SIDEWAYS EIGHT PROJECTS

~ True Love ~

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~ We Still Do ~

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We still have the chance to be great, the opportunity to strive for more. We still hold ourselves up when we wait, by refusing to open the door. We still can live those chances we were given as children, live that love that was put in our hearts. We can still search for empty vessels and fill them, and allow forgiveness to create fresh starts.

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#poetry #findings #exploration #art #woods #light #forgiveness

~ Bass Ale ~

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#poetry #notetoself #mondays #traffic #reminders #memo #freshweek #photography

Battling for inches. Killing for yards. Tightening cinches and pulling the guards. Largest stage, and the most press. A young soldier of any age can only make a guess. We’re here with our craft and our kraft. Truly blessed.

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#superbowl #superbowlsunday #kraft #kraftentry #familygreatly #familygreatlyandkraftentry #theduke #leather #pigskin #nfl #players #coaches #eagles #patriots

~ A day of adventure ~

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Coffee, companionship, a camera, and a car. Driving through the Sierras, not really knowing where we are. Having a vague idea of location, and a sense of direction on the wake. Sometimes the shots that figure most into our equation, are the ones we are unable to take.

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#superbowlweekend #sierranevadas #laketahoe #mtrose #summit #washoelake #skiresort #qualitytime #lovelanguages

~ echoes of river beds ~ .

What ancient streams were we meant for, that we might fade our way into now? Entering the dreams wetting the seams of the very pants hung on life’s plow.

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#stream #mountains #nevada #circular #saturday #homemeansnevada #gathering #silence #sierranevada

~ Tonka Tots ~

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We would dig for our toys in sandboxes,

occasionally discovering cat turds or broken helmets

from Lego astronauts. He would pretend his Tonka Truck

was larger than life size. Large enough to run over his Dad.

But also fast enough to race him to the hospital, because

he had a guilty conscience and felt bad. The sandbox became

the time machine with a beach feel, the surface of the moon, the stage

for our band to rock, with construction site appeal, all in one afternoon.

Evenings felt like eternities beside citronella flames.

Wiffle bats wrapped in duct tape that was still gooey from summer heat

stretched across lawns that were meant for games like badminton and croquet.

His family’s pool became an oasis until the doughboy’s sidewall gave out,

sending his younger brother into the weeds below the barbed wire fence adjacent. I can still see the fogged up goggles and hear the scream. He was okay, just scared, as well he should have been. And, in my memories, we saved lives from extra terrestrial threats, we constructed fortresses of solid gold filled with pound puppies and warrior poets. We battled ninjas, rode horses, tried to see who could hold their breath the longest underwater. We launched rockets that we had built ourselves, and always won the Super Bowl on the last play of the game. We did a lot during one of my mom’s shifts. We were epic enhancers of the universe, even though our training ground was the neighborhood litter box for feral cats. What better way to prepare us for the pitfalls of life.

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#poetry #childhood #summerdays #kids #growingup #country #tonka #tonkatruck #tonkatrucks #photography #memories #friendship #play

~ robber’s roost ~

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#view #expanse #hillside #sunrise #wilderness #bigsky #nature

~ Poetry Readings ~

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#gathering #sharing #poetry #sundance #voice #circle #fire #community #bookstore #renoisrad #shelves #published #contemporary #literature