Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
Cajun Highways — Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, I-10, St. Martin and Iberville Parishes, Louisiana (18.2 miles) 2014
When we lack the resources and opportunities to be engaged with our life, we are going to be depressed. And live from one escape to another. Diversion, distraction, denial are all that is left to us. Generally in the form of drugs, sex and alcohol. Hope and prospects are not in the picture.
That is what this picture depicts, reflects, exhibits, declares, proclaims. Life is one day after another here, there, with nothing changing ever.
And the people party as they are able, "passing a good time," in the service of diversion, distraction, denial, generation after generation. Life as we have known it throughout the ages, with "the Blues" and "Jazz" and "Rock and Roll" being historical markers on the trail of the same old same old over time.
Interest, enthusiasm, zeal have to be sought and served, deliberately, intentionally, to prevent the hungry ghouls of aimlessness and depression from moving in and taking over, carrying us all away.
Poverty is another name for not having the resources to pretend we are alive.
I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
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