This is the title I chose for my personal blog, which is meant to give me an outlet for one of my favorite crafts – writing – plus to use an image from my favorite sport, golf.  Out of college, my first job was as a reporter for the Daily Astorian in Astoria, Oregon, and I went on from there to practice writing in all my professional positions, including as press secretary in Washington, D.C. for a Democrat Congressman from Oregon (Les AuCoin), as an Oregon state government manager in Salem and Portland, as press secretary for Oregon’s last Republican governor (Vic Atiyeh), and as a private sector lobbyist.  This blog also allows me to link another favorite pastime – politics and the art of developing public policy – to what I write.  I could have called this blog “Middle Ground,” for that is what I long for in both politics and golf.  The middle ground is often where the best public policy decisions lie.  And it is where you want to be on a golf course.

I just got back home after an Easter Sunrise Service at Southwest Church here in La Quinta, California.

So, I feel compelled to provide this proscript to a blog I posted this morning.

It could have been cloudy and raining here this morning, but as the service was in progress, guess what?  THE “SUN” ROSE IN THE SKY TO THE EAST.

And, about 2,000 years ago, THE “SON” ROSE, to give us a way to have a relationship with God.

Good news on this Easter!