Inside The Work of Poet & Author RidgeMagee
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I believe that enlightenment is best achieved by engaging and exploring alternative points of view, that opinions and convictions are best formulated empirically, and that perspectives should be tendered without apology. They’re merely what we believed to be true at a given point in time and are subject to change. We might even feel differently next week. That’s how it works when we continue to grow.
Sometime in 2016, as the political shenanigans were ramping up in Washington, long-dormant emotions and sensibilities awakened in me, and I felt compelled to engage. Even though I was an adult, I was reluctant to voice my opinion because I was afraid that, if pressed, I couldn’t back it up, and I didn’t want to put my ignorance on display. ;-)
First I needed to figure out where my give-a-shit factor was on stuff. I determined that I have a broad and abiding regard for embracing diversity and inclusion, the import of the phrase “you do you”, a practical appreciation for the premise “I’m Ok, You’re Ok” and the precepts “Do No Harm” and “Leave No Trace”. That gave me a starting point to engage and explore alternative points of view, form opinions, and ultimately, convictions.
I found that writing about stuff forced me to scrutinize it and gain a better understanding. With my rumination and filtering mechanisms like ethics, morality, and legality completed, I had informed opinions and some actual convictions. I was ready to be part of the greater discussion.
I don’t pigeon-hole myself into any political party, but merely as a free-thinking 60s-era poet who realizes that health is fundamental to both life and the pursuit of happiness, that liberty should be color-blind, and that big business can never be trusted to think beyond next quarter's earnings report or put our country's best interest ahead of their bottom line.
My poems are profoundly personal expressions as are all forms of art and ask only to be perceived without bias, or critique. I have no illusions about the impact of my work or my significance. Nor do I apologize for its tenor, or fret over how others might judge it, or me for it. For to do otherwise would inhibit free expression, and a reticent self-conscious poet is doomed to idle melancholy.
Naively I Hope To Foster Awareness
In The Uninitiated, Innocent & ignorant
And Clarity Of Conscience In The Culpable.
Ridge
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Like most things in life, to paraphrase Occam's razor, the least complicated solution is often the best solution. Golf is no different, especially for senior and weekend golfers for whom the solution is so simple it's usually ignored.
Ridge was in the golf business for a long time, as a student, player, pro shop owner, master club maker, fitter, and teacher. His father was also a lifetime PGA member so golf has been a dominating influence since his formative years.
Ridge owned Magee Golf Company, a golf retail, repair, and PGA-accredited teaching facility for nearly 25 years. Believing his customers were his best advertising, Ridge offered free lessons to all his “new" club buyers as long as they owned their clubs. He averaged 15 lessons a week, 45 weeks a year for the last 16 years before he retired.
During those years Ridge isolated and applied 3 key elements that effortlessly and instantly improved everyone's ball striking.
Ridge shares a career's worth of wisdom plus those 3 elements to help you defeat your toughest opponent, yourself.
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Bitz O' Wiz Tp Educate, Inspire & Motivate
Or more precisely, a compilation of educational, inspirational, motivational, and thought provoking pieces I have published over the years in a variety of publications.
Topics range from God’s plan and immigration to being your own boss and gun control.
My mantra since I began writing about the stuff that keeps pokin’ at me has been “Tempt Enlightenment by Engaging and Exploring Alternative Points of View.”
When you ponder and scrutinize viewpoints other than your own, new insights and perceptions are introduced and the collateral effect are revised perceptions and enlightened points of view.
These are the acorns of enlightenment that grow into the strong personal convictions that define us.
Doing your due diligence gives you confidence in your convictions so you can express your opinions and be part of the greater discussion.
I ask that while you read My Sense Is… you accept that these are merely my points of view, based on what I believed to be true at a given point in time.
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About The Author
Ridge wrote a column for an Arizona newspaper in the 1980s called “Golf Straight Talk”, but wasn't compelled to write a book until the late 1990s when he owned Magee Golf Company, a golf retail, repair, and PGA-accredited teaching facility in central Florida. Golf was in his blood as a second-generation teaching pro, so he wrote about what he knew, helping duffers acheive better ball striking. That first book was initially titled “Golf’s Brutal Truth; If You Suck At it Now, You Probably Always Will”. But later, in a more pensive mood Ridge reworked the book and retitled it, “Golf's Simple Truths; Guaranteed Better Ball Striking”. Much better I think.
Ridge is known for his distinctive writing style, characterized by his economy of words, humor, and dry understatement. Many of his educational, inspirational, self-help, and motivational pieces previously published on various international platforms have been collected and published in Ridge’s second book “My Sense Is…”.
In early 2020 during the Covid lockdown, Ridge developed a taste for poetry as a more enlightened expression of his emotions and went on to compile a three-volume poetry series entitled “I’m Just Saying Is All”. That series has since been combined, expanded, and published in one volume entitled “All I Have To Leave Behind Are Words”.
Ridge’s books are available on Amazon, Apple books, and Barnes & Noble.
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