Hey, Now! Look Here! Back to a Blog a Week!
So, yesterday, Kellie, Sarah, and I took a hike to a place that was new for Sarah. However, Kellie and I have visited several times. It's...
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Michael Thomas Thoughts on Poetry, Short Stories, Essays, and Ramblings-It's All Here in...
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Jan 143 min read
The Naming Ritual: What Shall We Call Our Book?
Well, gentle readers and friends, I have been working on gathering together the nature poems that we have worked on for the past couple...
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Dec 21, 20235 min read
Back to the Real Reasons: Read This! Share This!
A few days ago as I uploaded pictures for the Santa Fe travelogue, I got a warning from Wix.com, my blog management site. I had only a...
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Dec 14, 20233 min read
Meow wolf Museum: An Amazing Nearly Inexplicable Experience
Kellie and I had purchased our tickets to the Meow wolf on Sunday or Saturday, so we knew what we would be doing Monday afternoon,...
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Dec 12, 20233 min read
Cerillos Hills State Park: Me Without My Phone
Kellie and I were awake early as usual and were ready to go hiking by the time the sun was up, so we jumped in the trusty KIA and headed...
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Dec 10, 20234 min read
Red Rocks: A Place with a Lot of Red Rocks
It is still Sunday morning. Kellie and I left the Jemez Springs historic site around 11:00. The rain has stopped, and the skies are...
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Dec 6, 20234 min read
Snowy Sunday Morning
Well, our second full day in Santa Fe, we had plans to go into the mountains and hike to the Jemez Springs waterfall and other places....
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Dec 3, 20232 min read
Saturday Afternoon in Santa Fe
When Kellie and I came out of the International Folk art museum filled with toys and paper mache, the rain had stopped and a beautiful...
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Nov 26, 20234 min read
Hitting the Santa Fe Trail: Travelogue, Still on Saturday
Well, Kellie reminded me that I had probably better not promise how much of a day I will fit into the blog in the title, so I am still on...
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Nov 24, 20235 min read
Back on the Blog and the Road Again: A Travelogue and Other Amusing Info
Yes, my faithful readers, friends, family, and other, I noted that it has been two months and one day since I have posted a blog. I have...
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Sep 23, 20231 min read
An Autumnal Portent: A New (Short) Poem and A Few Pictures of Fall Flowers
Well, folks, here it is with only a few days left in September and many different flowers in our yard have decided to bloom once again....
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Aug 27, 202311 min read
The Wandering Goat: A Challenge from AI to Create a Fable
So, the other day, I am fiddling around with OpenAI trying to figure out how I am going to cope with and/or use artificial intelligence's...
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Aug 12, 20232 min read
Friend: A New Poem! No Revisions Today!
Comments below the poem and pictures. ENJOY! Friend, (Inspired by a P. Shelley fragment) Sit down here and clear your mind Of all its...
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Aug 6, 20232 min read
A Couple of Revisions, Some Sketches, and a Sunrise
Well, I have to be honest. Apparently, my regular readers are not too keen on reading revised poems. Generally, each blog post gets...
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Aug 1, 20232 min read
Two More Revisions: This May Go Faster Than You Think
I had no idea what the flower in the picture above was without looking it up on that wonderful website: https://identify.plantnet.org/....
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Jul 31, 20232 min read
Revisions, Revisions, Revisions: Or Are There Only Two?
As all my faithful readers know, I have pronounced it the Season of Revision. That's right! No new stuff until all of the old stuff is...
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Jul 26, 20233 min read
The Spider's Web: Showing What Revisions Can Make Me Do
Comments after the poem! Enjoy! The Spider’s Web I saw a spider spin her web From the window in my room. I was muted in the dark. She was...
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Jul 23, 20232 min read
A New Nature Poem (?) And Some Random Pretty Pictures of Nature
Comments after another picture and the poem. Enjoy! Sing Along Like All the Other Birds That a dove taking to wing Is a most poetic thing...
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Jul 12, 20233 min read
Moon Diver: Slight Return (a lyric poem) And the Answer to a Reader's Question in Picture
Comments after poem! Enjoy! The Moon Diver (Slight Return) Beware the doldrums of July, When whippoorwill and firefly May make you feel...
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Jul 10, 20232 min read
Surviving July: A Short Lyric Poem with Some Pictures
Going back to the old way, the comments are after the poem--and so are a couple pictures of some flowers. Surviving July A trembling ball...
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