It hits hard the empty chair staring at us A ghost sits there partially filling memories reaching out to us A brave person sits next going on, keeping on carrying two new burdens One the missing touches, embraces that link humans heart to heart The other a thousand things the missing one did, would [...]
> Indeed there are tears of sorrow shaking us in our core spontaneously erupting After all Jesus wept Peter wept The mothers and those who loved Him wept Death sometimes swallows not just the deceased but those who go on living in the deep dark shadows of separation touch stolen living and breathing but not [...]
Four degrees above zero but the cars and pickups are rolling in It's a hardy bunch, these farm folks! Not to be dissuaded by some bitter cold Plenty of smiles at the check in desk plenty of 'Good to see you' words being spoken as the coat room fills to overflowing The president gets [...]
Incongruous you are thinking perhaps but oh, they are linked! Think 'Price!', for a start and the Chicago Board of Trade World leader bringing willing seller and willing buyer together to find a price to sell, a price to buy today and tomorrows too! We're planted deep in the prairie soils luxuriating in green growing [...]
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 [...]