Nai Tebe Kachka Kopne!
Forty years ago this week, I got kicked by a duck.
Old Man and the Sea
Life, in an Upright Position.
Click on JFK’s crutches for details…
Second-Best Haircut
“Any Haircut that ends with two ears is a good one”. – Grandpa Billy Paton
Acres of Shade
I think that I will never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer – Trees
Stand on Your Head
Life and respiration are complimentary. There is nothing living which does not breathe nor anything breathing which does not live. – William Harvey, 1653
Floor Sweepings
“The chances of each of us coming into existence are
infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die someday, we
should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.”
– Richard Dawkins
Texas – Life Imitating Art
When I got old enough to take the train alone
I rode that Texas Eagle down to San Antone.
Texas Eagle – Steve Earle
The Road Less Traveled – New England
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
– Robert Frost
Meriwether and Clark – Montana
“Kid Russell, I got a job for you.
You’re in charge of sunsets up in old Montana,
‘Cause I can’t paint them quite as good as you.
– Ian Tyson – The Gift
Tron Doras
To know where you come from is to know where you are going.
– Russell Paton