Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

My only words today are poetry. For Tom. About Tom. I can say no more today. Nothing more profound than these words for him today can say. ************************************ T. P. Complicated, Syncopated, Full of rhyme And reason Street-wise tough, Exterior rough, Cowboy For a season But there inside Failing to hide Coming softly To the [...]

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Some days, as you know, I have only questions. Questions of my own and questions I ask all of you. Then there are the contests I’m always instigating. Like the “Christmas theme” contest, which Raymond Fleming more or less won with his terrific comment to the post, and the just concluded “Winter Desktop” picture contest [...]

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(Update – Thursday 6:30 p.m.: Steve Duer has graciously posted his award winning picture of Grace & James over on his blog, “Du’s & Don’ts,” so y’all go check it out. Please!) Here’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for the last (has it been?) three weeks. But first, the typical Academy Awards type speech [...]

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This post is for all of you readers and commenters who have dropped by leading to the milestone 10,000th hit Friday, which I wrote about Saturday, in one of my “off days” posts. (Now, here’s another – what can I say? Well, I can say that this one started out as my own comment to [...]

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All I know about visitor number 10,000 is that they dropped by about 6:30 p.m. Friday, hail from Odessa, Texas (remember the really good movie last fall – “Friday Night Lights” – of Texas high school football fame?) and use Southwestern Bell as their internet provider. So, if anyone wants to step up to take [...]

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I said just last week (was it? or week before?) that my “usual” posting days here are Tuesdays and Fridays, which rule I immediately broke the next Monday. Today’s not posting day either, so here’s the skinny. Everyone (including many of my usual commenters) seems to be extra busy with post-holidays catching up/first of the [...]

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When did the sun move so far across the sky? The last I looked it was summer and I was in July. That was only yesterday, as best I now recall. Yet here it is winter and we didn’t have a fall. How can it be that individual days can go on forever, yet seasons, [...]

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