Inside The Work of Poet & Author RidgeMagee
All I Have To Leave Behind Are Words
Primitive, Frank, and Relatable Rhymes
Depictions of Life’s Circumstance
In the Raw Artless Tenor of Our Times
I believe that enlightenment is best achieved when we engage and explore alternative points of view, that we should form opinions and convictions empirically, and that we should tender our perspectives without apology. They are merely what we believe to be true at a given point in time and subject to change. That’s how it works when we continue to grow.
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 my significance or the impact of my work. Nor do I apologize for its tenor, or fret over how others might judge it, or me for it. To do otherwise would inhibit free expression, and a reticent self-conscious poet is doomed to an uncreative melancholy.
Naively, I hope my writing might bring an iota of awareness to the innocent, an ounce of enlightenment to the ignorant, and wee bit of conscience to the culpable.
Ridge
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Golfs Simple Truths
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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Gimmes, Mulligans & Preferred Lies
Takeaways from an obstinate, self-absorbed, and somewhat contrary old fart
who learned most of life’s lessons the hard way and survived.
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.
While you read Gimmes, Muligans & Preferred Lies, please 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 and Apple books.
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