It's almost funny, to keep encountering obstacles like relentless ocean waves…

We all have secret swimming holes. Or, if we don't, we expect to find them in the future…

In a borrowed car, making scarce while the realtor showed my house, I impulsively took Bobbin Shop Road, to revisit a few memories…

And in the hot sun, many flower bombs reveal their colors up top…

Sometimes the most awkward words are actually prayers…

Little bird who knocks against the glass, I'm happy to not be what you're looking for, as you aim your passion towards an imagined other…

When I get back home after a job, I turn off the car & swing my body to the left so that my feet touch the ground…

I'm not entirely sure this wild growth is normal, all bound up as it is with a late snow, followed by an oppressive heat wave…

When I finally resettle again over the mountain, I'll miss these evening drives back home to Chelsea…

If the ladies were blackbirds, if the ladies were thrushes…

'A noble dog, a faithful companion'. Oh, Leo. It's so easy to love a dog…

I volunteered to do community service and was ignored, perhaps because my views on health fall into a nebulous category some might call "holistic" or something closer to what our last generation would have utilized, out of practical necessity…

Stung by a bee before noon, but glad for its company anyway, in a world stark with absence…

You can walk & walk and not find your path as happened to me one day not long ago in a land called Vermont…

I don't know how other people who have to work are coping…

I was headed to a job over the mountain to save an old rose bed overrun by grass…

A drizzly day and an uneasy quiet in the hills of springtime Vermont…

I open my eyes upon waking to one final magic trick from the Snow Queen and another day alone burning the last of the firewood…

They call it 'walking the plank' but the challenge depends on which century you were born into…

Reporting from the trenches. Out in the leaf mold, observing the seeping headwaters feeding what you may eventually be drinking, I see that life here is also in lock down.