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  • A black-and-white photo of a man with glasses and a beard, holding a mandolin, sitting against a plain wall.

    How To Play Bluegrass Music

    An essay on what to focus on if Bluegrass music is your thing. Spoiler alert: most of it focuses on being a good person.

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  • A black-and-white photograph of a man with glasses and a beard, smoking a pipe, with smoke rising from his head in a surreal or artistic style.

    Confessions Of An Ambidextrous Idiot

    An essay on the paradoxical power of the Gospel, forcing God’s hand, and why Jesus called us to be “peacemakers”

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  • A man with glasses and a beard, sitting inside a house, reading a book and smoking a pipe through a window.

    The Waltz

    A short, fictional story about a young fiddler observing the ceremony of grieving and mourning in a small, Appalachian town.

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