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Month: June 2019

Family and Friends

I have become something of a hermit in the recent past, for various reasons – some good, some bad. I have always been pretty much a “loner” – a private person – or, as the Myers-Briggs folks would say, ‘I get my strength from within’.

Just yesterday, however, I reached out to one of my oldest and dearest friends, with whom I had lost contact for some time. I didn’t realize it at the time, but it was really part of a complete change of mind that once again recognizes the need for contact with others.

I am glad I did so; I feel as if it was like turning a key and opening a door. I went back to my Facebook page – much as I despise the politics with which Facebook chooses to align itself – because through that medium I can keep in touch with a number of friends, both new and old, as well as distant family members.

I won’t proselytize, but I will point out that family and friends are important. Yes, they carry a lot of ‘baggage’ as well, but we are by nature social beings, and the need for contact is ingrained in our core.

So I, for myself, will go against my baser tendencies and will strive to make and keep better contact with those I love. You have been warned!

“The Challenge of the Southern Tradition”

via Dr. Boyd Cathey

President Jefferson Davis’ prophesy spoken in 1873 was never so true as today: “Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.”

But  that requires men and families who are willing to stand against all the disdain, opprobrium, and scorn of our modern American society and its self-satisfied establishment oligarchs and those cretinous types who claim to be our defenders, but whose cowardice leads only to more defeat and infamy.

We reject them, and once again raise proudly the Battle Flag and cry out “Sic semper tyrannis.”

Link to the 3/25/19 article by Brion McClanahan at South Carolina’s Abbeville Institute’s blog.

Senator John Stennis from Mississippi said in 1974 that while people in the South “lacked for money, and lacked for worldly things…they got plenty of things money can’t buy—like good neighbors, good friends, the community spirit of sharing with the other fellow.” Sam Ervin, the last Jeffersonian to serve in the Senate, shared a similar sentiment when he suggested defeat was good for the soul because it shook the glory out. Ervin was from Burke, North Carolina and the spirit of that place and people ran through is blood and bones.