by jamesbondly | Dec 28, 2022 | About Life, About Photography, About Writing, Spiritual, Storytelling-Tall Tales
The Digital Abyss Plenty to do, but not enough time Everything, including casual conversations, lectures, presentations, job interviews, books, movies, sermons, and the parables of the Bible, is artful storytelling—some creative non-fiction, some fiction, and...
by jamesbondly | Dec 19, 2022 | About Life, About Photography, About Writing, Spiritual
The Christmas Carol “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Two feet of snow blows into six-foot drifts. A minus fifteen degrees make the snow crunch as we walk. I heard...
by jamesbondly | Dec 18, 2022 | About Life, About Photography, Spiritual
FINDING TRUTH In a Fear-Mongering Society Part two of THE VIRTUE OF COURAGE In a Fear-Mongering Society Truth in any source of media, written or digital, is rare. Nor can the Truth be found in the church, Protestant or Catholic. Truth is not from science, the...
by jamesbondly | Dec 18, 2022 | About Life, Spiritual
THE VIRTUE OF COURAGE In a Fear-Mongering Society Part 1 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9-11 A decline in courage may be the most...
by jamesbondly | Nov 20, 2022 | About Life, About Photography, Spiritual
MORNING HAS BROKEN The Grateful Photograph Each morning at dawn, the bells of the church across the lake play the hymn from a poem, “Morning Has Broken,” I love the tune. I thought it was a tune written by Cat Stevens in 1971. I wanted to include the...
by jamesbondly | Nov 9, 2022 | About Life, Spiritual
1969 Time for another REVOLUTION The draft caught me in nineteen-sixty-eight, Fresh out of High School, with a short attempt at a college degree. The letter came conscripting me to fight in Vietnam. I was not too fond of jungle warfare, so I enlisted in the Navy; I...
