by Guy Sayles | Nov 12, 2014 |
In a New Yorker article about Duke Ellington and race in America, I learned about a gathering of leading black jazz musicians at Yale University in 1972. There were three days of concerts, jam sessions, and workshops. Duke Ellington was there, as were...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 31, 2014 |
In my dream, the old man was dressed in once-elegant but now slightly-shabby clothes. He was in a wheelchair. Only with great difficulty could he manage to hold his head up straight. His dark eyes took-in the handful of acquaintances gathered around a...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 19, 2014 |
What follows is the text of a letter I read to the congregation of the First Baptist Church of Asheville at this morning’s worship service. Please pray both for me and for that wonderful faith-community as we enter this season of transition. Dear Friends, Across...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 17, 2014 |
Joy can be a trembling wonder. It’s like the trembling of a dog who wags his tail so hard that his whole body shakes when you come into the door at the end of a long day. It’s like the little girl who quivers with excitement on Christmas Eve. The days and weeks...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 29, 2014 |
Good friends give us the freedom to be who we are and to become our best selves. They help to disentangle us from ways of thinking and feeling which hinder us from reaching our full potential. They encourage us to break away from expectations and demands which chain...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 26, 2014 |
We live in a crowded and busy marketplace of competing faiths, dueling deities, and rival worldviews, which means that we have to choose, deliberately and intentionally, which god we’re going to serve and which way through life we’re going to travel. Bob Dylan...
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