Things tend to happen in April…
“Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a Hope Tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.” ~Mark Twain My great-uncle died today. This…
A link in a chain…
Lines of people. Chords in a piece of music. The poem in the margin. A forgotten roll of film. Shoes that were never worn. Columns standing in a field. A…
On the day to see a sunset…
What is wrong with the universe? On the same day, a truly massive asteroid passed us by only a couple of ten thousand miles (an extremely small increment in the grand scheme…
Cold places don’t last…
Except in the ridiculous latitudes north and south or around the equator, the changes of the seasons mark the passing of years. It becomes more apparent when another summer has…
Awake in the dusk of living…
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls…
The good of the many…
“Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.” ~Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic sphere/dome Of the 100 trillion people who…
Around the top of Portugal…
Adding a new country and a few new UNESCO sites to my catalog, Portugal and driving from the south to the central regions was truly enjoyable. Around Evora, Portugal, there…
The human I saw in passing…
On the day a child was buried, I was there. On the day a child was buried, as his body was being loaded into the back of his father’s pick-up…
Of the death and dying…
I’m not a morbid or overly melodramatic person. I don’t typically do posts on doom and gloom stuff… but I went to a funeral today. Might get all of them…
A reason why photos are important…
It may be a little crass or uncouth to say, but at the newspaper they called it a “kill.” Its not spoken as a negative thing. In fact, its actually…