July 2020

The first thing this morning, a fly flew directly into my face. I was minding my own business, making coffee, and he banged right into my forehead. Yesterday, also in the kitchen, one crashed right into the side of my head. We’ve had an influx of flies lately, a complete barrage of them in our […]

Pat Garrett shot Henry McCarty. Just a poor Irish kid from New York. Dead. I know. I’m always telling these stories where people get hung, or shot, or pushed down some fiery volcano as a human sacrifice. But you’ve all heard this story before. I never really think of Billy the Kid as an Irish

What do we see in each day? Challenges, or possibilities? Our existence as a normalcy, or a gift? Seeing the glass half empty, half full,or infinitely complete, with two different commodities, both air, and water? If we are able to see abundance in our lives, we can see in a different way. Abundance happens when

This morning, I read of a Frankish Queen. Of course, in my limited worldly experience, I had never heard of a Frankish Queen. Was it perhaps, the country of Frank? Home of the Hotdog? Or maybe it is the empire where everyone is “open, honest, and direct in speech or writing, especially when dealing with

Parallel lines are quite a thing. Even the letters of the name suggest the character of the lines, with the double L. ll par·al·lel | ˈperəˌlel |adjective(of lines, planes, surfaces, or objects) side by side and having the same distance continuously between them: parallel lines never meet Parallel lines never meet. I only bring this

The middle of July and I am thinking about resolutions. The kind that people make at the New Year. I wonder how many people made resolutions for 2020 and actually kept them. I mean, if you resolved to quit eating “Double Brownie Chocolate Fudge Caramel Ice Cream” and you heard the Corona Virus was coming

This day, July 9, is a special one to me. It is the day that my dad was born, in 1922. He is long gone from this world now, but certainly not forgotten. He has visited my dreams at least three times this week. I find it terribly interesting that today is also the birthday

I’ve never seen the Liberty Bell. Not in person. I think bells are okay as things go. I have a few bells. Bells that I ring sometime, just to listen to the sound of their ringing. I always get a kick out of people who are in those bell choruses, or choirs. I don’t know