In my internet wanderings and muses I find myself being drawn to many of the same subjects that interested me 3o plus years ago. It appears the wanna be back to the lander, mother earth…

The whole time I was doing the seven weeks of radiation the technicians and the nurses warned me that the two to three weeks after the treatment ended would be bad to worse…They spoke truth….

Fragments From Floyd: June 2002 Archives June 5, 2002 Summer LightningThe animals have been tended, my wife and son have left for work, and I am alone watching the first rays of a humid, empty…

This morning Garrison informs us of a birthday… It’s the birthday of Wendell Berry born in Port Royal, Kentucky (1934). He grew up on farmland that had belonged to his family since 1803. He went…

The bridge collapse in Minneapolis hadn’t really impinged upon my conscious as I don’t spend a lot of time on the TV. I have only seen passing references to the disaster on the net until…

This is what my front yard has looked like on way too many days this summer. This week’s challenge: ‘Wet’. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be…

This story caught my interest the other day. A Factory Farm Near You – New York Times Once upon a time, only a decade or so, it wasn’t hard to know where factory hog farms…

After this afternoons session, my sacrifices on the alter of the atomic spheres comes to an end…The number for the day is 35…of 35. An ending and a beginning, even though I am yet to…

Today’s number is 34…Only one more day to go. As I was rambling through the news today, reading the stories out of Washington, and the comments from readers, I was struck with a wild and…

The days number is 33…after today just two to go. This weekend brought the end of an era to our house. I finally  broke down and bought our first replacement television with digital tuning. Had…

“The days still come in order. Gray light collects in the bedroom long before dawn. Then comes a bleached noon and nearly always the threat of a late-afternoon thunderstorm. The darkness is notated by fireflies,…

Todays number is 32…The effects of swallowing the sun are beginning to manifest themselves. The gravel in my voice has become a whisper this week (along with the voice itself), and my energy level has…

Todays number is 31…Look Ma, no voice…He said with a raspy whisper. If this doesn’t look like the eye of an angry God, I’ll eat my fire and brimstone upbringing. I have visions of a…

Technically, it’s the last day of week six since the 4th fell in there and these treatments run their course in 35 days and not 7 weeks. But, since we started on a Wednesday, and…

The number for today is 29… I spent a chunk of yesterday afternoon riding the John Deere. I discovered we are totally saturated since I was driving through standing water in places I have never…

Today’s number is 28… Last evening we had a real gully washer of a thunderstorm roll through after 8pm. As Sherry and I sat at the kitchen table reading we started hearing distant rumbles. The…

I heard Megan Hickey on Americana Roots Review a couple of weeks ago. I liked her sound so much I bought the CD – Wire Waltz, her band is called The Last Town Chorus. John…

For all of us Newbie WordPress bloggers…Keyboard Shortcuts Via Lifehacker TipMonkies » Blog Archive » WP: KeyBoard Shortcuts These are shortcuts you can use in the wordpress post editor. Bold: Alt SHIFT b Italics: Alt…

Warning: Bush Bashing Political Rant Follows The New York Times has a great question in the first paragraph of this editorial… FEMA Runs for Cover – New York Times How many times can the federal…

This image caught my eye yesterday so I dropped it here. What it reminded me of was a Mandelbrot Fractal like the ones I used to spend hours generating and exploring back a decade ago…

From Coffee Muses This week’s challenge: ‘Vacation’. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image, and not…

The number for today is 27…Almost there. There is a magical time of night that seems to call me on a regular basis…It’s 3:33am. I can not recall how many time I have rolled over…

I got involved in a WordPress Upgrade this morning along with trying to find some answers to some questions Fred had with his migration to WordPress over the weekend. I’ll try to post something this…

I see my Congressman is still stirring the pot… When U.S. Rep. Ron Paul recently gave the keynote address at a ceremony presenting overdue medals to 24 veterans, he talked about patriotism, the country’s debt…

We carry with us these footprints of vanished places: apartments we moved out of years ago, dry cleaners that went out of business, restaurants that stopped serving, neighborhoods where only the street names remain the…

Today will be radiation treatment #23. That means just 13 more to go… The weather station on the wall has the outside temperature at 73°. That would be very comfortable for this time of year…

I have spent the morning doing some WordPress studying so my muse hasn’t really kicked in. In the process of looking for something online to help Fred First with his integration into WP I stumbled…

I hope some of you out there were able to catch Bill Moyers Journal last night. It was one of the strongest cases I have seen made to date in favor of impeaching both the…

This week’s challenge: ‘Barren’ Taken in January 2005 on my last trip to Vegas… PHOTO FRIDAY Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page…

Well, I meandered thru my email, read the headlines and opinions of the paid opinion makers, and finished my morning muse cup of coffee. The news was full of the latest on Bush, the Congress,…

Warning…Political Rant Coming Ok, if this trend continues, we are going to have to suspect divine intervention in the AG firings. How else can we explain the “fact” that no one had any input on…

Lady Bird Johnson dies at 94 | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle Lady Bird Johnson, a former first lady, a Texas legend, a woman who used the humble wildflower to teach an entire nation to treasure…

Today is the end of my fourth week of radiation treatment. After today I will have three more weeks to go. The treatments have become a daily routine…The people at the treatment center are really…

I have been lax lately in being the doting grandpa….Here are a couple of shots of the grandson . Father and son eating ribs on the fourth… Mother and son at rest…

One year ago this week we were sitting on the side of a mountain in northwestern North Carolina. We aren’t the first Texans to have discovered and fallen in love with the Blue Ridge Mountains…

Via The Ethicurean this morning I followed a link to the following… In his Meat Manifesto, Fearnley-Whittingstall corners the reader: “Are you,” he demands, “among the millions of consumers putting pressure on farmers to produce…

They can’t spin it, they can’t excuse it, they can’t hide it. It’s a payoff for taking the fall for the big guys. And Bush’s very history spells it out. In the six years that…

7/7/07 – trip sevens Our neighbor is using this as an auspicious date for a wedding. I just think the groom was looking for an easy anniversary mnemonic. He sure wont have much excuse for…

It was a little strange this morning, waking up to the sounds of silence. No thunder, no pounding rain, not even the subliminal sound of water dripping from the eaves, seems very weird. I am…

The rain falling again this morning almost lulled me back to sleep after our wet and rainy 4th. I finally dragged myself out of bed…But, now that I am through with the first (pre-commute) cup…

Keith Olbermann has another of his special commentaries out. It’s too bad neither President Bush nor Vice-President Cheney have an iota of understanding about what it is they have done that sets so many Patriotic…

People are going to be having fun with the convoluted logic of this step by President Bush right up until he is facing judgment himself. In commuting Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr.’s 30-month prison sentence on…

The external world, so fascinating, so infinite in its variety, has us firmly in hand and thoroughly mesmerized. Lasting happiness is almost ours – over there, just ahead of us, right around the next corner….

Can you imagine what must have been going on behind the scenes on this day all those years ago in Philadelphia? The discussions, the arguments, the compromises all to commit…treason. Each and every signer of…

Just when you thought they couldn’t get any more blatant at thumbing their noses at the law…WASHINGTON — President Bush commuted the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby today, sparing him…

I rolled out of bed this morning to the sound of thunder and pouring rain. That seems to be the pattern around here the past week or so. What is unusual about that is thunderstorms,…

This caught my eye this morning in the Houston Chronicle… They’re scattered across Houston’s neighborhoods like pebbles flung from someone’s hand. Now, almost two years into their Houston experience, this displaced population roughly the size…

This nation is so angry about Iraq that we sometimes forget what would be obvious if it was a four-alarm blaze in a nearby city. Some fires do have to burn, but leaving the scene…

As I was reading my email and feeds I hit a link from Earth & Sky Blogs that led to the following video. “See” how the world is changing. Visual imagery can tell stories and…