Today the rain is pouring down and thunder rolls along the sky-way as lightning flashes an other-worldly brightness on the drenched landscape. This is what inspired the following:

The weather teases with a ray
peeking through the clouds,
then opens the sky, lets the rai...

Tonight, the blood-moon sang that old tune of life and love and sorrow.

My soul heard the familiar chords

and I wept for my children’s tomorrow.

I’ve heard it in the air from the Pacific trade-wind breeze;

A bitter-sweet lullaby

as a child aloft in the leaves

It visited agai...

At the time I was unable to.

I know you are asking “ ’to' what?”, but it was a very general “to” really.  Unable to:  Move, fix dinner, wash, care, eat, feel, talk, write, think. I was virtually immobile in thought, voice or deed.  Empty; made of lead – toxic and imposs...

Thoughts upon death:

Religion is dropped at death's door.

Questions cease upon entering.

Knowledge becomes yours; becomes you, and your spirit is finally and fully free.  All prejudices; all hatred; all ailments, pain and fear are shed as if none has ever been in you or a...

Written November 12, 2016:

To the trees which will be tromped and uprooted for the sake of new businesses

                To the aquifers which will be tainted by increased fracking in pursuit of black gold...

My love,

Why should I love you?

Because you love me. 

Because you have stuck with me through thick and thin, even though its been mostly thin.

Because you provide for me and our children without fail.

Because you are ever improving on our house and fixing what needs fixing.

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"I saw on the weather that tomorrow's temperature isn't even going to get above 70!"  This, from a dinner table conversation after a wave of hot and humid in mid-September, was followed by: "You know, if I were saying this in February I would have to change it to '...i...