I saw the the western ridge glowing as if washed in waves of orange and purple fire. A better start to the day! It has been a while… hoping today is a good day for all of us.
Tarmac Meditations #159: “Put me in, Coach. I’m ready to play.”
In the last weeks I shot three events, two of them back to back. First time in two years that I have been healthy enough to get out of the door and do this thing I love to do. Maybe things are turning around.
Tarmac Meditations #158: Walking Downtown Streets With a Camera
He didn’t mind the camera and when I left he said, “Thank you for inquiring” after his well being. He said, “Not every one does that,” and he appreciated being treated like a person despite his circumstances.
Tarmac Meditations #157: Revisiting Old Blue Eyes
I no longer wonder what happened to my childhood’s lonesome highway, to the bloodied heroes and the feverishly imagined manhood where the bars are still open at a quarter to three and morning is a distant fire streaked across the sky. Where the neon in the darkness offers a drifting promise …
Tarmac Meditations #156: Where the White Wind Blows
Simply put, whether metaphorical or literal, when it feels like the end of things maybe the best thing to be done is to sit down and wait for what comes next. In every battle, you’re required to find your way from where you are to where you want and need to be. Sometimes that works out. Sometimes not.
Tarmac Meditations #155: In Search of Lost Time (Apologies to Marcel Proust)
Not so fast, Michael. It is going to take a long while to work through what is in front of me. It is possible and indeed likely that I will one day in the distant future go out for a double-digit run and not wind up in an ER somewhere. I am looking forward to that.
Tarmac Meditations #154: Memories I didn’t know I had
Back when trail running was some thing I could do, I would sometimes go back to the trail with my camera to see what I may have not seen. I’m thinking’ I maybe ought to do that again, at least until the running returns.
Veterans Day 2014 – Part Two
“You serve?” he asked. “Nope, I got a different war on my mind.” The old man took a long look at Charlie. “I reckon you do, young man. I reckon you do.”
Tarmac Meditations #153: Home is a Feeling in Your Heart
Empty boat waiting
Veterans Day 2014 – Part One
All she had ever wanted was to go home, to have a cup of tea and a piece of toast with strawberry jam in a white kitchen at the table with a yellow cloth and Snoopy dishtowels on the backs of the chairs. She wanted to pull out her report card, show her Mom the three A’s and a B and the note that she had made the cheerleading squad, could she please get it signed and returned. On this morning she knew that it had never happened that way, never, not once.
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