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  • Beauty Observed

    It always puzzled me how people could honestly disagree on whether a person or a thing is beautiful. I assumed that an object was either…

  • Beach Days: A Reminiscence

    I dream of sunshiny beach days and the smell of sunscreen lotion when we lined up on the woven mat by the sliding screen door…

  • The Peculiar Effect of Beauty and A Poem

    Have you ever beheld a face so radiant it inspired an overflow of poetic sentiment? I did once and was compelled to jot down this…

  • Introduction

    Why a pine tree? If the rugged little conifer rooted in the rocky red clay of a Carolina mountain could think and express itself in…