Living Rootless

In my Birmingham sphere, I heard these sounds : Wail of the fire engine and EMT truck from the next corner Ringing of the bell from the Orth...

 Original post here .  Saturday, November 12, 2011 Sighnaghi: City of Love 'n Crunch "Oh, whoo...

  Wild honey nectar candle. Source: DW Home Mmmmmm, the sensual joy of fragrance. To borrow from a past post, there are so many aromatic cha...

This experience from 2011 in Caucasus Georgia still makes me laugh.  Dmanisi: A Pig, A Cow, and a Dead Woman's Nightgown Vodka...

    Leaf in light. UTEP campus, El Paso, Texas. March 2017.   A morning ritual sends a small joy to my soul. I open the wide slats of my whi...

  Milkweed seed pod, Missouri. October 2010.   I birthed this blog on September 28, 2010. In September 2011: I was in Tsalaskuri, Caucasus ...

Tomato and sweet onion sandwich. August 2021.   Is there not something joyful about a simple tomato and onion sandwich?  Especially if the t...

  Captain Kirk and a cadre of his expendable redshirts. Source:   In Star Trek fandom lore, a "redshirt" is an expendable characte...

Carlos Flores, "Refogios," exhibited at the Chamizal, El Paso, Texas. October 2016.   I'm visiting Missouri for a time. My hos...

  Parrots, Kansas City Zoo, Missouri. September 2018.   In Island , by Aldous Huxley, mynahs sound a chorus throughout the land. The birds...

  Meaher State Park Campground, Alabama. View from site 7. July 2021.  July 2021 A pink rosé sunrise clung to the cottony clouds when I aro...

  Wishing tree at Orange Street Pier. Fairhope, Alabama. July 2021. As part of my due diligence in scoping out my next tourist-in-residency,...

    Masks preferred sign, Ben May Library. Mobile, Alabama. July 2021. When I set my Maps to Birmingham back in summer 2020, I set it for a...

  Rain over the Sacramento Mountains. Alamogordo, New Mexico. July 2013.    July 2021 What I wrote to friend Travis ( here and here ):   Wh...

  Empty home, full words. Jefferson City, Missouri. July 2021.   They don't live here anymore, whomever they are, were.  But one of them...

En route from Birmingham to Missouri, I stopped at a motel near Bells, Tennessee, for the night. Highway 20.     No-star motel, Highway 20, ...