On the chatterbox, they keep debating whether there's a racial element to the criticism of President Obama. The coverage makes me wince. It's like the reporters leading the dialogue have never had to talk about race in any real way. It's even worse than coverage of religion.
As soon as I sit down to blog, there's this feeling that what I write here has to be "finished" somehow, or good, not just my ramblings. Not sure why that is. So I wait until I have time to finish something. But then, when stuff is finished, why put it on the blog?
Wayne Self is an award-winning writer, composer, and music director with deep spiritual and historical roots in rural Louisiana.