Reunion

Photo by Bill Keller by Bill Keller At the end of a long winter I watch snow slip from a tree, sluggish at first as if stiff  from inactivity but then  plummeting, eager to  reconnect,…

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Traveler

by Kevin T McEneaney While packing for my final vacation, it occurred to me that I need not pack anything at all except humor to deal with everlasting darkness where…

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Bees in Peril

by Kevin T McEneaney Welcome to the microscopic venue! Bumblebees remain in massive decline. Maine, New Hampshire, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont no longer have bumblebees……

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Plants weeping all around the world

by Kevin T McEneaney Plants and flowers do not possess a mouth, yet they complain and cry with snaping noise at a frequency beyond our hearing, resembling the popping of…

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1974

Lucy in museum by Kevin T McEneaney “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was played repeatedly by archeologists when they discovered old hominid bones going back 3.18 million years; while…

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I see you; do you see me?

by Kevin T McEneaney Humans have difficulties with eyesight, which are defective if one compares them to birds, fish, or even tiny insects. These many creatures have better eyesight. All…

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Mid-March news

crocus by Kevin T McEneaney A dusting of snow to remind us all that bountiful Spring has not yet arrived as tall trees skyward splay sleeves of white lace, chipmunks…

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Snowflakes in Wind

by Kevin T McEneaney Since there are ten quintillion molecules of water in a typical snowflake, they are unwilling to be alike as you or I, yet they appear to…

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Obverse Paën Obit

white bat flower by Kevin T McEneaney In yam family, but not a yammer; obviously, an obviator. A flower, not an oboe relative, which is to say florid conical shape:…

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Quandary

by Kevin T McEneaney Today, on Valentine’s Day, young children draw hearts, hoping to love one another in the face of massive gun violence, now the leading cause of death…

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