for a friend of mine’s grandfather

There was something new at this year’s EuroCar. It is a strange conveyance, but after reading its reason for being it is a useful solution to a potential problem. When I was a kid all of the US spacemen landed … Continue reading →

Bluegrass music and adults playing with blocks. Always a wonderful way to end a day at school.

totems, prayers, and pleas in hopes of return, love, & perhaps immortality Bald Rock, Hwy 76 at the top of the South Carolina escarpment.

  I was looking through a drawer, and found several envelopes of photographs. These of my brother and sister-in-law were among them.

James Mason Yates

Bridge over the canal at Lockheart SC.

as the building crumbles comfort awaits. from somewhere deep inside a telephone rang, no lines were attached. Sandhill, South Carolina I used to travel much more than I do now. There was an ancient store/gasoline station on the highway from Columbia to … Continue reading →

It only hurts when you care. If you cared about nothing, then nothing would hurt. And when words hurt someone you love, then you hurt like knives. It only hurts when you care. and it does hurt

As the cold winds of winter finally arrive, I remember a warm and lovely Thanksgiving weekend.

Found in the thrown-out pile of the once loved, a doll’s house is cleaned and made useful again by a heart that saw its potential.

Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas