It took him 20 years to get home and on the way he stopped off to see Circe for a while. Never mind his companions whiled away the time as pigs…

Intentions aside Nature has a way of playing the trump card when one dares the road.

There is Corn everywhere, in front of me, to my right, to my left, and behind. I am surrounded by 6 foot Green.

 

It is easy to get lulled to sleep by the Common. It happens all the time.

But hidden there is Beauty.

6/18/18

In Iowa if you build a baseball field “They Will Come”. In Indiana if you buy a sailboat “The Ocean Will Come”…

 

How long you have to wait for it is variable depending on the God’s Whims…in this case so far all that has happened is a 40 yard pond…in the middle of corn fields…for 50 miles all around…

Hope springs eternal.

6/17/18

There are few real yardsticks for measuring  parenthood.

 

6/16/18

Memory is such a strange phenomenon. Somewhere in our brain there are cells that must make a connection to our soul where I suspect our memories are stored. Anatomists would say the temporal lobe holds these recollections of our past but even as a scientist, MD, I have serious doubts. I find it hard to believe that these happenings, so vivid sometimes, can be stored in simple cells and their connected circuitry.

I have not seen television for three weeks and I have not missed it. Claims of grandiosity filled the screen and started me thinking…

                                                   Mosaic of Alexander the Great

Today is a rest day in Cleveland and I was going to take a break from stories but something odd happened…

I have heard it takes less facial muscle to smile than to frown.

 

Similarly I suspect it is easier to be kind than not..

This is an Angel from the Vineyards…isn’t she beautiful?