1. I believe AI writing is just plagiarism from multiple sources. 2. And AI written poetry is sacrilegious. 3. “There are people who want to know about everything in the minutest detail, like accountants or lawyers. But show a toe sticking out of a hole in a sock to a poet and it is enough […]
1. I’m not as interested in what I’m doing with my life as much as how I’m being. 2. Portal or rabbit hole? 3. Is presence the best present? 4. I always stop and look at my niece’s photos on Facebook for their mother, my sister, who can’t because she passed away in 2015. 5. […]
1. A version or aversion? 2. A spoof or a goof? 3. Best line heard this week: “You are a temporary localization of infinite consciousness.” – Rupert Spira 4. Joe called me Colleen Dickens when he saw the above outfit that I wore to the town Christmas parade. 5. I wore my wedding dress to […]
1. I always thought “Suite Judy Blue Eyes” was “Sweet Judy Blue Eyes. 2. Kind of how I thought Rainer Maria Rilke might be a woman because of the middle name. 3. Moving through the stages of life and meeting each on its own terms is the supreme art of living — the ultimate test […]
1. Last week was taken up with fighting off a cold that turned into covid and fixing typos on things I posted while on the road and out of town for Thanksgiving. 2. I missed five weeks of playing Scrabble with friends because of a doctor’s appointment, quarantining from a covid exposure, dealing with a […]
1. My new line to get people off their phones: Talk to each other like it’s 1995. 2. My favorite new conspiracy theory: Everything’s gonna be all right. – Seen on Facebook 3. Poets tend to wear berets but they should wear newsboy caps, since they are the world’s town criers. 4. It was a […]
1. Winter Star- A light in the dark / saves what is lost / anoints the silent night / when the paths of ages cross / When closed hearts open / and wise ways are taken / alignments are blessed / in the age of Aquarius 2. “We are in a birthing canal and will […]
1. Over the weekend, Joe went camping with a group of inner city kids, and I went to the Taubman Museum to see an immersion art installation. That says a lot about us. 2. The Taubman show exhibit I saw was the work of Caledonia Curry, aka Swoon, a street artist and contemporary of Banksy. […]
1. I remember asking my parents as they were aging, ‘what do you do all day?’ Now I ask myself. I don’t buy into the elder years being the best time of life. It has its pluses but also has a lot of loss. Instead of crossing things I want to do off my bucket […]
1. McCartney said the song goes back to this: “A woman did actually sneak into my house through the bathroom window that was a bit ajar. A fan, apparently – one of a group called the ‘Apple scruffs’. She found a ladder lying outside my house in London. As far as I recall, she stole […]
1. Remodeling – I’m a discombobulated / arrangement of cells / running askew / I need a screw / to tighten my grip / because I’m loose at the hinges / Or maybe I’m under construction / expanding my own dimensions / and I need a level to keep it straight / until the changes […]
1. Irie is Jamaican for Aloha. 2. My motto is that there are two ways to be rich. One is to have a lot of money and things. The other is to have few needs. We have jobs to make money so that we can buy what we need. Mostly what we need is food […]
