by Kevin Burton Do you have certain albums you play to set certain moods? Like a baseball manager has a closer, there is one album I go to when one era of life is ending and another beginning. I moved a lot in my 20s and I listened to Billy Joel a …
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From Moth Balls Back To Ground Balls
by Kevin Burton Since when does a single beep baseball practice merit a blog post? Since it’s the first one I’ve had since the Obama administration. It has been a while folks. My Columbus friends invited me to join this team of extremely well-seasoned veteran players for a last beep baseball hurrah. …
True History of Mankind From The Bible
by Kevin Burton It’s back to the classroom today at the Earthly School for the Spiritually Blind (ESSB), the school we need as humans because of our sin nature. This is a sixth-period history class. We cover, quickly, the essential details of the history of mankind, with God as the Creator. There …
Where Chivalry Meets Food Safety
by Kevin Burton As I’m sure you can imagine, I was a bachelor gallant. “There is a level of food that I will eat but I will not serve to you,” I told Jeannette when we started dating and she began peering with some alarm into the abyss of my science-project refrigerator. …
USA Legends Will Honor The Game
by Kevin Burton Last week I got and filled a trophy case. Next week, my play will probably not add any hardware to it. But you never know. You never know. That’s why the games are played on green grass under a blue sky, not on a computer. That’s why old men …
Prayer Needed For Tough Family Decisions
by Kevin Burton I went literary on you last Friday. Hope that was OK. I wrote about my mother moving to an assisted living facility and the parallels for that move and my move to the Ohio State School for the Blind as a fourth grader in 1972 (“Love, Tears And Doing The …
Norah Jones Two Needed Better Material
by Kevin Burton Had a quick notion a few years ago to poke my musical head out of the seventies and try some 21st-century artists. A friend recommended Maroon 5, John Mayer and Norah Jones. I loved the debut records from those three so much, I bought their follow-up records. Then for …
You Feel That Longing For A Reason
by Kevin Burton In the title track from her 1994 album “Longing In Their Hearts” Bonnie Raitt speaks eloquently about spiritual blindness. Really, Bonnie Raitt? Yep. That’s why we have called a special assembly here at the Earthly School for the Spiritually Blind to discuss the song and hear it twice, …
Five Bows On Five Boxes, Holy Smokes!
by Kevin Burton There was this last Friday from the heart and voice box of my loving wife Jeannette: “I want you to give me a list of five things you want for your birthday.” This had already been an especially productive and fun day. Then in the winding down part came this …
Love, Tears And Doing The Right Thing
by Kevin Burton This is a story about a boy and his mother. The mother has thought things through. She will push through the pain. She is doing the right thing. She is resolute. The big house on the corner? The boy will be leaving that now. He will be back on …
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