Black Bears

Black Bears

  When I grew up in the 40s’ and 50s’ I listened every Saturday morning to the Big John and Sparky show. The theme song (The Teddy Bear’s Picnic, see below) blasted from my radio as I lay in bed and waited for the current week’s show to start....
Thoughts

Thoughts

 You can’t see the forest for the trees.The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.The whole is other than the sum of its parts. Tiered conifer boughs rise like terraces while the trunks vanish into shadow beneath them. Individual trees lose their distinctness...
The Godless Communist Onslaught

The Godless Communist Onslaught

 What has happened to our country? Are the godless communists are taking over?Are the Haitian immigrants eating our dogs and cats? Are our elections rigged? Are soccer teams from shithole countries defiling our beloved football stadiums?(NOTE: Ten African countries...
Fog

Fog

  Poets, authors and painters love me. I don’t always agree with their work but all attention is good attention as some politician said. Take Sandburg. “The fog comes on little cat feet.” I don’t like cats but the sentence is charming. People like it and it...