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Primitive, Frank, and Relatable Rhymes
Depictions of Life’s Circumstance
In the Raw Artless Tenor of Our Times
I’m a 60s-era poet with an abiding regard for embracing diversity and inclusion, the import of the phrase “you do you”, the precepts “Do No Harm” and “Leave No Trace” and a practical appreciation for the premise “I’m Ok, You’re Ok”.
I tempt enlightenment by engaging and exploring alternative points of view, formulate opinions and convictions empirically, and tender my perspectives without apology. They’re merely what I believed to be true at a given point in time, tempered by my liberal nature. Just one bloke's pragmatic, prophetic, pontifical, and poetical perspective on people, piety, and politics. ;-)
My poems are profoundly personal expressions as are all forms of art, asking only to be perceived without bias or critique.
I have no illusions of my significance or the impact of my work. Nor do I apologize for its primitive 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 and unproductive melancholy.
Naively, I hope my writing fosters awareness in the uninitiated and clarity of conscience in the culpable.
Ridge
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Like most things in life, the least complicated solution is often the best solution. Golf is no different, especially for older and weekend golfers for whom the solution is so simple it's 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 and operated 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 the clubs. He averaged 15 lessons a week, 45 weeks a year for the last 16 years before he retired.
During those years Ridge isolated 3 key elements that effortlessly and instantly improved everyone's ball striking.
He shares a career's worth of wisdom that will help you defeat your toughest opponent, yourself.
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One Bloke’s Pragmatic, Prophetic & Pontifical Perspectives On People, Piety & Politics.
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 and rooted in my liberal nature.
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The Author
Ridge wrote a column for golfers in an Arizona newspaper in the 1980s called “Golf Straight Talk”. He wasn't compelled to write a book until the late 1990s.
Ridge owned and operated 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 achieve golfdom. If you play golf you know what he means. That golf book was initially titled “Golf’s Brutal Truth; If You Suck At it Now, You Probably Always Will, Unless You’re The Exception”. Then later, in a more pensive mood he reworked and retitled the book, “Golf's Simple Truths; Guaranteed Better Ball Striking”. Much better I think.
Then 16 years later as political shenanigans were transpiring in Washington, long-dormant emotions and sensibilities were awakened, and Ridge felt compelled to engage. His writing during the next 4 years was largely directed at all the political shenanigans going on in Washington, but he also had numerous other pieces published on international blog platforms. Ridge is known for his distinctive writing style, characterized by his economy of words and dry understatement. Those educational, inspirational, and motivational pieces have been collected and published in Ridge’s 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 “Just Saying Is All” that 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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