Echoes From the Campfire

But to build anything and to make it last calls for discipline, the inner discipline that a man provides for himself and the cooperative discipline that men give to each other.”                     –Louis L’Amour  (Bendigo Shafter)        “Unless the LORD builds the house, they…

Coffee Percs

He poured a tin cup almost to the brim with steaming coffee and held it high as enticement.”                       –Elmer Kelton  (The Buckskin Line)   Howdy, Pard.  Do yuh realize that we are now, this very day, startin’ on the second half of the year. …

Echoes From the Campfire

We have a sixth sense that gets dimmed with the noise of civilization but you should always pay attention to it.”                    –B.N. Rundell  (Journey to Jeopardy)        “Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me! For my soul trusts in You; And…

Echoes From the Campfire

With the red peaks shining up into the blue, and the fragrance of cedar and pinion, and the purple sage and flowers and grass and splash of clear water over stones—with these there came back to him something that he had lost and which had haunted him.”                 …