When the light began to fade and the night birds began to chatter and the whine of bugs filled the valley, the small old man shuffled out of the hut and began to walk his trail down to the water. The trail was clean sand and little round rocks, forgiving on his bare feet,...
Read more →I thought this evening would be a good evening to try and do some archiving of some of my documents and images from various systems from over the years. In particular, it has been my desire and hope to go through all of my various old media caches (3.5″ disks, Zip disks, old CDs...
Read more →We are a river that stretches from joy to grief from vibrancy to decay The winds of time blow around us and the sun beats down For one day we roll from morning to night from spring to winter from north to south from summit to sea Find the pool and circle in the...
Read more →When I was between my sophomore and junior years of college, I was happy to be able to participate in a summer missions project. Growing up as a Baptist kid in Southern Baptist churches, it was natural that I continued my denominational association in college. Right across the street from the University of New...
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I thought of a good line today, and I figured it was good enough tonight for an entry. And, pretty much, it’s all I am good for tonight. Romantics harbor wishes and wounds. Deep stuff.
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It was the end of the afternoon when the scouting party was seen entering the dale to the north of the presidio. The horses ambled in tight rank, and the column of soldiers was compressed and controlled. The slow company was surrounding one long, tapered red horse in particular with an officer laying slumped...
Read more →This last August, I enjoyed going to my 30th high school reunion, if nothing more than to see a bunch of faces that I, 30 years ago and some, used to see day in and day out at school- although, in much younger versions. That’s the thing about reunions- for those that go, everyone...
Read more →I started binge-watching the TV show Longmire about three weeks ago, and after the first episode, I was hooked, for several reasons. For me, the first reason I latched on to the show was fairly obvious. Though the show is supposed to take place in Wyoming, it is filmed in my beloved state of...
Read more →I spent a pretty good chunk of the day today researching a little more into early New Mexico history, and I certainly learned some interesting, but challenging, nuggets about Spain in the New World. It is well known that the main reason for Spain’s presence in the Americas was their quest to find precious...
Read more →I’d like to say I know when it started, and why it started, but I don’t. I think I’ve just always seen that its been there, that I was probably born that way, and that I probably couldn’t change it. The other night I put up a post about going to Boys State, and...
Read more →I’m not the best person to reach, or to even talk to for very long, on the phone. I blame that a little on doing phone support at Intuit for a little over three years. I am also a fairly solitary person in the first place, and an introvert. I’m just not a big...
Read more →For whatever reason, this morning I found myself thinking about coming into my senior year in high school, and wanting then to go to Boys State. I’m not sure why I really wanted to do that back then. It wasn’t that I was a big civics buff, intrigued by government. I found myself chasing...
Read more →The question came up tonight at the end of work because I talked with Tim about my writing escape last week. I had used some of my getaway time to do some reading and researching about old New Mexico, back when it was becoming a Spanish territory and under exploration by the conquistadors from...
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Off of work today because the office was still closed for New Year’s break, I had some time this afternoon to finally go and do something I had intended to do for a few weeks. Visit my old friend Robert in the cemetery. Several weeks ago, the service celebrating Robert’s life was held at...
Read more →Today, on this first day of 2017, my mom celebrates her 75th birthday (75? Really?), and to recognize the occasion, it seemed right of me to list 75 things about her that have been an important part of her life, or that simply have gone into making her so great. This list is too,...
Read more →In the last twenty minutes of the last day of the year, it’s as good a time as any to sprint back through the year and highlight the hallmark moments. I could probably say this 200 times here, but I’ll just put it here: the Cubs winning the World Series. Personally, I probably took...
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