A farmer's life can be a challenge to body, mind, and spirit But in those challenges comes good as well The body has its limits borne out in getting tired Muscles ache, complain and more but for these a remedy exists The family room holds a recliner a great big chair that folds actually it [...]
Now, folks in Seattle know their rain! It falls, ever so gently and so often. It creates lush flora and fauna and cleans the air crystal clear scenes are precious. The prairie folks in the flyover zone have a different rain Horizontal, they call it Let me explain Just yesterday I labored inside a brand [...]
The rain on the plain can flood the fields and cause some plants to drown Nothing to do but watch it happen and wait and wait The warmth of the sun and breezes blowing soak up the lakes in time But the plants are dead and the bare spot beckons rich soil, waiting At just [...]
A lot of folks put on their glasses wear them most every waking minute Some choose dark ones against the sun some choose tints for style, I suppose I dunno By far the best in my book at least are the 'rose colored glasses' that friends use on each other photo shop, is nothing new! [...]
HJ came, one day, to the village of Tolono Walked out west to stake his claim plough and ply, plant and harvest feed his family and others First he built a lean to just next to a tiny stream water every day, necessity close at hand Winter came the family huddled somehow they survived Cold [...]
Lots of ways to approach this in one word or two a whole string of meanings and all movers and shakers I saw it just yesterday when my wife, the daughter jumped up to get her dad a spoon She could think his thoughts and sense his problem and she moved immediately in lovingkindness [...]
Prairie rain can be profound pounding earth into hardened brick pounding people caught out in it Thunder booming lightning crashing big drops splashing, blinding wind whistling a frantic tune Nature on the run! The trees twist and turn and thrash about bits of leaves falling down branches cracking with the strain grass laying over, giving [...]
Childhood memories hold them and all through school they went Feelings of 'wanting out!" start itching with the warmth of sun and longer days Yawning in the morning sun shaking off the frost I walk across the frozen skin soon to be blackened mud Cold iron lies in waiting engines wintered long oil like syrup [...]
Alone but not really, my room flies along Sixty miles an hour floating along the road Sun shining breezes blowing view of fields and byways passing My journey takes me northward Minnesota in my radio music mends my spirits Bach, Mendelsonn, more fill my car with sound I'm prone to sing along operatic melodies flowing [...]
A calm, quiet night clear, cold desert air chilling sky blanketed with an ocean of stars A particular, specific star shone down on a particular, specific stable where a little boy was born A first born to a woman young and a Godly man The cover of time slipped back in place Yet, it seems, [...]