StateoftheOzarks Weekly

Springtime Goblins

BEEN THINKING ABOUT …. SPRINGTIME GOBLINS. Old and worn highway winds next to the creek, a creek now obscured by green leaves and the falling dark. Frogs peep. The old town’s yellow street lamps cast globes of light in the creek side forest, illuminating clouds of flimsy Mayflies. The darkness is close, the water down…

StateoftheOzarks Weekly

Sunday Circus

BEEN THINKIN’ ABOUT… SUNDAY CIRCUS. I’m flipping through the magazine, looking at pictures of a traveling circus that was documented as it wound its way through the Upper American South sometime in the late 1960s. The photos are in color, and a little grainy. The performers magnificent, but a bit worn. The photojournalist had been…

StateoftheOzarks Weekly

A Cup of Peach Tea

BEEN THINKIN’ ABOUT… A CUP OF PEACH TEA. Last week’s floods and storms and my chest cold are now memory, history washing away. Rest has been a healing boon recently, rest being something I say little about. First, much of my schedule doesn’t allow such things. Second, if I do talk about resting, I am…