Why is it that screen doors always slam in warm weather? Is it because they are stiff with winter cold for long white months, then limber in the sun to rap the doorsill in ecstasy?...

To feel the ocean, you have to get your feet wet. To feel the sand, you have to take your shoes off. To catch a star, you have to get burned... just a little.

Grandfather, you signaled summer waving your railroad cap at sprout-hungry rabbits...