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The 2021 summer break

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

July 5, 2021
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Saturday Soundtrack: Festival favorites

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Fan favorites from music festivals I've loved through the years.

July 3, 2021
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Acoustic Music, Bluegrass Music, Saturday Soundtrack

A plenitude of pithy proverbs

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I love the pithy proverb - volume 4.

July 2, 2021
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Best Of..., Random DJB Thoughts, The Times We Live In

Weekly Reader: A case for transformation

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What will we do with the lessons learned during a year of agony, terror, and loss?

June 30, 2021
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The Times We Live In, Weekly Reader

A new American agenda

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Wealth, community, justice, and a new American agenda for July 4th.

June 28, 2021
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Saturday Soundtrack: Abigail Washburn

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Washburn's music builds cultural understanding on the communal experience of beauty and sound.

June 26, 2021
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Acoustic Music, Bluegrass Music, Saturday Soundtrack
View from my World Series seat

Take me out to the ball game

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A celebration fit for a return (finally) to the ballpark.

June 25, 2021
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Baseball, Family

Weekly Reader: We need better stories

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Nesrine Malik argues we need new stories to overcome the harmful myths that subvert freedom.

June 23, 2021
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Recommended Readings, The Times We Live In, Weekly Reader

I’d like to recommend…

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Thoughts on integrity, bias, knowledge, and intent in the giving and receiving of recommendations.

June 21, 2021
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Monday Musings, On Leadership

Saturday Soundtrack: Tim O’Brien

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A mainstay on the roots music scene, O'Brien has a new album on getting through our trying times.

June 19, 2021
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Acoustic Music, Bluegrass Music, Saturday Soundtrack

Weekly Reader: Would you like to improve your life?

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Make hard things easier, learn to apologize, write shorter emails, and get on with living a better life.

June 16, 2021
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We truly do need each other

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Heather McGhee writes of why we must address our social solidarity deficit.

June 14, 2021
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June 28, 2021

A new American agenda

Wealth, community, justice, and a new American agenda for July 4th.

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June 23, 2021

Weekly Reader: We need better stories

Nesrine Malik argues we need new stories to overcome the harmful myths that subvert freedom.

by DJB
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June 16, 2021

Weekly Reader: Would you like to improve your life?

Make hard things easier, learn to apologize, write shorter emails, and get on with living a better life.

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June 14, 2021

We truly do need each other

Heather McGhee writes of why we must address our social solidarity deficit.

by DJB
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June 11, 2021

Just don’t make things worse

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

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May 17, 2021

Taking advantage of the moment

A mother's example helps point the way at this moment in time when we can change our future.

by DJB
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May 10, 2021

Walk it like you talk it: Hope, joy, belief…and feet

Would we live with a generous, perspective if we believed that joy, wonder, and peace are what's real?

by DJB
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April 28, 2021

Weekly Reader: The catcher was a spy

In the end, there are few men who find ways to live original lives. Moe Berg did that.

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On Leadership | Thoughts on leaders and leadership

June 21, 2021

I’d like to recommend…

Thoughts on integrity, bias, knowledge, and intent in the giving and receiving of recommendations.

by DJB
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June 16, 2021

Weekly Reader: Would you like to improve your life?

Make hard things easier, learn to apologize, write shorter emails, and get on with living a better life.

by DJB
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May 24, 2021

Focus in an unpredictable world

A mentor helped transform what were short-term bursts of sharpness into a focused way of life.

by DJB
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May 21, 2021

Stellar (and short) rules for a good life

Define your rules. Then live by them.

by DJB
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Best of... | Compilations and collections

July 5, 2021

The 2021 summer break

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

by DJB
Comments 2
July 2, 2021

A plenitude of pithy proverbs

I love the pithy proverb - volume 4.

by DJB
Comments 0
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

Saturday Soundtrack: The 2020 top ten

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

by DJB
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December 21, 2020

Best of the blog: Top ten posts of 2020

December is for "Best of..." lists. To celebrate 2020 here are the top 10 posts based on reader views.

by DJB
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December 14, 2020

The 2020 year-end reading list

The books I read in the year of COVID, Black Lives Matter, and GOP attacks on our democracy.

by DJB
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Saturday Soundtrack | Musicians who have caught my ear

July 3, 2021

Saturday Soundtrack: Festival favorites

Fan favorites from music festivals I've loved through the years.

by DJB
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June 26, 2021

Saturday Soundtrack: Abigail Washburn

Washburn's music builds cultural understanding on the communal experience of beauty and sound.

by DJB
Comments 0
June 19, 2021

Saturday Soundtrack: Tim O’Brien

A mainstay on the roots music scene, O'Brien has a new album on getting through our trying times.

by DJB
Comment 1
June 12, 2021

Saturday Soundtrack: Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen

Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen: favorites of the bluegrass festival circuit.

by DJB
Comment 1
June 5, 2021

Saturday Soundtrack: Charlie Rauh

Playing soft and slow can be beautiful.

by DJB
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May 29, 2021

Saturday Soundtrack: All that jazz bass

Hang on to your hats as you listen to the incredible bass chops of the jazz cats.

by DJB
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May 22, 2021

Saturday Soundtrack: All about that bass

When it comes to underpinning traditional and new acoustic music, it's all about that bass.

by DJB
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May 15, 2021

Saturday Soundtrack: David Grisman

The pulsating rhythms of E.M.D. opening the 1977 DGQ album made me a fan for life.

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

June 30, 2021

Weekly Reader: A case for transformation

What will we do with the lessons learned during a year of agony, terror, and loss?

by DJB
Comments 0
June 23, 2021

Weekly Reader: We need better stories

Nesrine Malik argues we need new stories to overcome the harmful myths that subvert freedom.

by DJB
Comment 1
June 16, 2021

Weekly Reader: Would you like to improve your life?

Make hard things easier, learn to apologize, write shorter emails, and get on with living a better life.

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June 9, 2021

Weekly Reader: Fun and games

Superteams, unwritten rules, and baseball's wackiest play ever.

by DJB
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About "More to Come..."

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January 15, 2020

The top one percent

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

by DJB
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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 staff after 22 years at the National Trust.

by DJB
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March 4, 2015

60 lessons from 60 years

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

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Baseball Online

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  • Baseball Prospectus
  • Nats Baseball
  • NY Times Baseball News
  • Washington Nationals

Reading Well: Writers I Enjoy

  • Brain Pickings
  • Chapter 16
  • Cheryl Strayed
  • Dana Schwartz
  • Elizabeth Bobrick
  • Eric Foner
  • Gail Collins
  • John Lingan
  • 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
  • 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 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 Secret Knowledge of Spaces

Whatever Else Tickles My Fancy

  • Billy Shore, Bearing Witness
  • Brene Brown
  • Brownview Forge
  • Doonesbury
  • Fauxtations
  • Friday Forward
  • Margaret and Helen, Best Friends for Sixty Years and Counting
  • 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

"I guess we should retire the phrase 'avoid it like the plague' given how little effort people put into avoiding an actual plague."

Anonymous

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