November 22, 1963

I was studying in my room at 714 E University Ave in Ann Arbor waiting for my parents to arrive for the Michigan - Ohio State football game the next day. I had no TV and did not pay attention to news at all. My Engineering classes gave me all I wanted. My parents brought the news with them. They were all football and partying and I did not really connect with any of the angst surrounding that event. The only thing that shocked me was one of my parent's friends said that he was glad Kennedy was dead because his brother Teddy was presiding over the senate that day. I could not understand that! But that mentality certainly fits into our political climate today. I want no part of any of that, then or now. I am tired of it.

View From Deer Creek Bridge In December

Posted on Deer Creek Bridge on Roberts Pass Trail

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
And I wake in the night at the least sound
In fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be
I go lie down where the wood drake
Rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds
I come into the peace of wild things
Who do not tax their lives with fore thought
Of grief. I come into the presence of still waters
And I feel above me the day blind stars
Waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Berry

note: My brother's great friend, Yance, found this, copied it and replaced it on the bridge protected by some plastic. It is still readable a month later.

Kitchen Table

November Moon

The Largest Ginko Tree in London

This tree lost all its leaves after the early morning snow storm today. I did not know we had a ginko tree this large in our town.