The Current Journal Journey
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Into 64
I have just filled journal Volume 63 – kind of an astonishing number until you learn that I’ve kept a personal journal since 1993. Following the death of my mother, I felt the mantle of historian fall to me. My journals don’t, however, recount my broader family history. But rather, they are far more personal, […]
Ah! Sunflower – Sunflower Farm – Keensburg, CO
Ah! Sun-Flower! weary of time, Who, countest the steps of the Sun: Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the travellers journey is done. Where the Youth pined away with desire, And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow: Arise from their graves and aspire Where my Sun-flower wishes to go. -William Blake […]
First Kiss Day – August 5, 2006
I said “Tell me a secret.” You said ” I wonder what it’ll be like to kiss you. I wonder that with each breath.” I promise to kiss you everyday for the rest of our lives, as I have already loved you my entire life!! […]
love letter, memoriesEverlasting Rain
We are spoiled by our frequent sunny days…it has been cloudy and raining for almost a solid month. While we are grateful for the rain and realize it may lessen the danger of Summer forest fires….I’m with some kids that a heard on a local news station say (presumably to the Sun), […]
A Moment In Time
Some days are diamonds. I know what set John Denver’s Muse to whisper that line in his ear one day: Serendipitously hearing the prehistoric lowing of a sedge of Sandhill Cranes, wings beating languidly heavenward on some unexpected afternoon just before spring. Erie. Resplendent. An exclamation point in an otherwise ordinary day. […]
For Angus
In this ancient stretch of earth our lives blink, moments, brief as the lace of snow. To have uncovered you, a jewel richly buried in shadowed soil, there growing, a watered fern, a river rock, glowing soft in the ground, moonlight, soul sweet, passion-dark magic strong; your heart, an amulet, such power […]