Freeport, Texas

Couple days ago, I sat in an

old pick-up on a warm sunny day and the scent of it worked a certain magic.

Eye's closed, it was 1966 and I was headed to the beach for the very first time in my grandfather's 1946 Dodge 2 door sedan...the designated vehicle for such journey's. It was a car that welcomed sandy feet and buckets of shells, its trunk permanently packed with blankets and digging tools. Like a rocket headed for the moon, that old car transported me to a new universe.

Thank-you Dorothy

I recently had to spend some time at the hospital getting my thyroid tested...nothing serious mind you. If some body part has to mal-function, the thyroid is realtively easy to fix. So, i shouldnt have been scared. But i was....just a little bit.

I mean, people are always going into hospitals...they just don't always come out.

I chose my clothing appropriately.

A pair of ruby slippers

and even though it was supposed to hit 70 degrees

i also wore a super power cape

red of course

it could've been a tie

a red power tie

So, thank-you Dorothy

for showing all of us that

even though we have the power within

it's good to have a visual reminder.

Ode to Spring

Thank you spring

for all these things:

planting seeds

walking barefoot

so many smiles on a beautiful day

tiny new leaves

thunderstorms

every door and window in my house open

wide

pussy willows

rhubarb pie

the smell and feel of line-dried sheets

renegade flowers in my lawn

tree frogs

daffodils

driving with the windows down

the sound of birds after the silence

of winter

calves and colts and lambs

warm, misty rains to sit in

more and more color until the world is

green green green

Functional Art

The fact that we live in a time where we describe anything that is functional, well-crafted and beautiful as "art" says a lot about life in the 21st century.

I worry about us. Our need for speed and instant gratification, that we equate cheap with good. I miss T.V. Repairmen...I miss everyone who used to repair things. Our lives should be full of things worth repairing.