Short and Sweet

Happy Sunday (or whenever you’re reading this) Friends. This week’s post needs to be a short one. Not because I’m under any kind of Time constraint, though. It’s just that there’s a beautiful day outside my window and I need to step away from the world for a while and, go out into it. So …

Pruning

Pruning: The practice entails the targeted removal of diseased, damaged, dead, non-productive, structurally unsound, or otherwise unwanted plant material from crop and landscape plants. There are two primary times of the year where I turn an introspective eye on my life. I acknowledge that I should probably do this more often than twice a year, but those two times are the turn of …

Putting It Out There

“Today is going to be a good day.” I said this out loud the other day. I was in my car, so I was still alone, but I felt a little silly saying it out loud just the same. Why silly, you may ask? I’m still trying to unpack that, but I think that it’s …

Making Stuff Up

Happy Sunday (or whenever you’re reading this), Everyone. Today I’d like to look a little bit deeper into a question that I’d encountered during the week. Do you make words up? Now I know some of you out there are thinking, “But Ken. You’re a writer. You make things up all the time.” This is …

The Many Faces of May (1st)

Today is the First of May. This means different things to different people. For some, May 1st is the beginning of Spring. For others, It holds a much deeper meaning in the form of Beltane. Still others, don’t see it as anything other than an ordinary day. This isn’t to put one viewpoint over another, …