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Nothing stands alone

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Relationships are vital to our lives, as we understand the idea of our inherent oneness.

September 26, 2022
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Monday Musings, What's Next...

700 words on Albert Pujols

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Joe Posnanski captures the historic 700th home run by Albert Pujols in a terrific column.

September 24, 2022
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Baseball, Recommended Readings

A plethora of pencilry

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After the week we've had, the political cartoonists are having a field day.

September 23, 2022
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The Times We Live In

History is under construction

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In "History Myths Exploded" the authors look at the critical difference between history and heritage.

September 22, 2022
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Historic Preservation, Recommended Readings, The Times We Live In

Memory, representation, and reconciliation

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Viet Thanh Nguyen writes on the creation of just and ethical memories by remembering others as well as our own.

September 21, 2022
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This is what privilege looks like

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How I choose to cross the street led me to think about the privileges I enjoy that others may not.

September 19, 2022
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Monday Musings, The Times We Live In

And the ‘toons keep on coming

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Political cartoonists are feasting at the buffet of right-wing craziness.

September 18, 2022
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The Times We Live In

Wondrous Love revisited

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The Southern Harmony tune Wondrous Love sits right at the top of the list of my favorite songs.

September 17, 2022
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Acoustic Music, Bluegrass Music, Saturday Soundtrack

Resilience through the centuries

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Phong Nguyen's new novel is based on a true story of women's strength in support of culture and country.

September 14, 2022
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Recommended Readings, Weekly Reader

An odd-shaped piece that never quite fit into society’s jigsaw puzzle

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We all do better when we all do better.

September 12, 2022
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Monday Musings, The Times We Live In

Just rattle your jewelry

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Queen Elizabeth II's passing brings back memories of the time when music royalty met British royalty.

September 10, 2022
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Rest in Peace, Saturday Soundtrack

More ‘toons

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More political cartoons that touch "a more visceral spot in the brain "

September 9, 2022
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The Times We Live In

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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Aboriginal proverb

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

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

September 21, 2022

Memory, representation, and reconciliation

Viet Thanh Nguyen writes on the creation of just and ethical memories by remembering others as well as our...

by DJB
Comment 1
September 14, 2022

Resilience through the centuries

Phong Nguyen's new novel is based on a true story of women's strength in support of culture and country.

by DJB
Comments 0
September 7, 2022

The books I read in August 2022

Each month I have a goal of reading five books. Here's my list from August 2022.

by DJB
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August 31, 2022

Don’t mess with the archivists and librarians

Preservation and access to the records of government is required for an informed population...and democracy.

by DJB
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August 24, 2022

A right, not a privilege

Carol Anderson's important work on the lengths those who fear democracy will go to disrupt it.

by DJB
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August 17, 2022

Declassifying my online newsletters (with an update)

Online newsletters are an excellent way to cut out the "corporate" in the media we consume.

by DJB
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August 10, 2022

The books I read in July 2022

Each month I have a goal of reading five books. Here's my list from July 2022.

by DJB
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August 3, 2022

A feast for the eyes in this moveable book

A moveable book brings new appreciation for the art of legendary Japanese artist Hokusai.

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On Leadership | Thoughts on leaders and leadership

Lincoln Douglas Debate
August 21, 2022

Wisdom and leadership

The anniversary of the first Lincoln-Douglas Debate reminds us of all we're missing in the search for wise leaders.

by DJB
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August 15, 2022

An unparalleled chronicler of the American spirit

David McCullough, who passed away recently, believed history is an antidote to self-pity and self-importance.

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August 8, 2022

We either build hope together or lose hope separately

Fiona Hill's remarkable memoir that recognizes that we succeed as a country only when we all thrive.

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July 14, 2022

Expertise, curiosity, mistakes … and teamwork

Celebrating the optimism, expertise, wonder, and open-mindedness that gave us the Webb telescope.

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June 24, 2022

Learning life’s lessons

Pay attention when thoughtful people tell you of the things they've learned through the years.

by DJB
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May 2, 2022

Thinking about what we know but don’t know that we know

There are things we know but don't know that we know...and some of them just ain't so.

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March 4, 2022

Speak up about what you think is important, to take up oxygen that otherwise feeds...

Historian Heather Cox Richardson's interview with President Biden arrived on my birthday. What a gift.

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February 14, 2022

There is always time for kindness

There's always time to be kind: good thoughts for Valentine's Day during a winter break.

by DJB
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Best of... | Compilations and collections

September 7, 2022

The books I read in August 2022

Each month I have a goal of reading five books. Here's my list from August 2022.

by DJB
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August 10, 2022

The books I read in July 2022

Each month I have a goal of reading five books. Here's my list from July 2022.

by DJB
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July 18, 2022

I love the pithy proverb – Volume 6

The most recent volume of the short and to-the-point adages that capture truth in a few words.

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July 6, 2022

The books I read in June 2022

Each month I have a goal of reading five books. Here's my list from June 2022.

by DJB
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Books to be read
June 8, 2022

The books I read in May 2022

Each month I have a goal of reading five books. Here's my list from May 2022.

by DJB
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May 4, 2022

The books I read in April 2022

Each month I have a goal of reading five books. Here's my list from April 2022.

by DJB
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April 13, 2022

The books I read in March 2022

Each month I have a goal of reading five books. Here's my list from March 2022.

by DJB
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March 16, 2022

The books I read in February 2022

Each month I have a goal of reading five books. Here's my list from February 2022.

by DJB
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Play more music

Saturday Soundtrack | Musicians who have caught my ear

September 17, 2022

Wondrous Love revisited

The Southern Harmony tune Wondrous Love sits right at the top of the list of my favorite songs.

by DJB
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September 10, 2022

Just rattle your jewelry

Queen Elizabeth II's passing brings back memories of the time when music royalty met British royalty.

by DJB
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September 3, 2022

Festival jams

When musicians gather onstage for jams, there's often unexpected fun and sometimes a bit of magic.

by DJB
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August 20, 2022

A timeless meditation on grief and music

James Runcie on what it must have been like to sing, play, and hear Bach's music for the very...

by DJB
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August 13, 2022

Classified

Today, for some strange reason, seemed like a good time to hear James Booker and Classified.

by DJB
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August 6, 2022

Joni Jam

Joni Mitchell made a triumphant return to Newport in 2022. Here are a few favorite videos from the show.

by DJB
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July 23, 2022

Molly and Flux play Bluegrass like the founders intended

Molly Tuttle and Jerry Douglas team up at DelFest for some high-powered bluegrass.

by DJB
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July 9, 2022

Drinking in the music of the Stillhouse Junkies

The Stillhouse Junkies play a heady brew of roots, blues, folk, funk, and swing music.

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
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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 colleagues 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.

by DJB
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Baseball Online

  • Baseball Prospectus
  • Joe Blogs
  • Nats Baseball
  • Washington Nationals

Reading Well: Writers I Enjoy

  • Chapter 16
  • Cheryl Strayed
  • Elizabeth Bobrick
  • Eric Foner
  • Gail Collins
  • Leonard Pitts, Jr.
  • Literary Hub
  • One Sentence
  • Politics and Prose Bookstore
  • Rebecca Solnit
  • Seeking the Sacred
  • 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
  • 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 Steel Wheels

Saving Places That Matter

  • Conserving the Human Environment
  • Greater Greater Washington
  • International National Trusts Organisation
  • New Deal of the Day
  • Preservation Magazine
  • Saving Places
  • The Places of Sense Chronicles
  • The Secret Knowledge of Spaces
  • Why Preserve?

Whatever Else Tickles My Fancy

  • Brene Brown
  • Brownview Forge
  • Doonesbury
  • Fauxtations
  • Friday Forward
  • Letters from an American
  • 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

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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