All Posts By: Byron McCoy

ANEW

        He loved how there was always change: new details, accents, refinements of room that cast all known and loved as new.  However grand, however small, nuances that changed the spirit—spirit of a home, spirit of a home, the souls that lived amongst; visiting or making home.         Natural of tones, simple […]

CAR RIDE QUESTION

               “Dad, are we Christian or Catholic?” my youngest son asks on drive to gym and basketball practice.                “We are both,” I answer.  “Catholicism is the first Christian Church founded by Peter as appointed by Jesus.”                He is in fourth grade, but he is thinking to his future.  He is thinking of girls, […]

KILLING FROST

        She felt the moon.  She felt the magic—both calling to her then.           A change on the wind, cool blow from the north.  There would be a killing frost; ice crystals’ suspend in air and sky forming halo around full moon, bright aurora around form, hinter-edged in prism light, kaleidoscopic in the […]

4.8

        I’m disking a field today.  It’s been a while since I’ve ran one.  I am finding it therapeutic—as work with good and observable results often can be.         The field I am working is covered in ruts.  It was a wet spring and, sometimes, you have to make the best go of a […]