The following piece originally appeared on the Living the Legacy blog at fhich.org. I figured I'd share it here as well in the spirit of the season. The saying goes that it’s better to give than receive. You hear it a lot during the holiday season, and it often gets relegated to cliché status. It’s …
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Some Wonderful People Need Your Help
If you only read one thing I write on my blog, please make it this one. I’m pulling the curtain way back today, and I’m asking each of you to help out some folks in a time of great need. For the past six months or so, I’ve been working at Franklin Homestead & Carriage …
A Soundtrack for the Strange & Profound Beauty of Difficult Times, pt. 2
We went for a walk yesterday afternoon. My wife, my daughter, our dog, and me. It was a little after 3:30, with an hour or so of light before the too-long-dark settled in. We were in a nearby town forest, with a few clearly marked trails. There was no reason to end up lost. But …
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A Soundtrack for the Strange & Profound Beauty of Difficult Times, pt. 1
When the time comes – and at the pace pop culture moves at, it’s already happening – the great novels, movies, music, and other works of art set during this time we’re in won’t be about COVID-19. They’ll use the pandemic as a backdrop to tell stories against. The story of the virus that has …
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I Love You One Thousand
The post you just started reading is my one thousandth on ethandezotelle.com. That’s 1,000 posts in just a little over two years. I’m hard pressed to think of anything I’ve ever done a thousand times in two years. Reading a thousand comic books in two years? Sure. And then some. Drinking a thousand cups of …