A Conversation on the Porch Hello there, friend. Pull up a chair and make yourself comfortable. Pour a cup of coffee and let us talk about something very dear to my heart. It is something that sits deep in the bones of every person lucky enough to call this country home. We have a vast […]
The Quiet Woods at Dawn The morning air always smells a little sweeter when you are standing under the shade of an old pine tree. The wind carries a chill from the river, rustling through the leaves and whispering stories that are older than any of us. It reminds you that the earth is alive […]
I sit by the window these days, watching the neighborhood kids ride bicycles down the slope of our street. They do not know why the road dips past the oak tree, or why it curves around the creek bed at the bottom. They only know it makes for a fast ride. I smile as they […]
The Timeless Call of the Sands I sit on my back porch every evening just as the sun begins to dip below the horizon. The sky out here does not just turn dark. It catches fire. It bleeds orange, purple, and a deep, dusty rose. I have spent my entire life walking this country, watching […]
The Changing American Landscape I remember a time when the edge of my hometown was just a dusty dirt road fading into a quiet line of ancient oak trees. Back in those days, you could walk for an hour and not see another soul, just the deer grazing in the twilight and the fireflies rising […]
The Ancient Call of the Open Dirt The landscape of the American southwest is an ancient and unchanging reality. It is a vast expanse of painted dirt, deep canyons, and jagged cliffs. For centuries, it was a place that people simply tried to bypass on their long journey to the golden coast of California. The […]
The Call of the Last Frontier I have lived in this great country my entire life. Over the decades, I have been blessed to see the sun rise over the Atlantic and set over the Pacific. I have walked through the golden wheat fields of the Midwest and hiked the ancient, rolling Appalachian trails. There […]
The Horizon That Stretches Forever The morning sun does not just rise here. It spills across the land like a bucket of golden paint, waking up the tallgrass and casting long shadows over the earth. You can see weather coming from fifty miles away. I have spent my entire life standing on this soil, watching […]
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