Because I Can

Because I Can

By
January 17, 2024

January 17, 2018     This morning, we had breakfast in the library. We chose the library because it is where the wood stove sits, our companion this winter, more so than ever before, as the snow that began falling last night, continues to cover our world. In a few hours Kate fly’s to...
Read More »

Because I Can

By
November 30, 2021

This is a piece I wrote in the late 90’s, when I was living in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California. It is filled with dated cultural references; which is actually one of the things I like about it. But it also has a few tidbits of wisdom, which I thought worth the read:...
Read More »

Because I Can

By
September 18, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Tonight Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away.  I do not want to address the politics involved in her dying, at this moment in time, and I am not qualified to eulogize her life.  But I have held on to this cover, of the Los Angeles Times, since October 2, 1993, when she...
Read More »

Because I Can

By
April 28, 2020

Imperfect Pictures Some With Words and Others Without     There are many reasons I snap a photograph. I have previously written about the sheer joy of volume that digital photography provides us with; for me, the opportunity to get the “perfect picture” because I can take a dozen shots, in the moment, and later...
Read More »

Because I Can

By
June 30, 2019

The Joy of Wonder!     It began innocently enough; Kate was talking to Annaka, Thaddaeus, and Enoch about artificial intlligence and computer coding, when Annaka said she would like to build a robot. Annaka went over to the chalk board and drew her robot:     Kate of course said we can do...
Read More »

Because I Can

    “Be a flamingo in a flock of pigeons.” ~ Savannah Larsen ~ Going through my files of photographs, I found this picture, which I of course composed and took. It reminded me of a quote I had read the night before. “Be a flamingo in a flock of pigeons.” ~ Savannah Larsen...
Read More »

Because I Can

By
February 2, 2019

The Compass Rose     Detroit Museum of Art, Detroit Michigan     Portland Headlight, Cape Elizabeth Maine     Aloha Clock Tower, Hawaii     United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland     In front of the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania     Fairchild Gardens, Miami, Florida   Welcome Center off...
Read More »

Because I Can

By
July 24, 2017

  For Caroline Cobre, Oriente, Cuba http://www.guije.com/pueblo/municipios/ocobre/indexe.htm April 27, 1948 — saved; April 27, 1949 — baptized in the Holy Spirit; December 25, 1948 — baptized in water   408 53 St. West, Apt. 10 New York, New York (1957) 555 E. Elizabeth, Brownsville, Texas, c/o Rev. H. Glenn Smith (1958)     26 Calle...
Read More »

Because I Can

By
April 14, 2017

  When on the Road     I do not have a good explanation for why it has taken me so long to begin to compile this list; but after too many bad meals, worse hotels, and aimless searches for a food truck in Fayetteville, which we are certain is parked in place that...
Read More »

Because I Can

By
February 28, 2017

Writer’s Homes     Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House 399 Lexington Road Concord, Massachusetts 01742   The Beat Museum 540 Broadway San Francisco, California 94133   William Cullen Bryant Homestead 207 Bryant Road Cummington, Massachusetts 01026   Pearl S. Buck Birthplace P.O. Box 126 Hillsboro, West Virginia 24946   Pearl S. Buck House Pearl...
Read More »



Art


Copy Protected by Chetan's WP-Copyprotect.