“What is that child doing walking alone?” I asked myself from on top of the mountain, my heart skipping a beat. As I walked down to him I was ...(More)
Archives for 2016
Buck On the Mountain
Saw a young buck on one of the side trails at Stone Mountain this evening. Always magical encounters. ...(More)
Does Stone Mountain Park Pass Support Confederacy?
Last week I got myself into what Congressman John Lewis might call “good trouble.” I was detained at Stone Mountain Park’s west gate for morally and ...(More)
It’s that time of year…
It's that time of year when the prickly pear says one thing but intends another. It yields a soft, colorful flower, with a legion of spines close at ...(More)
I stepped into a Rothko painting…
I stepped into a Rothko painting last night at sunset, a smoldering orange band of horizon like an electromagnetic force field wrapping around the ...(More)
Optimism has been known…
Optimism has been known to get right into a person at sunrise. One must show up for it, of course. And there's just no telling how lasting its effects ...(More)
A Rock Runs Through It
"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the ...(More)
Mountain Misconceptions | “Mountain for Rifle?”
To think, my nephew Sam is directly related to the very people who could've owned the mountain for the mere sum of a Kentucky long rifle and perhaps ...(More)
