Playing Fair and Being Kind

I have been neglectful of this space but for good reason. I must remember that I can do anything, just not everything. I’ve been involved with United World College USA since about September. I volunteer for small duties, sometimes with the students. I enjoy being here. I also have  been helping Alternatives to Violence Project … More So Busy and Staying Involved

I’ve not written anything for quite a while. The reasons are my own. Things have been slow and in the past few days suddenly I am busy and involved again. The Alternatives to Violence Project work has been re energized, re vitalized, and my best attribute of organization has been re awakened. The projects in … More Danny

STEALING COWS AND SUCH Crawling up I-25 out of Santa Fe into the Glorieta Pass in the dark I’m holding Rocinante above sixty-five miles per hour. It’s about a nine hundred foot climb from where St. Michael’s enter the interstate to exit 299, Glorieta/Pecos. This time of night one can’t see much it’s so dark. … More Stealing Cows is Against the Law. Meh.

“Rick, let’s keep this thing simple.” Paraphrasing what Doctor Bob said to Bill Wilson, regarding how to use Alcoholics Anonymous, as he lay dying. Before he breathed his last his final words to Bill were, “Bill, let’s keep this thing simple.” Wise words and that is what I am doing right now. There is no … More Keeping It Simple

MOMENTS OF SORROW No Regrets The genius in death, Pours his heart, Pours his life, Onto the page, He communicates, He gives, He really, really gives all, We can feel genius, We can hear genius, Sweetness swirls in the depths of artfulness. To live this long, To come to a place filled to overflowing, Til … More For My Good Pal

Yesterday I was at Lowe’s in Santa Fe over on Zafarano. I’d gone in to find a wood stove poker and some vacuum cleaner bags. When I returned to the parking lot I was approached by a young man. He’d seen Rocinante with the Maine license plates. He explained that he was from Maine and … More Finally! Something to say…

I’ll make this quick. Today I meet with my AVP group of facilitators in Searsport, Maine. We are a new group and this is an effort to learn as much as we can as we enter a new phase of life and activism. We have succeeded in getting approval from the administration of the Maine … More Time to Hit the Road!

I have been multi-tasking (haven’t we all?); with September just around the corner and my needs to drive back to New Mexico to begin a great project I have been keeping balls in the air, so to speak. I’m initiating AVP (Alternatives to Violence Projects) here in Maine with the Maine State Prison system, as … More Feeling Excited

I’m watching the 2016 Olympic Women’s Marathon. I loved to run when I could. For me, there is nothing like the wind in my face and the feeling of power passing from my brain to the road through my body. Similar to a walking meditation; like a private ceremony with grand ritual and precious moments of … More Women’s Marathon, J&B Scotch Whiskey (But Not In That Particular Order)