Date: April 30, 2014
Parkinson's Disease Rants & Ramblings Archive
The Heart’s Embrace
Leaves are sprouting bountifully on the black walnut trees as the limbs are aglow with green moss nourished by the days of rain. Green is the predominant color of spring tinted ever so gently with sprigs of white Dogwood peeking beneath the canopy. Bearing the evidence of renewed life, the forest and fields burst forth […]
Continue reading The Heart’s EmbraceParkinson's Disease Rants & Ramblings Archive
The Bucket
A chilling rain invades the new day. The steady breeze delivers the humid intruder and reminds us that the season of steady warmth has not yet descended. We could easily go to the place that laments what was or yearns to experience what we wish to come. Neither lamentations nor yearnings serve this day well. […]
Continue reading The BucketParkinson's Disease Rants & Ramblings Archive
Memory
The deck was filled with chatter and laughter as stories of years past were bantered in the collective memory. Five of the original fifteen first cousins (from my father’s side of the family), direct descendants of eight out of ten twentieth century siblings were gathered for the first communal meal in almost forty years. As […]
Continue reading MemoryParkinson's Disease Rants & Ramblings Archive
The Incubator
Patiently she sits over her clutch of eggs anticipating the moment of new life emerging from the treasured orbs she and her flock mates have contributed. Warmth from her body heat serves as the perfect incubator that ignites the embryonic genesis of new life that has begun within the shell. Contained therein are all the […]
Continue reading The IncubatorParkinson's Disease Rants & Ramblings Archive
The Soil
Slowly, the bare limbs protruding from the forested hills give way to new growth of green leaves. Various species of birds, some brightly colored and others less differentiated, flock to the feeder and fields collecting seeds and worms in preparation for what will soon be their nesting time. Nature is experiencing her annual revival as […]
Continue reading The SoilParkinson's Disease Rants & Ramblings Archive
The Lens
As the dawn appears the mist rises from the surface of the pond. The mist is like the memory of what was. The pond water retained its heat much better than the chilled air that blew in overnight. Hanging onto its remnant of warmth in air that yesterday was warmer the water is forced to […]
Continue reading The LensParkinson's Disease Rants & Ramblings Archive
The Greatest
She was fourteen when her daddy died. The second to the oldest, she was plunged into an even harsher world than she had ever imagined. There were five sisters younger than she, the youngest still in diapers. The old tobacco farm her parents had bought just a few years before required attention to plant bed […]
Continue reading The GreatestParkinson's Disease Rants & Ramblings Archive
Provider
A new day dawns with a chill embracing the freshly blooming plants and fruit trees on the farm. From the window the fields look warm and inviting. Just a step outside brings forth a different reality of winter’s futile last grasp on a shifting planet. Whether warm or chilled, nature moves on in her never […]
Continue reading ProviderParkinson's Disease Rants & Ramblings Archive
Spring
The sun is bright and the temperature is rising. Flowers are growing and the fruit trees are blooming. Grass is getting greener and the chickens are feasting and producing eggs like never before. Springtime is claiming its right after a bone chilling winter. Forecasters predict yet another visit of winds and rain from the climes […]
Continue reading SpringParkinson's Disease Rants & Ramblings Archive
The Basket
A bright orange orb rises majestically over the tree tops in the east. Light bursts forth over the landscape bringing with it the joyful welcome from chirping birds and an assertive rooster. Gone is the shadow of the night and the gloomy mist that harbors the croaking of frogs in the pond. The brightness of […]
Continue reading The Basket