Smiles are electric, warming moments leaping across the spans that separate folks Walls can come down instantly as strangers smile at each other Male, female, often guarded, smiles reach out, lingering questions speaking confidence, a venture in trust Across languages smiles are starting points opportunities to take that path and rise above suspicions Body [...]
In a far far away place is a land where liberals live Tis a candy land, you see, where nothing can be hard Where never is heard, a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day You, Bruce friend, have pulled back the covers and asked 'Who is there?" Ain't nobody! Nothing! [...]
For just a few moments my wish for you this evening is that each of you had a rocking chair and we had a just right fireplace right here with a just right assembly of logs burning just right the warmth of the fire on your face the coolness of the room behind you [...]
"And the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being." Genesis 2:7 In the springtime I walked the fields my feet traversing the soil as my father did my grandfather did my great grandfather did Eyes seasoned [...]
More likely, what's to like about more of them? Well, you see, I'm not in charge nor are you or we! We simply get to watch and listen and measure and wait some more! Days as a kid bicycle my 'horse' street drains would plug and lakes ensue What fun to hit high speed [...]
What a joy it is to run like the wind zigging and zagging around trees and fences Jumping over small things and charging ahead Going nowhere just running and breathing and letting muscles go Energy pouring heart pounding Oh, it feels good! The great race I know was now long ago Olympics, in Paris [...]
Some two hundred years ago a ploughman wrote of a mouse Behind a horse he watched her scurry across the fresh plowed field Burns sat and pondered what he'd done turning the home site over A tender fellow more a poet than a striving farmer guilt surrounded him. I, in turn, have seen my [...]
Setting records right and left middle of the country too Global warming is the culprit so some scientists say Learned fellows degrees in tow study deeply numbers and more then make their premise give it to us 'Best guess', might be a better thought Ten year cooling they tell us now along with 'climate [...]
The early morning trek to the mailbox, a habit was padding on a softened carpet The air was gently cleaned from harvest dust and more misty, sprinkled rain had done its work Red and yellow maple leaves still falling lay wet on the green grass making my footsteps silent as I trod The beloved soil [...]
Rain and soil love each other make the world go round Sometimes, just sometimes, our cup runs over and creates a problem Stuck! We say Stuck in the mud! Not a happy time... A giant machine some 15 tons 25 by 30 by 12 on giant wheels six feet tall purring along so smoothly [...]