Jeff Campbell
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So many of us have this sense that this is not what Christmas was meant to be. We juggle sacred and secular expectations, struggle with family and disappointments, with full schedules that can't quite overcome our doubts and loneliness.Contemplating Advent offers a road map toward aligning our lived experience with the things our hearts promise us about this season. Comitting a few minutes each day to meditation, contemplation, and prayer can transform...
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Texas has a long, romantic history when it comes to railroads. But even though steam engines and streetcars offer nonstop service to Nostalgia City, there's a dark side to Texas rail. The Black Widow of Fort Worth engineered a fatal double-cross at a railroad crossing. The Mountaineer Madman brought death to the Texas Electric Railway, while the Trolley Bandit terrorized the citizens of El Paso. From a freak accident involving a banana peel to a tragic...
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Ready for peace, connection and union? It's as close as your breath.
Breathing is both wonder and paradox: it is something so simple that we are born knowing how to do it yet a person can train for their entire life in an effort to learn how to do it well. It is something that appears to be a solitary act and yet coordinating our breath with another is a deep act of intimacy. On one level it is a physical act, and yet the spiritual implications of...
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Half the world disappeared. Over a year later, half the remaining population disappeared. These things happen. The world is shrinking. The narrator tries to find meaning in all of it. That happens too. The Hangover Hour Report is a new journal where each issue allows an author to write whatever they want. The one rule is that it must be completed in 72 hours.
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Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. Over 40,000 years ago, the earth was ruled by megafauna: mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. Of course, those creatures no longer exist, and there is only one likely reason for that: the evolution and arrival of the earth's only tool-wielding hunter, the wildly adaptive, comparatively pint-sized human species. Many more of the world's biggest...
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With their love and companionship, animals of all species help to make human lives better every day. But sometimes, to our utter amazement and everlasting gratitude, animals literally save our lives. This heartwarming book collects over 50 real-life stories in which the actions of animals have meant the difference between life and death. Today, scientists vigorously debate questions regarding the sentience, intelligence, and emotions of animals. In...
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Enjoy a breakdown of the Lone Star State's generational bluegrass harmonies. From the moment they picked up the radio signal of Bill Monroe's mandolin, Texans have been enamored with this uniquely American style of music. But the high lonesome sound couldn't have put down roots without a tradition of mentorship that runs through families and spans generations. Meet the Van Cliburn piano prodigy that became a multi-instrumentalist for Taylor Swift....
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The Long Weekend Review is a monthly e-zine that allows the writer to do whatever they want, as long as it is written in three days. This month's edition is from Jeff Campbell. Jeff writes this of issue seven. "When I started writing 'A Whole Lot of Nothing' I expected it would be a rather head-y series of reflections that mostly focused on my strange relationship with the concept of nothingness and emptiness that I have cultivated over...
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Texas has nurtured a thriving bluegrass scene since the early 1950s. The Lone Star State boasts the country's first bluegrass college degree and even hosts a Beatles bluegrass cover band. Meet the Pickin' Singin' Professor, the Fiddle Engineer and Blanco's Bluegrass Boy. Hit the trail with cowboys like the Mayfield brothers and go backstage with Grammy-nominated acts like Wood & Wire. Jeff Campbell and Braeden Paul celebrate the musicians who contributed...
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Did you know that Plano once had a winning semipro baseball team? And its own university, boasting a pagoda imported from Malaysia? Or that the city once proudly proclaimed itself the "Mule Capital of the World"? Meet the Native American Planoite who walked in space, the African American entrepreneur who prospered in Jim Crow Texas and the man behind the "mystery stone" uncovered in the Collinwood House. Visit a military tank, a five-hundred-year-old...