In the coming days and weeks, perhaps months, the country we know and love will be in some level of turmoil because of the 2020 election in America. Most of us will have done our duty and voted. As always, since the debacle of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, my vote represents a conservative-based view, derived from love of country and desire for liberty, prosperity, and peace.
Read MoreThat Old Abandoned House
When it is the 1950s and you are five years old, the son of a sharecropper, when you are an adventurous little kid, when the occasional whack of a hickory stick against your behind does not deter you from ignoring your mother’s instructions … sometimes you might take things a little too far.
I was that five-year-old kid.
Read MoreSaying Goodbye to Billy Cat
It is a sad day at my house. As many of you know, I have been caring for Billy Cat, a gray tabby rescued by my brother-in-law many years ago. Billy Cat is old, has diabetes, has intestinal problems that have no cure, and has been steadily going downhill over the past few months. He has lost so much weight that he is not much more than a skeleton.
Read MoreDanger Around The Bend
Some things are hard to put behind you, put out of your mind, when your mind has stubbornly chosen to hold on to them, for reasons that may frustrate and bewilder you.
This story may be a little difficult for some of you to correlate with your own life experience. Be thankful for that. It is a burden, a heavy burden, to have some ambiguous feeling instructing your thoughts. If your life has included some trauma, you may know exactly what I am talking about. If the trauma was severe enough, and lasted long enough, you may have done what I did for 40 years: deny that the problem even existed, while painstakingly avoiding circumstances that might lead to a triggering event. Try to imagine how those two issues can exist at the same time in the same mind. That was me.
Read MoreYoung Buck and Fawn
On the last day of September 2020, I had a rather good day for photography. It started out as a foggy morning and I took full advantage of that. I enjoy early mornings with mist coming off the beaver ponds and backwaters. If you are following my posts, you have already seen several photographs I took that morning.
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