What Crosses My Mind

  • Grateful Solace

    All week the idea of this day has rolled through my mind. Thanksgiving, and what it is that gives us such value toward one day out of the calendar. Despite its origins which do give me pause and help me realize we might be thought somewhat arrogant to an indigenous nation we clearly took advantage…

  • Warm Face

    The mask we wear, shadows our lives, might be removed when close to home if we can see the eyes of those we love. Today in our world we gather in peace in hope tribulations, anxieties, unsettled reminders of our humanity, might be left outside in the cold unforgiving air, while inside our lives become one…

  • In My Country

    We have this tradition in place whereby our satisfaction is the chase; is built around certain achievement – a lifestyle some acclaim entitlement. ~ When I was a young man we gathered lives, in a single room was the plan celebrating  our tribes. Well I was told the story any- way to appease my gentle…