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The Woodlands Waterway   Leave a comment

Joy, Katelyn, and Dave, July 4, 2004

Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death
If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes
Half the way will get you no where
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life.

— Khalil Gibran

Texas Tailgate Sports Bar On A Saterday Afternoon   2 comments

White Lamborghini Parked In Front of Kenne David’s 1954 GMC At Texas Tailgate Sports Bar in Houston. What a contrast, especially with the ‘Trash Wagon’ behind the Lamborghini. Loving it!

Kenne David and Janie with friends taking in Texas A&M and Astros games. (October7, 2023) — Images by kenne

Among The Top 15 In The Houston Area   Leave a comment

The Houston Chronicle recognized outstanding nurses during a luncheon on May 2, 2023. Each year, the Houston Chronicle
honors the top nurses across Greater Houston during their Salute to Nurses event. In 2023, 200 recipients were selected through a public nomination — included are seven UT Physicians employees. Kenne was recognized as one of the Top 15 this year.

Riprap
 
Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
             placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
             in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
             riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way,
             straying planets,
These poems, people,
             lost ponies with
Dragging saddles—
             and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endless
             four-dimensional
Game of Go.
             ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
             a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
             with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
             all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.
 
— Gary Snyder
 
 

Touring HTOWN Wall Art   Leave a comment

Kenne D., Kenne G., and Katelyn — Image by Janie

“What is life? – A novel. Who is the author? – Anonymous. We read haltingly, laugh, weep… and sleep.”

— Nikolai Karamzin

What Makes A Poem?   Leave a comment

Kenne David and Katelyn — Photo-Artistry by kenne

A CHILD ASKS WHAT MAKES A POEM?

At the top of the pass
the trail crosses a rockfall,
a slope of loose slate
as old as the mountain,
as deep as the valley below.
Out of the rocks
an arch has been stacked,
straddling the path.
The stones, tall enough
for a tall man, lean at the top
until gravity tips them together
in a curve as clean as the arc
of the earth.
The arch should not stand.
No mortar, no scaffold of sticks.
No tricks of buttress or blocking.
Only this surprising geometry
of stones balanced across the sky.
Not a slate out of place.
Picked from the rockpile
by a painstaking hand,
the chosen few remain,
stacked by shape
and grain and weight.
At the top of the world, a gate.

Lanny Ledeboer:

Katelyn (03/15/17) — Image by kenne

Daughter and Dad   Leave a comment

Katelyn and Dad Kenne David Looking Down Over the Tucson Basin (Their first visit to Tucson, March 15, 2011) — Image by kenne

“A father is a son’s first hero and a daughter’s first love.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, “BIG D”   4 comments

KenneDavid&Dad-2020-72.jpgHappy #45 Birthday, “Big D”

 

Posted January 1, 2020 by kenneturner in Existential Moment, Information, Kenne David

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