Planted on a prairie hilltop the highest spot around the college has to grow Engaging the community in learning! Firm foundations abound for buildings and for students minds are stretched and buildings sprout A wing goes here a wing goes there students slip in, and fly away that's the Parkland Way! A thousand students, two [...]
Rolling Big tractor wheels taller than a man carryin' 300 horses back and forth back and forth tilling the soil planting the crop A lazy swirl of dust marks my way Soil seeking heaven ...just like me the way of earth the way of man Row after row seeds of promise nestled into the [...]
The humble broom is a crucible tool clean sweeping nooks and crannies My mind is rich in pictures of ladies working a broom! I see grandma with her broom corn broom made by a certain blind fellow down Tuscola way Grandpa and I visited the guy every now and then I watched the man's [...]
Life can bear down hard slapping us, jerking us around War brings horror over the top so tough experiences can't be spoken But they are remembered though they're buried deep Sometimes decades later the ice is broken and they come out December 7, 1941 a 'Day of Infamy' when thousands died and more were [...]
Meandering up country roads I did my best to soak A beautiful spring day blue sky, cumulous clouds fresh green grass and budding trees I zig zagged near a river heading back to the farm The woods were dotted black with Angus cows a grazing lazily munching along safe and secure on the edge of [...]
Cold iron moves from shed on stiff rubber tires A disk blade or spring cultivator eases into the rich, loam soil and the farmer gets a first whiff! There's that stirring in the memory of communion with the soil and all the things a farmer does to raise the plants that feed us clothe us [...]
It happens ever so often I stop, realize, the scene before me this place where I live is simply, profoundly enchanting First light last night's snow slipped lightly on the trees has marked, outlined winter gray branches down to the tiny twigs snow rests not even clinging just lofted down quietly as if it [...]
We humans have a place a way beyond the see treasures there abound to savor and enjoy The land of beauty surrounding us unfolds in seasons grand summer foliage winter whites frosted window panes springtime flowers fall colors shouting Cars and quilts and thousands of things that somehow pleasure our see Then there's love [...]
Along life's highway are many changes Ups and downs and curves abound Day and night and twilight too mix the days as we live along Bits of gold are here and there but certainly not the norm as not all that glitters is really gold Ah, but life can be good! Christmas and Easter [...]
Politics lives in all mankind and seems condemned to mud Unglorius mostly in varying forms We watch it ooze along There's mire that lurks at every corner slippery slopes for certain The pol's obliged ankle deep to walk in troubled waters then climb atop a platform high pontificate to the people Maybe that's why [...]