Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
I needed to get out for a little while after sitting in a cool house today for work, so I took off work a little early and decide to go visit Los Poblanos Open Space off of Montgomery west of 4th street. I took my camera with me, as always, because I figured there...
Read more →In August of 2020, a friend of mine suggested that I give a book, “A Gentleman in Moscow”, a read. The book, pretty popular at that moment, was already known by me from advertising, but I didn’t have the drive I needed to pick it up and start reading it. “We’ll read it at...
Read more →It has been 25 minutes now that I have been staring at this screen, taking sips of coffee, dipping into Facebook and then kicking myself off of it again, asking Google for writing prompts. And I find myself at this place so frequently when I tell myself to write something. “Try writing something about...
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It was evidently a banner year last year for many, if not most, U.S. National Parks. With COVID locking away a majority of Americans in 2020, many of the locked-aways pushed back in 2021, and with limitations and reticence about flying still holding down air travel, the locked-aways made road destinations their targets for...
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I try to recall how I ended up dancing that distant dance those years with you Come pray with me you asked I will pray with you I replied And so we met plainly cordially quietly in the library and muttered wishing words asking for youthful and holy and grand and kind things and...
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It’s interesting to me. Before COVID grasped the world in 2020, I sensed myself riding the same escalator as most younger people, interested in attaining that which is characteristic of many Americans: having stuff. You don’t think about it much, but that’s how it is with life when you are young and developing. You...
Read more →Late this afternoon, I was looking out the front door with Po joining me at my feet when I heard a vehicle approaching, making an odd noise. Thwappety-thwappety-thwappety-thwappety… It stopped at my neighbor’s house. My neighbor’s van had a full-on flat on the rear driver’s side tire. For a moment, I backed away from...
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Nearly a decade ago, I somehow ended up meeting and contacting a guy from back east on Facebook about a programming issue. He was someone I had met somewhere related to tech- in a forum or some such thing. He was a kind fellow, and sought to assist me as he could from afar....
Read more →Yesterday, after my mom’s birthday gathering at my parents’ house, I stuck around and told my dad I needed to go ahead and look at the boxes of books he had there in storage that were owned by my aunt. He had asked several weeks ago if I would take a look at them...
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The year 2022 here in Albuquerque started off with rain and overcast skies today, which later turned briefly into snow showers in the afternoon. But despite the thermometer registering temps in the twenties as the evening wrapped up, it was a very warm day today for myself and my family, because it was my...
Read more →About three years ago, I decided I needed help in wrangling with some issues in my inner life, and I called up a counselor I had seen for a season a decade earlier. We reconnected in an initial visit, and then reconvened into a routine of weekly visits. Why was I there? What did...
Read more →Earlier this year, on the morning of April 25th, I awoke to an unusual sensation in my body. Both feet had an odd ache in them, like each was painfully reawakening from a long dip in icy water, a feeling which then morphed into a partially numbed, partially tingly condition that hung around for...
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I peaked out back behind the house this afternoon, and there sat this Cooper’s hawk on the wall. He gave me one shot, and then he flew off.
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Today started at 5:30 AM when I got up and turned on the stove to warm a cold burrito and started the coffeemaker. I fed the cats and dressed and then grabbed the burrito and a cup of the coffee and I turned off the kitchen stuff and then I was in my truck,...
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Along with so many others, my sister and her family opted to get out of town for a little escape this Independence Day weekend, and in a display of maturity, her younger son also opted, but in his case, he opted to not join his family and go out of town, which meant he...
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Yesterday was a meaningful day in the Welton household, for it was doctor day. For me, I finally was able to see, and meet, a new doctor that I can call my primary after my last primary, a nurse practitioner in the hospital system I use, decided to become more of an administrator in...
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