Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

  Cross-post from Democrats, Republicans & Independents United Against Trumpism .

After reading my previous post about celestial hand-holding, my college roommate Bob sent this photo of my dog Bart in front of our modest h...

My daughter Annie invited me to go on the Friday ArtWalk. I used to go every month when I worked at the Wyoming Arts Council. Then I retired...

A eulogy for a friend from a friend:  Books, books, books. Dick Lechman had thousands of books at one time at his Old Grandfather Books in...

Every night before sleep, I call up the Poetry Foundation page and read the poem of the day. It's an eclectic mix, featuring classical...

I tried to write a piece about the massacre of 10 innocents at the King Soopers in Boulder. Few subjects make me speechless but mass shootin...

Fast-forward to the 32-minute mark for True Troupe's staged reading for Annie Shay's script "Sing, Maria" based one one of...

Praying in the dairy section I have nothing against prayer in the grocery store. Yesterday, as I headed to the dairy case, my legs tired...

Chris, Annie and I saw "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" on Thanksgiving Day. Walking down the corridor to the theatre, I was ...

By now, everyone has viewed the video of the Catholic school boys mocking tribal elder Nathan Phillips on the National Mall. To review, st...

I can't walk. OK, I can walk but with difficulty. I fell three months ago and the docs finally figured out I sustained some spinal damag...

Kathleen Petersen sends this invitation: Bring your lunch, bring a friend and join in the viewing of a Ted Talk on our theme this month of...

From Elephant Journal : In many shamanic societies, if you came to a shaman or medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispir...

Why I write, and why I continue to blog. Flannery O'Connor wrote scores of letters during her short life. She might have been a blogge...

Matteo Pistono will be the keynote speaker at the Wyoming Democratic Party's Nellie Tayloe Ross banquet on Saturday, Feb. 16, at the P...

As funerals begin for those murdered in Newtown, Conn., words comes that Fred Phelps and his Band of Weirdos from Westboro "Church...

As I watched the Veep candidates trade barbs this evening in Kentucky, I couldn't help but wonder what they were like in high school. Lo...

My former work colleague Randy Oestman left state employment to serve as a minister for the Cheyenne Vineyard Church, 1506 Thomes Ave. Viney...