Randy | April 29, 2012
A long time ago, I had a brief and exceedingly primal relationship with the Deer that is the inspiration for this poem. In brief, I had come to kill him but, at the moment we met for the first and only time, he made a compelling argument to the effect that he had more pressing [...]
Randy | April 19, 2012
Our niece Alyssa – otherwise known as Niece LFM – turned three today. Mrs. LFM and I just got back from celebrating the event. First time on a trampoline for either of us, and I can honestly say that I found it endlessly entertaining once I mastered the rhythm and technique required to repeatedly catapult [...]
Randy | April 8, 2012
In an article published here back on 3 October 2010, I mentioned a friend of mine who is a crime scene investigator for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He’s a crusty bugger, and has been as long as I’ve known him, but as far as I’m concerned that’s part of his charm. For some reason, [...]
Randy | March 27, 2012
I have a lean, athletic body type. While it’s true I come of a family with members predisposed to such a build, I refuse to believe that the fact I grew up from earliest childhood building a foundation of musculature and cardiovascular fitness had nothing to do with the way I turned out. I hiked, [...]
Randy | March 20, 2012
A seeming lifetime ago, it took me a few years to scrape off a bad marriage like shit from my shoe. Particularly during the last two of those horrendous years, when it was dead in everything but name, the state of things were kept a closely guarded secret for logistical reasons that have no bearing [...]
Randy | February 12, 2012
A snowflake forms thousands of feet above the ground and makes its way, riding the many risings and fallings and seemingly random swirling pathways of the wind, to land exactly where it was meant to. In the practice of Zen archery, it is understood that as long as the archer does what is required in [...]
Randy | January 16, 2012
Doers and Talkers By LFM The Doers and the Talkers Are as a breed apart. While Doers work and get things done, The Talkers never start. The Talker never does a thing But bend the Doer’s ear, The noise he makes comes from his mouth, Not tools and working gear. This happens from a simple [...]
Randy | January 15, 2012
The inspiration for this poem came while I was reading the intro to my esteemed Friend Laurie Lacey’s 15 January 2012 Natural Healing Talk newsletter. Read Laurie’s words, then mine, and hopefully it will all make sense. Some day soon, Mrs. LFM and Laurie’s Lady Rita, will tolerate Laurie and me sitting by a fire [...]
Randy | November 5, 2011
Overnight tonight those of us who live with daylight saving time get to set our clocks back an hour which, when it happens to people who have to work the next morning, feels like a sixty minute freebee. Today I’m presenting a poem about a man who scored himself one hell of a lot more. [...]
Randy | October 30, 2011
The inspiration of this poem came from a story I was once told by the woman it happened to. Her name is not Stella. Stella By LFM Stella was an ugly girl, At least that’s how she felt. Her mirror’s cruelty exposed The cards that she’d been dealt. Her parents were so beautiful It made [...]