Roo: Letting a Horse Be a Horse
I was doing what I do when I lay down at night; mentally taking the late night walk-through, tossing hay...
Photo Challenge & Poem: Tour Guide
Peeping through a knothole in a pine fence, a wind-worn cheek pressed to splintered wood. Craning to watch a small...
Photo Challenge & Poem: Weathered
It’s winter; the sun comes up late and flat yellow, without warmth. A dusting of snow will stay on this...
Photo Challenge: Growth (of a Kind)
Euthanasia is never easy, but it can be less punishing. The secret is to focus on love instead of loss....
Photo Challenge & Poem: Sanity & Sanitary
Fingers in the worn glove curve to meet the shape of the wooden handle in my palm. Muck boots shuffle,...
EOY P&L: Life, Death, and Tears
EOY P&L... my last post of the year always has some math involved. I don't have the math skills to quantify the number...
Talking Animals at Midnight
Just in from the night feed. It's longjohn weather, my head bandaged with layers of hats and a muffler, thick boots,...
Severe Weather Warning
It was 78 degrees yesterday. It's late October so the sun is lower in the sky. There was a slight...
Photo Challenge: Satisfaction
The sun leaves just the sky behind, a watery arch over the prairie, and my feet cling to the...
Photo Challenge: Collage
How many times did I ask on a breath and a thought that you consider the moment? Consider joining me...
Caring for the Lead Mare
It was a perfect day. There were just enough clouds to soften the heat. The front gate didn't open once all day...
Photo Challenge: Evanescent
After the bay gelding's leg is doctored and wrapped, I walk the fence line looking at bent posts and hair...
Photo Challenge: The Road Taken.
Dreams are only transparent. On this routine day, let my eyes close in simple praise for ordinary moments of...
Photo Challenge: Against the Odds
Roused by a whisper from a lost distance, through cold glass windows in deserted basements, down wet alleys, past dumpsters...
Photo Challenge: Repurpose
All of us here, we used to be someone else. We each had a plan; it was meant to go...
Climate Change: Not Just Bad for Polar Bears.
Farm kids, like me, learn early that a healthy anxiety about the weather is the subtext of every task--from lambing season, to...
Photo Challenge: Resilient
This out-flat prairie, sun burned and wind-scraped, spends winter draped in the dull range of color called earth tones; upscale...
Remembrance: Someone's Always Dying
It's that weird week between the holidays. I never know what day it is so I mess up scheduling around Christmas,...
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