Racial Awareness

A Pool of Racial Awareness

Can you imagine a swimming pool filled with people of many colors and shapes. Even trying to imagine such a scene is confusing and painful.

Who do you think would try to climb out of the pool first?

Who would begin to dance and sing?

Who would stand and look around to see if any one was there who she or he knew or had known?

Would the children behave and help rescue if they found some really small ones.

 What would the really old people who could hardly walk deal with all the confusion.

Would someone try to organize the crowd into black and brown and white?

Delton Krueger 4/15/2020

Three Hares

Three  Hares

an ancient circular symbol

appearing in sites appears in the

Middle East and to Devon, England

They race around in an endless circle

showing energy

Is a good luck symbol

for Buddhism, Islam, Celtic, Pagan, Christian and Judaism

  

Delton Krueger 4/8/2020

The Rapids

There were rocks everywhere.  I should have paid more attention to the rapids and its geography before getting into this situation. Now there was no way out of what was bound to happen.

The best outcome was a scratched aluminum canoe. Or a canoe folded in half by the weight of the water. I decided that a scratched canoe was better than death by stupidity.  Actually, there was no time for rational consideration or asking a teacher what to do now.

Personal survival does focus the mind. 

Off we go into the rocks. The flowing water creates a cushion that allows for bouncing off of some sharp-edged rocks. Please get into the mainstream of the rapids. Do not let the canoe get pushed sideway by the current. So far, so good.

Notice the tree branch ahead.  It may remove my hat. It does and there it is floating on ahead. 

Driven by the water the canoe runs against a rock that leaves a deep scratch in the side of the canoe but does not puncture the aluminum skin.

Now I can see clear water ahead. Be careful of the whirlpool at the foot of rapids.

The expectation of a scratched canoe was realistic and was accomplished.

This story is brought to mind by the global pandemic. 

by Delton Krueger 4/1/2020

Murder on The Cottonwood River

There were three parties in this drama

One woman. Two men. 

 

Observers included several birds and animals.

The setting was a substantial stream.

The time of day was dusk.

The atmosphere was charged with human emotion.

An argument was happening.

The drama was building to a climax.

The woman realized she was the prize.

Two men realized this was a test of their manhood.

One man had a gun in his pocket.

The contest was elemental.

A man died.

The murderer had a plan.

 Train tracks were just up the hill.     

He had experience in jumping a freight car

He got about 60 miles until they got him.

The woman went on with life.