It’s evening now, but today was one of those mornings in paradise. The ancient washing machine that empties into the kitchen sink—if you remember to hook the hose over the edge—had come to a stop with a clatter and a scrape. As she pulled out the wet laundry to hang it on racks in front [...]
love
Motherlode of truth
Tell me we’re not surrounded by love. See the different blues and greens and reds, the backlit droplets bouncing off the rocks, the reflections and the light. The water is moving fast from right to left. It’s all alive. We’ve even got two female goldeneyes (ducks) in there. I mean, you could start a religion [...]
Onward
Almost tried to buy a house that wasn’t right. See what forgetting who you are can do? When we moved from Maryland almost 15 years ago, I sold or gave away most of my tools. And I had tools for everything. If you needed something fixed or built, I probably could have done it. There [...]
Keeping watch for bigger things
A couple of years before we moved to New Mexico, we were driving through el Norte on a trip. An outing north of Taos brought us to the Wild Rivers Recreation Area (now part of the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument). I was astounded by the remoteness of the place as well as the [...]
Title courtesy Dept. of Obscure Cultural References. Art work by T. Farr.
I‘m Popeye the Sailor Man I’m Popeye the Sailor Man I’m strong to the finich, cause I eats me spinach I’m Popeye the Sailor Man I’m one tough Gazookus, which hates all Palookas Wot ain’t on the up and square I biffs ’em and buffs ’em and always out roughs ’em but none of ’em [...]
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