A friend, sitting at our table was watching a hawk at work Our window on the prairie was most satisfying to him as it has been to us and many, many others The rich black fields stretch out thick blankets of potential now cold and wet with springtime rains soon to be mothering our [...]
<a What a week! A yelling, cheering crowd lining the streets a man on a colt passing by Something went wrong or was it right? When crowds became vicious begging for cruelty evil pour out A mock trial a flogging another procession then the sky darkened the earth shook a heavy felt curtain suddenly ripped [...]
he Marine's have a slogan: "The Chosen, the Few" that works, I think for some men I know Strong are they, fitting a term 'man up' they face life's highway storms and all and keep going forward This being earth challenges come surely as sun rises, sun sets but, no matter, these guys go [...]
Taking two giant, sweeping steps back, to think about the tides and rivers of mankind and history, the currents across the face of earth it strikes me how good and evil rise and fall Some strains are so obvious with time, looking back Like evil doomed, but nevertheless, waiting with power, in the wings [...]
Frustration rules on both sides in the debate about the facts I got a lesson early in dealing with the public Numbers are cast in concrete two plus two equals four end of story but not for all! You see, the problem is we're humans and humans like to think often times in channels [...]
Peace reigned supreme in the Garden of Eden But turmoil rains and reigns writ large on the earth today Peace broken, for the man work, and labor For the woman labor of a different sort, but sure seizing and dominating completely Yet creation, the Creator, breaks through from her labor a baby is born [...]
Just right tall lush and dark green a picture of health and productivity A child of success the corn plant stood food factory, par excellance From one tiny seed six hundred grew a hundred day miracle of science, environment, and work A symphony American genetics, engineering, machinery, ethics and government conducted by a people, [...]
An evening on the prairie Sun sinking a way out west A cool gentle breeze swishing the corn leaves And a comfortable chair on the screened porch My shirt still wet from the evening's work Tiredness melting away with the breeze Reflect on life And blessings The rich black soil that gives and sustains [...]
Rain, rain and more rain soggy earth saturated the crops stand and take it Creation sent the glaciers: Nebraskan, Aftonian, Kansan, Yarmouth, Illinois and Sangamon, the pressed their weight on the face of the earth and ironed it flat through here So we're flat! So flat the water stands no direction bidding, calling We [...]
Nature has so many built in things that can divide, separate us Where we happen to be born The parents, and all their learned differences The circumstances, so varied yet important Our feet get put on Life's Highway and we travel on Left to see...or not Hear...or not... Touch...or not. So we cling to our [...]