There’s no greater pleasure than a bag of books. D Mounger Once I was gifted with a tender need to pause over the personal tattoo. An ancient veteran serving with …
All Through the House
When I was a little girl, we would leave Tupelo, Mississippi early on Christmas Eve and head to Yazoo City to join my grandparents, aunt and uncle, spouses and seven …
Deduce Not So Ye Shall Not Be Reduced
Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell There’s a peculiar condition in which a song takes root and tracks on repeat …
Melvin in the House
Legacy is not leaving something for people. It’s leaving something in people. Peter Strople Early winter bustled into our country town. The Weatherman would have had a few things to …
Message In a Box
The glove box was my first grown-up hidey hole. My Grandmother literally understood the compartment as a place to store driving gloves, but with my Father’s prompting when I got …
Look Pleasant Please
At some point during the past year, I built a mountain of all the printed film that I had been hoarding. No overnight visitors were expected so the gigantic pile …
Mule and Plow
We are just walking each other home. Ram Dass While living out the Era of Whippersnapper, I had a reoccurring dream starring mate D and my idealistic-self manning a roadside …
Dispatch Your Love
Words are things. Maya Angelou After a harrowing scramble through a large intersection for the proper site to pull over, I rolled down my window to address a blue package …
Small Town Celebrants
One kind thought, one kind word, one kind deed, one at a time, and the world will be transformed. Jean Maalouf We set out to commemorate our 42nd anniversary on …