Monday, July 15, 2024

Cottonwood Tango



Cotton wood trees 

sparkling in the sun

like spangled Spanish dancers.


Branches bow and  dance in synchronized rhythm while

Saplings bend and sway in the sultry summer breeze


Leaves softly clapping.

Cicadas clicking castanets 

in cascading sound.

The staccato tapping 

of woodpeckers.



Cotton seeds drifting :

Confetti crescendo


The wind dies down.


The trees stand still.


The woodpecker flies. 


The silence is punctuated by a distant airplane,


The show is over.


    . . .for now




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Between Two Worlds

Most of my life, I've considered it fortunate that I was just ahead of the Baby-boom. Generally, the Baby-boomers were born between 1946 and 1964 after the fathers returned from World War II. It was a huge population explosion that has reverberated through American society.

This blog will be part history, part memories, part reflections of a retired teacher, but active "Senior". I have always felt like I straddled two generations forming a bridge. Sometimes I think like a baby-boomer, but sometimes I'm locked into my parents' Depression era thinking. I'm a dichotomy of two eras. But, I'm always ready to try something new---so here I am dipping my toes in the water of Blogworld.