Twas a half century ago, this month, I met a young woman, who became my wife come December. My life turned a corner a big one and I surrendered to her and she to me Ah, not 100 per cent at once! Actually, I'm still working on it but we've come a long way [...]
Hours I spent with him some in heavy waters some in lighter moments He became a brother He was almost always there passionate in his being so much so He came to one board meeting straight from being a patient in the hospital... Always alert, listening with energy sometimes eyes a twinkling I would [...]
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 [...]
A hundred thirty years ago great grandparents settled here Planted themselves and then planted trees Apple trees, pear trees Osage orange and ash trees The Osage Orange were windbreakers cause the prairie sure had wind! They made great fence rows and nearly permanent fence posts Some still line the boundaries The fruit trees were [...]
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 [...]
A little guy I know has to have his B to feel the world is right With it he can sleep let the world go away A common thing this blankie time for little ones round the world Something about a softness a shield to sense the world's in place Late winter, early spring, [...]
The president moved amongst the crowd "Helloing' here and there. Handshakes, smiles, friendly comments, a welcoming on all sides. Up two steps to the speakers platform stepping up to the podium, the mike, he looked out upon the moving sea listened to the voices watched the people moving, mixing These folks like each other! [...]
The wrenching of cold Broken, crashed, by Easter! It was mankind broken at its worst celebrating in evil unjust accusations warped trial a sentence all wrong the season of "Hosanna!" gone wrong No surprise the earth shook no surprise the sky darkened they won He died But! God had a plan much bigger than man [...]
"Except ye come as..." begins a well known statement about the kingdom of heaven We get little packages in the most personal of ways results of brief encounters resulting in new life, birth The little ones grow quickly we count them weeks at first then months then oh so soon, in years They grow [...]