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On the first day of Spring 2025, my dear Mother passed into the “Soothest Sleep”.  I was blessed to be next to her when she took her...

On this March 17th, many of us will acknowledge St. Patrick’s Day and in so doing will contemplate our pot of gold to be found at the end of a rainbow.   Last week at Merry Mount, a beautiful one appeared just east of our property line.  I texted my neighbor to ask if I could borrow his backhoe to dig at the spot where the rainbow ended.  Then my memory sent me back to 1967 when as a Freshman in high school, I was casted in a musical production of “Finian’s Rainbow.”  The fol

Sonnet 24 Mine eye hath play’d the painter and hath steel’d, Thy beauty’s form in table of my heart; My body is the frame wherein ’tis...

February Morning crystalized in grey the dim light exposes shapes of future bliss CPW

As the Liar in Chief takes office, the search for truth is essential. When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by  truth and reality , it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.  ( Plato , Republic) The truth will stand, when the world's on fire. -C. L. Woliver and Others Th

"Ice Queen" by Nathan Myhrvold / Modernist Cuisine Gallery, LLC Drawing by five year old Riley Ratliff Snow arrived at Merry Mount this...

Resolution: To drink a cup of kindness and toast to Love, Peace, and Order. Happy New Year! CPW

A rainy night in Georgia It seems like it's rainin' all over the world -Brook Benton James Earl Carter Jr. (1924-2024)...

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from our family to yours Merry Christmas! “I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the...

You better watch out, you better not cry, Better not pout, I'm telling you why Santa Claus is coming to town.   But alas, due to climate...

Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas portrait of Maria Callas Angelina Jolie viewing a portrait of Maria Callas in the portrait gallery at the...

The calendar has flipped to December, and once again, we turn our attention to Winter and celebrate the holiday season. As is the...

At Day-Opening in November Color is fading from the reds and yellows That cling to the branches Like timid children To their mothers....

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” -Dr. Wayne Dyer The happenings of the past week...

The story of immigration to the United States told by the American right often begins with lies.  In a speech last month in Wisconsin,...

10/06/2024 Today, on the occasion of my 72nd birthday, I offer one theory on Immortality. My life closed twice before its close— It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me So huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. -Emily Dickinson In his autobiographical book, In My Time Of Dying, (2024), Sebastian Junger ponders our question of immortality and offers his' (and other’s) near d

The leaves of brown came tumbling down Remember in September in the rain The Sun went out just like a dying ember That September in the...

9/22/24 Fall Equinox Wood engraving by Wesley Bates For me, Fall Equinox is a time for reflection and as my farming neighbors begin their...

Shadow of a "small stripling"- CPW Pastoral   The day’s grown old; the fainting sun Has but a little way to run And yet his steeds, with...