Author: Knoxville Progressive

Character is destiny. — Heraclitus

Joe Sample I recently picked up a copy of Sample’s 2002 CD The Pecan Tree, and listened to it while out of town last week at Myrtle Beach.  A very good album; recommended.  You can find clips from the CD here to...

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. — e. e. cummings (If you haven’t done so, go read catnip’s Sharing...

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the...

Another trip to the used book and CD store I went one day this week on my lunch break to the used book and CD store.  Found half a dozen old issues of Harper’s magazine from the Nixon Administration in the...