The Devil's Gift

Zoom is a contagion. Everybody’s getting it.

I let the cat out this morning. She never bolts out the door. She ponders the risk.

Is this pandemic an “act of God” as some claimed HIV/AIDS, Hurricane Katrina, and the Black Death were?

There actually is such a place. It’s just outside of Huntington on the Ohio River Road heading north.

I spent this past weekend in Huntington. I was asked to give a boost to the 50 some men and women working with Coalfield Development Corporation.

I’ve been looking for Jesus most of my life. Much to my surprise, the closer I got, the less there was. Like a mirage.

Before Jesus got converted into a white evangelical Republican, he was a child of Judaism, working for social justice. What happened?!

I saw “Joker” last week. Before the (sociopathic) “Joker” became Batman’s notorious nemesis, he was just Arthur Fleck. Arthur has a backstory.

This past Tuesday the Magical Mystery Tour bus came for my friend. I didn’t think it would arrive so soon. I didn’t have a chance to say goodbye.

We knew that any given greeting might be the last. Death was no stranger in that place.