Chewing the Cud

  • A Sunday of Profit and Death

    I am afraid this comment might feel like a barb and a bit hard to hear.  However.  As you know, the two teams in this Sunday’s Super Bowl game are the “49ers” and “Chiefs.” I’ve a friend who died years ago.  He was nothing if not a 49er fan.  Didn’t much matter what else was…

  • American Progress

    I like the idea of Thanksgiving as much as the next white guy, I imagine.  I like it as much as most of my Indian, Native American, and Indigenous friends.  Only a fool thinks there is no need for thankfulness for having this shot to live out our particular existence within and of creation; having…

  • To Be Better Than We Are

    “It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.” Wendell Berry The canyon was tuff.  Sometime ago, long before my memory or that of my parents, a volcano erupted and spread ash across this New Mexican landscape.  When the hottest of ash returns to land it welds itself to…

  • Tomorrow

    Should reincarnation include animals, then I hope for the duck. What life is so wonderful, as one who can swim, fly, and walk.

  • April

    When the sun warms and turns to April there is little reason to travel far from home.  Yet spring is the time of year when church, business, and non-profit meetings come out of the woodwork.  Created within each of us, I imagine, is a springgene of sorts kicking in an emotional calling to engage in…