I decided to do a Wordle of yesterday's blog post on my 30 years of marriage. If you just look at it and make random sentences, you still get the idea. My only beef is the word "really" is way too big, which means I used it way too many times. I really have to …
Thirty Years of Marriage
Some celebrations are better done in quiet. I don't mean as in keeping them a secret--I mean as in keeping the voice down, much as you do when you enter a sanctuary. Pasts are sanctuaries of a kind, especially those that contain so much love, so much intimacy, so much shared understanding of our fallen …
The Task in Life
What a ride we're on... Sometimes I think the anxious people, the people with high blood pressure, the people always on edge, maybe even the paranoid folks...sometimes I think they're more right that the calm ones. Why should we think good things will happen today? Heaven knows there are lots of bad things happening. Reading …
Honor
"You can't compare men back then to men today. There's just no comparison." So said one of the more compelling Civil War Reenactors I talked to at the "Battle of Waynesboro" in Waynesboro, Virginia last weekend. What he meant was that there was something that the combat veterans of the American Civil War understood, …
Still in the Wake of The Civil War
Here's an interesting question: what types of ceremonies, rituals, and celebrations are appropriate for remembering the war officially known as "The War Between The States"? (So said Congress in 1948, one reenactor pointed out to me last weekend.) Actually, Wikipedia refutes my friend the reenactor, saying Congress never officially legislated a name for the war. …
JEFF BERRYMAN 