https://goldenechoes.com/ Old truths. New scars. Freely shared. en-us Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMT https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=on-building-something-that-lasts https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=on-building-something-that-lasts Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMT Faith & Theology I want to show you something I almost missed. It lives between two verses written hundreds of years apart. One says of a king that he was marvelously helped, till he was strong. The other says that everything under the sun is breath. https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=leaders-walk-to-you https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=leaders-walk-to-you Tue, 19 Aug 2025 02:00:35 GMT Leadership There’s something quietly seismic in the act of someone powerful stepping into your space. For many years I worked for a man whose presence filled every room he entered. He led an empire of businesses, was the patriarch of his extended family and was a regular on the Forbes list. Naturally, I assumed that if ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=lost https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=lost Sun, 10 Aug 2025 20:47:59 GMT AI & Technology Picture yourself in the pilot’s seat of 2nd Lt. Charlie Brown, December 20, 1943, wrestling with the controls of your B-17 Flying Fortress, Ye Olde Pub. You’ve just flown a brutal mission over Bremen, Germany, and your plane is a wreck—riddled with holes, engines coughing, the frigid wind howling through the fuselage. Your crew of ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=for-those-moments-of-intensity https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=for-those-moments-of-intensity Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:11:29 GMT Leadership Lord, search me, steady me, and sanctify this fire. https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=i-lost-a-friend-today https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=i-lost-a-friend-today Sat, 19 Jul 2025 08:47:45 GMT Leadership I lost a friend today, not a person, not pet, but a friend just the same.We met 19 years ago and for 19 years we nurtured one another, each in our own way. It was a caring and serving relationship that is now gone. When friendships are fresh and new there is an excitement, a ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=happy-birthday-usa https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=happy-birthday-usa Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:36:14 GMT AI & Technology Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native land!Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d,As home his footsteps he hath turn’d,From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go, mark him well;For him no Minstrel raptures swell;High though his titles, proud his name,Boundless ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=rage https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=rage Sun, 25 May 2025 03:21:29 GMT AI & Technology The serpent said “you shall be like god”But the universe doesn’t bow to meMy biggest idol is meWords fly that are meaningless strings of vulgarBecause the universe doesn’t bowAnd still it doesn’t bowBut He bowed“Thy will be done”And so it wasAnd so am INot GodBut son https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=you-are-more-precious-than-you-may-realize https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=you-are-more-precious-than-you-may-realize Sun, 11 May 2025 02:37:48 GMT Faith & Theology Though we did not exist in substance before conception, Scripture teaches that we were known and purposed by God before we were formed. This does not imply a preexistent soul but affirms that each person is uniquely created according to God’s eternal plan. As Jeremiah 1:5 says, “Before I formed you in the womb I ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-prompt-and-the-platen https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-prompt-and-the-platen Tue, 06 May 2025 21:26:02 GMT Leadership From the clatter of the typewriter to the hum of AI, writing tools have always evolved—but the soul of the story still belongs to the writer. https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-green-mirage-whos-really-steering-the-climate-train https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-green-mirage-whos-really-steering-the-climate-train Fri, 02 May 2025 16:11:12 GMT Leadership Imagine a train, gleaming with promise, barreling toward a cleaner, greener future. Its cars are stacked with wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicles—each one sold as a symbol of salvation in a warming world. But as the smoke clears, an unsettling question lingers: who’s actually at the controls—and where is this train really going? ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=front-line-knows-best https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=front-line-knows-best Thu, 24 Apr 2025 02:30:33 GMT Leadership When the Front Line Knows Best: Lessons in Leadership from History and Experience In the quiet moments between meetings and the hum of daily tasks, I often find myself reflecting on the stories history tells us—not just of events, but of decisions made, voices heard or ignored, and the ripples that followed. One such story ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=common-man-launches-the-2025-bluebonnet-sessions-at-fort-worth-presbyterian-church https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=common-man-launches-the-2025-bluebonnet-sessions-at-fort-worth-presbyterian-church Sat, 08 Mar 2025 08:37:49 GMT Leadership Music has a way of grounding us—of telling stories that feel both deeply personal and universally understood. That’s exactly what Common Man does so well. Hailing from Huntsville, Alabama, the band blends folk, country, and gospel influences into something both timeless and refreshingly honest. On Sunday, March 16, at 5:00 PM, Common Man will take ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=hostartist https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=hostartist Thu, 17 Oct 2024 17:46:10 GMT AI & Technology It begins with an open door and smile that says "Come in, make yourself at home, there's a space for you here". You pushed the coffee table to the side, lined up mismatched chairs, rearranged the lighting and your home feels like it's been meant for something like this, a night when music and people ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-correlation-between-christian-church-attendance-and-overall-happiness-low-crime-and-low-family-dysfunction https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-correlation-between-christian-church-attendance-and-overall-happiness-low-crime-and-low-family-dysfunction Tue, 30 Jul 2024 07:40:58 GMT Leadership The Correlation Between Christian Church Attendance and Overall Happiness, Low Crime, and Low Family Dysfunction Proverbs 13:20 "Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm" Introduction The role of religion in shaping individual behavior and societal norms has been a subject of interest for centuries. Christian church attendance, ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-smell-of-cookies https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-smell-of-cookies Mon, 24 Jul 2023 04:16:16 GMT Faith & Theology Walking into the house was like walking into a bakery. The smell of fresh baking cookies was fantastic! Moving into the kitchen as a fresh batch was being taken out of the oven added to the sensation. The cookies looked amazing. Perfect golden brown with melted chocolate chips perfectly showing their chocolaty goodness. It was ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=glory-in-the-burning%ef%bf%bc https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=glory-in-the-burning%ef%bf%bc Sun, 05 Mar 2023 11:00:12 GMT AI & Technology It actually was a dark and stormy night. All across North Texas storm warnings were going out, and the veracity of this storm was expected to be among the highest levels seen in a very long time. Some folks were hunkered down, as was being suggested, in closets with radios, water, and flashlights. The forecasters ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-longhouse https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-longhouse Sat, 18 Feb 2023 10:32:10 GMT AI & Technology The Longhouse, once a symbol of community and shared values, has become an appropriate metonym for our current cultural and political life. A place where authoritarian bullies rule with an iron fist, allowing only their woke ideologies to flourish. The suppression of truth, beauty, and goodness in The Longhouse has resulted in a bleak and ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=america-against-america https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=america-against-america Fri, 21 Oct 2022 18:05:15 GMT AI & Technology A Chinese scholar named Wang Huning wrote a book in 1991 called America against America. Reading his book leads one to a similar conclusion reached by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. "I sought everywhere in vain for the secret of their success, until I entered the church. It was there, as I listened to the ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=a-note-from-martin https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=a-note-from-martin Thu, 03 Feb 2022 21:50:54 GMT AI & Technology Take me in your arms and hold me closeClose your eye and play a single noteListen close past the tone,And you’ll hear of me I was born in death and struggled for lightSlowly at first but as the winters passedQuickly I grew, never aloneIn those days I was a tree Sea born winds and brisk ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=cutting-the-field-2 https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=cutting-the-field-2 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 14:22:01 GMT Leadership “Would you have time to cut the west field?” she said, “the grass is getting really high.” The tools that give a tractor purpose are heavy, made of steel and chain. Some do work powered by the same diesel energy release that powers the machine. Some accomplish their task through their sheer weight as the ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=whole-again https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=whole-again Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:51:11 GMT Leadership The world is beautifulA baby bornSun lite morn The world is brokenScream at nightRun or fight Why? He made itWe broke itHis blood makes it Love again https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=adornment-or-armor https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=adornment-or-armor Sat, 03 Jul 2021 15:44:38 GMT AI & Technology There are those in our current cultural moment who wear Jesus like a nice adornment worn around their life, like a scarf or necktie? Gentle Jesus draped around the neck goes so well with the “good person” belt and “world peace” shoes. Such adornment is dangerous indeed. This present darkness is ruled by spiritual forces ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=thank-you https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=thank-you Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:47:37 GMT Leadership To the Texas utility workers who drove on dangerous roads, dug through frozen ground and worked in buckets high in the air to fix what was broken and keep that which was working sound. To the Texas truck drivers who delivered propane and gasoline and food and things we don't even realize we need. To ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=civil-obedience https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=civil-obedience Fri, 08 Jan 2021 19:46:19 GMT AI & Technology How naive you were when you believed people were actually upset about the growing police state and the marginalization of large elements of our society. You actually started to think people were wizening up to the injustice of the expanding influence of a very small element of our society, the increasing wealth gap and the ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=better-to-listen-than-to-judge https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=better-to-listen-than-to-judge Fri, 08 Jan 2021 06:11:58 GMT AI & Technology This past summer there were those who chose to villainize people who marched to be heard. Some of the marchers burned and destroyed but most were peaceful and concerned with bringing attention to a social injustice. This week there are those who are choosing to villainize people who marched to be heard. Some of the ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=its-not-about-trump-its-about-people https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=its-not-about-trump-its-about-people Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:50:06 GMT Leadership Blaming everything on Trump ignores a core issue. There is a large portion of our country that feels left out and forgotten. The mid to low wage earners that pay taxes but get few benefits, that fight our wars but get little recognition besides an occasional "thank you for your service". They don't have the ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-forgotten https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-forgotten Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:19:00 GMT AI & Technology The forgottenFeeling cheated yet again, they stormed the CapitalOne of them, Ashli Babbitt, was killed by the police No empathy No compassion No outrageNot this time, not like this past summer.This time it was an enemy of the elite who was killedShe will get no multiple memorials, no fancy funeralNo ‘A' listers weeping over her ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=bound-by-lies https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=bound-by-lies Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:28:08 GMT AI & Technology “The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying anyway, and we keep pretending to believe them.”Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs It is now well known that the Chinese government lied, the World Health Organization lied, Dr Fauci lied, the media ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=living-in-the-lordship-of-lies https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=living-in-the-lordship-of-lies Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:07:23 GMT AI & Technology "Things have almost reached rock bottom. A universal spiritual death has already touched us all, and physical death will soon flare up and consume us both and our children—but as before we still smile in a cowardly way and mumble with our tongues tied. But what can we do to stop it? We haven't the ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=just-goodbye https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=just-goodbye Fri, 18 Dec 2020 18:41:06 GMT History & Culture She’d labored 16 years to help build the company. Then the lock down, then an accident, now only memories. There were many memories, much shared laughter, many hard times, many victories, and some losses but in the ending heartbreak. Such are the ways of building things and in the end, all things pass. It is ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=roses https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=roses Tue, 15 Dec 2020 07:28:48 GMT Leadership The roses were planted in the Spring as part of a larger planting, magnolia trees, a couple of tall hollies, some desert succulents, pomp pomp trees, salvia geggii and a number of small hedge and flowering plants. It was a beautiful display when finished and, with her daily care, it flourished through the early summer. ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=pay-no-attention-to-that-man-behind-the-curtain https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=pay-no-attention-to-that-man-behind-the-curtain Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:01:38 GMT AI & Technology In his farewell speech in 1961 President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the rise of the military-industrial complex and the dangers of acquiring unwarranted influence due to the existence and, sometimes, actions of that complex. Arguably the nation paid little attention to that warning, tumbling through one military misadventures after another. However, what did go noticed, ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=like-a-rock https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=like-a-rock Sat, 14 Nov 2020 18:09:36 GMT AI & Technology Have you ever seen a mist lay across a meadow, obscuring the path that a creek takes through the trees? Or maybe a mountain valley completely altered in view by a morning mist? Distant landscapes changed by thick white blankets of fog. Such misty scenes can be beautiful and pleasant for a moment, but then, ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=no-comment https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=no-comment Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:32:29 GMT History & Culture Well-formed intercourse is a source of great joy. A comment is made. Another replies. A conversation begins. Disagreement is respectfully accepted. Minds grow and are nurtured. Hearts grow fonder. Humanity improves. Well-formed intercourse is becoming increasingly rare. A comment is made. Another attacks, ridicules, cancels. Division occurs. Disagreement never actually happens because any hope of ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=remember-that-day-in-september https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=remember-that-day-in-september Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:44:26 GMT Leadership “The Cantor feed just went down!” Cantor Fitzgerald is a broker renowned for bond trading and, in 2001, it’s 500 page was the standard source for knowing US Treasury bond prices and yields. The speaker was a bond trader and ‘the feed’ referred to that 500 page. “A small plane hit the World Trade Center” ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=every-day-is-a-gift https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=every-day-is-a-gift Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:40:58 GMT AI & Technology Every day is a gift.No new thought there.But, what about a week after you, or someone you love, has been involved in an accident that could have easily taken or dramatically changed your life? What of tomorrow then? Will tomorrow be another day of chasing another set of tasks that will lead to another set ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=shes-home https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=shes-home Sun, 23 Aug 2020 01:42:55 GMT Faith & Theology Thank you, Lord, she’s homeUnsteady on her feet, but she’s homeNeeds lots of sleep, but she’s homeThere will be challenges to come, but she’s home She smiled, to be home Thank you, Lord, she’s home https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=today https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=today Sat, 22 Aug 2020 08:28:34 GMT Leadership Today began as a beautiful late-summer morning. A coolness in the wind belied the scorching heat that would dominate the late afternoon. A perfect time for a bike ride, and so, that is our habit. This day seemed exceptionally pleasant. We ride by a newly cut field commenting to one another on our bike helmet ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=please-read https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=please-read Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:45:22 GMT Leadership The Spring of 1994 witnessed the brutal murder of almost a million people and the rape of almost a half million women, inside the boarders of a country the size of the state of Maryland. The cause – fear and hate. Fear and hate are the primary manipulation tools employed when trying to coerce others, ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-gods-of-the-copybook-headings-by-rudyard-kipling https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-gods-of-the-copybook-headings-by-rudyard-kipling Thu, 06 Aug 2020 16:24:09 GMT Leadership AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all. We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=260 https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=260 Sun, 26 Jul 2020 19:36:42 GMT AI & Technology Traveling about in the state of Texas often yields unexpected and pleasant surprises. One summer morning driving southwest on 377 toward the town of Dublin Texas, home of the bottling company that until recently bottled arguably the best of Dr. Pepper, there is a sign that says cheese - not sure what else it says, ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=lover-you https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=lover-you Sun, 26 Jul 2020 15:58:06 GMT Faith & Theology You are a lover You are a Human being and you do things at cost to yourself and the to the benefit of others. Why would you do such things? Love. If you are a Christian, you have pledged fealty to a God of love. A God who will carry into his eternity the cost ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-church-of-the-holeless-muzzle https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-church-of-the-holeless-muzzle Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:10:35 GMT AI & Technology Going to the airport to fly for the first time since wusolation brought something clearly to mind. It is so strange to see the people in the airport pretending to abide by guidelines. They are not acting like there is a deadly virus to which exposure will lead to sure and gruesome death. Probably because ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=can-we-talk https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=can-we-talk Sun, 12 Jul 2020 15:34:41 GMT Leadership Those who disagree with you are no less human than you - despite what you are being told. Ridicule and insult are the weapons of fear and hate and the tools of the established elite. It is difficult, but not impossible, to discern the underlying ideologies embraced by those around us. Careful reading and listening ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=narrowminded-intolerance https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=narrowminded-intolerance Tue, 07 Jul 2020 03:39:12 GMT AI & Technology We have allowed the hate-mongering established elite to divide us along lines that are incomprehensibly defined. Both sides claim to be for liberty and equality because they know that’s what people desire, and both claim that the other side is for big government and cronyism because they know that is what people do not desire. ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=4th-of-july-2020 https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=4th-of-july-2020 Sat, 04 Jul 2020 18:33:59 GMT AI & Technology It is popular these days to be filled with hate, however, if you are more interested in loving your neighbor than judging your neighbor and loving what is good about your country more than hating mistakes made, read on. In 244 years, The United States of America has grown and matured in ways that are ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=aunt-jemima https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=aunt-jemima Thu, 02 Jul 2020 20:26:44 GMT History & Culture The life of Nancy Green, from Montgomery County, Kentucky is one that informs the careful observer in many ways, we will focus on just two. Her contribution to creating one of the most recognized brands in America tells of the many elements of our American experience that are improved by the contribution of our black ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=who-is-your-neighbor https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=who-is-your-neighbor Wed, 01 Jul 2020 18:24:39 GMT Leadership It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=bakalava https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=bakalava Tue, 30 Jun 2020 00:53:51 GMT AI & Technology The experience begins with the amazing texture as your teeth glide through layer after layer of delicately crisp pastry. The sweetness of honey enhanced by nuts and spices spins up your taste buds and your entire mouth begins to fill with wonder. The majesty of Baklava does not end with its amazing taste and texture, ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=you-decide https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=you-decide Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:06:02 GMT AI & Technology “I am a star at rest, my daughter,” answered Ramandu …“In our world,” said Eustace, “a star is a huge ball of flaming gas”“Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is but only what it is made of”C.S.Lewis The Voyage of the Dawn Trader America is made of weak and ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=where-then-hope https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=where-then-hope Sun, 21 Jun 2020 16:55:43 GMT AI & Technology Our hope for a better future does not lie in:shaming others because they are differentsquelching dissenting opinionsdenying facts that do not fit the defined narrativedenying history that does not fit the defined narrativetwisting the meaning of wordsdestroying our neighbors’ propertyburning down our neighbors’ homesjudging people based on the pigmentation of their skin The teacher said:“Love ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-new-abnormal https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-new-abnormal Fri, 19 Jun 2020 17:05:31 GMT AI & Technology A careful perusal of the news, all the news, not just the opinion filled and filtered news we’ve all become so distrustful of, warns of storm clouds rising. There are wars and rumors of wars too numerous to catalog here. Locusts, failed crops, and pig flu threatening future famine at levels the world has rarely ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-tipping-point-2 https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-tipping-point-2 Mon, 15 Jun 2020 19:55:01 GMT AI & Technology The elite establishment in our country has been under increasing pressure to release the reins of power. As a result, and they have been using fear and hate at higher and higher levels in order to divide and subdue the populous. Recently it seems they are losing control because the violence is moving toward reaching ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-tipping-point https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-tipping-point Mon, 15 Jun 2020 19:49:18 GMT AI & Technology The elite establishment in our country has been under increasing pressure to release the reins of power. As a result, and they have been using fear and hate at higher and higher levels in order to divide and subdue the populous. Recently it seems they have lost control because the violence is very close to ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=thank-you-neighbors https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=thank-you-neighbors Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:07:49 GMT Leadership After throwing off the horrors of genocide the people of Rwanda reached into their precolonial past in search of structures and practices to rebuild their society. Before their world was interfered with by outsiders from another continent, Rwanda had a geopolitical element called the Umudugudu. Being the “Land of a Thousand Hills” it usually consisted ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=but-who-will-set-truth-free https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=but-who-will-set-truth-free Sat, 13 Jun 2020 17:03:55 GMT Policy & Society It has now become an element of our society that expressing truth which is outside the narrative defined by the elite establishment will result in censorship, ridicule, and banishment. That, combined with the fact that there is very little truth in the narrative defined by the elite establishment, has left truth lying desperately wounded, outside ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=believe https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=believe Fri, 12 Jun 2020 18:38:15 GMT AI & Technology Our interactions with one other are guided by presuppositions, formulated by the experiences and prior learnings of the parties involved. This adds a level of challenge to communications, only partially helped by non-verbal clues. A micro expression here an eyebrow movement there, unnoticed by the more cerebral processes of the observer but recorded by the ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=eduardo-eddie https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=eduardo-eddie Thu, 11 Jun 2020 21:02:35 GMT AI & Technology Dad was not tall, but he was dark and handsome. He was also very charming and had a natural care for, and interest in other people. Born in Mexico, Spanish was his primary language a fact that was evident when he spoke. His accent was exotic, and his speech flowed with a light and rich ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=high-way https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=high-way Tue, 09 Jun 2020 07:57:22 GMT AI & Technology 7 was the count. She didn’t know it was 7, she only knew that after those rapid pulls at the air with her wings she was soring into the sky. She knew that the ground below included ribbons of black that affected the way the winds moved over her wings. She saw one of those ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-ugly-american https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-ugly-american Mon, 08 Jun 2020 17:41:24 GMT Leadership There exists within our social and political structures a cadre of being which serves itself more than the community it is engaged to serve. The feeding of its own pleasures and power is the primary concern of this cadre and its influence and impact seems to be growing by the day. There is a book, ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=cutting-the-field https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=cutting-the-field Sun, 07 Jun 2020 17:53:13 GMT Leadership “Would you have time to cut the west field?” she said, “the grass is getting really high.” The tools that give a tractor purpose are heavy, made of steel and chain. Some do work powered by the same diesel energy release that powers the machine. Some accomplish their task through their sheer weight as the ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=wusolation-no-more https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=wusolation-no-more Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:09:00 GMT Leadership End of Wusolation The days of Wusolation have ended, by our accounting. We’ve been to City Club to work out, we’ve started having family and friends to the house and church is restarting, sort of, this Sunday. Not sure what to call the next phase of our interrupted global experience. Let me know if you ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=humble-pie https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=humble-pie Fri, 05 Jun 2020 15:09:58 GMT AI & Technology Humiliation is so prevalent and brings such great harm. Whatever your perceived inferiority there is always someone eager to heap humiliation upon you. Humbleness is so rare and brings such great goodness. Whatever your perceived inferiority there is, occasionally, someone who with humility lifts your spirit and makes you see that the world is better ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=my-life https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=my-life Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:32:40 GMT History & Culture The morning mist rolls quietly inDribbles a little dewFor a moment changes the viewVanishes, as if had never been https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=a-healing-balm https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=a-healing-balm Wed, 03 Jun 2020 18:43:15 GMT Leadership You wake up a little confused, strange light, strange sounds, strange smells. You start to focus on the iron bracket over your head holding a wooden beam that must be at least 300 years old. You blink and start to remember the long flight, the chaotic lack of order at immigration, your struggling with French, ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=who-are-you https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=who-are-you Tue, 02 Jun 2020 15:05:34 GMT History & Culture Where you are and how you got there is defined by history Who you are and what you’ve become is defined by your learning along the way https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=breathes-there-the-man https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=breathes-there-the-man Tue, 02 Jun 2020 02:47:41 GMT AI & Technology "Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d, As home his footsteps he hath turn’d, From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=light-over-darkness https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=light-over-darkness Mon, 01 Jun 2020 16:52:46 GMT AI & Technology Over the past week, we have seen peaceful demonstrations that have shined a light on the police state that habitually and systematically deprives elements of our society their rights. There has been very close to universal support shown for addressing the flawed ideals and structures that created and sustain that police state. The echoes of ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=left-right-mythology-we-should-stop-falling-for-it https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=left-right-mythology-we-should-stop-falling-for-it Sun, 31 May 2020 17:13:13 GMT Leadership When you step away from the fray and look back, the Left-Right Mythology in this country makes no sense at all and is very dangerous. Those who the media declare as far-left call themselves socialists, a political structure which involves removal and redistribution of the people’s resources based on the dictates of central planners. These ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=125 https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=125 Sat, 30 May 2020 18:32:59 GMT Policy & Society “Open your mouth for the mute, For the rights of all who are destitute Open your mouth, judge righteously, Defend the rights of the poor and needy” Proverbs 31:8-9 You have neighbors whose voices have been muted by an elitist state that sees them as pawns in their quest for power. Instead of defending the ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=luke-227-20 https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=luke-227-20 Fri, 29 May 2020 22:47:56 GMT Leadership To better understand the Lords supper, recounted for us here by Luke, it is helpful to consider the redemption of the children of Israel from the brutal slavery of the Egyptians. The children of Israel groaned under the oppression of the Egyptians, but they didn’t really ask to be redeemed. They didn’t really have any ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-anti-machiavellian https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-anti-machiavellian Fri, 29 May 2020 17:47:24 GMT Leadership A brief glance at history reveals that those who promote ideologies that are not supported by the majority very often resort to fear and hate to achieve their ends. A more in-depth review of history will reveal that such practices rarely end well, especially for the folks. The practice involves dividing and judging the people ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=what https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=what Thu, 28 May 2020 16:41:27 GMT AI & Technology People have gone completely bonkers. Well, not all, but very many folks. Case in point - in order to demonstrate their disdain for people who hate, a large group of our fellows are practicing all-out hatred against those who they decree to be purveyors of hate. What? They hate you because they hate haters and ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=a-long-row-to-hoe https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=a-long-row-to-hoe Wed, 27 May 2020 16:06:37 GMT Leadership “When you have finished chopping this row, you can come in and have some lunch” It was grandmother speaking and the row was that of cotton. Chopping cotton involved moving through the rows with a hoe and chopping down the non-cotton plants that are competing for water, nutrients and sunlight. Experienced workers can chop a ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=niyo https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=niyo Tue, 26 May 2020 18:21:53 GMT Leadership It is likely that your experience growing up was very different in many ways from that of Niyomugaba Jean Labert. Niyo grew up in the village of Sunzu in the north of Rwanda, born just a few years after that terror which is all too often associated with Rwanda. Since that event, and all during ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=memorial-day-2020 https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=memorial-day-2020 Mon, 25 May 2020 16:04:49 GMT Leadership Please dear reader, for just a minute this Memorial Day, wear the boots of another. You’re a good young man, not perfect, but caring, for your family, your neighbors, your country. You have plans and aspirations, to develop skills, form a career, start a family of your own. One day, those dreams are put on ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=when-questions-are-smug https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=when-questions-are-smug Sun, 24 May 2020 17:56:00 GMT AI & Technology “Why aren’t you wearing a mask?” the older woman asked the young lady at the grocery store. Puzzled what to say the young lady said nothing. That’s ok, no answer was expected, and it is doubtful that anything other than an apology would have been received. Sometimes questions are not questions, Sometimes they are a ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=office-space https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=office-space Sat, 23 May 2020 15:29:47 GMT Leadership Remember the movie Office Space? Well this has nothing to do with that movie, except to trigger a desire to watch it again. If, during the lock-down, you have shifted from working in a traditional office space to working from home, how has that worked out?Most likely there are elements of your job that are ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=killdeer-taking-flight https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=killdeer-taking-flight Fri, 22 May 2020 16:41:08 GMT AI & Technology If you have never, with calmed mind, walked on a gravel drive in the country, please do try it sometime. Hear the crunch beneath your feet, watch the killdeer as he runs before you, laughing when he finally takes flight. See the orange above his tail feather, only really visible as he wings away. Feel ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=you-over-me https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=you-over-me Thu, 21 May 2020 15:09:20 GMT History & Culture You do things everyday that benefit others more than yourself. And, not because it makes you feel better, that would reverse the benefit roles, no, it's because something inside of you guides you to understand that it is the right thing to do. The more you do such things the stronger the guiding voice becomes ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=handkerchief-where-art-thou https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=handkerchief-where-art-thou Wed, 20 May 2020 16:35:27 GMT History & Culture If you are old enough you may remember the lowly handkerchief. Little squares of cloth that were carried by men and women and used to protect the health of others. Along with the handkerchief were protocols, one of which involved excusing yourself, finding a place where others were not down range and giving a solid ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=only-in-lockdownville https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=only-in-lockdownville Tue, 19 May 2020 15:32:30 GMT AI & Technology Does anyone else find it bazaar that studies of first hundreds and now thousands of Covid-19 patients showing the benefits of treatment with an old, inexpensive, readily available, well know drug is met with skepticism by the media, while early results of 8 healthy young people for a new, expensive, not yet in production, untried ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=how-best-to-invest-our-labor https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=how-best-to-invest-our-labor Tue, 19 May 2020 15:15:54 GMT Leadership Seems a lot of people are either contemplating a change in career direction or have undertaken one during the lock-down. And it isn't only those whose livelihoods were deemed non-essential and who were forced to stay home. Many of those were have been working throughout the lock-down are questioning how they invest their labor contributions ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=american-lovers https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=american-lovers Mon, 18 May 2020 09:46:45 GMT Leadership Life has not always been easy for us, maybe its never really easy. However, we have never watched while our children dwindled from lack of nutritious food. We have never taken turns sleeping in order to protect what food and necessities we had. And, we know enough about history, and the broader world, to be ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=rainy-saturday https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=rainy-saturday Sun, 17 May 2020 08:03:39 GMT AI & Technology Gray skies, water dripping,Feels like the gloom may never end. Today's rain is tomorrow's green grass and ripe tomatoes. Are there green pastures and delightful fruit in our post-lock-down future? Sure there are, only, they will not have been ameliorated by the virus. They will, however, be more appreciated. We miss so many of you ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=60-days-and-counting https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=60-days-and-counting Sat, 16 May 2020 00:38:56 GMT AI & Technology Wait, I thought it was supposed to be 2 weeks. We all knew it would go on longer, but 60 days? And counting? However, great concert last night!https://hostandartist.com/artist/fort-worth-brass/live More to come, stay tuned https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=face-to-face https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=face-to-face Thu, 14 May 2020 17:35:09 GMT Leadership We met with friends at a restaurant last night and remembered how great it is to gather together. There was nervous joking about the current situation, tinges of anger toward the murderous regime in China whose treacherous responses of lies and coverups inflicted this mess on the rest of us. Sadness over the lack of ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=direct-to-consumer https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=direct-to-consumer Tue, 12 May 2020 17:08:25 GMT Leadership Could a growth in Direct to Consumer (DTC) businesses be in our new normal? Even before the lockdown companies like Casper (mattresses) and American Giant (clothing) were already successfully selling directly to the consumer. By skipping the layers of middlemen typical in modern retail, DTC companies are able to place more resource where it counts, ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=divided-we-fall https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=divided-we-fall Mon, 11 May 2020 17:09:13 GMT AI & Technology How easy we are coerced into camps If we sit and think about the endless divides that we are push and prodded into every day, it is mind-boggling. It is difficult to have a conversation without slipping into one or more of these issues of deep division. So divided are we that giving examples here ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=fear-and-hate-ii https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=fear-and-hate-ii Sat, 09 May 2020 20:33:19 GMT AI & Technology We have a superpower. We don’t use it very often. It is called respect. Respect defangs the purveyors of fear and hate. They can only ply their trade in an environment of disrespect. We do not allow name-calling or ridicule against those whom we respect. We may say we respect another person or group of ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=fear-and-hate https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=fear-and-hate Fri, 08 May 2020 18:14:38 GMT Leadership The Spring of 1994 witnessed the brutal murder of almost a million people and the rape of almost a half million women inside the boarders of a country the size of the state of Maryland. The cause - fear and hate. Fear and hate are the primary manipulation tools employed when trying to coerce others, ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=maybe-it-is https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=maybe-it-is Thu, 07 May 2020 16:43:28 GMT AI & Technology The birds outside don't seem to know what a pickle we are in.They just keep chirping and trilling, unemployment and covid be hanged, they will sing. The sun is painting the sky pink just like it did before and cows are grazing in the lush green grass. Sitting on the patio you'd think the world ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=we-didnt-know https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=we-didnt-know Thu, 07 May 2020 16:29:44 GMT AI & Technology We make fewer plansbecause tomorrow is uncertainIt always was, we just didn't know We puzzle how to live this wayour future behind a curtainIt always was, we just didn't know Love the Lord with all you arethe first and great commandIt always was, we just didn't know Love your neighbor as yourselfis the key to ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=lord-willing https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=lord-willing Wed, 06 May 2020 17:13:47 GMT AI & Technology "Lord willing" Grandmother would add that phrase to the end of our declarations of the future. "We're going to Disneyland next weekend""Lord Willing" We're going to spend Christmas at Uncle Roberts!""Lord Willing" Others of her generation had the same inclination. Life was considered uncertain, a fickleness to fate. That notion was lost for a while, ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=you-and-i https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=you-and-i Wed, 06 May 2020 16:27:06 GMT AI & Technology It seems the phrase “I love you” is backward to what is meant. “You are loved by me” might be more appropriate. Grandmother was a great source of wisdom, and out of her great treasure trove came the idea that one rarely, if ever, used the word ‘I’ when writing. Along with that came the ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-cost-of-ideological-bigotry https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=the-cost-of-ideological-bigotry Tue, 05 May 2020 17:45:19 GMT Leadership Yesterday's post offered viewers a chance to post comments about their own views of how things might form as the "lock-down" scales away. It was interesting that half the comments were about where we are now rather than where we are going. That is consistent with much what we hear in conversations and read in ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=you-type-well-listen https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=you-type-well-listen Mon, 04 May 2020 15:55:19 GMT Leadership Social and economic structures have been perturbed in ways rarely seen in human history and, arguably, more globally than ever. There are very few cultures that have not felt the impact of this pandemic either directly or indirectly. This site is about hearing and sharing how you are responding to those perturbations and how you ... https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=welcome https://goldenechoes.com/post.html?slug=welcome Sun, 03 May 2020 17:08:02 GMT Leadership On September 15th, 2008 your humble blogger had a great job, working for and with people he greatly admired and respected. In our own way, we were making a difference and improving the world. We had great plans for expanding our reach and our impact. On the morning of September 16th, 2008 that had all ...