Posted by Kevin Robinson on September 25, 2020 · 3 Comments
Its drooping boughs offer seclusion and shade in fields and near rivers and ponds. It’s no surprise that these trees are often prized specimen in yards or long-time friends of people who trek in the wild places of the world. How to Cure a Sick Weeping Willow By Doug Johnson Updated November 05, 2019 Wind … Continue reading →
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Posted by Kevin Robinson on September 18, 2020 · Leave a Comment
A look up reveals a mysterious haze of the ordinarily clear blue early Autumn sky. The fires of western states expand a canopy of smoke over the nation. America is literally on fire, as the pathways of history blur in the face of an uncertain future fueled by an uncompleted past. Climate change and pestilence … Continue reading →
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Posted by Kevin Robinson on August 6, 2020 · 2 Comments
Don’t mistake this writing as an indictment of one person, but more of an open assessment of America. Those old ghosts of the past hidden under white hoods had found new homes under the rooftops of exurban homes, the cornfields of rural America, churches clothed in Norman Rockwell’s America, and in the xenophobic fear of “the others.”
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Posted by Kevin Robinson on July 17, 2020 · Leave a Comment
The cross is excepted as a symbol of peace and reconciliation, regardless of one’s level of belief in it. It personifies the language of love. The Eagle is a symbol that identifies America. America exists as a grand experiment forged out of abstract thought in a quest for a more perfect union.
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Posted by Kevin Robinson on June 12, 2020 · 1 Comment
No refuge could save the hireling & slave/ From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:/ And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave/ O’er the land of the free & the home of the brave. Francis Scott Key The forgotten lines of the national anthem present a clearer image of the … Continue reading →
Posted by Kevin Robinson on February 26, 2015 · Leave a Comment
One night, when everyone was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. Mathew 13:25 Good News Translation (GNT) While asleep, have our voices become silent to the cries of the Disenfranchised. Are we too mesmerized by the voices of hyperbole? Do we understand the real realities of Americans who … Continue reading →
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Posted by Kevin Robinson on October 11, 2012 · 4 Comments
We have been talking about striking a pose. Now we are talking about striking a match. That match is for the kindling of fire; not unlike the fire that fell upon the upper room at Pentecost. On that occasion all of the voices chimed together, speaking the same thing in a harmony, as every nation under heaven … Continue reading →
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