It’s that time of the year again — yes, time for us to ask for the pleasure of your continued, kind, support for this blog by joyously buying our eBook — Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 12 (2021) — to show your support so we may continue to publish this blog without advertising while still being able to cover our yearly, ongoing, online publication costs that include server space, hosting fees, and bandwidth payments.
The future now is here and you can watch it live, weekdays, on Boles.tv! Yes, Janna and I have taken the deep leap into the world of live streaming and we’re here to tell you all about it. The most interesting thing about going live each day is the idea that social media is really nothing compared to social broadcasting. You are your own station. You are your own dream stream.
As the once greatBob Dylan proclaimed, in his lovely song, “Ring Them Bells” —
Ring them bells, ye heathen
From the city that dreams
Ring them bells from the sanctuaries
’Cross the valleys and streams
— and today, I use that song title (forgiving its intrinsic English grammar problems) as one inspiration for a new website, and blog, I’ve created called: BolesBells.com! The new site is dedicated to older folk, like me, who are aged 50 or older, and who want to get into Kettlebell workouts. I settled on “David Boles Bells” as the name of the new project because I would often listen to “Ring Them Bells” while working out with my Kettlebells — it was time to “Ring Them Boles Bells!” There is a distinct connection for me between the power of that song, and the majesty of flowing in a Kettlebell workout. I also appreciate how every artist who sings “Ring Them Bells” presents a completely different take, and inspiration, on the lyric — just like we, we Kettlebellians, all have different routines, and practices, even though the core intention remains the same: To get in shape and stay there! As well, as we celebrate this new Boles Bells online entity, I am also honored to share with you the lovely “Boles Bells” logo created by the incredibly talented Andrei Gorshkov:
Forty years ago, this September, when I was a teenaged movie critic for “Kidding Around” on KOLN/KGIN-TV in Lincoln, Nebraska, the movie “Ordinary People” was one of the first movies I reviewed on television — and the experience of that film has stuck with me to this day. I recently re-watched the movie out of an aging curiosity, and residual melancholia, and I am still struck by the raw emotion of its story of human longing and tragedy that is always just boiling below the surfactant tension of an intrinsic “ordinary” family clinging to exceptional issues of survival.
It isn’t often you can take a trip through a wormhole, and survive, tumbling back in time, from whence you began, and then arrive back in the future from which there is no escape; and so I have described my recent journey tripping through the online archives of — The Scotia Register — a village newspaper that was published weekly, on Thursdays, in Scotia, Nebraska (population 291) from 1895 to 2003. Paging back through The Scotia Register archives was like being watched and recorded, from afar, years ago, with the perspective, and perception, of the now.
If it’s the end of the year, then that means it is time, once again, to thank you for all soulful investments you have shared with us throughout the last 12 months! We now humbly ask you to continue to believe in us by purchasing the latest edition of — Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 10 (2019) — to help us continue to protect the truth when covered in facts-of-lies and fits-of-dismay, and we do that every day, across all our communication platforms, to keep alive the right life of the mind.
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