Rich: Don’t it make you wanna go home

Not long ago, I drove home the back way after running errands in town.

It had been a few months since I'd traveled those roads. I was astounded.

New construction was booming, with a subdivision being carved through the angry, unyielding red clay. The ground, apparently, like me, wanted things to stay the same. Orange barrels marked a new road that would replace a house of the Lord with a roundabout.