ECLECTIC VISIONS

I have a lot of interests which I am covering on this homepage. I have had the Chiefs spotlighted for quite a while, so I would like to spotlight some of my animals for a while - my wonderful 19 year old cat Miss Kitty and four of my chickens. For more information about Miss Kitty, my chickens, or the Chiefs just click on the links just provided. I love my bees too, but not in the same way that I love my kids.

I am not abandoning the Chiefs. They had a great season in 2024-2025, but unfortunately, they were not able to win a third Super Bowl in a row. The Kansas City Chiefs remain my main fall/winter entertainment activity and I have paid for 2025-2026 season tickets - year 52. Yep! I have been going to Chiefs games since 1969 and had season tickets since 1974. While last year's Super Bowl loss was highly disappointing, the wins that we have had kinda make the many losing seasons I have been through all worthwhile. Even the winning seasons we did have, except for long ago, never got us to the Super Bowl.

In addition to the Chiefs, I like to work outside and love my animals, the wild animals on my property and love all the plants that I have planted. I am, also, thinking about adding rescue pigs, but I have to do some things to get ready for them. I have lived on an acreage for more than 36 years, and in late 2020, I was able to buy the house next to it which gives me a better quality house and a pole barn from which to work. I am retaining the old home, but it and the out buildings on the property will be torn down and I will use the property for gardening/agricultural projects, recreation and nature preservation. The properties are surrounded on three sides by forest and park land with a few rather distant neighbors on the fourth side. It is an environment that I much prefer to one in which neighbors are only a wall or a few feet way.

I planted about 20 fruit trees this year (2025) and try to plant a lot of white dutch clover and native flowers for the bees and butterflies, especially the magnificent Monarchs. Native plants, in particular, require less work and most tend to be more drought and deer tolerant than non-natives and most beneficial to bees and butterflies.

Additionally, I dream of eventually being totally off-grid by installing solar and possibly wind energy devices. I have a rainy weather creek that runs through my original property and there are a number of places where ponds might be built to supply water for plants and other needs around the property.

By 2024, all of my dogs and many of my cats had died. But, some new cats have come my way in the last few years and, then, in February of 2024 two dogs appeared to have been dumped off in my neighborhood and I have taken them in. I consider them my kids, so their stories are under the My Kids link.

My genealogy is a fascinating subject for me since it ties me and my family into history - some significant, but most only of personal interest. Those pages can be seen beginning with My Genealogy page.

If all those things are not enough work to occupy me, I am very active at KKFI-FM, 90.1, in Kansas City, MO. We are a community radio station staffed almost entirely by volunteers. And in support of independent media, I am active in a group called Friends of Community Media.

I am opposed to war and believe in peace. In particular I am opposed to nuclear weapons and am active in a group called PeaceWorks Kansas City

I am an atheistic humanist and progressive politically and try to stay active in those activities. I maintain a blog that covers multiple issues but that is centered on free thought which is KC Freethinker. My atheistic humanist beliefs are to be found at my Atheistic Humanism website. And, finally, I continue to maintain a KC Freethought/KC Freethinkers website that provides links to the free thought groups that remain in the Kansas City area.

Of course, you can learn a lot about me by simply browsing through this website, but more direct information can be found on my genealogy page and on the my page About this website.

As with everything on this website, as I have time, events happen and I learn new things, I will be updating the site.