Walking On Stones With Bare Feet

Find joy. 

Choose kindness. 

Slice your wedding cake 

like you mean it.

Watch Queer Eye.

Read Wodehouse and Wilde.


Become a regular at a local coffee shop.

Go home. 

Drive for hours. Cross the mountains. 

Touch the cold bricks of a western town.


Read stories of your ancestors. 

Wonder where your uncle got that katana.

Wasn’t he building the Alaskan highway?

Picture your grandmother

Flying the cargo route 

A military transport, Ireland to New York via Greenland

Meeting a handsome stranger in the rain.


Eat a donut in the November Montana sun. 

Skip a stone on a frigid mountain river. 

Watch out for wandering moose. 

Moose show up when you’re not ready.

Drink lots of coffee. 


Never say no to donuts.

Stock up on egg nog early.

Toast your friend who died on a wet road. 

Twenty years before you knew.

Cry in the cold. 


Accept the ghosts of the empty highway.

Brake for that deer that dashes across the midnight road.

Never offer egg nog to a moose.

Shut the door on your way out.


The stones will not keep you from the river.