i have not posted a great deal lately. Up until Tuesday, that was primarily due to compiling my poems written since i published A Pocket of Resistance: Selected Poems in 2014. That project was completed last week. Tuesday was the beginning of a superb version of up time that has produced another down time for writing.

Maureen and i flew to Austin and will fly home Saturday. There is not going to be very much writing going on. Grandson Samuel James Jewell Gander graduates from high school tomorrow. His two sets of grandparents, his aunt and our daughter Sarah, and, of course, his parents will attend the ceremony and celebrate Sam and the rest of us being together until we depart.

We have a wonderful young man who is growing up well on our hands. This fall, Sam will be attending the prestigious Savannah College for Art and Design with the goal of becoming an interior designer. It is a joy for me to see him focused on a career.

So, i am simply enjoying the moments experiencing Sam moving on the next phase of his life. Now, that’s up time big time.

You go for it, Sam.