Don Adkisson's Blog – August 2019 Archive (2)

Echoes From the Campfire     

     “There is a weariness of the flesh, and that can be borne. Beyond that is a weariness of the bone, far harder to abide, but possible. But the final weariness, of the nerves and brain, when a man may at any moment pitch unconscious from the saddle, is the worst and most unendurable torment.”

               --Paul I. Wellman (The Comancheros)

     "For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become…

Echoes From the Campfire

“A man can have a little bit and feel rich, or he can have a lot and feel poor.”

--Elmer Kelton (The Time It Never Rained)

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."

--Matthew 6:24 (NKJV)

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In my earlier years I spent some time learning how to tie knots. I figured that a person…