Blue Sky Rumination

href=”https://thefinalcurtain1.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/dscn0303.jpg”>   Blue Sky Rumination (Trust me, it’s blue!) Here on the Cumberland Plateau, there were thunderstorms last night and a prolonged lightning display. My wife and I stayed calm, watched the vivid display through our large great room windows while our television provided the figure skating competition at the Sochi Winter Olympics… Our rather […]

A Gray Day Mood

  A Gray Day Mood The mood is sullen, like the tall leafless trees outside my window. Their bare branches reach upward toward an ugly gray sky begging for new life. The fog and the gray are like cold blankets of despair. In many ways I’m like a tree. I sit on this cold gloomy […]

How Did You Sleep Last Night

  How Did You Sleep Last Night? There is so much in night’s sleepless musings that come to me, words and phrases that say so much about my life, the shiftless and incoherent wanderlust, the ever restless being of my nature, the endless search for a gauzy part of my worth… Why is it I’m […]

Snow, Solitude, and Sadness

Here on a bluff of The Cumberland Plateau the weather can change quickly and often. For the most part, no matter the weather, it is beautiful here among the hardwood trees, a portrait outside the big great room windows of the different shades of seasons. This day, I’m watching the frenzied swirl of big snowflakes […]