I understand there is a national debate about restructuring the VA. I am not following it closely. I sense that it is about ideology and political influence.
I don’t trust ideology or political influence – no matter which way they go.
I know one small, irrefutable fact: I have consistently had great service at the Kernersville center. I hope they don’t change that. It is not broke.
Two months ago, MidLaw linked to the Cleveland Clinic’s egg-affirming encomium: Eggs are good for you. “Eggs are fine. They’re actually a very healthy food.”)
I hope you ate them when they were good for you.
The Journal of the American Medical Association is reporting now that some new study concludes that eggs kill. Harvard’s School of Public Health and others are all “on the one hand, on the other hand.”
Humpty Dumpty is back on the wall. Coffee is an endangered species. Orange juice is a sugar bomb. Bacon: nitrates, nitrites.
Bridgers School in Tarboro was named for the sisters Mary Horne Bridgers and Lola Bridgers, who made their careers teaching in what was known as Central School until it was renamed Bridgers School in 1943. They were legendary teachers.
Miss Mary and Miss Loulie had an errant brother, an adventurer named Marcus.
He lit out from Tarboro for Africa in 1897, searching for gold in the Transvaal.
In 1903, Marcus left South Africa and traveled up Africa’s east coast to Egypt. Along the way, he sent postcards home to Mary and Lola.
The Washington Post brands Tarboro’s Todd Gurley “the ideal modern NFL running back.” Says he “may be the most dynamic offensive weapon in football.”
The Raleigh News and Observer credits Tarboro high school as a “football dynasty” as it rolls up another state championship and a second, consecutive undefeated season.
Both papers affirm Tarboro coach Jeff Craddock and a unique culture in Tarboro.
It’s right remarkable how both sets of skills line up with the Guilford Edge at Guilford College. And see how that lines up with this recent post and the one after that.
Guilford College has very strong arts and very strong athletics. Right now, both are being re-imagined and newly resourced there.
Dana Giola, the Poet Laureate of California and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, once commented
I don’t like sports, but you’ve got to admire the energy, creativity, and innovation that goes into sports. And it’s very similar to arts. It’s a way of focusing human energy to create these symbolic encounters which have enormous emotional resonance to audiences
Guilford’s got’em both.
Giola’s comment affirms Guilford’s thinking. The student experience at Guilford crosses traditional boundaries. It finds connections, focuses energy, teaches the importance of symbolic encounters. It’s creative.
These are elements of a life lived well. Both sports and arts teach those things HANDS ON at Guilford College.
I’m amazed continually at how often people who spent their college years at athletics and arts and literature (and other such endeavors) turn out to have the chops to get things done.
Athletes make great executives; French majors make the BEST lawyers.
The Cleveland Clinic says eggs are good for you. It says you’d do well to eat them every day. Salt, it says, is not all that bad. A low-fat diet makes little difference.
All those eggs not eaten. All that cabbage not salted. So much skim milk. The mind reels. The spirit plummets. The metabolism boggles.
Who is to blame? Doctors? The Government? The Sugar Lobby?
Where is the reward for a timidly lived life? An eggless existence?
In the spirit of the season, garnish your hummus with a sprig of holly. The dark green leaf, the bright red berry: they rest so well on a rich bed of beige. (Recipe for the beige: The MidLaw Hummus Way.)
But do not eat that holly. Remember: Holly is toxic and can cause death to small animals and little children.
Everybody has their Christmas traditions. MidLaw has several. First is the James Brown Christmas Miracle, which MidLaw discovered last year. You can push a button right here, right now, and get James Brown’s Funky Christmas on your device. Now that is a miracle.
As nearly as I can tell, thanks for this are due to Josh Jones,a writer, and musician based in Durham, NC, and to Open Culture, the best free cultural and educational media on the web. And, of course, to JAMES BROWN.
I was back at the Veterans Administration Kernersville Healthcare Center last week.
MidLaw has been all over eggs. 
Bridgers School in Tarboro was named for the sisters Mary Horne Bridgers and Lola Bridgers, who made their careers teaching in what was known as Central School until 
Those postcards and artifacts he brought back from Africa are now 
