Fish By Bowman

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Slam Poet that Blew Me Away

Neil Hilborn - "OCD" (Rustbelt 2013)

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

For My Friend

Monday, June 10, 2013

Monday, May 13, 2013

Forgive the Things You Can't Forget

You only have to forgive those things you CAN'T forget. Forgiveness is For Giving as a undeserved gift. People err when they think it means laying down to be run over again, it doesn't. It mean we're going to fail to recall, we're going to fail to relive that incident, we're going to turn loose of, the sharp, sudden, sickening, pain, we're not going to dwell on it, because the hell of it is to dwell in it. Forgiving is to choose, not to do that. It is to choose to let it go, to let it alone. It requires effort to fail to recall. I read a quote once by the woman who founded the American Red Cross when questioned about an incident, she said she didn't remember, but after being reminded and questioned further stated, "I distinctly recall forgetting that." You can say I forgive you, but that ain't all. To truly forgive you must fail to recall.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Saturday, April 28, 2012

A Few Treehouses to Write Home About

If you know me well at all, you know I'm wild about tree houses, the house in this article Will the Humble ‘HemLoft’ Survive? is absolutely splendorous. Can you build one like it? Do you think? We have some land you know.

But here's the story from the artist's, I mean carpenter's point of view, in his own voice, in fact, on his own site: http://thehemloft.com/the-story/ And it has its beginning in a failed retirement plan - and I mean really failed as in living out of the car utterly failed. So, absolutely read this if you're at all interested orb shaped living spaces suspended in hemlocks above the forest floor.

And through an obsessive/compulsive need to devour everything I could learn about this particular tree house I discovered something truly amazing: http://www.adventure-journal.com/weekend-cabin/ Weekend Cabin, which shares an abundance of get-aways on a page hosted by Adventure Journal, where the writing, the photography and the art reminds me of the old days at Outside Magazine. And look! They're on Facebook, too - I LIKE them - I do - I do.