Toyin’ The beautiful sounds Low pitch and higher response Calls in the forest Are they lovers or just friends? Barred Owls in conversation! Calls In the Forest – An original Hitchhiker TANKA inspired at O’dark-thirty in the White Mountains. 2025.09.29

TOYIN’ Anisoptera The majestic dragonfly Four transparent wings Grace hovering in the air Ancient and also present DRAGONFLY – an original HitchHiker TANKA inspired by these amazing creatures flitting about in the forest known as our backyard.

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. Ephesians 4:29 Godzilla and I had to fight over who would take this verse. Be thankful I won the fight as he was going […]

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Philippians 4:4 Throughout Philippians, Paul uses some variant of the word “joy” over a dozen times. Sometimes it shows up in English as “grace”, others as “joy”, and still others as “rejoice”. In today’s scripture, he uses it twice! He even acknowledges his repetition by […]

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Something to Think About And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I […]

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28 esv Paul loves pairing the monikers “slave“ and “free.” He uses them on three separate occasions as he writes to the Corinthians (12:13), the Colossians (3:12), and […]