At times, I find myself doubting a thought or perspective that pops up like a weed in the midst of what I consider the inner garden of my mind. Usually, though, if I am patient enough, multiple occurrences arise that help me unify my thoughts. Early last week, I had begun to sense a difference … [Read more…]
Before the flush of June’s greening, I grabbed some time to walk up the county road that cuts through the native grassland. As I walked, I framed a view without picking a mat color, wood molding, or type of glass. Instead, I used barbed wire and a weathered fence crosspiece to define my camera’s view … [Read more…]
Early June brings the storms and their seasonal rain to central and eastern Montana. The storms also deliver something else…drama.
And in drama, lies a story, complete with a setting and a plot…
Today is the day before Easter. It is a time that commercially we are told to commemorate by brightly colored eggs and chocolate bunnies. A time to gather. A time to renew. A time to celebrate tomorrow. But today, yet again, in what feels like a three-year long winter, the wind blows straight out of … [Read more…]
We believe that in the tangle of our daily demands, we find the possible in the impossible. We understand that in the crush of surviving, we thrive most when we understand and express our unique perspective and voice. We respect the creative possibilities in each of us. We support what each of us creates and … [Read more…]
Back in what feels like another lifetime, nearly three years ago, I had the opportunity to spend a day with a roomful of rawhide braiders – and the one person who arrived in the class to a chorus of “Who let in the Saddlemaker?” Today, when I opened my social media page, the first post … [Read more…]
No, your calendar doesn’t have a misprint. In this first month of the new decade, the full moon isn’t until January 24, but perhaps that is where the collision started. Here’s what happens to me – things collide. They don’t just sort of quietly merge together; they slide with a bang, images tangling with words. … [Read more…]
The press of work and expectations of what was planned seem to elbow each other sharply about now, pushing, crowding, and yelling for a better place in line in an already packed mind. In short, the “should’ves, would’ves, and could’ves” crowd the balance of summer around the end of July. We may begin to feel … [Read more…]
It is interesting how ties from the distant past follow us. Recently, I found a packet of letters from my great-grandfather to his father discussing his preparations to leave Kentucky ahead of the impending Civil War. The planning included selling off house goods, purchasing supplies, and packing the wagons for the trek west. Over 150 … [Read more…]
For me that day, spent fishing with my dad, far from the drone of graduate seminars and on the edge of what was once an active volcano, I connected a horse’s whitened bones with a potential fiber project. The insight was fed by an artist whom I never met outside of a book. Growing up … [Read more…]
