Tag: travel
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Being Human (A Travelogue) Part 1
We left for camp in the afternoon, just in time for the rain to come down. Upon arrival we were greeted by two jays cawing and showing off as we set up our tent. The rain mellowed for the time being, but it would return later in a fury. The campfire made it through the…
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Fly Bye
Labor Day weekend — waving goodbye geese fly overhead our vacation is over, waving goodbye geese fly overhead
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Homeless
During my lunch hour I did some walking meditation and happened upon a park. Licton Springs used to be a little bit bigger, and noisier, before the construction of the I-5 corridor. Apparently home to a natural spring, which seems to be the source of the small creek that cuts through the small park. But…
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By the Moonlit Pond
The frogs are enticing you tonight as you step out the front doorYou can hear them from a quarter mile away. Usually they sing you to sleep,But tonight they are cooing and purring, drawing you in to their wonderland.Standing in the soft yellow phosphorescent street lights of the parking lot You realize that if you cross…
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Journey to the Deep Midwest
I recently traveled to Illinois to visit family and help my grandpa move from his assisted living facility back into his own house. That is a move not many people get to see, he had been through a lot since the time he left his house, which he left due to an injury. In and…