One of my favorite places over the last 20 years, playing in the Mad River. All the kids have been here multiple times. Continue Reading...
December Snow
Let There Be Light-ning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKN83Ffo0pY Hartland, New Brunswick, July 2016 - We had a blast taking the footage. We talked. We laughed. And every once in a while, we just stopped everything in order to exclaim, Wow! Ahhh! Incredible! OOOOHHHHH! Did you see that!?!? And other sounds that often sound something like words. Continue Reading...
Capture Me in a Picture
Capture Me in a Picture What is a poor boy to do, while finding his way, When the picture calls, inviting him in to stay? Continue Reading...
Passing Through
Sometimes I travel just to pass through an area, but many times I travel to a spot just to let it pass through me. Continue Reading...
Beautiful Innocence III
I can't help myself, and I really don't want to, if it means that I should stop thinking about the kids, the parents, the school faculty, the first responders, the families, and the community surrounding the tragedy in Newtown, CT. Newtown. Hmmm, maybe we all need a new town, as in a new outlook on our world around us. We live in our little cocoons, sheltered from the things we don't allow in. Continue Reading...
Beautiful Innocence II
I just watched President Obama deliver a speech from Newtown, CT. I cried as he talked of our children and of parenthood. Then I cried a little bit more as he read the list of names. I imagined how it must feel to hear your child's name listed on that list. A name that Mom and Dad may have argued over, certainly they discussed the name many times. Maybe they didn't know if they were having a boy Continue Reading...
Beautiful Innocence
I sit here at my keyboard tonight, trying to procure rationale from the chaotic swarm of thoughts swirling in my head; In doing so, I try to separate the thoughts of anger that bubble up in my attempts to understand the how and the why events like this can happen. Somewhere over time, I have tried to be better at facing the things that bind my mind and twist my intellectual limits to the maximum, Continue Reading...
“There’s an eagle up there”
Theodore and Jacqueline have both been coughing and congested for a week or so now. So I have gone through dozens of tissues, blown noses, wipes, and the charade of mixing it up to keep them remotely interested in getting their sore noses cleaned up. Today it was my precious little boy who showed his warm, soft way about him. After I had him in my arms, I cleaned his nose as he blew. So, I used Continue Reading...
Blue sky
My eyes open for the first time of the day. With gravity pressing me further into my bed and pillow, I muster the energy and turn my head, lifting only my eyes toward the morning sky. Gravity mysteriously releases its grip on the corners of my mouth as I grin, looking out to the sky, the blue sky. I am telling you, those few seconds of inner struggle, whether or not to open my eyes, whether or not Continue Reading...