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Today I offer you Song of the Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats, a photo of one of my paintings inspired by the poem, and a few...

Cercis canadensis Spring has sprung and one of the many joys of the season is the blossoming of the "redbud" trees. I suggest you take a...

My “ Papaw ”, Earnest William Woliver, was born on April 8,1903 in Knoxville, Tennessee to Alex Wooliver (a river barge laborer) and Edith Evelyn Huckleby Wooliver. Earnest married Leona Baker (my “Granny”) in 1922 at age 16. On July 29, 1922 he secured employment with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad as a “railroad car oiler”; and on June 21st, 1923, their first child, Earnest L. Woliver was born. Leona holding her first born, E.L. Being born myself in 1952, I have memori

In 325CE the Council of Nicaea established that Easter would be held on the first Sunday after the first full moon occurring on or after...

Ever wonder about the origin of the adjective “batty”? Webster’s New College World Dictionary, 4th Edition defines it as “crazy or...

photo by Adam Woliver Spring Nothing is so beautiful as Spring – When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs...

On this March 17th, I, like many Irish Americans, will wear green and celebrate what I suspect to be Irish heritage. I have looked into...

3 . 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5 8 9 7 9 3 2 3 8 4 6 2 6 4 3 3 Pi is an infinite decimal and an irrational number. https://decimal.info/digits-of-...

I can’t be with Mother today (3/11/2021) so I have decided to write the following words from my heart. Most nights, just before I fall...

Dear March - Come in - How glad I am - I hoped for you before - Put down your Hat - You must have walked - How out of Breath you are -...

This morning on Tuesday, 2/23/21, we found our cat Moocher lying dead in the snow. She has been with us for over seven years. During the...

As Rett and I drive through rural, central Ohio, and occasionally as we spot or hear the call of a Red-tailed Hawk over the skies at...

Silence is the think tank of the soul. -Gordon Hempton, self-described acoustic ecologist My inspiration for this post flows from an...

The weather forecast for the week of February 7-14, 2021 at Merry Mount is chilling due to a visit from the “polar vortex”. “The polar...

February is heart month and so I have gathered a few “mullings and musings” about the subject. According to early Western philosophy, the...

One of the trains owned by the Smoky Mountain Railroad (KS&E) As a boy, I grew up on two adjacent properties located in the foothills of...

On January 21, 2021, Rett will turn 66. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Having already traveled Route 66 myself, I suggest that perhaps it is time for...

Great-Grandfathers: Alex Woliver (1874-1954) left; Isaac Baker (1877-1962) right This photograph circa 1930 of two of my...

December’s Cold Moon reaches peak illumination on Tuesday, December 29, 2020, at 10:30 P.M. EST. December’s full Moon is most commonly...

He saw EVERYTHING! May your lump of coal contain a diamond inside. "Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!" CPW