The Property (Ours and Flowers)
We are so busy in our lives. There's time, but too rare is it that time, we make. Mostly, it is the allowances that we welcome, our time it does take. So, slow down, take ten minutes or so, and go where this takes you. It's safe I assure you, and visit as often as you would like to. Continue Reading...
Baseball Poll: Who Is Better?
Wild Card Baseball
Well the two Wild Card games have been played. Both were exciting. Both were decided by final inning, 3-run homers, one being of the walk-off variety. Madison Bumgarner continued to be a post season immortal. My only question is this, how can Buck Showalter and the Baltimore Orioles (eliminated) leave the field for the final time this season without using their most dominant player? Continue Reading...
Katahdin Skies
Month of Missing
Must it be that the light which stood for hope and the promise in change, In an instant is obliterated, senselessly by the familiar yet strange? Is there no lucidity in a month of moments ensuring one can share the pain? A luminary is gone, one who would, in time, opponents' favor to gain. Who has sight to see the symptoms on society before they leave yet for school? Call it as I see it, Continue Reading...
Boys Will Be Boys
Last night, there were two of us. Two grown men, both in our late 40's, hanging out to watch a game. We watched, and watched, and watched some more. Then more than 4 hours after we started watching the pre-game coverage, an eruption. Continue Reading...
Forever Rest In Peace
Today we come together to remember one of us, one held so dear. I implore you to ensure that her sweet, smiling spirit ne’er disappear. Continue Reading...
On My Mind and More
Well, sometimes I look at Facebook, and I respond literally to the question: "What's on your mind?" Today I had a whole slew of answers, some of which I verbalized into the empty room surrounding me. Mostly they were superficial and not predicated on anything too important. Continue Reading...
1st Grade: First Day 2016
As Jacqueline said to me this morning while tieing her own sneakers, "Well Dad, I guess we are officially first-graders now." Yes you are. And off to school they go, beginning the 2016-17 school year. Time will again race by, but this moment we enjoy, and capture, only to look back on it and wonder where the time went. They couldn't wait to get on the bus. Theodore told me last night, "Dad I am Continue Reading...