by Kevin Burton It’s lunch time again at our school for the spiritually blind, time to refuel. We’re in our second set of classes, heading toward graduation. This series comes from the fact that to be spiritually blind is far worse than being physically blind. In our first semester we refueled at …
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New Christmas Music By Alison Trelfa
by Kevin Burton Just broke my rule against playing Christmas music before Dec. 1. Well it’s not a hard and fast rule and I had good reason. On this Christmas album I had a very small singing role. Yesterday was the digital release day for Winter Warmer, the latest project from British …
Tooling Around, Feeling Virtuous
by Kevin Burton Looks as if I’ve had the definition of “tooling around” wrong all these years. Tool around is a verb, says vocabulary.com, meaning to “ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it.” On yourdictionary.com the definition is “to drive or jaunt about, going from place …
These Are The Facts Of Spiritual Life
by Kevin Burton We’ve been through more than a dozen sessions together now at this school for the spiritually blind. It’s high time we had – the talk. If you are a parent you may have already faced this question, or maybe you are currently dreading it: Where do babies come from? …
“Growing Down,” A Useful Concept?
by Kevin Burton Working title for my book on aging: “I’m Not Growing Old, I’m Just Growing, and other lies we tell ourselves as we age.” Sigh. I always love waking up and getting a day older. What I don’t love is waking up on my birthday and getting a year older. …
Shelf At Work Takes Me Back In Time
by Kevin Burton A piece of my past was hiding in plain sight in my work space about two feet above my right shoulder. I’m still getting used to the surroundings at my part-time clerical job at a local church. The place is a maze! Thankfully, my job duties don’t take me around …
Getting The Lay Of Your Spiritual Land
by Kevin Burton This fourth-period class at the Earthly School for the Spiritually Blind is one many of you will not be familiar with. At the school for the blind we had a class called “Orientation and Mobility” to teach us how to navigate our surroundings safely with the use of certain tools …
Home Ec Class For The Spiritually Blind
by Kevin Burton Many of us recall best, our culinary mishaps from Home Economics class in high school. But there were other elements to that training. In Home Ec your teachers tried to train you to build a safe, efficient, nourishing household for yourself, and an eventual spouse and children. In the …
My Smallish Musical Debut Is Coming
by Kevin Burton Alison Trelfa’s “Winter Warmer,” to be released in the UK Nov. 30, has one element no album has ever had. Me. Let me be clear up front, I won’t exactly be featured on the album, and there is still editing to be done. But I am pretty sure my …
Work Commute Takes On A 70s Groove
by Kevin Burton You don’t often get a break like this one, and I’m riding with it. The ride service that takes me from my rural town back and forth to work in the big city will not be charging its usual fee for the fourth quarter of this year. That’s right, …
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