1. Last week my grandson Bryce told me that his 5th grade class was banned from saying “Big Chungus.” “Why?” I asked him. “Because we were saying it too much,” he answered. 2. While other people are watching cat videos, I’m watching THIS. 3. My friend Mara was explaining “pendulum activism” to me at the […]
1. Occupation: Birdwatcher 2. I think of April as a fling, whereas May could be the real thing. 3. Last week we went from my grandson’s Little League (that’s him above as catcher) to museums and a workshop with Michael Meade. It was a weekend of erotic exotics, sipping sherry and enjoying double blossom […]
1. There are places of comfort / at the tops of trees / where the tulips turn like bells / but never ring / Where the lost and found mingle / but don’t tell their secrets / They hang like our childhood / just out of reach… Read the rest of I Look Up, a […]
1. I think I’ll call him Squiggy. 2. Pretty as flowers / in a bouquet of colors / A floral choral / of plumes in blooms. See my Favorite Finches HERE. 3. A new species of ancient humans was recently discovered in the Philippines. Dubbed Homo luzonensis, the small-bodied hominin, named Homo luzonensis, lived on […]
1. “Now write” or “No write?” 2. An unfocused gaze / sees two of everything/ Whose voice is in my mouth? / What poison aches in me? – Read The View From the Floor in its entirety HERE. 3. It’s not always a pretty sight, but THIS is the honesty of living with CFS and […]
1. Sign seen on Facebook: April Fool’s is cancelled this year because no prank can compare to the unbelievable stuff that is happening in the real world right now. 2. Have you noticed that Trump appoints officials like he’s picking people for Dancing with the Stars? 3. He doesn’t know how to be president. He thinks […]
1. I don’t know if writing is a meditation but it’s certainly a training of the mind’s muscle. 2. A certain amount of procrastination is like foreplay to a main event. 3. I resist pre-packaged lines over the mess of putting things in my own words. 4. I had a dream last night that I […]
1. I call drinking craft beer at the local tavern on St. Patrick’s Day, a photo/journalist’s field study. 2. A New Theory on Time Indicates Present and Future Exist Simultaneously – It suggests that time does not PASS and that everything is ever-present. According to a scientist, everything that has happened, and everything that will […]
1. “Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your destiny.” – Mahatma Gandhi 2. “Scientists have recently determined that it takes approximately 400 repetitions to create a new synapse in the brain—unless it is done with play, in which […]
1. Of all the outtake photos I took at the Floyd Mardi Gras Saturday night, the composition above is my favorite. 2. Everyone who was anyone was “spotted” as the lightshow spilled onto the dance floor at the 10th annual “Ball.” Pun intended HERE. 3. I thought I should be in the band, considering that […]
1. “Awakening to one’s inner story and finding life-long initiatory paths comprises the “real work” and genuine opus of our lives. The problem is that the exact paths of awakening are blocked by received ideas, early life traumas and over-adaptation to the needs of others. In the long run however, genuine transformation is the secret […]
1. If the average night’s sleep is eight hours (one third of a day), one sleeps for one third of one’s life. If you live, say, 75 years, that’s 25 years asleep. 2. I’m married to a Joe who’s not average. 3. Can you get carpal tunnel from squishing slime too much? 4. 4-Minute Moon: Like a boiled […]
