most of us will live past 75 watch our bodies shrivel from grape to raisin and our minds leak memories and grind as they rust see our...

hitchhiking cricket thirty miles to Coachella mom lives in Palm Springs

I’ve seen some hummingbird’s fly like they’re drunk I couldn’t figure it out until I thought maybe older flowers serve up a hard nectar...

with all those popular songs of magical new love or ones of their breakups and makeups why we don’t hear ballads of affection that have...

history is made once and written about from jig-sawed letters cut from the murk of memory a penned past creates a scene with characters...

what is it about rain that makes us look outside and peer into the eyepiece of our lives those rivulets of uncertainty running down the...

dogs and old people share an essential vitamin called purpose if we stay busy engage in the world our spirits won’t turn anemic where for...

my eyelids droop like wet leaves in this night of a dark day and sleep-mask of rain I am swept away from this world

don’t lob in pickleball you’ll lose the point ninety percent of the time clean the gutters before it rains and sugar becomes the...

it’s a constant “clink” collar tags on the food bowl refilling the tank

a hen laid an egg that broke when it fell from the nest if that’s a homicide is it first or second degree with the mother hen cooped up...

I still smile big    laugh loudand paint my world with bright colorsaware there’s another worldof injustice  cruelty and deaththat roams...

ImagiNation America – just a tree sprouted from a dream

days are as perishable as lives expiring whether we use them or not some you don’t want to let go of the heart-skipping or great news...

emotions drag us into elevators and take us wherever they want no buttons to push if I see you with balloons on the roof I’ll probably...

here in the desert   sunrises bleed colors that stain the eyes and mornings carry the silence of sand birdsong and this winter’s tiny...

Milk – they’re wholesome    probably eat a good breakfast   might enjoy with cookies or to soothe caffeine’s bite Apples and Bananas –...