have been in flux. It began when, after 30 years around Jehovah’s Witnesses, my faith shattered and I became a freethinker, humanist and secular Buddhist. I reprogrammed myself, or more accurately, re-educated myself. I studied more broad than deep. My goal wasn’t to become [...]

The Last 42 Things I Listened To On My iPod

The last 42 things I listened to on my iPod:

Dance Fever Revisited – Melodious Owl, Oscillator EP   
One For John Gee – Jethro Tull , This Was
Lightning Strikes Twice – Saint Etienne, Tales from the Turnpike House
Discipline – King Crimson, Discipline
Grow Old With Me – John Lennon, Milk and Honey
Waited Forever – Sebadoh, The Freed [...]

The Long Dark Night of the Soul

I’ve been trying to sleep for the last hour and a half.  It’s about 3:30 in the morning.  I fell asleep around 8:30 tonight, according to Esther.  I don’t remember, precisely. 
I got a letter from my grandmother today wondering if I was OK.  She hasn’t heard from me in a while and she is [...]

Hope

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. – Buddha
Last night I watched Barack Obama officially accept the nomination of the Democratic Party for [...]

Connections

I had intended today to post a synopsis of a really interesting discussion I’ve been involved in on a UU Theology mailing list about the historicity of Jesus. I still may do that, but there is something more pressing I want to try to write about even though the attempt will be something of [...]

Holding Back the Storm

I was just reading Thich Nhat Hanh on the subject of impermanence. He makes note of the fact that it appears that our suffering in life comes from the impermanence of things. Life itself is impermanent as death takes us all away in time and when we lose the ones we love, we [...]

Rhett! now available under Creative Commons license at Archive.org for Free

You can now download Rhett’s first solo album entitled “Rhett!” at Archive.org for free:
Click here!

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Rhett Would Have Been 36 Today

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Watching fireworks from four cities simultaneously on Clint’s deck #
Planted two trees today in memory of Rhett, an apple tree and a purple robed locust. As of yesterday he’s been gone 3 years… I miss … #
I miss you big brother… #

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