My friend Chris and I took an opportunity to visit our old friend Steve up at his family’s cabin in Westcliffe, Colorado, this last weekend. The opportunity bubbled up quickly, albeit a month ago, when an idea became three yes’s, and a near future date was set. Chris and Steve and I have all...
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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...
Read more →it is a peculiar place, when you find you don’t know whether you should weep for what came before, or for what lies ahead.
Read more →when i was young, i would ask why, until the day came that i knew why, i knew clearly why. and then i would ask when. in a short time, my when became who, and who, and who, for a long, long time, filling the minutes, and hours, and days, and weeks, and months,...
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Early Sunday afternoon, I had some time, so I set out towards a sunny west, originally planning to visit El Morro and see Juan de Oñate’s cursive on Inscription Rock. After a few long glances at the landscapes off of I-40 around Mesita, I called an audible and thought I’d stick around in this...
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Last Sunday, I had some free time, so it was a good day for another day trip. I knew I wanted to spend more time “with the birds”, so my primary goal was to head south and visit the Bernardo Waterfowl Area again at sunrise. After that, I figured I’d find somewhere else interesting...
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i did not know when that day came that every day after would be stained that time forever forward would be torn by this wound that will never close i revisit photos to look into your eyes to hear your voice and to watch you laugh worry tease feel play learn listen and to...
Read more →When he told her she was beautiful, she laughed aloud and asked him “Who are you?” And then later she cried, upset a cloud should smirch the sun.
Read more →I do not want to be your sunshine or your sunset. Let’s leave that to life, and the radiance of friendships and favorites, of unexpected moments, of daily delights. But let me be the afterglow, resonating the glory of each day, an amplifier of the blessed and beautiful in your life. — Back-of-envelope poetry...
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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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Last Sunday, persuaded by the start of the fall colors show on my drive the previous weekend, I had an ambitious plan. I thought I would drive up to Abiquiu again, and from there, head on north towards Tierra Amarilla, where I would hop on US-64 east and climb into a sea of golden...
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This last Sunday, with the knowledge that fall was arriving this week, and with it, the spread of color down the Rocky Mountain chain and beyond, I figured it was a good day to reconnoiter how some trees looked up north. After getting up early and getting a green chile stew stewing in the...
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As last Monday was the last day of the Labor Day weekend, I didn’t feel right not using it to go out somewhere, and the first destination that entered my mind was the Ah-shi-sle-pah Badlands, home of the King of Wings and Alien Throne rock formations. My enthusiasm for that trip was tempered by...
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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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