Porch cave meditation

the beautiful way: weather and time returning the cedar to earth (click photograph for larger view) A seed in the earth grows into a cedar tree which men harvest and fabricate into lumber. I fashion the boards into my porch; which serves me for 25 years; only to be reclaimed by the atmosphere; due, in part, […]

Looking while lunching

For over fifty years I’ve felt a fascination about how life “looks” in photographs. No famous people here. I don’t even know these people. No special effects. Though there does seem to be something special about black and white photographs. No news. Just everyday life in a local restaurant. Sort of silly. Really. Yet visual […]

Carry water (maybe start chopping wood)

For most of my life in Wisconsin our drinking water flowed out of the taps at everyone’s house. If we were out and about, as children, we drank from, what we called, bubblers (and the rest of the country referred to them as water fountains) found nearly everywhere. Of course we also enjoyed heading into […]