Introduction to Kaleidoscope Blog

I am beginning a blog that provides the opportunity to reflect on and share the many and varied interests and experiences collected in seven decades.  Retirement is a time when a person can feel increasingly irrelevant.  Hopefully, one way to bring more relevance to a lot of yesterdays and fewer tomorrows is to share, kaleidoscopic like,  bits of experiences held loosely in a rotating life that has brought continually changing patterns.

I have written several poems, loosely connected under the title,  Boyhood from a Distance. One poem serves as a brief reflection of times we all experience:

Good Old Times

Once is something old

carried around less time than you want but

longer than others care

So it is finally rolled in a paper bag and

dropped along the way

but then kept always

 inside you

and rubbed smooth and shiny as

a memory