Telluride Daily Planet, Thursday, September 15, 2011After dad retired from the Army, he got a job at Boeing. I’m not sure exactly what he did there, but he got laid off along with everyone else in Seattle in the early ‘70s, and, to my mother’s great surprise, became a permanent fixture in the house after…… Continue reading Apples (my father’s dream)
Category: Nature, Make Me Your Humble Servant
Summer Breeze
Telluride Daily Planet, Monday, June 14, 2010 Three a.m. again, but the deep heart of night — for once — is sweet. Not because a night sweat isn’t the cause of throwing the covers off; it is. Not because there aren’t obsessions circulating between my ears in the black recesses of night-mind; there are. Not…… Continue reading Summer Breeze
Moonburn
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 14, 2010 A full moon rises, about to clear the dark ridge of mountains and spill its watery light into the valley. I am tightening the laces of my skate boots, preparing for my first ever moonlight ski. In the cast iron kettle of life, this might be a stray…… Continue reading Moonburn