Category Archives: ‘Tis a Puzzlement

A Winter Canvas

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

Humptulips County is frost-bound. No form-stealing blankets of snow for us: just intricate rime overlying every living or inert thing, as if each were a piece of furniture adorned with lace doilies or antimacassars. The temperature is near freezing; the sky is cloudless, open … Continue reading →

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Hello World!

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Gavin Stevens

I just returned home from signing the final papers related to my retirement from a 43 year legal career. The event itself was nothing to speak of – just me, my assistant, and an office manager sitting around a desk that had been mine in an … Continue reading →

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The Elasticity of Time

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Gavin Stevens

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility … Continue reading →

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Of Frost and Fog and Giants

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Gavin Stevens

The half-stripped trees struck by a wind together, bending all, the leaves flutter drily and refuse to let go or driven like hail stream bitterly out to one side and fall where the salvias, hard carmine, – like no leaf … Continue reading →

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The Mysteries of Spectator Sports

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Gavin Stevens

When I arrived at my office building this morning, the next block South was covered by numerous police cars surrounding a large, centrally located big blue van parked perpendicular to the direction of normal traffic flow. Police were out in … Continue reading →

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Curiosity

Posted on August 6, 2012 by C. (Gaius) Charles

I was not yet born when “one giant leap for mankind” catapulted the moon and NASA into the fervor of the American consciousness. Until last night, the biggest space-related event from NASA was the retirement of the space shuttles and … Continue reading →

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The Promises of a Blue Moon

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Gavin Stevens

Just once… in a very blue moon And I feel one comin’ on soon Nanci Griffith, Just Once in a Very Blue Moon This August is a month of the blue moon – a month which will have two full … Continue reading →

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Pre-Dawn Contemplations of Ineffable Subjects

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Gavin Stevens

It’s early morning here in my office in Humptulips County, and while the building is operational after a massive overnight internal power outage, the office systems are down and useless. I suspect that they will be up and running before … Continue reading →

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A Sense of Loss

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Gavin Stevens

This has been a bad week from the standpoint of losing friends. Two friends of roughly similar age have died from heart related illnesses, one from my high school years and one whom I met as a fully grown adult. … Continue reading →

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My Morning Coffee Experience

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Gavin Stevens

I, like most of us, am a creature of habit and when those habits are disturbed I find myself unsettled. The latest example of this is an unprecedented interruption in that most holy of personal activities – securing my morning … Continue reading →

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