Big Sky Buckeye

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About bigskybuckeye

Born in the Big Sky Country of Montana and now living in the Buckeye State of Ohio, Richard is the creative mind behind Big Sky Buckeye. Retired after 40 years of teaching, I enjoy writing, photography, traveling, and following a healthy lifestyle.

Curious Trivial Facts (10/16)

Posted on October 16, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

This informative post will be posted on Saturday along with my usual writing. We can all appreciate some of the lesser known facts from around the world.

The popular website Yahoo! got its name from a word thought up by Jonathan Swift and used in his classic, GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, to mean “rude, unsophisticated, uncouth.” The exclamation point was necessitated by law, added for trademark purposes after it was discovered that a brand of Yahoo barbecue sauce and a line of Yahoo knives already existed.

Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.

These facts have been discovered in I NEVER KNEW THAT by David Hoffman (2009).

Washington Irving Quotes

Posted on October 16, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Networking with God (Elfchen Series #80)

Posted on October 15, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

Plugged In

Creator’s

Voice abounds

Truly humbling ourselves

Taking time to listen

Holiness

**Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels.com**

Father’s House

Worship

Gospel’s constellation

Connecting with God

Scripture, prayer, and song

Praiseworthy

Faith Fortified

Gospel

Shared daily

One on one

Proclaiming Lord’s Good News

Discipleship

This series of poems (written in the German-inspired style of Elfchen or Elevenie) shares a total of eleven words in each poem, with a sequence by line of one, two, three, four, and one words.

Jim Rohn Quote

Posted on October 15, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

From 1 Corinthians 3:16-17: “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.”

Competitive Spirit

Posted on October 14, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

**Photo by Gladson Xavier on Pexels.com**

So much of life keeps score

From elections to sports

Competitive spirit

Churns in daily reports

Life’s clashing resistance

Much at too high a cost

All want to be winners

Loving brothers, now lost

Division without love

Life without sportsmanship

Forgetting our manners

People losing their grip

Imagine Super Bowl

Unresolved final score

Fans calling for justice

Final outcome called for

Pushing aside tension

Leaving muckraker’s trough

Muting all rhetoric

Turning life’s scoreboard off

**Photo by Cytonn Photography on Pexels.com**

Alex Haley Quotes

Posted on October 14, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

Searching for Father

Posted on October 13, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

From Amos 5:4: “For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek Me and live.”

**Photo by Gantas Vaiu010diulu0117nas on Pexels.com**

Searching for Father

Walking stark valleys

Running through darkness

Checking back alleys

Seeking divine Lord

Wandering each day

Sinking, lost again

Retreating to pray

Finding Calvary

Kneeling at sin’s cross

Seeing scarlet stains

Witnessing God’s loss

Feeling Christ’s Spirit

Scanning empty tomb

Understanding now

Reaching Father’s room

From Amos 5:14: “Seek good and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, just as you have said.”

Charles Swindoll Quote

Posted on October 13, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

The two most important tools of parenting are time and touch. Listen to your boys and girls, look them in the eye, put your arms around them, hug them close, tell them how valuable they are.

From Proverbs 20:7: “The righteous walk in integrity—happy are the children who follow them!”

Autumn’s Arrival (Haiku Series #156)

Posted on October 12, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

Bless You!

Allergy time peaks

Summer moves into autumn—

Ragweed in full bloom

**Golden, flowering ragweed sprouting everywhere.**

Splendid Transition

Summertime fading

Crisp, cool mornings signal change—

Autumn’s billboard colors

**Autumn colors Ohio’s Chestnut Ridge Metro Park.**

Poetic Time

Autumn comes knocking

Where have all the song birds gone?

Morning’s quiet peace

**Quiet morning along the trail at Chestnut Ridge.**

Judith Wright Quotes

Posted on October 12, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

**Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com**

Feelings and Emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are in your deepest place.

When we are most, then we are least alone; for are these faces not identical?

Judith Wright (1915-2000) was a renowned poet, environmentalist, and champion of aboriginal rights in Australia. She was the 1998 recipient of the Australian National Living Treasure Award.

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