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butterfly shadows

On a particularly hot morning last week, I was in the vegetable garden early, facing the middle field. The sun was behind me, not yet fully risen but already gaining the ferocity of a true summer day in Oklahoma. As I knelt, twisted, reached, and stretched, pulling weeds and moving the water hose from…

twenty-five and counting

The right words for our anniversary this year are eluding me. Last summer, when I glanced ahead to this moment on the calendar and started getting excited for it, for the twenty-fifth celebration of our sweet, precious little church wedding,…

no. sleep. till brooklyn!!

Hello friends, hey! We’re coming up for a bit of air, and I am happy to report that said air is thick and warm, humid, cottony, and scented with both chlorine and coconut suntan lotion. We are in the happy…

have you heard?

I was jogging alone at one of my favorite local parks and saw from a short distance an older gentleman, someone familiar to me over the last couple of years, but whose name I never remember. What I do remember…

some thoughts on how we’re doing

Hey friends, how are you? We are pretty good, all things considered. We have been spending our days with slightly more effort lately. Pursuing an easy task here and there. Keeping up with absolutely must be done. Taking extra walks.…