Month: February 2021

I heard it in the wind at nightfall – live true and die well. I lie under these stars and search for the one that has protected me all these years. I know it will have to release me at the appropriate blink of the appropriate eye. At that moment, my lucky star will become…

It was three years ago this week that Mary and I opened our CBD store on the east side of Wichita, Kansas, one of the very first in our area. Our beautiful shop in Riverside that we opened later that summer fell victim to the pandemic last summer, but we’re hanging on here on East…

Grosbeak at the window, turned to catch the light, her silhouette reveals the fragile stance & turn: the exquisite balance of style and form, the longing that lifts those hollow bones Air instead of marrow! Only in dreams could I imagine it, the wings flicker and go, return and swell, dwell within that charging heart,…

The first time I saw the ocean was at Golden Gate Park after two days hitchhiking from Denver. I was three or four years too late for the Summer of Love, but I felt it a duty to my generation and my chosen path as a poet to dip my toe in the sacred waters…

Just at sunset, majesty flies up the river in the body of a Golden Eagle, the world lies still and quiet as he passes. I believe there may be one less catfish in the waters tonight. He follows the curve, veers over the bridge and disappears into the giant Cottonwoods A pair of Mississippi Kites…

I was reminded that today is the fiftieth anniversary of my first visit to Kansas, a trip to Wichita to see a Black Sabbath concert at the newly opened Century II concert hall. It’s marked in history because of the twelve inch snow that fell on Friday night, followed by another ten inches the next…

Today is the endpoint of the serenity of my walk, at least the first quarter mile. We’ve known for a while that the nine acre plot at the north end of the golf course was going to get filled up with 40 “patio homes” – which basically means that you have a patio instead of…

The homestead did ok in the arctic temperatures, being a duplex, all the plumbing is in the center of the structure, thankfully there are no pipes on exterior walls. There is one line running through the crawlspace, but it never got below 40 degrees down there This super-dry powdery snow is something we rarely see…

I’m sorry I missed your birthday, I got confused about the dates, I can keep up with the brother’s birthdays because I stay in touch with them, but my memory failed with both you and Lynn. Her birthday post went up a couple of days late, but mostly because it was difficult to write. I…

Eight degrees below zero, windchill at minus 23 and a steady snowfall – I feel like I have a classic winter walk under my belt, the full experience, if you will. Sure, we could still get a foot of snow in a spring blizzard, but I’m thinking we’ve passed the nadir, temperature-wise. It’s a turning…