I bought a drum kit for my eighteenth birthday. I thought I was learning to play the drums but I was about to learn something incredible about my Dad. I already knew he was a drummer at heart: the fingers tapping a mile a minute on the table during breakfast, lunch, and dinner gave it away.
He wo…
It’s the most glorious time of year. The intoxicating scent of sweet roses fills my senses as I walk through the forest trails, not from roses, but from millions of blossoms on the Victorian-era apple trees on my property. As I pause to capture photos under the massive old trees, their petals fa…
Are you feeling under the weather? So were these flowers and antique inkwell. The flowers had been left to wilt on the asphalt in a parking lot. The inkwell had been tossed in a previous era and left in a heap of trash on my property. I salvaged both items to capture this photo, appropriately taken …
Did you set any resolutions for the year ahead? If you’re like most people, you set goals to lose weight, quit smoking, stop eating sweets, or some other similar goal. But, what if instead of cutting things out of your life or creating a restrictive regimen that only causes you to feel like a failur…
Solstice is the longest day of the year with the sun at its peak. Or, in the winter, the solstice is the shortest day of the year, with the darkness at its peak. Not just another day on the calendar, it represents the balance between light and darkness, a reflection of our own duality.
The su…
I watched as the man who was like a second father to me, a man who was loved by everyone who knew him and affectionately referred to as “The Padre,” frantically placed his hand over his heart and fell backward.
I bolted from my nightmare, sweating in terror that this man who had helpe…
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“Apple trees typically grow ten to 15 feet tall,” they said. “They live up to 75 to 100 years,” they said. “Apple season is in the fall,” they said. It’s a good thing this apple tree, known as “The Empress” didn’t hear them, or at l…
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During the grey and lifeless winter months, the apple tree named Wuthering Heights, appears stark and windblown, almost lifeless. But after the weariness of the cold and ice, comes the spring, marked by a stunning array of pink and …
