entries by topic: kansas
| 2017/9/23 | |
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| 2017/7/19 | My Uncle retired from decades as the pastor of two Lutheran congregations in Kansas this past weekend, so I rented a car in Boulder and drove across a swath of the High Plains to hear him preach a final service and attend a retirement party, followed by loading boxes onto a U-Haul. |
| 2017/1/11 | |
| 2016/10/17 | (nobody wants another meditation on mortality / some days it's just hard to write any other thing |
| 2016/6/1 | in my life it seems like / there's a measure of imbalance / in the warp and weft of things |
| 2016/5/2 | there's a picture on the wall of kurt cobain / playing in this bar in like 1990 / a good deal has happened since then / this bar doesn't even look like it did in 2004 / or whenever it was i last lived in this town |
| 2016/4/24 | Purchased at the Friends of the Loveland Public Library Book Sale, for $5 in total: |
| 2015/9/7 | It’s a little over a week before we drive to Kansas. I’ve talked to Minnesota Dave, and David M., and made sure Shawn is going to be there. h is likely coming, with some complications about a wedding in Minnesota. Toni is making solar power supplies for twinkly string lights. CarolAnn and Ben got a sun shelter. |
| 2012/1/10 | — it's a strange winter in the middle places / bare ground in nebraska, the land is full / of the golden color of an october-november not yet / wrung out by ice and snow |
| 2010/10/22 | you know i was our economies in trouble |
| 2010/5/29 | |
| 2009/4/5 | it's still the early years of a century / the kind of time our survivors and theirs / might understand hazily / as an age undone in the succession of catastrophe |
| 2009/3/15 | i wake up at noon or maybe one / go down for coffee / sun out, blue sky haze / brown grass by the railroad track / check the mail on the way back / it's empty again |
| 2008/9/26 | yeah yeah yeah - points a & b |
| 2008/2/9 | the cellular telephone is a powerful innovation / you can sit by one while it doesn't ring / just about anywhere you feel like / from here i can see all the way to the / front of this half-empty display case / for boilerplate boulder eccentricity |
| 2007/9/12 | drosophila melanogaster or a close cousin circles in the dead air of the kitchen. I have a squash in the oven. There was supposed to be hamburger casserole and stir-fried frozen vegetables (“California Style, with Broccoli, Corn, Black Beans, & Peppers”), but Elizabeth brought home slices of pizza instead, saying that she couldn’t do hamburger again. Now I don’t know what will become of the squash. |
| 2007/4/18 | It’s been rainy here in Boulder County, and the landscape is as green as it seems likely to get this year. I should have learned by now, though, not to make predictions based on so little experience of a place. After 26 years Nebraska and Kansas still surprise me. 78-year-old men sit in gas stations over bad coffee talking about the weather and shaking their heads. Certainly this is a piece of deep routine, but partially it is because the weather still surprises them too. |
| 2006/1/15 | |
| 2005/6/26 | notes in the direction of a larger work |
| 2004/11/21 | resistance & futility - glass beads? |
| 2004/9/20 | winfield, pt. 1 |
| 2004/5/26 | John M. Ford is a genius. |
| 2004/4/4 | dominica in palmis |
| 2003/9/25 | lately i have been saying / 'i only hope i can remember this' / a lot |
| 2002/12/31 | the last day of the year is fading fast / on this particular drafty farmhouse / and all its jumbled contents |
| 2000/10/18 | Wednesday, October 18, 13:35 CDT / Done with classes for the week. Gotta love fall break. |