If we could read our minds, a picture I’d share with you would connect our love with images we would treasure, secret images we would frame with wisps of joy, would treat as kisses only we could tell have meaning, their focus, essential, dear.
Back on December 5th, 2025, I awoke to a minus-1 inch snow after the weatherman had called for a couple of inches the day before. It wasn’t enough to really cover anything; just a trace, kind of like one of those trace elements listed on the Periodic Table of Elements, of which of each, there... Read More
Contentment pervades those parts of me I can’t reach, can’t touch unless I ride deep breaths into my quiet heart or my relaxing mind when it slips into a neutral channel where pressure never can invade. There, I find peace, its wellspring.
Even though our winters might not be what they once were, especially the ones remembered by us “Boomers” of the 1950s and 60s, the fact that all of the leaves have fallen and been sucked up by the “great vacuums” of Danville’s department of public works by January is a sure indicator that Nature is... Read More
Not only a typeface, but also a massive gesture, daunting to ignore, revealing as a Christmas tree hung from buildings indicates significant steps toward its completion. Too, a daring kiss, a stolen embrace, new love.
Brokeback Mountain (9/10 Rating) Released December 9, 2005 (Limited) For rent/purchase on all major platforms. Genre: Contemporary Western, Period Drama, Tragic Romance R: Sexuality, nudity, language, and some violence 2h 14m Watching films from the early 2000s has reminded me how much American culture has changed in such a short period of time, but... Read More
Recently, I did some shopping at the Dollar Tree in Danville Plaza II on Mount Cross Road across from Walmart. While standing in the checkout line, I watched as the cashier rang up the purchases of several customers in front of me. These “Dollar Tree treasures” were of a Christmas Season nature; plastic branches and... Read More
Not long ago, I was lined up to be the guest soloist at Danville’s Trinity United Methodist Church. This was not something new to me, as I have enjoyed such brief Sunday “song sojourns” to other churches over the years. I have enjoyed the people I met; and they seem to have enjoyed me. The... Read More
Brilliant, diamond facets glisten, radiant as if finger fitted suns. Worn as rings, nuptial treasures, they showcase love, true, unbreakable, obvious, radiant as any bride’s smile, impervious as trust that has no hardness scale.
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (7/10 Rating) Released October 21, 2005 (Limited) For rent/purchase on all major platforms. Genre: Bumbling Detective, Dark Comedy, Satire, Whodunnit, Crime, Mystery R: Language, Violence, and Sexuality/Nudity 1h 43m One of my hopes with this column is to find genuine film gems I missed when they came out twenty years... Read More
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