I filled up my truck with gas this morning. Man, I can’t believe how the price of gasoline has gone up. And the St. Louis Cardinals scored fourteen runs the other night, in their game. I couldn’t believe how many homeruns they hit, either. And my air conditioner at home is on the fritz, can…
Hi. I’m Ken Jones, and this is A Classic State of Mind, with a word about … A Blessed Life I lead a blessed life, really. Like everybody else, I suppose, there are some challenges in what I have to face every day. But as I contemplate my life and where I am, I…
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Every morning, just before I walk out the door to begin my day, I grab my stuff off the top of my dresser. And every evening, as part of my close-down-the-day ritual, I empty my pockets and place my ‘stuff’ onto the top of that dresser. My wallet, my two sets of keys — one…
I’m a nut about words. I love words, especially beautifully crafted words. Webster’s Dictionary has a very short definition of a ‘wordsmith.’ A skilled user of words. I’m not convinced I’m a wordsmith, but I do love to read writers who exhibit extraordinary skill in how they craft their words. Meanings of words, definitions of…
I don’t know how many times it’s happened to me. Certainly, it’s more frequent than it used to be. The frustration of trying to ‘recall’ something I have known in the past, but now I just can’t quite remember. Sometimes, it’s the name of a place. “Honey,” I will ask my wife, “What’s the name…
I’ve mentioned before, here on Classic State of Mind, that music has been an integral part of my journey for my entire life. My parents loved to sing gospel music when I was growing up, and when we took family trips in the car, singing church songs helped make the monotonous miles of travel more…
One of the great challenges in life for people, I think, is our need for finding the right ‘words’ to describe our thoughts, our feelings, our intentions. Words are, in fact, everywhere we look. On billboards, in newspapers, on television screens, Yes, even smart phones and certainly computers are tools for creating ‘words.’ Have you…
As a pastor, sometimes on Sunday mornings as I greeted folks for the first time at the beginning of the service, I would ask a rhetorical question: ‘How was your week?’ Of course, when you ask a question like that of a large gathering of people, you’re not expecting an answer. It’s a way of…
I’ve noticed something about myself, lately; something I’m not particularly happy about or proud of. Part of the reason I’m not particularly happy about what I noticed is that I didn’t actually notice it myself; my wife did. She often notices things about me that I don’t notice about myself. (Probably one of the reasons…