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Chris’s collected works are a kind of patchwork quilt, stitched together from the fabric of his opinions, be they political or practical, his historical ponderings, personal anecdotes, genealogical forays, and vivid travelogues.
Each piece, no matter how small or seemingly incidental, contributes to the broader narrative of a man who has roamed far and wide, both across the world and the uncharted terrain of his own restless mind. Together, they form a portrait of a life spent in pursuit, of understanding, of connection, and, perhaps most of all, of a good story well told.
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byChrisWhite – 2025 Don’t get me wrong, I ain’t saying genealogy is a pursuit for the sane, but it does tend to attract a particular breed of folks who are real good at squinting at old documents and pestering the elderly for details about long-dead kinfolk. When I got started nearly forty years ago, there…
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byChrisWhite – 2025 Great prose, by its very nature, takes its own sweet time. It doesn’t jump up and demand attention the way poetry does. It settles itself in, reveals itself piece by piece, and requires a bit of patience from both writer and reader. If poetry is about passion, prose is about justice, and…
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“As Americans, we have a particular fondness for history that involves conquest, pillaging, and the occasional well-placed horned helmet.”
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byChrisWhite – 2025 What do you get if you take sperm of the Grateful Dead, mix it with the fertile bluegrass eggs of Ricky Skaggs, artificially inject a fertilized dose into the womb of Pink Floyd’s psychedelia, then have Doc Watson, nine months later, deliver its denouement? Billy Strings, by God. Now, I’ll confess something…
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“Jerusalem is not a place one can visit lightly. It challenges you, inspires you, and unsettles you in equal measure. It is a city of tension and transformation, where the sacred and the profane coexist in an uneasy truce.”
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“If history teaches us anything, it is that human beings are forever convinced that their moment of dominion will last. But the Golan Heights stands as a fine reminder that land is indifferent to the ambitions of men. “
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“…having an opportunity to witness, firsthand, archeological evidence of the miracles talked about in the bible, is a blessing for sure, but not just a blessing, but reason for a total rebuke of media and the scientific community for their intentional whitewashing of this evidence. And in Israel, its everywhere you look.”
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Robert Penn Warren captured this reality when he wrote, “Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.”
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“Bulgaria, in the end, was not just a country I visited, but a country that left a mark. It was a place where the ancient and the modern threw elbows at each other but somehow coexisted…”
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byChrisWhite – 2025 There are two kinds of people who go to Japan: the ones who dream of cherry blossoms fluttering delicately onto their laps as they sip tea in an ancient temple, and the ones who come to get their ribs realigned by a black belt in a dimly lit dojo. I, dear reader,…
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