Steamboat Minnehaha, 09/2010

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Les

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Fall Garden, Abadania, Brazil, 2010

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Les

My wife and I were in Brazil, staying in the small town of Abadania for a couple of weeks. Our apartment faced onto a beautiful garden and walkway. The window in the front room framed a flowering tree across the narrow yard.

I often sat looking out the open window, enjoying the breeze, and watching the shifting light and shadows. It was a form of meditation.  Whenever I struggled with my writing I’d look out the window at the tree. The image of the open window and the tree beyond reminded me that I needed to open myself and take the time to allow the beauty of the moment wash over me.

Thankfully it wasn’t a subtle message: subtlety is often lost on me.

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Song of the Cicadas

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Les

Chatfield, Minnesota, 08/20/1982

It’s about an hour before sunset, on a hot and humid August evening. An orange sun slowly descends towards the pale smoke blue hills on the west side of the valley.  The abandoned rope swing hangs limply in the heavy evening air.

Cicadas are finishing their late afternoon songs. Like a twice baked Lazarus they have emerged from two tombs: from their 17 year sleep in the earth and then again from their pupa shells.

Up in the trees, they look down with large dark eyes and signal that summer is rapidly coming to an end.  It is a melancholy sound.

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