Moments July 28, 2021 I’m doing my best to focus and stay efficient. Three screens going. A dozen apps apping away. Windows open since we’ve no A/C. 90 F outside. Lots of lists and timelines and spreadsheets. We all have multiple acre “yards” of forest, grasses, cactus and wildflowers up here. My neighbor friend Paul … [read more]
Narrative
Five Days Together on Sacred Land
Image courtesy Peter Cunningham Five Days Together on Sacred Land -Geoff O’Keeffe To the east lie the Black Hills, to the west, the Bighorn Mountains. Between is a vast prairie: grasslands, sagebrush, lightly forested in places, sometimes lush, most often bone dry. The rivers are iconic, the stuff of legends: Yellowstone, Powder, North Platte, Bighorn. … [read more]
Waxing
Image courtesy Kym Mckinnon Waxing I woke briefly at four a.m. and looked out the front windows to the east, toward Kansas. “Ah, it snowed again. But not so much. I’ll sleep another hour then I can just use the broom on the walkway, decks and cars.” I fell back asleep, dreamed of … [read more]
Denouement and Revelation, America in Decline: Two Weeks In The Life
Change is hard. Giving birth (I hear) is painful. Weight training hurts. Learning math or Mandarin Chinese makes the brain ache. Political and social change are chaotic, uncertain and scary. But dig: A Black Woman worked tirelessly for years to enfranchise voters of color in Georgia. She succeeded. Even after being the victim herself of … [read more]
Three Bows to 2020
Three Bows to 2020 I loved 2020. I know that beggars popular orthodoxy, but it is so true. And it may trigger some of you. I apologize for that. You have a right to be indignant about 2020. I do feel deeply for all the pain and loss everyone is suffering. But for me, personally, … [read more]
Rodeo Sisters
Rodeo Sisters -Geoff O’Keeffe 10.03.20 I’ve slept outdoors hundreds, perhaps thousands of nights. We began as kids and would lay a tarp in the yard in the summertime with our rectangular sleeping bags with flannel deer and pine tree linings, dozing under the desert stars for weeks at a time. A little older, I spent … [read more]
