blindness--jose saramago

I spent a year reading this book blindness. It is a very difficult book and I'm pretty sure that I now own two copies because I lost the first copy for a while. I was struck by the sentences and couldn't stop reading it even though it was maddening at times. It took the full year. It was a book worth reading, but I could have waited for the movie.

poem friday--Jane Miller

check here:

The Cover of Mars
at the Poetry Foundation.

red clay tightwad

 I took a couple of early morning walks around mom's 13.6 by the creek and found several arrowheads. that was nice. I grew up loving this land that was originally a part of my grandmother's farm.

oak tree twu

 I went to Texas to see my folks last weekend. Mom now has cancer. She can't catch a break. I went to check out the TWU campus. It doesn't have as many trees as West University in Houston, but isn't this swell? TWU is a women's university over 100 years old with large graduate nursing program and three campus'.

west university, harris county, Sept 13, 2008 Ike

oaks on rutgers, west university, harris county Sept 1, 2008