Rise to the Moment of Truth Friday, December 6, 2024

Tag: SEAN OF THE SOUTH

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Sean of the South: The prayers of North Alabama

On Highway 67, atop Priceville Mountain, stands the Cross of North Alabama. The 121-foot cross stands proudly in a flawless blue sky, overlooking a rural Morgan County.

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Sean of the South: What I'm thankful for

Today, schoolkids across the nation will sit at desks, forced to write at knifepoint the same essay we all wrote each November: “What I’m Thankful For.”

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Sean of the South: Bring the sunshine

I love the sun. I need the sun. When it disappears, I start to miss the sun in much the same way I would miss trees, grass, or ice cream, if those things were to vanish behind clouds.

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Sean of the South: No more old songs

You can’t get away from canned music. It’s everywhere. Like the IRS. Playing in public spaces just loud enough to hear the music thumping.

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Sean Dietrich: The elegy of the handwritten letter

Although letter writing is not efficient; although it is time consuming; although I can think of more important things I ought to be doing, I still remember the impact handwritten letters have had on my life.

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Sean of the South: Run, Forest, run

Running was a way for me to feel special. Just for an hour out of my day, I could feel a little better about me.

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Sean of the South: The aftermath of hell and hurricanes

Lives are being saved. Heroes. Each one of them. They are carrying the wounded of our kinship toward safety, on their own backs.

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Sean of the South: Scenes from a Mexican restaurant

The Mexican restaurant was crowded. There were twinkly lights. Terracotta tiles everywhere. Trumpet music.

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Sean of the South: Alabama or bust

When I first moved to Alabama, people said the weather was going to be the worst thing to contend with. And they were right, to a point.

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Sean of the South: The good ole days

The average American will spend 11 years of their life on their phone.

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Sean of the South: A trip down AI lane

But now they’ve taken things to a new level. When my brother-in-law told me you could have a realistic, vocal conversation with ChatGPT, I had to experience this for myself. So I downloaded the app.

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Sean of the South: Grateful for fake fall

The weather is great. Meteorologists call it “fake fall,” when summer weather, for whatever reason, undergoes what the local weatherman called an “identity crisis.”

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Sean of the South: Haters gon' hate

Hate turns your insides black. Hate shrinks your heart. Hate will make you clinically depressed. You will lose weight. Your teeth and hair will fall out.

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Sean of the South: What the bag boy said

I could not understand what he was saying, per the impediment. The cashiers had decided, apparently, to ignore him. This had to be embarrassing, but it never stopped the kid from trying.

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Sean of the South: Good

And all at once, she realized that she did not want to die. There was fight left in her. She did not want to leave this earth. Not yet. So she said a word to the ceiling as her car sank into the river water.

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Sean of the South: Biscuit man

Long ago, a friend wrote a short biography for one of my magazine articles. In the bio, my friend referred to me as a “biscuit connoisseur,” and the title stuck.

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Sean of the South: Home again

Many of us had experienced flight delays. But the kid in U.S. uniform wore a smile. A big one. When the soldier got closer to the halfway point, a woman shouted.

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Sean of the South: The not-so-little leaguers

When I coached their Little League team, a hundred years ago, I was a young man myself. It was my friend’s son’s team. My friend was the coach. I was his assistant coach.

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Sean of the South: O, brother

Dan Lovette became an usher at the Baptist church on Easter Sunday, March 26th, 1961. He stood at the door shaking hands, passing out bulletins. Nobody knew Dan.

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Sean of the South: Little sister

My sister and I grew up hard. It wasn’t the kind of childhood depicted in Hallmark Channel movies.

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Sean of the South: Lake Martin

Childhood is nothing but a continual buzz. A non-stop adventure novel.

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Sean of the South: Long live Sunday dinner

Please, Lord, don’t let us lose Sundays.

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Sean of the South: Working nine to five

I don’t know much of anything. But I will tell you this: Find a way to help other people. For I am convinced, wholeheartedly, this is the only path to happiness. And if that doesn’t work, you can always try ice cream.

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Sean of the South: A walk in the dog park

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dogs.

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Sean of the South: Houseguests

My nieces have enough energy to power an average suburban electrical grid. They arrived in our driveway last night after spending upwards of six hours in the car. By the time they got here, they were not unlike compressed atomic matter contained in a jar, just waiting to explode.

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Sean of the South: About today

Someone once told me that tomorrow is a day with no mistakes in it.

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Sean of the South: The sandwich

Tomatoes from Geneva County, Alabama, are different from common varieties. They are superior tomatoes.

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