For some reason I just got the urge to write a story poem called “Once Upon A Starless Night”. I suppose this happens to other writers, too. Sometimes a phrase or a couple of juxtaposed words will pop into my head, and my little neurons start to fire. Then I have to write it down, and most of the time it sort of flows like … Read the rest…
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Our Tuesday weather, this week, is hot. And plenty of it. 95 degrees today. That’s too many degrees together in one place for my liking. I like cooler weather because I feel more like moving around. But one thing’s for sure. The weather doesn’t much care if I like it or not. It’s gonna be what it’s gonna be. So, it really doesn’t do … Read the rest…
We live in particularly dangerous times. To some extent humans have always lived in dangerous times, but when you pause and consider what’s going on in the world…there are a lot of really mad people everywhere. What do you suppose makes someone so mad they wreak havoc and danger on their fellow human beings? I’ll venture a guess… …they don’t have the love of … Read the rest…
It makes perfect sense to buy insurance for your car or house or other personal reasons. Writer singer illustrator, Tony Funderburk, says eternal life with God makes the Most Perfect Sense It makes the most perfect sense to get eternal insurance that’s already been paid for. I mean…c’mon…if you believe your “stuff” is important enough to insure…don’t you believe your soul is, to? Let’s … Read the rest…
Someone asked me, recently, if I had ever sung a wedding song or had ever sung in any weddings. I smiled to myself because I immediately saw myself as a 19 year old young kid singing in my first wedding. Not MY wedding…the first wedding I had been asked to sing for. It was my girlfriend’s sister’s wedding, a Catholic affair in a small … Read the rest…
Back in 1990 I was living in Colorado during a time of depressed economy and a general feeling of lack. But I wasn’t letting it get me down. I actually wrote quite a few songs that year. Some of them were pretty good, and I still play them. Others were more forgettable, but that’s the way songwriting is. I remember feeling like I was … Read the rest…
If you’ve lived long enough to be able to read this, I’m sure you’ve thrown at least a little money into a wishing well. True? As I was working on something else in the past few hours it rained a lot here at the FunderRanch. And as I often do, I gazed outside the window for a bit. There was a group of objects … Read the rest…