Not just for the birds
Anyone who hunts birds knows heartbreak, if only because most of us have been through dogs. The best of them last a quarter of our lives at the most. So we watch them come and go. And then there are the birds. And the land. Innocence. You know what that's like. I've been trying to …
Over the years, I or Leslie would joke, one of us, usually me, "What is life?" The question, for me, which I shared at the time, years ago, with my wife, came from a recalcitrant student of mine. "Recalcitrant student" is basically the same, in my short career as a teacher, as saying that black …
"God gave Noah the rainbow sign,No more water, but the fire next time." --A.P. Carter, "God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign" This summer, chukar country was on fire. All of the places, and more, that we hunt have been burned. North, south, east, and west of us. Like most chukar hunters, I wondered about the …
[I just found this in my "Drafts" folder. It's from two years ago when we were still looking for a place back in chukar country to move to. I thought I'd posted it but for some reason didn't, probably related to a family emergency that, along with the person it centered on, passed about a …
When it comes, the Landscape listens --Shadows -- hold their breath ----Emily Dickinson Like Men and Women Shadows walk --Upon the Hills Today ----Emily Dickinson Every picture has its shadowsAnd it has some source of lightBlindness, blindness and sight--Joni Mitchell Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the …