Buckle up – we could be in for a bumpy ride
I’ve been thinking about ballhootin’ lately. Where I live among the steep slopes of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, folks have a word for that sickening sensation when your car starts sliding inexorably down an icy mountain road: ballhootin’. It expresses both the giddy excitement and grim inevitability of an uncertain outcome beyond human control.
This colorful regionalism is derived from the area’s lumbering legacy when trees cut high up the steep mountain slopes would
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