Shades of Green

Shades of Green

We see what we see.   I’ve heard it said, “Don’t believe anything you see and only half of what you hear.” A watered-down version of the hyperbolic proverb, “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” Credited to one of the most influential...
Spirit Eyes

Spirit Eyes

It was a transition year.  You know, the first Christmas, when you get underpants in your stocking instead of twenty-five feet of emulsified corn syrup, rolled up with a fun fruity name?   Toys and trinkets no longer have the power to wake you at 4:00 in the...
Priceless Presence

Priceless Presence

What’s that – do I have a favorite child?  Well sure! Depending on the day, deed or just because, I convince each one of my four children, in a cross-your-heart-don’t-tell-the others sort of way, that he or she is forever my favorite. Short lived and worth...
A Beautiful UnCommon

A Beautiful UnCommon

Dissonance.  Incongruity. A controversy in what sounds right or makes sense.  Two ordinaries, totally normal by themselves, but when paired together, well, gets your attention.  A lack of acceptable harmony between notes. Peanut butter and pickles. A...
Keep Pedaling

Keep Pedaling

The labored breathing wrestled with the pounding of the runner’s feet against the poor man’s pavement.  (At least that’s what the county road worker called it when we questioned why they were masticating our paved road and layering it with tar and rock)  The...