Micheal Wade reminds us that not everything that distracts us is bad.
Cleaning through a box of sentimental and family items. Came across an personally autographed (to my Mom and me) photo from William Grant Still and a series of letters between my Great Grandmother Rhone and her nephew, Ralph Ellison.

Those saddled on high horses often see the field more clearly than others.
Just in case you were wondering what I was like in high school.

I’ve chosen my word for 2022.

My wife has adopted an excellent new year’s resolution and I may do the same.
Nothing embodies the feeling of possibly for me like a new paper planner.
We begin again…

Choose your word for 2022.
The clouds never expect it
when it rains
But the sea changes colours
But the sea does not change
So with the slow graceful flow of age
I went forth with an age old
desire to please
On the edge of seventeen