Root Cause "The effect lightning strikes have on trees varies. Sometimes the tree splinters or shatters upon impact. Some trees are scarred by a strip of blown-away bark. Others seemingly have no damage at all, and then die a few weeks or months later, probably because the unseen damage was in the root zone. A tree struck by lightning has been severely stressed."

1Somewhere only we know » An abandoned property and wounds difficult to heal draw lovers, friends, and family together and threaten to tear them apart. Rated T for swearing and S for sexy, secrets, and sweet. Bonus: I'm using lyrics from songs as sort of an Easter Egg hunt too.

1Lake Superior Agate I often use poetry to help me come to terms with my own emotions and with ideas or decisions that have too many elements. This is one of those that helped me hone an overwhelming moment into a clear direction. If you read it, I hope you get that same feeling and sense of the complicated becoming simple. Agate is a semiprecious stone created through weathering.

Things i think i have to do Hanging by threads...

1 thoughts while hanging a brush party painting of a tree? fish? Rated T but really for those 21 and older for misuse of alcohol. ;)

1 Sunday on the river I wish I could give you Sunday on the river after the first warm spell, a good thirty degree change, held for a week- a week of work, working its changes on people's faces, and now relief. I wish I could give you that freeing of not having to wear a heavy coat, of knowing nothing is going wrong without you on the job because the whole damn thing is closed. I wish I could give y

the chemistry, the physics, the code Perhaps this physical world is the equation to the Perpetual Machine? i've begun to think of myself as a subroutine, nested in a subroutine, nested to infinity… an object orientated to act on the other objects in my near vicinity –if then else—the code is deceptively simple- negative positive pulses—like water is to wave is to tsunami- the magnitude is gross

To be straight That long yellow line on the spine of the highway

2 Blasphemy What is more blasphemous? To say a word? To print a picture? If it offends, I can close my eyes- I can turn my head- I can say other words. What is more blasphemous? To say a word? To print a picture? Or to take a life? A life originated by God. And then claim it to be God's Will. To subsumed God, that He didn't really mean it when He repeated Himself in multiple religions t

1Ok so I found out this guy Sort of a feminist piece, but really just observations that everyone should think about from time to time and wrestle with.