Category Archives: Ponderings on the Meaning of Things

A Birthday Party

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Eliot Mentor

Ninety years gone by. Not as many as 95 or 100, but still a long time. An occasion for reflection and contemplation, a moment that is appropriate for a scan of the past and the present and also a look … Continue reading →

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Musings From This Side of Morning’s Silhouette

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

The pre-dawn hour has arrived in Humptulips County, and the sky is just beginning to brighten. The sun is still concealed behind the eastern mountains, but just enough sunlight is leaking over their tops to provide a red, rose and … Continue reading →

The Ways of Things Mechanical and Electrical

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

I am sitting in a car dealership while my car is being serviced and while they decide how much more they can find to charge me for before they reach my flash point. I don’t know what it is about car … Continue reading →

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A Spring Thunderstorm

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

We’ve had a week of stormy weather at the Farm, a crazy quilt of weather that’s swung from gentle rain to soaking rain to cloudiest to hail, and back around the horn again. And again. Last evening, this craziness culminated in a thunderstorm. Not just any thunderstorm, … Continue reading →

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An April Dawn

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

The dawn lies heavily upon the Farm under a sky of clotted cream, the not-quite-day swaddled in a weighty silence broken only by the repeated call of an unknown bird. Its call is loud, insistent, forceful – an unyielding demand for a brighter day than this dawn promises. This dawn … Continue reading →

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Replacements

Posted on March 28, 2013 by C. (Gaius) Charles

At a little after 4:30 today, the man I was hired to replace walked out the door for the last time in his pre-retirement life. While he is not officially retired until April 1st, today was his last official day … Continue reading →

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The Possibilities of Spring

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

It isn’t officially Spring on the calendar until next week, but today’s Weather God could care less what the calendar says – for it is surely spring today in Humptulips County. The sun is going in and out of a light cloud … Continue reading →

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Winter’s Solitude

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

Solitude reigns in late winter in Humptulips County. When Helen and I walk, we hear the lesser sounds more easily since they aren’t overwhelmed by the raucousness of spring and summer. Where we are on our morning walk, for example, can easily be determined by the sound … Continue reading →

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Flame and Ash

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

Yesterday, I received a Facebook post from a former high school classmate asking me if I could find someone I barely remember to invite them to our upcoming 50th reunion. The posting was in response to my sharing of the lyrics to … Continue reading →

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A Tree of Jays

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

No brigadier throughout the year So civic as the jay. A neighbor and a warrior too, With shrill felicity Pursuing winds that censure us A February day, The brother of the universe Was never blown away. The snow and he … Continue reading →