“I’m starting with the man in the mirror
I’m asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change”
As much as I love “Man in the Mirror” by Michael Jackson, I have to remind myself that the song is about social change. Too often as I’m singing in the car, I stop and say to myself, “What? Change? A person can’t change.” Then, I get into this conversation with myself about behavioral changes, Continue reading
There was a long stretch of a dirt road that ran along the fence line to the back of my Grandparent’s property. It was always a long hot walk, but even then I preferred the heat over cold. Once you got to the end of the road it opened into what Granddaddy called the sandpit. I never understood the name. I was a city kid by Granddaddy’s standards and to me it looked like dirt; a big half a hole of red dirt. We used to get into all kinds of trouble back at the sandpit. 
