General
Warning: ‘Real Men Love Jesus’ !
Real Men Love Jesus: Bumper sticker on spiffy baby blue SUV parked in the lot at the Gastonia, North Carolina – get this: Executive Plus Best Western. Ya’ll know you’re in the South now. Civil war stuff, many jesus stations, crosses gracing necks. Should have taken the sticker as a Sign. A motel from hell. Well not really. [...]
A Post-Thanksgiving poem
Old Bones By Gary Snyder Out there walking round, looking out for food, a rootstock, a birdcall, a seed that you can crack plucking, digging, snaring, snagging, barely getting by, no food out there on dusty slopes of scree— carry some—look for some, go for a hungry dream. Deer bone, Dall sheep, bones hunger home. Out there [...]
An Aversion to Sticks
Pogo decided he had wasted way too much time trying to figure out why he wasn’t the least bit interested in sticks. Recently a red haired man in an Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe T shirt brought an armload of sticks into the dog park, and all the other dogs danced about on their hind legs, [...]
Hurricanes, floods, and general suspension
First there was Irene. On August 27/28, 2011 the floodplains of Landgrove defined themselves for the first time in probably over a hundred years. Damage in this town, as far as we know, was limited to Karl Pfister’s white plastic covered hay bales floating merrily down the stream. Local river towns, as well as many [...]
The Brown Pelican
I love Pelicans. The Brown Pelican was almost wiped out by DDT, but because the pesticide wasn’t used widely in Florida, there are now about 20,000 pelicans in the state. Now, besides natural predators such as raccoons, their main enemy is human fishermen. Hooks, lures and monofilament get caught in the bird’s pouches and wings. [...]
Willis’s Dilemma
Since he was a six week old puppy, Willis had lived uncomfortably with the acclaimed botanist, Mrs. Chipperfield (who specialized in orchids) and her brown and fidgety cat, Babs. So much of his time was taken with Mrs. Chipperfield’s insomnia and her rants – for some unexplainable reason, always directed at Willis – about the current condition of the [...]
