Dearest Readers:

Out there in the blogosphere, maybe there is someone who will like the poems I like or have written, like to hear about the people and places in my life, enjoy the songs that move my heart, share some of my view of the world and politics, and see the life of flowers and trees and birds and sunrises and sunsets that make up our life on an 80-acre farm in rural Minnesota. Either way, I'm going to give this modern form of connection a whirl for, as Garrison Keillor says, "We need to write, otherwise noboday will know who we are."