Making some field recordings of Kings Creek near Hokanson Homestead in Konza Prairie was both mentally and physically therapeutic. The stream benevolently bequeathed a serene luminosity of a quiet song and the reflection of gorgeous afternoon sunlight. I was content and still, minus my understandable hungriness after a long day of travel, silently reciting Australian poet Henry Lawson’s The Song And The Sigh as a pre-snack-time tribute to a perfect spring day.

And the creek of life goes winding on,
Wandering by;
And bears for ever, its course upon,
A song and a sigh.

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