Things tend to happen in April…
“Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a Hope Tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.” ~Mark Twain My great-uncle died today. This…
“Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a Hope Tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.” ~Mark Twain My great-uncle died today. This…
There is no map for the places each of us go. Daily, we take steps down roads which have never been trodden; or perhaps they have simply never been charted,…
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” “When another blames…
Same as always. My parents visited this weekend. It is still weird for my parents to come stay at “my” house. Instead of me growing up in theirs. Stay tuned……
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. ~Charles Lindbergh In the back of my parent’s property is a fence. This fence must occasionally be checked for downed limbs and…
The place that we are going is right in front of us. Across a room on an overcast day. To see both from whence we come and to where we go…
Going outside on July 4th in the States tends to sound a bit like a distant combat zone. Flashes in the distant horizon, the sounds of shells exploding and the…
…and really really pretty clover. He’s not really hugging the tree, he’s telling me that he planted it. And that’s how big it is now. Never mind money, power, riches,…
And then to Santiago de Cuba. Alright, I’ll go ahead and say it. I really adore this place. Correction: I adore the people in this place. The countryside is more…
“I planted these trees from an acorn,” said my great uncle, Joseph. “It was the year that every single tree I planted came up. I knew they would!” “I planted…
“How can I turn away? Brother, sister go dancing through my head, Human as to human. The future is no place to place your better days.” ~Dave Matthews Band Pitts…