over-smudged

Updated: May 16, 2025

I want to get away to think things over, to step back and regain a perspective on the over-smudged canvas of life. To remain at Alabama Ranch during the winter can mean only a winter of discontent and drifting and drifting closer and closer to uncharted rocky ledges. There's no ease for the mouth where one tooth aches, as the Chinese say. Dinky-Dunk, I think, has an inkling of how I feel.

Arthur Stringer - The Prairie Mother