Almost anyone over a certain age easily recognizes an Eagles Album cover. Back in the day, we all went down to Columbia Sounds (Columbia, Mississippi, OR the record store in your town) and purchased a copy. For those born too late to have vinyl as your only option, well, you may have missed out […]
The days continue. The sun rises, the sunsets, and tomorrow comes, then tomorrow and the tomorrow after that. After another tomorrow and another, the day that we always look to today with great anticipation and hope, arrives, and we find that tomorrow is not unlike today, and we shift our focus again, out into the […]
One of the driving forces behind this particular (Hybrid) blog site is one that has been left aside somewhat. I have attempted to analyze the type of material that you, the reader, want most. But from the start, I wanted an avenue to express the pure experience that I feel when I am traveling our […]
There is a question that is posed from time to time and depending on the verbiage of said question, it is one in which the answer affords the possibility of a simple yes or no, or, a volume as thick as War and Peace. I pondered the question the other day as the discussion began […]
It started in the fall of 1978. The West Marion Trojans opened the football season against the Columbia Wildcats. I was a sophomore and was starting in my first high school football game. I think I weighed about 130 pounds, but that may be stretching it a bit. As far as West Marion was concerned, […]
Everyone has to die. This is a fact and cannot be disputed except for a couple of people listed in the Bible. (That I know of) Yes, death waits for each of us and generally, it is a truth in which humans would rather not dwell upon. In my life, there have been many people […]
From the beginning of dbeazylife.com, the plan was to post something more frequently than I have been able to of late. For that, I apologize and for that, I promise to do better. The frightening time in which we live has affected nearly every aspect of life. But that is no excuse. From the start, […]
I wonder if there was a quotable piece of advice that I told my daughters. I texted them just now to see if there was something that stood out. Regardless of their reply, or lack thereof, I was just kind of comparing myself to my father. I loved my father very much, and though he […]
There is a storm raging, whether we admit it, it is on us. It is pressing down hard, we feel it, we know by the weight, by our fatigue in drawing our breath, everything, everything, is heavier today than it was a scant few weeks ago. The news is bad, the news is constant, unrelenting, […]
He told me that he heard her name for the very first time while speaking with his girlfriend on the telephone back when he was 15 or 16 years old. He said it was almost a year before he ever saw her face and then a few months after that before he met her. “The […]