1. Near the end of the Dodd Creek Trail, my friend Juniper and I discovered this newly-added rosy park bench where we sat and did some bird watching, which was mostly bird listening. She pulled up a birdsong app on her phone and we played one of my favorite songbirds, a wood thrush. Soon all […]
1. I think of “ Get Off My Cloud” as the Rolling Stones answer to the Beatles “I Wanna Hold Your Hand.” 2. But the best song about clouds, which came a year after the Rolling Stones song, might be THIS. 3. I don’t have anything on The Cloud. My blog is My Cloud. It’s […]
1. Our grandson Liam slept over on the weekend and we had a two-day game of monopoly. Guess who won? 2. I am useless when it comes to video games, but I grew up with pinball and can still play a decent game. 3. The day after playing pinball at the Pinball Museum in Roanoke, […]
1. Our brains have algorithms like Facebook’s content ranking. They give us more of whatever we spend time on. 2. Sh is a word you can use in Scrabble. 3. “We’re only as sick as our secrets. The Buddha said three things cannot be hidden for long: the sun, the moon, and the truth. In […]
1. I see other people. 2. Joe and I ran into an old friend at Outer Space Friday night. We had some beers, listened to some good music and played an impromptu game of Scrabble at the very table that I play on with my Tuesday Scrabble group, which made me ask ‘is this cheating?’ […]
1. The Little River Poetry Festival is the poetry version of Floydfest. For one long weekend I get pulled from my daily life and am in a different universe. 2. A Driving Inspiration: Moon in high gear / with one headlight out / Moon is the muse / that drives me 3. One of the […]
1. “A lifetime can zip by in what feels like a few turns of a kaleidoscope.” Tina Turner 2. It had been a long time since I or my friends had been in a theater. The movie we went to see last week had unexpectedly changed and was only being shown in the morning because […]
1. I could have gotten more points at last week’s Scrabble game with another play, but I went out with the word “WON” because I actually won the game and it was fun to play the word. 2. It’s been a long time since I won anything. In 2005, I participated in a poetry slam at […]
1. When Mother’s Day and your birthday fall only days apart and you have three friends whose birthdays do too. 2. Add to that that my grandson Bryce’s birthday three days before mine, May 14. It was also his Little League baseball shirt number when he was 11. We all struck a home run the […]
1. Some people assume that thinking about death means your worrying about death. I think about death like I think about space, the stars and the universe. 2. The Upside Down of Playing Around flashback HERE. 3. Lifeboats: There are only a few / I reveal myself to / I let carry me / to […]
1. “Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life.” -Susan David, PhD 2. And if I’m ever confined to a bed in a room / I hope my grandson plays Led Zepplin on guitar / His brother can cook me noodles and teriyaki vegetables / while we up the ante in poker and […]
1. Twiddle or fiddle? 2. What will I think of next? Thoughts are like scenery of the mind. They come in and out of view and pass like the landscape. 3. “This face which shows its age, has all the coin it started with, with the look of being counted too often.” Ted Kooser 4. […]
