There’s a place in Saluda, NC called The Orchard Inn where proprietors Marc & Marianne Blazar will rent you a room for $140 or serve you a four-course dinner (reservations required, jackets suggested) for $60. Taxes, gratuities and libations not included. Friends who’ve stayed at the Inn for retreats and weddings and whatnot speak highly of it, […]
One of my favorite StoryPeople cartoons is of a man in a little green boat feeding a fish. The caption reads: “How can you be sure it has a soul? she said. You can’t, I said, unless you’ve got one yourself.” The atheistic conviction that we’re already dead is as impossible for me to take seriously as […]
For a short time, we were three last night at Picnic Shelter #1. Three men and a fire. Beau Philips arrived late on his way to a standing team trivia engagement and I left early to make a 7:30 meditation meetup, so we overlapped by only about 30 minutes. Not exactly the long evening of […]
