These verses are dedicated to every person over 40 years old who woke up one
    morning, admitted they were not living the life they really thought they should and,
    without hurting anybody else, did something about it.  
    You are my heroes.

    I have spent my entire life searching for who I am. These poems are tracks
    marking the happy meandering path of ongoing discovery. Born in 1950, I grew up
    on a farm-ranch in Lobo Valley thirteen miles south of Van Horn in far West Texas.
    This is nowhere close to Ft. Worth.

    I went to college and graduated from the veterinary school at Texas A& M
    University in 1973 about the same year I started writing or at least keeping my
    poems. I have been a practicing veterinarian and a “promising” poet for each of
    those many years.

    Most of the poetry that I receive is about the relationship of man/woman, nature,
    and the Universal Intelligence that shows us how to operate our world. I try to
    write poems that are little verbal clips of life’s everyday events. I want to write
    positively and yet realistically.

     I want you to be able to take this book and open it anywhere and find a verse
    that is understandable and thought provoking. If that is the case then I have done
    everything I set out to do. At no point is it necessary for you to agree with me.
    Stimulating your thought is positively heaven for me.
Distillations of a Life Just Lived
... poetry in all directions