Wednesday, July 02, 2003

 

Once Again!!!...After much silence...I will whisper a quick hello to my Orthodox-Compatriots in Central Kentucky...I will speak louder in the near-soon-about-future. Gary

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Tuesday, June 24, 2003

 

After much silence...I will whisper a quick hello to my Orthodox-Compatriots in Central Kentucky...I will speak louder in the near-soon-about-future. Gary

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Thursday, April 03, 2003

 

From the other day...enjoyed the music from wmmt, classic country, bluegrass, and oldtime. I think their website is appalshop.org cool non-commercial, and true to music. While listening to them I'd would traverse Pine Mountain on US 119...quite the large mountain it is! A pig trail to be exact, but a great view during the day, Some folks think of these mountains and it's people as being backwards and ignorant, as being impoverished and lazy, ( the areas of poverty as being a direct and indirect result of Yankee aggression during the War Between the States and the policies of the so-called "Reconstruction", or more accuratally the "Punishment and Occupation" of the South!....uh...sorry...on my High Horse ),...anyhow, there are those who feel, and have these negative views of These Mountains...but what they fail to recognize is the Beauty!...of the People and their Land. The Southern Appalachian Highlander is a dignified and generous soul, warm and hospitable, a linaege from the Celtic-Anglo Isles, with a musical history that returns to those Isles. The Mountaineer is also rugged, resourseful, and saavy. I just hope that any outsider will see this! Will close here...and return in the coming days...

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Monday, March 31, 2003

 

To continue the story...again Miss Cindy and I had a real nice visit...after saying our goodbyes, I'd head on over to meet up with Mr. Bert...a Friend and Brother in Christ...we chatted for awhile...and off it was to Ashland to visit with Fr. Lee...a Roman Catholic Priest friend...who is now retired...do keep him in your prayers, for he is a true Shepherd of God. We had a nice long visit...it would be near seven thirty before I departed for Middlesboro, via US-23, which would take me down thru Pikeville...but not before I would cross the border into Ohio and West Virginia...just to say, "I was there today!"...border crossings and towns are intriguing to me...a sense of "absolute boundry" I guess...and the need to cross them! But of course I would get turned around in Louisa, Kentucky, and have to backtrack a bit...but back on the road to Jenkins and Whitesburg...towns I haven't seen in years...and heard...there is in Whitesburg a cool little radio station, WMMT 88.7 FM ...a small non-commercial public station dedicated to preservation of the music of Southern Appalachia...when back in 1998, while delivering car parts in this area from Knoxville, I would tune in...and enjoy Must close here for now...untill the future...

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Friday, March 28, 2003

 

Hello from Middlesboro, my hometown! Enjoyed the visits with my dear friends and the trip into the "Depths of Kentucky"! A good time it was! Arrived in Nicholsville in time for the Liturgy at St Athanasius', it was so good to hear the Byzantine Chant that Basil and the choir had worked so hard on...there is such an "air" with Byzantine and Arab Chant!...a sense of timelessness...eternity, eh!?

Afterwards visited with my "Family"...of whom I have not seen since last August. A wonderful reunion it was! I love these folks! A small group of us wandered over to a Mexican restaurant for a Lenten meal.

Then, Mr. Basil and I talked for awhile...one cool cat!...then out of nowhere...out of the darkness of night...Mr. Chris appereared...disguised as a mild-mannered sound-man in a nonchalant van...he spoke with authority...asking questions and making proclamations...we three would talk, laugh, and then sigh, for we would part...in a westwardly direction to the quiet Protestant hamlet of Wilmore...where the warmth of hospitality of Mr. Chris and Mrs. Tabitha and their children would greet me...after eating and being merry and wishing that we could drink...we would continue talkin' and laughin'...and then Mr. Chris would introduce the realm of bloggin'...a world unbeknownst to me...I shook hands with it, and we became Gumbati's... The sun would soon rise, we again would eat, visit and would part untill our next visit.

From there I would travel up to Lexington and meet with a good friend and classmate, Miss Cindy...we had lunch, and talked up a storm...a true Lady she is! I must close here for now...will return for the rest of this story.

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Thursday, March 27, 2003

 

The great hello to the world wide web!

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