I love that water is life

REDTAIL HAWK, CAPAY VALLEY, CALIFORNIA 

Warm on a cold morning, I have the blood of my father

And the strength of my mother. A gray mist

In the air is stimulating. I can live with that.

The music of Coltrane and Sonny Rollins,

Dexter Gordon and Bill Evans; I can fill my time

With notes in the air like lovely birds.

I have a fierce wife, she takes on the crimes

Of an unjust society. Sometimes I join her,

Other times Coltrane and these poems are enough.

Sometime ago I passed sixty-five years on this Earth.

A grandchild joined us and a son was lost,

I cannot walk as well as I did, such is life.

For no reason at all I am updating you.

The jazz is up loud. The coffee is strong and fresh.

Were you to join me here, I’d pour you a cup.

James Lee Jobe

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.  

Barry Lopez

JOHN LEE HOOKER, CRAWLIN' KINGSNAKE

A clear mind in life, a clear mind at death, and in between I will love the earth below me and the sky above me. I love that water is life, and that kindness heals the troubled soul. At night when I lay my body down I will do my best to forgive people their slights, and hope that I am worthy of forgiveness for my own slights.

James Lee Jobe 

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Groucho Marx

OTTER, PUTAH CREEK, CALIFORNIA

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Thanks, James