A view from my childhood, Castle Hill No, this isn’t a tale about me getting my comeuppance. It is instead a philosophical consideration of how life sometimes happens in patterns. I grew up in a valley in the Panhandle of…
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THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS
As I write this, snow caps the mountains. I’m reminded over and over again of the saying that a friend has in her e-mail signature: “If yer’ lucky enough to live in the mountains, yer’ lucky enough.” I agree.…
GOING HOME AGAIN
Author Thomas Wolfe lamented it in his 1940 best selling novel, YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN. Everyone over the age of eighteen has experienced it, that small twinge of distance when you return home. For many years, I made my home…
Posted in Chat Tagged with: Colorado, Oklahoma City, Thomas Wolfe, Wet Mountain Valley, YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN
CONSIDERING CREATIVE ENTHUSIASMS AND NAPS
Years ago I came across this quote that has ridden in my brain through all of the years since: “There is much to be gained during the fallow period between two enthusiasms.” I can’t remember the source but I agree…
WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY NEIGHBORS
Posted in Chat Tagged with: Buffalo, Bull Elk, Mountain Sheep, Pelicans, Sandhill Cranes, Wet Mountain Valley, wild turkey