Reflections

  • Just Beyond Bull

    How we interpret some words matters to the when or where they are spoken.  So it is with bullshit. I picked up bullshit just as I left childhood behind.  A gentleman Okie, Wallace, down the road from us had a fairly colorful… Continue reading

    Just Beyond Bull
  • Quiet Talk

    Three of them sat around the afternoon fire talking.  Sometime ago he had taken a thirty-six-inch tractor rim and set it in the ground.  As the two of them talked he watched the fire.  Noticing that as the rim heated, the ground around… Continue reading

    Quiet Talk
  • Trusting We Matter to Our Siblings

    Over the next few weeks I am visiting west and southwest US reserves, ceded, and unceded landscapes.  The western viewscape easily holds my attention for hours.  Yet, while driving, I am bound to turn to the radio.   Continue reading

    Trusting We Matter to Our Siblings
  • Beloved Creation

    Quail are a good measure of the day’s cold.  Each evening a covey settles in the wild willows west of home near the cattle’s water trough.  During summers height they sometimes don’t make it back from the wonder of a day’s wandering… Continue reading

    Beloved Creation