Once upon a time, not too long ago, was a little kid playing with a glove and ball. When Daddy’d come home, I’d run to him, grateful for time and attention that, to me, he’d give. Few years later, lived Friday Night dreams: breaking games wide open—made those bleachers scream. Dream raised me up, helped […]
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Poetry
WHEREVER YOU ARE
WHEREVER YOU ARE:A quick little morning scribble from having an opportunity to try and make something with someone in another hemisphere. They were finishing their spring finals. We are near the end of our fall harvest; made me reflect how different our own life experience, seasons, and perceptions can be from someone else living in […]
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 […]