Find the Quiet Reading
"As a counselor, I would occasionally read some of these passages to those who would visit my office. They would often quiet busy and...
- 1 min
BASEBALL IN A NORTHERN TOWN
Base runners, like rifle-shot, ready to go if the catcher can’t corral a wild-bronco pitch. Arching fly balls caught on the run in left...
- 1 min
Summer's Glory
Bright gracing water, Smiling to the sun’s first kiss, We welcome you. To a land that is weary we have waited, and watched, longing for...
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Dandelion Summer
They are a poor man’s flower, bereft of innocence, common, everywhere. They propagate, blazing yellows in fields of green, tarnished by...
- 4 min
Base Camps
I’d much rather be here on the ground wishing I were in the air than in the air wishing I were on the ground. Boone Bracket Quoted in...
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Welcomed Visitor
Chance discovery, Friend from the deep forest, Suddenly interested in our poor piece of property. For moments, Lake Superior’s vistas...
- 4 min
Hard Lessons
This morning, the newspaper title caught my attention: The Harder Life Gets, the Softer We Need to Be.” There was also a subtitle: When...
- 2 min
Empty Opportunity
One person looks at a calendar with blank spaces and sees Empty time. It might threaten them or fill them with apprehension. Another way...
- 1 min
Loon Laughter
Warbling up great canyons, drifting over silent spaces of time. When the moon fills, when the night is soft, loon laughter transforms...
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Waters at Play
Softly Water teases the shore. Midnight embraced. The fawn’s gentle passage Across the divide between Sea and space. Gently it massages...