Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
Earlier this year, on the morning of April 25th, I awoke to an unusual sensation in my body. Both feet had an odd ache in them, like each was painfully reawakening from a long dip in icy water, a feeling which then morphed into a partially numbed, partially tingly condition that hung around for...
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I peaked out back behind the house this afternoon, and there sat this Cooper’s hawk on the wall. He gave me one shot, and then he flew off.
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Today started at 5:30 AM when I got up and turned on the stove to warm a cold burrito and started the coffeemaker. I fed the cats and dressed and then grabbed the burrito and a cup of the coffee and I turned off the kitchen stuff and then I was in my truck,...
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Along with so many others, my sister and her family opted to get out of town for a little escape this Independence Day weekend, and in a display of maturity, her younger son also opted, but in his case, he opted to not join his family and go out of town, which meant he...
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Yesterday was a meaningful day in the Welton household, for it was doctor day. For me, I finally was able to see, and meet, a new doctor that I can call my primary after my last primary, a nurse practitioner in the hospital system I use, decided to become more of an administrator in...
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At 1:20 on Thursday afternoon, May 13th, I pulled out of my driveway and oriented my truck north on I-25, and started on an 8 day adventure. My trip took me principally to Lincoln, Nebraska, where I could join the rest of my family celebrating my niece Faith’s graduation from high school. Added into...
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I have wanted to post this picture for a week, but never felt like I could get the right words for it. I figured I’d just get on with it tonight. When I opened this image to process it a week ago, I had a sweep of pleasure wash over me. I thought the...
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It has been about 4 months now since the Siamese Po has joined my cat compound, adding his life gradually into each space in the house. For nearly half of that time, he lived in a single room upstairs, hide and bone, and for part of that period, living from a tube in his...
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I was revisiting the beginning of the Beatitudes today, and as I read in R. T. Kendall’s commentary on the subject, he offered this definition of the kingdom of heaven: The kingdom of heaven is “the rule of the un-grieved spirit in the believer”. This was a strong reminder for me that in the...
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Today, after an early end of work at home so I could drive downtown to the city office pyramid place and return my downtown parking permit, I continued on south to the Valle del Oro Wildlife Refuge, just to see what I could see. I was curious if any birds had taken to its...
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The last few days I’ve thought it would be good if I could just jot down a few of my memories about my Aunt Margaret. I find myself in writer’s block so chronically (which is a fear of writing things, really) that to write about anything meaningful is good for me. But moreso, it’s...
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This last week was significant to me for two reasons. The more basic, the more cyclical of the two is that I got older- at least by legal document standards. 51, and all I sort of hoped or imagined might come with it, for me is archived. At this age, birthdays are more like...
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It is 5:30 on Saturday afternoon, and I have just given Po his 3rd meal of the day. He gets one more tonight at around 9. On Thursday after work, I picked Po up from the vets after he received three days of care, and during his stay, the vet determined that he had...
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Tonight, the skinny little Siamese with giant black ears crouches in a cage at the veterinarian’s office. I see his long face bowed, as if in prayer, and I smell his kitty food breath, his head by my cheek as he softly breathes, his squinted eyes closed. For a short-time tenant, he has left...
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It was a treat to get over to my parents’ home this afternoon to celebrate July 4th. Joined by my two nephews, Brett and Grant, we were given the gift of a traditional Independence Day feast by mom and dad: Church’s Chicken chicken fingers, potato salad, baked beans, corn on the cob- and let...
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It is often a little sad to get up from lying there, my body stiff from my awkward headrest against the side of the bathtub, that angle cockeyed to my flat sprawl on the bathroom floor linoleum. It is hard because in the cat bed beside me, kneeling on the folded green towel, he...
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