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• THE BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING

  By TC Weber on April 10, 2019 • ( 3 )

  

  “The truth brings no man a fortune.” ― Jean Jacques Rousseau “The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.” ― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life… Read More ›

• TRYING TO CONTROL THE NOISE

  By TC Weber on April 8, 2019 • ( 4 )

  

  “You are what you settle for.” ― Janis Joplin The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions –  Sandra… Read More ›

• NASHVILLE’S MAYOR CHANNELS HIS INNER ABBOTT AND COSTELLO

  By TC Weber on April 5, 2019 • ( 3 )

  

  Costello: Now I throw the ball to first base, whoever it is drops the ball, so the guy runs to second. Who picks up the ball and throws it to What. What throws it to I Don’t Know. I Don’t… Read More ›

• A DISTRORTED REALITY

  By TC Weber on April 3, 2019 • ( 6 )

  

  “To share is precious, pure and fair. Don’t play with something you should cherish for life. Don’t you wanna care, ain’t it lonely out there?” ― Marvin Gaye “And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have… Read More ›

• CHERRY BLOSSOM BLUES

  By TC Weber on April 1, 2019 • ( 2 )

  “Greetings from Nashville, the new LA, the money’s pourin’ in and I ain’t about to move away. Check out the cable station and then call me on the Codaphone. We’ll have lunch, but I got a hunch, we’re entering the great… Read More ›

• ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD

  By TC Weber on March 29, 2019 • ( 7 )

  “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.” ― Charles Bukowski “In the Book of Life, The… Read More ›

• WE ACTUALLY ARE KINDA MAD AT CHA

  By TC Weber on March 27, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” ― Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back “The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.” ― Norman Mailer It must have been… Read More ›

• A CULTURE OF SHAME EQUALS A SHAMEFUL CULTURE

  By TC Weber on March 26, 2019 • ( 12 )

  

  “Broken hearts and dirty windows Make life difficult to see That’s why last night and this morning Always look the same to me” ― John Prine, John Prine “I’m not singing for the future I’m not dreaming of the past… Read More ›

• LIKE SANDS THROUGH AN HOUR GLASS

  By TC Weber on March 23, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.” ― James Thurber “They grew up on the outside of society. They weren’t looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.” ― S.E…. Read More ›

• THE IMPORTANCE OF A CHALLENGE CULTURE

  By TC Weber on March 18, 2019 • ( 4 )

  

  “The self moment I could pray; And from my neck so free The Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea.” ― Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner “He loved his family and fellow man,… Read More ›