Busy bee you slow downJust for me?So busy are we, we fail to see.Several shots I did takeBut I felt as if you did not see…This brief and rare exchange I got to see.Slowing down like you,Nature’s beautiful bumblebee. -Rick Schaefer-Space
I think grumpy comes with the territory. [I for one was rather grumpy following Cindy challenging all of us to actually DO something. But that’s a rant for another day.] Here’s a subject I’m certain Tobin will have a ready, useful opinion about: I went on a photography outing last Thursday; not an easy…
Today a guest post is offered from a friend living in the neighboring town of Geneva. To write is to wait for the apt words to express the journey that one is taking. Chaucer, whose collection of 24 stories were published in 1483 would have agreed. Sunday looking out my backyard windows signs of…
The following is a guest post by Tobin Fraley. I would like to thank this blog’s host, Jerry, for allowing me to usurp his daily offering by giving me an opportunity to discuss a song I feel is of particular consequence in today’s atmosphere of hatred, blame, and violence, violence both real and threatened….
What follows is a guest post……………………….. Friday morning our Newfoundland/Golden Retriever mix, Astrid, roused me from sleep nearly an hour earlier than I’d hoped to get up the day after Thanksgiving. She wanted to be let out, of course. So I growled to myself, stumbled downstairs into the dawn, opened the sliding door to…
This guest post is a story by my good friend Jeff. Jeff is a retired banker and a life-long devotee of making music. I’ve benefited from hearing Jeff cover songs that are deeply embedded within the memory of our generation, as well as some fine compositions of his own. He gave permission to share…
As we all know by now, John McCain died earlier today (Saturday). This was not a surprise. In recent days we knew that the end of his life was nearing. When Senator McCain ran for president I did not vote for him. I was cheering on the young Senator from Illinois whose father was…
In all of this back and forth about Truth this and Truth that we are missing a crucial point and that is: Truth is not a single thing 1. Personal Truth – Humans desperately want to believe that the world is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). The keyboard I’m typing…
Anticipating the final days of 2017, and the beginning of the New Year of 2018 do we not all probe the future with our awareness? We hope, and some pray for conditions of health, well-being, and comity between family members, friends, and indeed the nations of the world. In 1970 I performatively enacted this…
