Old Ones Dream

The Best Things Can't Be Told

That is not to say that what happens in North Dakota stays in North Dakota. Zimmer referred to the "best things" as being those things that transcend understanding. My recent time on the Little Missouri Grasslands and Shade Ranch was colored by some of those things, and so my writing will be colored as well, and so there will not be a start to finish travelogue in one season. It will come as it will. Read more →

A Good Slow Rain On the Great American Outback

I once heard a cowboy poet, in this case a gal named Jerry Brooks, say that "there has never been an inauguration as important as a good slow two inch rain" and that is probably a little known fact everywhere in the world but they really appreciate it in the western United States. Read more →