A year ago today, my best good buddy Choca died in my arms. Many of you were part of my community here at the time and remember it. It kicked off a year of loss: our dog, our unborn baby, my job. This is why I was convinced Sassy wouldn't make it to 2022. Choca was my hiking partner for many years, and because she never said anything, I came to enjoy silence rather than the adrenaline and distractions of my life off the mountains. I think my career in TV news eventually ended because of that - as the silence allowed me self-relfection, which brought self-awareness, and with it, awareness of the world around me. Choca's death was a violent one in the sense that natural death, I've heard, isn't always how movies depict it. This was the first time I'd ever been there for a last breath and for months after it, I woke up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat and had other unexplained health problems. This may seem an odd reaction, but as a child I accompanied my doctor parents to hospitals and witnessed sickness and dying at a very young age. Avoiding death, while trying to understand it, became a driving motivation for me. Perhaps it is, in part, why I went to seminary and eventually became a reporter. I sought distraction from my own mortality while also seeking to control it through knowledge. A losing combination. In the book he wrote about his wife's death, CS Lewis said, "No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid." That was my experience. And I had no choice but to sit through it. Then to confront it again and again throughout the rest of the year. But as I sat quietly, I realized something. I had believed that if I could unlock the secrets of death and finally come to peace with it- the ultimate question of existence that has eluded philosophers for centuries - I would finally come to know God. Instead, after last year, I now believe that I had gotten it backwards. Instead, it is coming to know God that brings one peace about death (and all other things for that matter). And thus begins a new journey, not of the head but of the heart. I'll end with another quote from a favorite Lewis book, the last lines of Til We Have Faces, “I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words. Long did I hate you, long did I fear you.” Blessings to all of you on your journey. Thank you for being a part of mine.
Happy midterm Election Day! If you know, you know.
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ICYMI clip from yesterday’s show: Ever heard of directed energy weapons? Apparently they’re all the rage in military operations nowadays and may already be at work in the civilian world.
CNN just showed this video from 2017 of the Active Denial System seemingly irradiating volunteers - the outlet’s reporting that the Pentagon has given DHS permission to test the technology for use at the border. ADS uses electromagnetic energy (the same RF radiation as wireless technology we use daily), and while it’s coming from a big truck in the video, many experts are saying this is scalable to a backpack.
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Margarita is one of our dairy goats. We recently gave her what we thought was an excellent opportunity at date night but she was less than grateful. Pete however was very happy!
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SCOTUS BOOK DEALS !!!
NO QUORUM ETHICS VIOLATIONS ???
TERMINATION RIGHTS !!!
MAJOR Copyright Ruling...(Supreme Court Bombshell) | Nov 7, 2026 | Top Music Attorney | Runtime 10 min.
In this episode of the Top Music Attorney Podcast, Entertainment Attorney, Miss Krystle, discuses a copyright battle involving major music publishers, the Supreme Court, and an artist fighting to reclaim his music rights. What looks like a major win for songwriters comes with a twist that raises some uncomfortable questions.
00:00 Music Publishers Buy Into the Copyright Fight
01:04 An Artist Victory With a Major Catch
03:06 Cyril Vetter’s Fight to Reclaim His Song
03:57 The Worldwide Copyright Ruling
04:39 Major Music Publishers Push Back
05:18 Four Justices Sit Out
06:40 The Book Deal Connection
07:25 Repeat Recusals and Supreme Court Ethics
