The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – What America needs is another Seabiscuit. What lifted the United States out of the Great Depression in the late 1930s? Was it government spending on the Civilian Conservation Corps that hired out of work laborers to build the national parks and other government programs? Was it a…
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When Life Becomes A Rerun With An Applause, Laugh Track
Timely Death of John Lewis Spurs Us On to Continue the Revolution Until Trump is Gone: We Must Rename the Bridge in Selma in His Honor
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – In discussing death, people often talk about someone’s “untimely death” when a person dies relatively young and suddenly. Civil Rights hero and Atlanta Congressman John Lewis was not young and his death was not sudden. He was 80 when he died on Friday from pancreatic cancer, which…
A Confederate Hell Ship Dixie Strategy Flashback: Those Who Cannot Remember the Past are Condemned to Repeat It
What to Make of American Independence in These Times that Try Human Souls, Again
We Are Not Out of the Woods Yet: Perhaps a Garden is Where We Ought to Be
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â In these times of heightened existential anxiety, when disasters and crises seem to be assaulting the planet, the country and the human psyche in end-times proportions, where are we to turn for solace? Many human beings will turn to their version of a god, prayer and worship.…
There’s Not Much Time Left to Plan if We’re Going to Survive
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS, N.C. — We don’t have much time. It’s addicting in our newly evolved human condition to stay focused on the fast breaking news of the moment, the sensational clickbait. From day to day, we bounce back and forth from one crisis story to another.…
A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
So Long Jeff Sessions: We Won’t Be Sorry to See You Go
It’s Up to the Coronavirus Generation to ‘Set the World on a Different Path’
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS, N.C. – In all my travels, with the exception of Yellowstone, this view looking west toward Mount Mitchell is the best spot I’ve found. In some ways, however, it inspires sitting in a comfortable camp chair, staring off into space and doing nothing. But…
Let’s Get Busy Living Better Together
Even While Social Distancing Apart“Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be happy the thorn bush has roses.” – Buddhist Proverb The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS, N.C. — The polar vortex swooped down into the Southland this Mother’s Day weekend and not only froze the…
April Showers Bring May Flowers, and Adversity is Followed by Good Fortune
It’s Not the Time for Selfish Competition Within Groups
On the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, Public Views on the Environmental Movement Are Mixed
How Can You Learn From History if Nobody Tells You the Story?
If Coronavirus Takes Me, You Can Bury Me On Lookout Mountain
Palm Sunday: Pray for the Living and Stay At Home
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Ala. — The dots on the coronavirus map and the color representing the Republican Party are not the only bright red things around here right now. In the mountain woods of North Alabama, the pollen count is on “Very High.” So your runny nose, sneezing…
Florida Roads and Beaches, Which Should Be Packed for Spring Break, Are Vacant
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” – — Hunter S. Thompson – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – PENSACOLA, Fla. — On the last Saturday afternoon in March, the Pensacola Bay Bridge should be jammed with Spring Break traffic headed to the beach. But Highway 98 was almost without traffic…
There is a Silver Lining in the Coronavirus Crisis Dark Cloud
Novel Coronavirus Pandemic Hits Hard, Threatens Global Recession
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â PENSACOLA, Fla. — This feels surreal, but reality is beginning to set in. It feels like Murphy’s law is in full effect: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” As the novel coronavirus health pandemic continues to grow, and a global economic recession and maybe a…