Spring in the Ozarks, though bipolar, is one of the most beautiful sights you could be blessed to see. The fields cradle new baby cows, the hundred year old daffodils pop up on country roadsides, the birdsong in the early morning is thick, and the sounds of the men beginning to mow lawns brings the… Continue reading Season of Rebirth
It was a Tuesday night like so many before. Late, around 9:00 pm; I was driving down the highway from the city back to our little town. I had just finished grocery shopping. It was the evening of the February full moon, the night it reached its peak fullness, and as I glanced out of… Continue reading Apocolypse Now?
Driving home in the dark I see the movement of cows in the field near the road I’m on. They are trotting, if that’s what cows do, heading somewhere as a herd. The high beam light from my car bounces off their eyes making the scene eerie. I smile and feel a sense of the… Continue reading Freedom In The Night
All of the clichés about God changing your life once you hand everything over to him are true. I’m most astonished at the strengthening of my marriage and the softening of my heart. I’m not sure exactly how I expected to see God working through me when I picked up my bible in December of… Continue reading All Things With God
There is a certain artistic expression that I accomplish from time to time. An eclectic arrangement of art on the wall, a combination of patterns and textures piled on a chair, sometimes an outfit, or something I write. When it happens organically, without any outside influence; that’s when I can feel myself tapping into the… Continue reading Arranging
The air was warmer today. In the fifties. Most of the snow melted off and it is going to rain when we are sleeping tonight. It will be washed away by morning. I sat on the couch with Fox this afternoon and colored a page from one of those adult coloring books. Scandinavian designs. It… Continue reading A Good Night’s Sleep
I walked out onto the hard second day snow barefoot, determined to get a picture of the full moon without flare from the camera lens. How does the dog run around in this for half an hour at a time? I tried to get my shot but it didn’t come out how I was seeing… Continue reading Cold Feet
Tonight was grocery shopping night. I take country roads to the highway, winding past century farms and the most dilapitated yet darling mobile home park. Everything looks like a Norman Rockwell painting covered in the recent snow. I almost cannot bear the charm when I see children sledding down a pasture hill dotted with black… Continue reading Living In America
We had a real snow today. Big, fast moving flakes coating everything in white. A beautiful snow that gives you keen awareness of the enchanted fairy tale this world is. While I was bopping up and down, working up a sweat with my life coach Richard Simmons, I stared out the window at this beauty… Continue reading A Real Snow
