Chewing the Cud

  • Resurrected Hen Gives Limping Coyote Life

    September 20, 2015 Wide shadows fell off the windrows in the early morning. The morning after the season’s last cutting of hay, I walked the field. A heavier dew than I like gathered across my boots and the pant leg that gathered at the laces. As I wondered how long it would take the cutting…

  • Making Right What Never Changed for the Landscape and Her People

    August 13, 2015 I first met Denali when Belinda, Katherine, Rebecca, and I hiked her backcountry. The backcountry is a wide and open landscape without trails. Denali Park is similar with only one road in and the same road out. Buses provide all transportation within the park. Thus, day hikers, backpackers, and folk who want…

  • Committing To End Racism and A Button Best Suited for the Back Drawer

    August 06, 2015 A few days ago I mentioned today is dedicated as “Confession, Repentance, and Commitment to End Racism” by the African American Methodist (AME) community. I figure confession and repentance does not amount to a hill of beans if commitment does not equate to action. To end racism folk must gather a diverse…

  • Confession, Repentance, and Commitment to End Racism?

    August 04, 2015 The folk of the African American Methodist (AME) community are dedicating this Sunday “Confession, Repentance, and Commitment to End Racism.” Others (congregations, pastors, and Sunday morning preachers/speakers), are being asked to speak up, write up, and liturgy up alongside. If 1960’s civil rights and power movements prove anything it is a country…

  • Pickup Beds, Old Dogs, Children and a Ride to the Creek

    August 30, 2015 Riding in the back of the pickup was normal in the sage canyons east of Saugus. Though not common, the seat of a 1956 Ford pickup holds only so many people, so when the family went to town in the pickup you’d find my younger brother, sister, and I arguing, singing, or…