Old Ones Dream

The Parable of the Wrong Mountain

I have been here on Granny’s Rock for over 20 years with Blue Ridges around me for about 250 degrees. This array is anchored on the Southwest horizon by a peak known to me as Sassafras Mountain, and extends North and East to include Whiteface, Chimney Top, the Devil’s Courthouse,... Read more →

The Orangeburg Massacre - February 8, 1968

This piece, originally posted by me on Medium, is a summation of “The Orangeburg Massacre” by Jack Bass and Jack Nelson (Mercer University Press, reprint 2002), both white southern journalists and Nieman Fellows at Harvard, who covered the Orangeburg Student Riots for The Los Angeles Times and The Charlotte Observer.... Read more →

My Age of Anxiety, and Scott Stossel's

A Self Study One of the remarkable books in the last year, the national best seller “My Age of Anxiety” (Knopf), was written by Scott Stossel at the suggestion of his “current therapist”. Stossel, who suffers from severe chronic and debilitating anxiety/panic, is described by one reviewer as “… a... Read more →

Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum | bothwell's blog

A Re-Blog of a Post by Cecil Bothwell No matter your politics or religious affiliation or affliction; Cecil Bothwell, the maverick Asheville City Council member, builder and prolific writer, will inform and energize your thoughts. He will also answer questions you may not have known you had, such as: what... Read more →

Why 34 foot: Climbing Walls and Jump Towers

It was the summer of 1962 and I was watching a career change in process at the exit door of the 34 foot jump tower at Fort Bragg. A Distinguished Military Student from a college in South Carolina who aspired to be an Army Airborne Ranger was stuck like velcro.... Read more →

Earth Day Returns for 2014

Earth Day has come around again, and that’s a good thing. Earth Day Flag (Wikipedia) Look to Wikipedia and National Geographic for background information. Earth Day was first observed by United Nations Proclamation on March 21, 1970, and again as an environmental teach-in on April 22, 1970, founded by U.... Read more →

Finding Crazy Horse: Little Bighorn in Context

As we discussed earlier, historian's estimates seem to cluster around a probable median American death toll of around 500 soldiers and civilians at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The European American toll was certainly around 260 and the Native American toll was probably, not certainly, between 200 and 300.... Read more →

Parents: The Forgotten People! - A Guest Post by Thomas

From the writings of Thomas circa 1950s, found in his papers. Presented to a Parent Teacher Organization in the mid 1950s PARENTS: THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE! A father was heard recently to say, "When I was a boy I did what my father wanted me to, and now that I'm a... Read more →

"The Science of Righteousness"

Out beyond wrong and right there is a field I will meet you there - Rumi Going to the Sun "Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion" is the sub-title of The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt, published in 2012, and reviewed as follows: “Haidt’s research has revolutionized... Read more →

Righteous

Out beyond wrong and right there is a field I will meet you there - Rumi Going to the Sun My siblings and I share the same genetics but our hair is of different colors and lengths and we have each taken markedly different paths through life. We have a... Read more →