I am a killer! “Wow; he’s admitting that in writing,” you ponder to yourself. “A killer? Really?” Yep, that’s me, Killer Dick, The Big Bad….Person!” “Who do you kill?” you ask. “Aha,” I reply, “You’ve been watching too much CSI, NCIS, Dateline Discovery ID, and all those other gory programs. Therefore, you believe me to [...]
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Confession of a killer
Posted in Crime, Death, Flowers, Gardening, Murder and murderers, Opinions on December 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Weird, wacky, and wonderful
Posted in Altruisim, America, America militia, Gardening, non compos mentis, Opinions, Ruralists on October 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The great Irish dramatist and Nobel laureate, George Bernard Shaw, once stated, “An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.” Although he died in 1950, one must admit that Shaw was rather prophetic in his statement for who can possibly deny that America in the 21st Century is approximately ninety-nine percent insane and [...]
Dying isn’t the problem
Posted in Death, Family, Gardening, Giving thanks, Growing old, Human behavior, Laziness, Life, Love, Opinions, People, Personal, Senior citizen, Stupidity, writing on October 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There are several problems with aging aside from the most obvious. You don’t know what the most obvious is? No, the most obvious is not death, believe it or not. Hell, we’re all going to die. That’s one of those things that you don’t even consider in the problem category…just a fact of life. The [...]
New vs. Olde
Posted in Beauty, Gardening, Giving thanks, Growing season, Human behavior, Life, Love, Opinions, People, Personal, Senior citizen, Stupidity, Vegetables, Weather on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
New England is a remarkable place. Of course, I say that based on extremely limited travel experience. Never having been to “old” England, I guess I don’t really have a basis for comparison. I do know one thing: In New England, there is a community called Islington. It is a part of a Town called [...]
The Gardener
Posted in Altruisim, America, Beauty, Flowers, Gardening, Giving thanks, Human behavior, Love, Opinions, People, Personal, Trust, Values, Vegetables on September 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
She came from out of the west…the gardener. She came East to take care of an old man; no reason; just came East…the gardener “Your backyard is a mess,” she told him, but he didn’t seem to mind, even when she told him that she was…the gardener. She was right, of course. The backyard hadn’t [...]
A very short story
Posted in Gardening, Personal on August 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The past few days have been just about perfect. The sun has been hot, but the air has been cool and dry. It’s not like the heat wave we had to bear in New England a week or so ago. Thinking about the rest of the country, I’d have to say we’re pretty fortunate that [...]
The sun as God
Posted in Gardening on June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Stay with me on this one: There are over 3,000 galaxies in the known universe. Ours is but one tiny little planet in one tiny little galaxy. What we know about the other planets in our own galaxy is somewhat subject to question. Oh, sure, we’ve sent out probes and we’ve landed men on the [...]
How sweet the sight
Posted in Gardening, Life, Opinions, Personal on April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound; That saved a wretch like me.’ I think I’d like to change that opening stanza to, “how sweet the sight,” for I believe that is precisely what is happening as Spring begins to dawn in New England. The winter has been rough – here in the Boston area we [...]
Death and the Garden II
Posted in Gardening, Nostalgia, Opinions on September 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
(This is something of a follow-up piece to “Death and the Garden.” Sometimes, as I’m certain you know, thoughts occur to you later that you feel deserved to be part of the original story. So it is here) In 75 years of life, I had never planted nor tended a garden. It seems that we [...]
