My thoughts and observations of what is and what should be
Marcescence - Don't Let Go A little beech haiku and PhotoPoetry Marcescence hang tight Thin, dry, pale, like skin so old Tremble in delight Here are these leaves that flutter in the wind, they clamor in their movement, in protest they refuse to let go. Death has come yet still it clings to life, and from one to many, each of Continue Reading...
Saturday - March 23rd - Update on NH Spring Training 2024. NH Spring Training 2024, I was looking over my roster for Saturday's action. I walked onto the field of battle and discovered that I had very little traction. A contest was to be decided and I had to find the answers in the players I had. I considered each of the players and it wasn't good, then again, not all bad. Just Continue Reading...
Woods Haiku In the woods I walked. Conversation I did have. Though nobody talked. On this afternoon, the wind was whipping through the trees. Then silence would fall over the scene like someone hit pause. But a tumbling leaf crashed through the hemlocks and pines, and the silence was broken by death falling to earth, to start the cycle again. Continue Reading...
March 17, 2024 - One Day All Together - 2010 Flames - 2023-2024 Imagine a day when the entire team is in uniform together to make their final stand as the family that they have become. Then, for one day all together they unite, perhaps like never before. Banded together, as only a family can, they appear as one mass of skating, skill, and effort. They beat, shift after shift, as one heart, and Continue Reading...
Each cut the kids joy. Hours spent on prep in the cold. It never gets old. Continue Reading...
One hundred years plus. Bricks stacked high. Beneath the sky. Passion lies in us. Continue Reading...
Two winters distinct The sound of steel slicing ice For all full delight Continue Reading...
Barbara Ann Appleby (Peterson) - January 22, 1949 ~ February 22, 2024 - First words I think of: Truth. Family. Eyes. Humor. Sports. Tremendous meals. John 14:6 - I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Continue Reading...
- Out Of Sync - Goffstown Hockey - - Goffstown at Mon-Fall Mountain-ConVal - Keene Ice - Keene, NH - Goffstown went to Keene to play against the Monadnock-Fall Mountain-ConVal Huskies in a MUST win game, against an opponent they should beat with a solid effort. The Goffstown hockey team got the win, 4-1, all while battling through details that seemed just a bit out of Continue Reading...
- Fall Behind - Goffstown Hockey - - Goffstown vs. Oyster River - Sullivan Arena - St. Anselm College - If always you were even or getting ahead and never did you ever fall behind Would the miraculous invention and the splendid depth of self ever you find? Continue Reading...