Just stop and realize just what is true. What else can you do?
Just follow the rules and keep your eyes on the road that's ahead of you.
~Little Feat
For Music Monday, Little Feat. Did I listen to this album a million times when it came out? Why, yes.
Also, Let It Roll
Halloween music
Tabatha Yeatts: The Opposite of Indifference
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference." ~ Elie Wiesel
Monday, October 28, 2024
Thursday, October 24, 2024
The right conditions
Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.
~Lucy Maud Montgomery
Happy Poetry Friday! When I was looking for quotes, I also found this delightful one:
I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.
~Leif Enger
It's been very gold today. *happy sigh* I am a fan of October. We have two tree-related poems this week.
letter to my father
by Sara Eddy
I’ve been walking around with a knot
in my belly all week for no reason.
There’s nothing wrong, no big turmoil.
But I feel everything, a web of open nerves
zapping to the tune of every little thing.
We finally had winter this week, after many...
read the rest here
*******************
Whenever you see a tree
By Padma Venkatraman
Think
how many long years
this tree waited as a seed
for an animal or bird or wind or rain
to maybe carry it to maybe the right spot
where again it waited months for seasons to change
read the rest here
*******************
Beyond Literacy Link has the Poetry Friday round-up. Thanks, Carol!
~Lucy Maud Montgomery
Happy Poetry Friday! When I was looking for quotes, I also found this delightful one:
I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.
~Leif Enger
It's been very gold today. *happy sigh* I am a fan of October. We have two tree-related poems this week.
letter to my father
by Sara Eddy
I’ve been walking around with a knot
in my belly all week for no reason.
There’s nothing wrong, no big turmoil.
But I feel everything, a web of open nerves
zapping to the tune of every little thing.
We finally had winter this week, after many...
read the rest here
*******************
Whenever you see a tree
By Padma Venkatraman
Think
how many long years
this tree waited as a seed
for an animal or bird or wind or rain
to maybe carry it to maybe the right spot
where again it waited months for seasons to change
read the rest here
*******************
Beyond Literacy Link has the Poetry Friday round-up. Thanks, Carol!
Labels:
Padma Venkatraman,
Poetry Friday,
Sara Eddy,
trees
Molten
"A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, he said," "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.'"
~Anne Rice
For Art Thursday, Glass Blowers of Murano by Charles Frederic Ulrich. Have you watched the tv series that's a glass blowing competition (I can't remember the name! Arg)? It impressed upon me how dangerous glass blowing can be, although this painting looks very relaxed.
Glass Blowers of Murano
by Charles Frederic Ulrich
Photogravure (by Goupil & Co.) based on the 1886 painting by American artist Charles Frederic Ulrich
~Anne Rice
For Art Thursday, Glass Blowers of Murano by Charles Frederic Ulrich. Have you watched the tv series that's a glass blowing competition (I can't remember the name! Arg)? It impressed upon me how dangerous glass blowing can be, although this painting looks very relaxed.
Glass Blowers of Murano
by Charles Frederic Ulrich
Photogravure (by Goupil & Co.) based on the 1886 painting by American artist Charles Frederic Ulrich
Labels:
Art Thursday,
Charles Frederic Ulrich,
glass,
glass blowing
Monday, October 21, 2024
Orange-colored day
You’re a part of the season, no more and no less
~Liana Flores
For Music Monday, a song Ariana introduced me to during my visit. Liana Flores:
~Liana Flores
For Music Monday, a song Ariana introduced me to during my visit. Liana Flores:
Thursday, October 17, 2024
We can make a house called tomorrow
It's sobering to realize that there's a huge chunk of the U.S. voting population that doesn't think of sexual assault as something horrendous enough to disqualify a presidential candidate.
~Ana Kasparian
Happy Poetry Friday! How great is it to have poetry friends who will take up a meaningful challenge with you? Here's a post from 2020 full of poems about hand-marked paper ballots.
Ouch: Voting Machine by Maggie Smith
Lastly, I'm returning to Alberto Rios, who knows what to say:
A House Called Tomorrow
by Alberto Ríos
You are not fifteen, or twelve, or seventeen—
You are a hundred wild centuries
And fifteen, bringing with you
In every breath and in every step
Everyone who has come before you,
All the yous that you have been,
The mothers of your mother,
The fathers of your father.
If someone in your family tree was trouble,
A hundred were not:
The bad do not win—not finally,
No matter how loud they are...
read the rest here
****************
I'm visiting Ariana and Matthew this week but hope to make the rounds anyway, maybe a little late.
Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme has the Poetry Friday round-up. Thanks, Matt!
~Ana Kasparian
Happy Poetry Friday! How great is it to have poetry friends who will take up a meaningful challenge with you? Here's a post from 2020 full of poems about hand-marked paper ballots.
Ouch: Voting Machine by Maggie Smith
Lastly, I'm returning to Alberto Rios, who knows what to say:
A House Called Tomorrow
by Alberto Ríos
You are not fifteen, or twelve, or seventeen—
You are a hundred wild centuries
And fifteen, bringing with you
In every breath and in every step
Everyone who has come before you,
All the yous that you have been,
The mothers of your mother,
The fathers of your father.
If someone in your family tree was trouble,
A hundred were not:
The bad do not win—not finally,
No matter how loud they are...
read the rest here
****************
I'm visiting Ariana and Matthew this week but hope to make the rounds anyway, maybe a little late.
Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme has the Poetry Friday round-up. Thanks, Matt!
Vooooote
[Project 2025] is a meticulous outline of how they will crumple the system simultaneously through minute changes.
~Cecilia Esterline
For Art Thursday, voting! I voted early:
It was super easy, but would I have gone to great lengths to vote? You bet I would! Am I terrifed at the thought of someone with no regard for civil rights, ethics, or democracy taking the White House?
Like everyone, I am pulling myself together and carrying on. Conserve your strength, preserve your sanity, take action when you can. The Norman Rockwell Museum's Unity Project "calls upon all Americans to uphold democracy by voting":
VOTE
by Lisk Feng
Vote – Register – Find – Learn – Explore – Make Sure – Research – Look – Check
by Timothy Goodman
The Future is in Your Hands – VOTE
by Edel Rodruiguez
~Cecilia Esterline
For Art Thursday, voting! I voted early:
It was super easy, but would I have gone to great lengths to vote? You bet I would! Am I terrifed at the thought of someone with no regard for civil rights, ethics, or democracy taking the White House?
Like everyone, I am pulling myself together and carrying on. Conserve your strength, preserve your sanity, take action when you can. The Norman Rockwell Museum's Unity Project "calls upon all Americans to uphold democracy by voting":
VOTE
by Lisk Feng
Vote – Register – Find – Learn – Explore – Make Sure – Research – Look – Check
by Timothy Goodman
The Future is in Your Hands – VOTE
by Edel Rodruiguez
Labels:
#NeverTrump,
Art Thursday,
elections,
please vote,
voting
Monday, October 14, 2024
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