Poet, thinker, dreamer, writer. Near Windigo Ranger Station, Isle Royale National Park. Welcome to a potpourri of book reviews, dreams, photography, poems, ruminations, and stories. Scroll down, explore, ponder, and share if you like. A moment of serenity at Letchworth State Park. This is Wolf Creek at Letchworth State Park in western New York.

When You Stand in a Circle of Quiet. Like clockwork, they began trumpeting their end-of-summer tune on the first day of August, just as the first golden walnut leaves drifted to the grass. I sit on the porch of that cabin, pen in hand, engulfed in the cacophony of cicadas, and yet quiet is all around me. Words that would pierce the quiet are elusive. Of children, sons de.