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Saturday Soundtrack: Mandolin Orange

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I first heard the North Carolina folk duo Mandolin Orange at the 2014 Red Wing Roots Music Festival and was instantly smitten. I wrote then that singer-songwriter Andrew Marlin...

September 26, 2020
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Acoustic Music, Bluegrass Music, Saturday Soundtrack

Keeping a democracy takes work

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Author, educator, and lawyer Teri Kanefield writes very smart posts about the law, books, and politics on her Teri Kanefield blog.* This morning she posted thoughts on why those...

September 25, 2020
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The Times We Live In

A righteous warrior to the end

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — who passed away Friday on Erev Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish High Holy Day commemorating the beginning of the new year — was...

September 21, 2020
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Monday Musings, On Leadership, Rest in Peace, The Times We Live In
Chris Stapleton - Traveller

Saturday Soundtrack: The acoustic side of Chris Stapleton

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Readers who follow country music know the singer, songwriter, and guitarist Chris Stapleton. But I enjoy seeing those from other genres hearing his “brown liquor” voice for the first...

September 19, 2020
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Acoustic Music, Bluegrass Music, Saturday Soundtrack

The struggle between tyranny and freedom

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America faces great challenges in 2020. It is even tempting to call these times unprecedented, but they are not. Harry Truman, of course, made this point in very plain...

September 14, 2020
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Monday Musings, Recommended Readings, The Times We Live In

Saturday Soundtrack: Duets

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I love a good country or folk duet, so when several came up yesterday on my Pandora station, I just assumed that it was a Saturday Soundtrack sign from...

September 12, 2020
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Acoustic Music, Saturday Soundtrack

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Lanterns at Bulguksa Temple

Lanterns holding prayers from the faithful, hanging from the ceiling of a walkway at the Buddhist Bulguksa Temple near Gyeong Ju, South Korea

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September 14, 2020

The struggle between tyranny and freedom

America faces great challenges in 2020. It is even tempting to call these times unprecedented, but they are not....

by DJB
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Pathway Free-Photos
July 6, 2020

The lens is not the landscape

How did you respond when you first discovered the many ways there are to view the world? For some,...

by DJB
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June 15, 2020

Finding your potential: Aging in a time of turmoil

I recently dove into two books on aging. It wasn’t because I felt old, aged, infirmed, or any of...

by DJB
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Grant
May 26, 2020

Hope, redemption, and U.S. Grant

Last evening the History Channel began a three-part mini-series entitled Grant. The series* is based on the Ron Chernow...

by DJB
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On Leadership | Thoughts on leaders and leadership

September 21, 2020

A righteous warrior to the end

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — who passed away Friday on Erev Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish High Holy...

by DJB
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September 7, 2020

Choose your leaders wisely

A poem appropriate for our time, by Octavia Butler. Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.To be led by...

by DJB
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July 13, 2020

Tone deaf and tiresome

Daniel Snyder is — with apologies to Judith Viorst — the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad owner of the...

by DJB
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June 1, 2020

When leadership fails

There’s no escaping the sense that too many things are moving backwards in America across too many fronts. Democracy...

by DJB
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Best of... | Compilations and collections

July 13, 2020

A plethora of pithy proverbs

Late last year I showcased a series of pithy proverbs — those bursts of truth in 20 words or...

by DJB
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Film Reel
February 7, 2020

Quest for the Best (Picture): 2020 edition

An annual feature of More to Come is my take on the movies nominated for the “Best Picture” Oscar. However,...

by DJB
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Pathway Free-Photos
January 15, 2020

The top one percent

You, dear reader, have just clicked onto my 1,000th post on More to Come. As it says in the tagline, you’ve...

by DJB
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December 30, 2019

Top Ten Posts of 2019

December is the month of the “Best of…” lists. I’ve already seen the year’s best editorial cartoons; the year’s...

by DJB
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Saturday Soundtrack | Musicians who have caught my ear

September 26, 2020

Saturday Soundtrack: Mandolin Orange

I first heard the North Carolina folk duo Mandolin Orange at the 2014 Red Wing Roots Music Festival and...

by DJB
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Chris Stapleton - Traveller
September 19, 2020

Saturday Soundtrack: The acoustic side of Chris Stapleton

Readers who follow country music know the singer, songwriter, and guitarist Chris Stapleton. But I enjoy seeing those from...

by DJB
Comments 0
September 12, 2020

Saturday Soundtrack: Duets

I love a good country or folk duet, so when several came up yesterday on my Pandora station, I...

by DJB
Comments 0
July 18, 2020

Saturday Soundtrack: Songs for social distancing

I was listening to Oscar Peterson recently when he began the familiar Duke Ellington tune Don’t Get Around Much...

by DJB
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Whatever Else Tickles My Fancy

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