I’ve seen ugly simple-minded animals only in my own species here in America lately…while taking a break from the news about another horrific slaughter in Texas I realized my encounter with a possum along my creek getting a drink of water better defined beauty and intelligence than what we Homo sapiens have been reduced to. There’s hope for us supposed higher thinkers though… be better.

An eagle doesn’t have the flaw of living in the past, or thinking about the future. It can only survive and flourish in the present. I wonder if it is at peace. Living in the moment of a Taoist.

Parents in America now want to dictate what gets taught in public and private schools? Parents want to decide vaccination and mask policies for other people’s kids? …

He looks in the mirror and stares at a stranger.

Touch the sun and smell the green. Crawl out. Winter is over. Gray and brown is now the bedding for something new. Something more like living again.

A Happy Birthday Tribute To My Dad… The snow falls outside. Bygone years and loved ones come to mind. The spring to this winter, Dad, is you… with us. Snowmelt to rainfall Seasons change, give and take and will pass. The daylight to all nights, Dad, is you… in us.

Wanna buy me a girlfriend. No, not like an escort. Let me rephrase that. Wanna hire me a girlfriend. Pay her to like me. Offer incentives for sincerity, pseudo, or not. Raises for positive performance. A benefits package including the pretense I’m one of those benefits. Bonuses for every year she stays longer than the last one did, who I should have paid from the get-go for putting up with me as long as she did