Monthly Archives: June 2024

The Summer Leaves Of a Monk

June 16, 2024 – 5:08 pm

Stayed in two days A monk No talking two days A monk. Walking Down the Avenue. Silent The sidewalk alive As are the trees The branches The green leaves Arching Into the summer sky Oh summer Oh summer Oh summer I silent A monk oh summer ps there was no fasting. At least Not for […]

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Wind River Mountains 1998

June 16, 2024 – 10:27 am

Wind River Mountains 1998 In the Spring of 1998 my 78 year-old father and I embarked on a road trip through Wyoming and Montana. We picked up a rented car in Bozeman, Montana and stopped the first night in Chico Hot Springs. The next morning the two of us continued down Paradise Valley to Yellowstone […]

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BACKWARDS ON ICE by Peter Nolan Smith

June 16, 2024 – 10:06 am

Back in 2014 the Bruins overcame a horrible 1st period to tie the Blackhawks and force another sudden death overtime. This time the flow of time was in the Bruins’ favor and Paille scored the game winner. Game 3 will be in Boston. I love hockey. Several years ago I beat my cousin Oil Can […]

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The Aroma of Paradise / Gaspe Quebec

June 16, 2024 – 10:03 am

The ride from the ferry landing on the south shore of the St Lawrence to Gaspe took longer than my father and I had anticipated, even counting for a Quebec trooper stopping my father for speeding. 160 KPH in a 100 KPH zone. My father received a warning and we were back on our way, […]

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A MAN OF SPEED by Peter Nolan Smith

June 16, 2024 – 9:42 am

Father’s Day has complemented Mother’s Day since 1910, although the holiday remained unofficial for decades and most Americans treated Father’s Day as a joke, until LBJ proclaimed the Third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Six Years later Richard Nixon signed a bill to include Father’s Day in the American pantheon of holidays. “The only […]

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