Voices

Opinion pieces, commentary, editorials, and columns that reflect community perspectives from Beaufort’s writers, thought leaders, and residents. This category provides a platform for voices shaping local discussion on issues, values, culture, civic life, and public debate in Beaufort and the broader Lowcountry.

Preparation time

As I wrote in my first article, there is more to life than politics. There will be plenty of opportunities to reflect on government officials and 2026 elections as the year progresses. Now is the time to appreciate the natural world’s prelude to heaven: spring and the glory of Easter.

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The law be damned

We must get back on track, first and foremost, by adhering to the Constitution which clearly delineates the three separate but equal branches of our government. However, I have to say that I am not holding my breath until this happens. Sadly enough, I expect chaos-as-usual.

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Engineering a deathbed peace

When mother was leaving this realm, I was with my brother and sister at her bedside. We were not fighting, although there were lingering disagreements, unresolved. We had — thanks to a last minute gift of Scotch — been passing around a bottle of Dewar’s; talking in the semi-darkness; recounting our peripatetic, mostly happy childhoods thinking mother might still hear us. Eventually the nurse came in the room, looked at each of us in turn, then said, “You know she passed 30 minutes ago.”

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It was a close call

A group of students from the local elementary school appeared and thanked Dorothy for her lesson on duplicity. As a reward, they presented her with a pair of magic slippers made in class, slippers that, when their heels were clicked together in a joyful leap, could grant a wish.

So Dorothy leaped joyfully, clicked, wished, and she and Toto were back in Kansas.

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