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"I believe writing is a precursor to thought,
not the other way around"
Garry L. Cox
The Bard of Appanoose
We are all told, “live your life to the fullest”; I am here to do just that. The Bard's Contrarian Bar serves as a vessel to project my passions and clue in my loyal readers as to what inspires me in this crazy world. So, sit back, relax, and read on.
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garrylcox
Mar 24, 20201 min read
No Matter How Fast We Run
Covid-19 has impacted our lives to a degree never imagined. One of the most impactful outcomes is the loss of the 2020 Summer Olympic...
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garrylcox
Jan 27, 20202 min read
Living a Dream: Reports of My Demise
As a writer or even worse a poet, I am the basest of thieves. I will steal a line in a heartbeat if it tickles my fancy. I am happy to...
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garrylcox
Aug 12, 20191 min read
Living a Dream: What Do Google, The English Language, God and History Have in Common?
Google is my go-to brain since mine is very small Although I’m very clever Google knows it all He (Winston Churchill) mobilized the...
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garrylcox
Aug 5, 20192 min read
Living a Dream: Rise Up
Previously I am a septuagenarian, trying to get the bulk of my creative work done before I become an octogenarian. One way to put it....
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garrylcox
Jul 23, 20192 min read
Living a Dream: Rounding For Home
I am a septuagenarian, trying to get the bulk of my creative work done before I become an octogenarian. One way to put it. Another-I am...
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garrylcox
Oct 12, 20182 min read
Living a Dream - My Diamond Jubilee
I run because I have to I run because I can People wonder why I do it for twenty, fifty years a pop Why does anyone do anything For the...
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garrylcox
Feb 15, 20177 min read
Living a Dream: Rounding For Home
Take heed the changing landscape of your dreams as one dream morphs into another Leading us all to ask- How can I encourage myself and...
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garrylcox
Oct 15, 20164 min read
Living a Dream: The times they are a changin’
October 5, 2016 The Huntsman Harriers Ride again. Shagg takes the Gold medal in the 400 meters. Garry comes fourth in the 100 meters,...
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garrylcox
Sep 8, 20163 min read
Living a Dream: This Was Our Olympics
Holy Faith gives us an unshakable confidence in the inherent goodness of life and of the universe. (enneathought@enneagraminstitute.com)...
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garrylcox
Aug 21, 20163 min read
Living a Dream: It Takes a Village
Inaugural Living a Dream 1958 Here at home the Reverend Bob Richards, two time Olympic Pole Vault Champion, just sailed over a cross bar...
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garrylcox
Aug 10, 20162 min read
Living a Dream: Skin in the Game
The journey starts with a hungry heart fed by the archetypical dream of glory not for the chosen but for the choosers As blogs go...
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garrylcox
Jul 29, 20163 min read
Living a Dream: John Godina three
As Champions of Sport, Connor Sports is dedicated to creating more places for athletes to train and reach their goals in life. Through...
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garrylcox
Jul 9, 20164 min read
Living a Dream: The Beat Goes On
You’re taking the best minds in the sport and letting them have some freedom and let them be the artists that they need to be. John...
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garrylcox
Jun 21, 20165 min read
Living a Dream: Time Keeps on Ticking
It’s 4:22 AM Mountain Standard Time June 25, 2016. Garry is completing this blog post with a pure heart, a clear mind and a steady hand....
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garrylcox
Jun 16, 20164 min read
Living a Dream: Coffee With the Boys III
He also watches, in his mind’s eye, his graceful classmate Constance Delaney flowing in the grace of her youth. A tardy disclaimer: Some...
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garrylcox
Jun 4, 20164 min read
Living a Dream: Coffee With the Boys II
All that follows is dedicated to two men who have transcended fear, ignorance and physical imprisonment by virtue of the sheer exuberance...
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garrylcox
May 26, 20165 min read
Living a Dream: Coffee With the Boys I
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under...
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garrylcox
Apr 30, 20164 min read
Living a Dream
No matter how fast we run How far we throw or how high we fly the earth will claim our mortal forms and we will wait like ordinary men...
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