Category Archives: Nature

A Good Day Off

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Doc Arnett

But when I got home and stepped out into the sixty-degree air on a beautifully sunny day… well, plans changed. I put the wood in the garage and shifted to the new plans.
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It was surreal to see the white clustered shapes of Bradford Pears nearly disappear against the sudden backdrop of snow. Fallow fields showed pure white. The northern edges of bare-branched trees starked white-boned sketches against the hills. Continue reading →

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The Pastor’s Visit

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Doc Arnett

She’s in remarkably good health for a dying woman:
nothing really hurts,
everything else works
with both mind and body.
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Faith, Fear & the Nearness of Eternity

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Doc Arnett

In the howling chillness of the night,
a thin skin of ice formed
un-smoothly on the surface
of the rainwater tub. Continue reading →

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Watching the Storm

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Doc Arnett

a long firing
runs a white hot wire
all across the northern sky: Continue reading →

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Our Daily Bread

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Doc Arnett

All that passes upon this earth
looks forward to its feeding,
bleats its pleadings into the wind
and sends itself toward whatever lies before. Continue reading →

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A Shower of Faith

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Doc Arnett

This was not a parody of optimism, an expression that hoped the heart would actually believe what was being said. This was a gift of faith, a genuine believing that what was hoped for would be received. Continue reading →

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A Good Thawing

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Doc Arnett

It takes a greater warmth
than slightly above freezing
to ease into these colder places
where fewer traces of sun
and warm breeze can reach. Continue reading →

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Of Coming Light

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Doc Arnett

Just above the dark spreading form
of the cottonwood tree,
a quarter moon bleeds through
the thin drifting clouds. Continue reading →

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Winter Party

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Doc Arnett

With a big pile of branches at the bottom of the hill, six inches of snow on the ground, the temperature hovering around the freezing mark and no wind in the forecast, I thought Saturday evening would be the perfect time for a little family get together. Continue reading →

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