Monthly Archives: September 2014

Homecoming

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Jerry Johnson

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.             – Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915), French poet and novelist Homecoming Waking to a frost-covered world on the first true day of autumn is like coming home after a long, … Continue reading →

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Pernicious pump guns

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Jerry Johnson

“…if I only had one gun to go ducking with, it would have to be a pump.” “I’d rather look good shooting than have what I’m shooting look good!”  – from Shotgunner’s Notebook, a collection of essays by Gene Hill … Continue reading →

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Best reading

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Jerry Johnson

I believe that our attraction to art – to stories and songs – is because the best of them resonate with and go some way to help explain the eternal mystery of why we exist and why we have turned … Continue reading →

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Last of the old timers

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Jerry Johnson

“I am, beyond a doubt, the last of the old-timers.”    – Jack Crabb, from the movie Little Big Man,based on the novel by Thomas Berger (1924-2014) Last of the old timers Bird hunting isn’t what it used to be. … Continue reading →

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Happiest moments

Posted on September 6, 2014 by Jerry Johnson

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.                       … Continue reading →

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