by RJ Heller | Dec 8, 2025 | Random Thoughts
“People say I’m lazy, dreaming my life away / Well, they give me all kinds of advice designed to enlighten me / When I tell them that I’m doing fine watching shadows on the wall / ‘Don’t you miss the big time, boy. You’re no longer on the ball’...
by RJ Heller | Dec 7, 2025 | Life Downeast
Many years ago I read the book First Person Rural, Essays of a Sometime Farmer, written in 1978 by Noel Perrin. After finishing it I was convinced that one day I would go to Vermont, buy a 10-acre farm, raise chickens, buy a couple of goats, maybe even a cow and live...
by RJ Heller | Aug 1, 2024 | Creative Work
Rigged lines pull taunt, coax a perfunctory billow of sail Once received, never to perish Wind perhaps or my own breath? Maybe both The sea rises again and again, pushes, pulls, leaving me here, taking me there, now everywhere; horizon mocks, tells stories, calls me...
by RJ Heller | Nov 19, 2023 | Random Thoughts
“Slow down driver, wanna stay alive, I wanna make this journey last” — Paul McCartney ******* This song from McCartney’s first album after forming the band Wings always brings me to a reflective moment. The song reminds me of something I always told my children as...
by RJ Heller | Jun 17, 2022 | Random Thoughts
E.B. White had the ability to say so much by saying so little. Whenever I am confused or needing the compass in my life changed for the better, I reach for something White wrote, because his words remain relevant. In 1943, the Writer’s War Board asked, “What is the...
