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Just now, on 8/10, the last pound of blackberries was picked. It took me an hour to find them, and I had to share them with doodle bugs and ants and jumping spiders and grasshoppers, and mosquitoes drank my blood … Continue reading →

August 8, 2016 The Lord God Sun gathered all living things and said, “They that will not fight shall be my Chosen Ones.” Tiger and Bear said, “We shall not fight; we are your Chosen Ones.” “No,” the Lord God … Continue reading →

August 6, 2016 I am one of several bloggers from around the country who have been asked to file my personal observations regarding the Olympic games in Brazil. Having watched the opening ceremony, I think the thing that got to … Continue reading →

July 29, 2016 I was walking down my driveway at noon, heading for lunch with my pal Lorenzo Small, when I saw a sunlit monarch butterfly flutter down over the highway. The creature dropped into the path of an oncoming … Continue reading →

July 28, 2016 She climbs out of her car, portable oxygen tank in her left hand and tubes up her nose. Her white hair is tightly rolled into blue, pink and yellow curlers. Her face is a road map of … Continue reading →

July 25, 2016 On Saturday night outside Nashville, my friends John and Judy and I attended the Hillbilly Haiku Hallelujah Holy Church of Hellfire Folk Hymns. We entered the church sanctuary and were greeted by sextants Denise and Rick Williams … Continue reading →

July 9, 2016 So I’m driving east on Delmar Avenue toward the drug store. Just past my friend Asta’s plant emporium, The Greenery, on the right, written in magic marker, is a large sign: “Guy Stuff.” Parallel lines of yellow … Continue reading →

July 12, 2016 “There is a present to you out in the barn,” Orville says. I walk out to the hulking old barn, all the way thanking the saints for what I believe to be in there, inside the high, … Continue reading →

July 18, 2016 Black lives do not matter, which explains why its opposite has become a rallying cry. All lives matter, obvious as is that statement, is not pertinent to what’s going on in this rapidly insane country of ours. … Continue reading →

July 14, 2016 I have a double ear infection, the pain of which kept me awake last night, all night. My doctor couldn’t see me today, so I wound up in the walk-in care center in Upper Alton. A very … Continue reading →