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        Baling a pasture, I blew a hydraulic seal on a primary opening and closing ram (as soon as the service truck pulled out of the field).  I saw the leak, tried to push how much further I could get before it became a full-on issue: two bales.           I was broke […]

        I believe in mystics.  I pray often for their intercessions.  I believe in mystery.  I believe in awe; and I am grateful to not have every answer.  What would life be, faith mean, if we had no hope in unknowns and no anticipation of revelations?           Maybe I sell my mind short; or maybe […]

        He rides the cemetery lanes.  I can’t keep up.  I walk the center ways doing best to keep sight.  I’m loose him over faint counter lines of land’s lay, tree and headstone obscurations, and the fall off of hill that he pedals fast down to catch speed, gleeful when returned to view on flat and […]

        I watch my son riding his bike on the gravel road before our home.  He tried a trick, wipes out, jumps mid-air and catches himself—still standing with a “WHOAH!”           He picks up the bike, climbs back on, and rides on.           A car comes down the way.  I stand […]