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From the Vault: A Beach Elegy

Dreaming of Seven Days To open our hearts; it's just not our style But we gotta now; cause it's been a while Being here with you;...

Cole Black

Aug 21, 20221 min read

A Prayer, On the Last Day of the Skyview Pro/Am

Today was the last day of the Skyview Pro/Am, the second stop on the 2022 Golf for Enlightenment Tour. Before the first ball was struck,...

Cole Black

Jul 14, 20221 min read

A Garden, A Game, and Hope for Redemption

In his book, Golf for Enlightenment, the philosopher and spiritual entrepreneur Deepak Chopra notes that unlike other sports, golf is...

Cole Black

Jul 4, 20224 min read

The First Dunlin Challenge

I’m feeling some emptiness now that two weeks have passed since the feast of March Madness, the Whittom-Siegel bracket challenge, and the...

Cole Black

Apr 15, 20222 min read

Should Tiger Have Taken A Cart?

This past week, Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed as a justice of the United States Supreme Court. Her confirmation was hailed as a...

Skip Justice

Apr 10, 20226 min read

Enlightenment and Ego: A Postscript

To say that the lessons on enlightenment and ego from our trip to Durham haven't really stuck would be generous indeed. While the first...

Cole Black

Mar 19, 20224 min read

Enlightenment, Ego, and a Prayer for All

The quest that is the 2022 Golf for Enlightenment Tour got under way this week with contradictions, irony and cognitive dissonance all...

Cole Black

Feb 21, 202210 min read

Time

It was the appointed time, and so we all gathered on a Zoom call, my two brothers, my sister and I. The purpose of the call – or at...

Cole Black

Jan 27, 20229 min read

The 2022 Golf for Enlightenment Tour

Golf has always been an integral part of The Dunlin Project. Like life itself, golf is a journey never fully mastered, but one that can...

Cole Black

Jan 11, 20223 min read

The Gravity of Hope, Part 1

There's not that much of my childhood I remember fondly. Truth be told, there's not that much of it I remember at all. Repressing the...

Cole Black

Jan 8, 20229 min read

What If There is No Promised Land?

It was a quiet week at the Fish and Golf Camp, our micro-chautauqua and adopted home on the Virginia Eastern Shore. The noises of the...

Cole Black

Sep 13, 20218 min read

From the Vault: "Sorry, Coach"

This week, ESPN reported that Coach Mike Krzyzewski will retire as Duke head basketball coach after the 2021-22 college basketball...

Cole Black

Jun 2, 20215 min read

My Country Song

My dear Abigail — I want you to remember Taking my hand As we left together For the knoll by the church To run and be free I shared my...

Cole Black

May 29, 20212 min read

A Question About Truth, Courts, Pragmatism, and Justice

Michigan’s court rules, like those in some other states, provide that if a criminal defendant pleads guilty, the court “must establish...

Skip Justice

May 14, 20215 min read

Why I Like Tom Wilson

Some of my fondest early memories are of lying in my boyhood bed, in a high-rise New York apartment, listening to Marv Albert and his...

Cole Black

May 7, 20215 min read

The 2021 Dunlin Prize

It's award season. And while filmmakers and actors, makeup artists and cinematographers, screen writers and producers all deserve their...

Skip Justice

Apr 24, 20214 min read

Spring and Grace, In and Around the Fish and Golf Camp

Captain Meriwether Payne, one of our neighbors at the Shore, runs a small boat touring company out of Wachapreague. If you ever want an...

Cole Black

Apr 4, 20212 min read

Happy Birthday, Paul!

Cole Black

Mar 19, 20210 min read

I Found Joy and Wonder

It’s going to be a bright, joyous, wonderful week here on the east coast. We will be getting our first real taste of spring. Warm air...

Cole Black

Mar 7, 20214 min read

Skip Justice -- A Few Scenes From the Pilot

[Fade in as Skip and Jordan walk down a long, ornate hallway on the fifth floor of the Main Justice Building, an impressive agency...

Skip Justice

Feb 20, 20216 min read