with gratitude to Ralph Waldo Emerson
The idea for this came from Emerson's 1837 address known as "The American Scholar" Ever the wind blows, Ever the grass grows. I took it a bit further here
A Friday morning brings forth my… For all of the good things in life So when that song plays on the rad… To remind me of music’s soothing c… I sing right along, secure in the…
A long way from Mt. Pulaski on this cold, Illinois night. The Interstate is reaching out to Kris and Chuck, near Dwight. Dwight is far behind them now
When I was a kid in the 1970s When there were two types of gas a… Regular and Unleaded. The Unleaded kind cost more, So most people used Regular inste…
Everyone will have a best summer o… Even if they won’t know it at the… There will always be the promise o… Even if they will never quite mate… Everyone also has a last summer on…
Chewbacca is a wookie C3PO is a droid. Luke’s the Jedi student to fill Kenobi’s void. Vader is a scary villain
It snowed in NOLA Ten inches fell in one day Anything can be!
I used to hate poetry back in high school because I could never understand any of it and I didn’t want my teachers
For nearly 20 years my family and… Visited the Outer Cape in Massac… Wellfleet, to be exact. And it relaxed me in a way that nothing else could ever do.
What sounded like all the fireworks on earth over the holiday weekend couldn’t assuage my dread at the memory of
Everyone wishes for a “better” lif… in some ways. A bigger house in a more desireable neighborhood. A sportscar or an SUV that
Friday the 13th Is it a day for bad luck? We’ll know soon enough!
50 degrees when measured in Fahrenheit makes for a pleasant day perhaps even a bit chilly. A light jacket
That the ear hears something but the eyes and the brain can’t sort it all out will forever be a problem for me.
We love and we laugh On this earthly voyage, Circling around the sun For an unknown period of time. The only thing we truly know
At the beginning of the Christian… and the Jewish Passover celebrati… missiles rained down from the sky killing scores of innocent Ukraini… and confirming that evil still abi…