Atlanta, GANovember 11, 2018 In the small villages of France hardly a family was spared. Monuments in the centers of most every town record the names of “Nos Heros…Mort Pour La France”… During repeated visits to Paris, Provence, and the valleys of the Rhône and the Loire during the first few years of this century, […]
St Louis, MONovember 7, 2018 Her own mother, who by all accounts was in the room three score and ten years ago, always acted as if November 10 was the date my mother was born. Official records and embedded tradition favor the 8th. Following established convention, and our impatience to wait two additional days, so […]
Coeur d’Alene, IDJuly 27, 2018 This week we initiated coverage on Coeur d’Alene (Ticker: CDA) …with a strong Buy rating. While past results do not guarantee future performance, we had heard great things about this charming village in northern Idaho, and wanted to do our own research. We originally intended to arrive yesterday, but changed […]
Walla Walla, WAJuly 25, 2018 “I am sorry to hear that,” said the insurance agent. “Is everyone OK?” “Yes, everyone is fine. Thank you for asking. We just backed into a pole, so there is damage to the rear bumper and the door to the trunk.” “In which city and state did the accident occur?” […]
Seattle, WAJuly 21, 2018 It has been said that if a cow lies down somewhere in California, a seismologist will know it. Such is the density and sensitivity of the more than 700 seismographs scattered across that quivering state. At 5:13a on April 18, 1906, the cows did not so much lie down as fall […]
San Francisco, CA July 20, 2018 Who am I? Why am I here? – Admiral James Stockdale, 1992 Vice Presidential Debate The ship left New York Harbor in January 1846, rounded the Horn, paused at the Sandwich Islands to arm it’s cargo of Latter Day Saints, and set off to conquer the Mexican pueblo of […]
San Francisco, CA July 17, 2018 Yesterday we started ab ovo, remembering that San Francisco emerged from the earth…and from the Pacific floor. Today, we recall that it also came from the Sierra mines…and that it clings by the grace of God to its precarious perch on the edge of the world, hoping not to slide […]
San Francisco, CA July 16, 2018 God said: Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done -Genesis 1:9 It was done…but it was not finished. From the flat dry land of the Pliocene plain, the western Sierra began […]
Dahlonega, GAJuly 6, 2018 We are at Cavender Creek Winery celebrating the beautiful, intimate vineyard wedding of a couple close friends. A series of storms threatened, but did not disrupt, the outdoor ceremony…leaving only a cool breeze and chirping birds to accompany the strains of vows and veils surrounding and adorning the protagonists and their […]
Nashville, TNJune 21, 2018 Life moves in cycles. Some times in long, slow Kilauean streams…at others in sudden Vesuvian bursts. Among the ebbs and flows, familiar patterns form.Seven lean years follow seven fat years. Stocks take the stairs up, and the elevator down. Leaves bud, bloom, and blush. Nations are born Stoic…and die epicurean. […]