Evening sky, November 7, 2021; Henry County, MO.
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Lyrics / Poetry
PICK-ME UP
We all have life-periods when we get down, focus on our clouds instead of what’s still there on their far-side. I imagine this as an upbeat song just speaking a little firsthand affirmation to someone when they need it. Left the name blank, free for anyone to fill in for themselves, or another, should they […]
Lyrics
MISS ME
I started writing this about nine o’clock at night in a tractor cab; had been looking at fall changing hedgerows all day while drilling wheat, and a friend sent and shared a beginning instrumental melody with me to listen to. It was somber, and in the background of it, you could hear his kids going […]
Journal Pages
NERO
“What if Nero wasn’t a monster? What if he was not an abomination, the destroyer of a once great civilization, but the epitome of what its culture sought to make? Maybe there is a point of declension from which a culture may never return or rise again. All movements need scapegoats, but what if […]
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DANGEROUS MEN
“Read the eyes,” he spoke. “Trust the eyes. They say what words cannot. In them, you see depth in soul and, in some, only an empty vessel. Exploiters of the world raise high empty vessels. Empty vessels are not a threat to those who help them rise, and, in their emptiness, such vessels drain […]
Poetry
BLACK-RIFLED
“There is…nothing really good that does not emanate from the ordinance of God, and nothing, however good in itself, can be better adapted for the sanctification of the soul and the attainment of peace.”—Jean Pierre Cassaude, “Abandonment to Divine Providence”
Short Story
WISDOM
The old man listened to the young man’s plight: convictions, doubts, wants, and dreams—indecisions that made him freeze, and hopes that moved him on. When the young man shared all he wished to speak, he waited for the old man’s reply. The old man reflected, thinking across years, on wisdom attained—lessons learned in […]
Journal Pages
THE LITTLE THINGS
THE LITTLE THINGS: They go a long way—affirmations, encouragements, recognition, simple kindness… Want a better world? Begin with the little things.