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IF I KNEW THEN…
Maybe it’s my age, maybe it’s something else, but lately I’ve been obsessively fantasizing, and even had dreams about, going back and starting over…beginning with my Freshman Year in High...
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CONSIDER THE LILIES by Rev. Ken Rickett
Luke 12:27 “Consider the lilies, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of...
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SUNDAY MORNING RITUAL
Every Sunday morning, I have a tradition or ritual, if you will, when I arrive at the Church Building. This “ritual” started as things that needed to be done by...
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CATASTROPHE
Sometimes, often, the news is devastating, shocking and altogether too familiar. We, who have lived more than a few years, are used to the fact that disasters, natural or otherwise,...
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STILL COUNTING by Rev. Ken Rickett
Upon moving to Anderson in July 2017, I set out two peach trees, each of them only a foot high. Now they are about 12-15 feet high and have been...
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TEACHERS & STUDENTS
She was as colorful a person as you would like to meet; my first piano teacher, Mrs. Beardsley. With a smoker’s cough, low voice, and a pink living room (I especially...
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MICHAEL
Each June (PRIDE month) I think about my friend, Michael. Michael was a conductor, chorus master, lecturer, author, musicologist, accompanist, and my vocal coach when I performed opera. He was...
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YA GOT TROUBLE!
My favorite Broadway musical of all time is “THE MUSIC MAN”. There is something about the combination of the setting: America at the turn of the century, the story-unique boy-meets-girl, the music-ballads,...
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TO LISTEN OR NOT TO LISTEN by Rev. Ken Rickett
One day when I was around 10-12 years old, my brother and I would play under a big apple tree while our grandmother worked in the nearby garden. It was...