Like millions of Americans, I keep a diary in cyberspace. I call it my “blog” – we all call them blogs – but it’s more like a virtual journal, a place to jot down random thoughts, flesh out idea fragments, post nature photos, etc. I don’t spend much time on my blog – too busy – and neither does anybody else.
I wade into this column with trepidation. There’s something beautiful I want to share with you, but I’ll have to walk through a field of landmines to get to my point. Along the way, I’ll be discussing things like race . . . religion . . . maybe even a little politics. Enter at your own risk. I am.
Itâs mid-August in the Lowcountry â that weird, bipolar time of year when the calendarâs shouting âback-to-school!â while the weatherâs whispering âback to bed.â
Lately, producing this column feels like squeezing that last bit of dry, crusty toothpaste from the tube you should have thrown out a week ago. There’s nothing much left in there, but you’re too lazy to shop and teeth must be brushed.
Before sunup last Thursday morning, I dragged my creaky self, in my creaky station wagon, over to the Lowe’s parking lot to fetch my daughter. She’d been bussed back to Beaufort overnight with 80 local teenagers who’d just spent the week at Young Life camp in the mountains of Virginia.