Is sex a violence, frenzy, abandon, dominance, victory, defeat, exhaustion, a buck well spent? Yes, because it is being alive. Being held is another matter, more related to dying then procreating; both of which we must do. If I bid you adieu, I gone and you not, what do you then hold? I have let [...]

A dog barks from the other side of the second hole, the pond just across from the fifth hole. My dog barks back. And they converse for awhile, we shush them. Let’s not upset the neighbors. I do my walk around the development, coming around the other side of the second hole. I recognize the [...]

A tiny village in the northern area of Pakistan called Baltistan. It is day’s walk to the nearest village, five days walk to the end of the road and the barest possibility of a doctor. Tibetan Buddhism , over centuries, has become Islam.
She wears a scarf, not just as we walk by, but all day [...]

Several nights ago I dreamed about George, and now I can’t remember what it was I dreamed. I lost the memory almost as soon as I woke. But just having him appear in my dream – a direct connection to the previous essay I’m sure – made me feel closer to him.
Sunset and sunrise [...]

Andy hung his hat this way; it was the enduring statement of his masculinity. “I’ll wear my hat any damn way I like it, and I’ll hang my hat anywhere and anyhow I like it.” Nam can do that to its survivors. He loves to kill and eat elk, and shares his stew widely; it [...]

A summer storm coming soon. While the hay is growing rain is so totally welcome. While we are cutting and baling the hay, how difficult and damaging. If the hay is just down, the nutrients will be leached, the bales will not be much better than straw. If already baled the bales will have to [...]

The commerce of the post-industrial age may be characterized as having high velocities primarily due to high velocities achieved in communications, computers, and transport. Transactions can be, and are made very quickly today; or in other words, the velocity of transactions is very large, and that’s how the Danish Blue gets to Carbondale cheaply and [...]