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Recognizing our interdependence

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Let's recognize our interdependence and work from a bigger vision of what America can be.

November 29, 2021
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Monday Musings, The Times We Live In

Sharing the covers

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Roots and Americana musicians have as much fun covering the Stones as anyone!

November 27, 2021
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Stop and smell the roses

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Rebecca Solnit suggests that no matter life's challenges, we need to smell the roses along the way.

November 24, 2021
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The Times We Live In, Weekly Reader

Our year in photos – 2021

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2021 in photos...still in a pandemic watch, but thankful we could be together.

November 22, 2021
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Best Of..., Family, Heritage Travel, Monday Musings, Random DJB Thoughts

I’m just going over home

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Wayfaring Stranger - plaintive yet hopeful - speaks to many on a variety of emotional levels.

November 20, 2021
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Acoustic Music, Bluegrass Music, Saturday Soundtrack

Building is slow, hard work

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It is hard work to build a better America for everyone.

November 17, 2021
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The Times We Live In, Weekly Reader

Welcome to your empire

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Wise people know how to find some joy even in the midst of what is hard.

November 15, 2021
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Monday Musings, On Leadership

Tré Burt follows his songwriting muse

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Tré Burt's music comes from a working-class background, just like his songwriting hero, John Prine.

November 13, 2021
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Acoustic Music, Saturday Soundtrack
Remembrance for D-Day

Armistice Day and the banality of evil

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Vonnegut wrote that the sudden silence on 11/11/18 was when the Voice of God clearly spoke to mankind.

November 12, 2021
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Random DJB Thoughts, Rest in Peace, The Times We Live In
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The allure of the pilgrimage

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Natalie Goldberg takes the reader on an illuminating and personal tour of her pilgrimage to Japan.

November 10, 2021
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Recommended Readings, Weekly Reader

Being fearful of being ourselves

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Stop living your life trying to satisfy other people's demands. Focus on what you can control.

November 8, 2021
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Keeping the faith with The McIntosh County Shouters

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The Shouters are one of the last, active practitioners of the venerable "ring shout" tradition.

November 6, 2021
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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

Recommended Readings | Books to consider

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November 10, 2021

The allure of the pilgrimage

Natalie Goldberg takes the reader on an illuminating and personal tour of her pilgrimage to Japan.

by DJB
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November 8, 2021

Being fearful of being ourselves

Stop living your life trying to satisfy other people's demands. Focus on what you can control.

by DJB
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October 27, 2021

Always read the plaque

Roman Mars encouragers us to be on the lookout for stories embedded in our built environment.

by DJB
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October 13, 2021

Reckonings that are a long time coming

Michael Eric Dyson writes letters to black martyrs, grappling with the need for a reckoning with race.

by DJB
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October 6, 2021

It’s an old, old story: Power doesn’t corrupt, it reveals

N.T. Wright observes that we are made to exercise power, but true human power comes through self-giving love.

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September 29, 2021

Writing is a communal art

Natalie Goldberg's classic on writing. Ben Dolnick on compelling sentences. Jeopardy!'s other horrible choice.

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September 27, 2021

Uncharted: How to navigate the future

Margaret Heffernan sees our humanity and creativity as key to navigating an uncertain future.

by DJB
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September 22, 2021

The Outlier: Jimmy Carter’s unfinished presidency

Kai Bird's portrait of a president who saw how myths can hobble as well as ennoble a country.

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On Leadership | Thoughts on leaders and leadership

November 15, 2021

Welcome to your empire

Wise people know how to find some joy even in the midst of what is hard.

by DJB
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November 1, 2021

Not our masters, but our guides

The past has much to teach us. Yet elders are not our masters, but guides.

by DJB
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October 6, 2021

It’s an old, old story: Power doesn’t corrupt, it reveals

N.T. Wright observes that we are made to exercise power, but true human power comes through self-giving love.

by DJB
Comments 0
September 27, 2021

Uncharted: How to navigate the future

Margaret Heffernan sees our humanity and creativity as key to navigating an uncertain future.

by DJB
Comments 0

Best of... | Compilations and collections

November 22, 2021

Our year in photos – 2021

2021 in photos...still in a pandemic watch, but thankful we could be together.

by DJB
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August 31, 2021

Travel in order to be moved

MTC posts from past travels to honor the tradition of the August holiday

by DJB
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July 5, 2021

The 2021 summer break

Blog favorites while we're on break for some body, mind, and soul maintenance.

by DJB
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July 2, 2021

A plenitude of pithy proverbs

I love the pithy proverb - volume 4.

by DJB
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April 19, 2021

Selling your soul for a mess of pottage: The politics of morality and racism

What have we given up of long-term value for our short-term gains?

by DJB
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January 15, 2021

A profusion of pithy proverbs

I love the pithy proverb - Volume 3.

by DJB
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January 1, 2021

Reminders

Personal reminders of what matters can help as we seek to regain our equilibrium after a tumultuous year.

by DJB
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Mavis Staples
December 26, 2020

The Saturday Soundtrack 2020 top ten

The top ten posts - chosen by reader views - from the Saturday Soundtrack series in 2020.

by DJB
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Play more music

Saturday Soundtrack | Musicians who have caught my ear

November 27, 2021

Sharing the covers

Roots and Americana musicians have as much fun covering the Stones as anyone!

by DJB
Comments 0
November 20, 2021

I’m just going over home

Wayfaring Stranger - plaintive yet hopeful - speaks to many on a variety of emotional levels.

by DJB
Comments 3
November 13, 2021

Tré Burt follows his songwriting muse

Tré Burt's music comes from a working-class background, just like his songwriting hero, John Prine.

by DJB
Comments 0
November 6, 2021

Keeping the faith with The McIntosh County Shouters

The Shouters are one of the last, active practitioners of the venerable "ring shout" tradition.

by DJB
Comments 0
October 29, 2021

More roots music for ghosts, goblins, and other things that go bump in the night

The 2021 collection of roots music for a spooky Hallowe'en.

by DJB
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October 23, 2021

Blending the boundaries of folk, indie, bluegrass, and roots music with Trout Steak...

TSR is the quintessential Colorado string band, blending folk, indie, bluegrass and more.

by DJB
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October 16, 2021

Chatham County Line: Not your father’s bluegrass

Chatham County Line explores music beyond bluegrass, from the Stones and Beck to the McIntosh County Shouters.

by DJB
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October 9, 2021

Adia Victoria is making the blues dangerous again

Adia Victoria sings the blues, and she has important stories to tell.

by DJB
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Weekly Reader | Other Writers That Will Help You Laugh, Think, or Cry

November 24, 2021

Stop and smell the roses

Rebecca Solnit suggests that no matter life's challenges, we need to smell the roses along the way.

by DJB
Comments 0
November 17, 2021

Building is slow, hard work

It is hard work to build a better America for everyone.

by DJB
Comments 0
Toko-ji Lantern details
November 10, 2021

The allure of the pilgrimage

Natalie Goldberg takes the reader on an illuminating and personal tour of her pilgrimage to Japan.

by DJB
Comments 2
November 3, 2021

The 2021 World Series: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Those in control are killing the product that baseball fans like me want to consume.

by DJB
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About "More to Come..."

Pathway Free-Photos
January 15, 2020

The top one percent

The top ten reader favorites from the first 1,000 posts on More to Come.

by DJB
Comments 2
April 10, 2019

About “More to Come…”

Welcome! Learn how DJB's blog has evolved since 2008 from random thoughts to... more organized random thoughts.

by DJB
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Speaking at the Ryman
March 25, 2019

I hate to say goodbye, so I’ll just say so long

A farewell message I wrote to my colleagues after 22 years at the National Trust.

by DJB
Comments 4
March 4, 2015

60 lessons from 60 years

A birthday list of 60 things I've learned in my (now) 60 years of life.

by DJB
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Baseball Online

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Reading Well: Writers I Enjoy

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  • Lapham's Quarterly
  • Leonard Pitts, Jr.
  • Literary Hub
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  • Rebecca Solnit
  • Seeking the Sacred
  • Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
  • Stephen L. Carter
  • Steve Almond
  • The Ink
  • Timothy Egan Opinionator Blog
  • TomDispatch
  • Writing from the Heart, Reading for the Road
  • You Think Too Much

Roots Music and More

  • Acoustic Disc
  • Bela Fleck
  • Bluegrass Pride
  • Bluegrass Today
  • Compass Records
  • DC Bluegrass Union
  • Dom Flemons
  • Fiddlefreak
  • Fretboard Journal
  • Gallagher Guitars
  • Institute of Musical Traditions
  • International Bluegrass Music Association
  • Jerry Douglas
  • Lonesome Road Review
  • Merlefest
  • No Depression
  • Rhiannon Giddens
  • Sam Bush Online
  • Steve Martin Banjo Prize
  • The Bluegrass Situation
  • The Immortal Jukebox
  • The Steel Wheels
  • WNEX The Creek

Saving Places That Matter

  • Conserving the Human Environment
  • Ensia
  • Greater Greater Washington
  • Green Preservationist
  • International National Trusts Organisation
  • Preservation Leadership Forum Blog
  • Preservation Magazine
  • Saving Places
  • The Places of Sense Chronicles
  • The Secret Knowledge of Spaces

Whatever Else Tickles My Fancy

  • Billy Shore, Bearing Witness
  • Brene Brown
  • Brownview Forge
  • Doonesbury
  • Fauxtations
  • Friday Forward
  • Letters from an American
  • Margaret and Helen, Best Friends for Sixty Years and Counting
  • Press Watch: An intervention for political journalism
  • Repairers of the Breach
  • Southerly
  • STAT News
  • Stuff That Needs to Be Said
  • Teri Kanefield
  • The Bitter Southerner
  • The FrameWorks Institute
  • This is What Comes Next

More to Consider

"If you tell truth you don’t have to remember anything."

Mark Twain

Grand Canyon (Photo credit: Claire Holsey Brown)

Observations, recollections, and occasional bursts of radical common sense about places that matter, books worth reading, roots music to nourish the soul, the times we live in, and whatever else tickles my fancy

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