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Friday, August 14, 2015

Out of the Poetry Cache

This one was published once in a newspaper/magazine in Seattle with New Age leanings. It was quite a few years ago, I don't know if the paper still exists. This one is for Amanda, TAPS, and Nautikos. (I didn't say it on yesterday's, but that one was particularly for Kabu also TAPS.) ASCENSION Struggling, striving, yearning towards the light, our passage isn't always seen by those in passing either way. We climb, we pause, we rest... and reach again... And though we dally here and there or sleep... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 13, 2015

A cache of poems

So much change, so much reorganizing, which is a kind of inadvertant treasure-hunt with sudden finds of long-misplaced goodies! I came across a fat envelope containing print-outs of many of the poems I've written over the years, some in collections ready to be assembled into little chap-books and offered at local bookstores. I will be able to do that now. I will be posting a few here in coming days. Here's one now, in fact... from the Menagerie collection: THE CATS DECLINE The cats have run away... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

An unexpected visitor this evening...

https://www.flickr.com/gp/therovingeye/25nt91 Isn't he lovely? I was concerned for the local squirrel, but according to the book, this fellow prefers poultry: the house finches, sparrows and others raised something of a fuss until he left. Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 8, 2015

I have a dilemma...

I have a dilemma, and your feedback is welcome. The collective wisdom from life experience and perspective here in Blogit Village is substantial! Charlie and I have discussed this somewhat, and he blogged about his situation here: http://projectprospero.blogspot.com/2015/08/i-was-so-not-built-to-live-in.html?showComment=1439033422886#c8917338274726757952 He will be 30 soon, and he needs all the things one needs to build a stable foundation for a life: basic necessities like food, rent,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 3, 2015

What luck!

The truck might not have made it all the way to the strip mall where my bank is... I might not have been able to get it into a parking space... My phone had JUST enough juice to make arrangements for a tow, and I had not left it at home... It could have been temps in the 90s, instead of cloudy and 80s... Thunderstorms on either side could have caught me outside and didn't... The gout could have been this week instead of last week. I could have not been able to reach Charlie's dad to get the AAA... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 1, 2015

Blue moon

Last night, she rode brightly despite being veiled in clouds, and my little camera did its best to capture the vision of it. This time, in honor of the occasion, I confess to fiddling the color balances in favor of a certain blueness. Also, there are a couple more shots of the garden. In other news... Charlie is off to his last Saturday as Ren Fest Court Drummer, probably another hot, sunny, exhausting day. Tomorrow, closing day, he will be there late as the cast and crew celebrate the end of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 31, 2015

How does the garden grow...?

Coming along nicely, my morning glories and nasturtiums, and a couple of other things. The morning glories seem to grow overnight several inches of tendril, using the water I pour in once or twice a day, I suppose. https://www.flickr.com/gp/therovingeye/C22p02 Out back, the birds have planted sunflowers as they eat so messily, and the sunflower seeds are very healthy. While the one in the photos has gone face down in the yard (I blame the high winds we had here a few days ago) others are getting... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

The dream ends...

More than once I have gloated over the lack of mosquitoes where I live. In three years, I saw maybe three mosquitoes! This summer, that gloating ends. It has been a wetter spring and summer than usual and somewhere, water is gathering. So--mosquitoes. We've dumped out all the containers that collect water, but there is not much we can do about the pool on the flat roof that we can't even see. I suspect that it does not drain thoroughly between rains. Now what we need are more bats. Meanwhile,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 27, 2015

so... tofu

A lot of people don't much like tofu, the non-dairy, soy bean curd, the cottage cheese of the vegetable world. It is white, bland, and just not terribly interesting. But there are ways to make it a lot more appealing and interesting, because of it's tendancy to absorb and become the flavors you cook it with. I start with a firm tofu, not the soft kind that is good to blend into a recipe, adding protein and a bit of texture, and essentially vanishing. The firm brick has a bit more of its own... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Saw a show last night...

The plain truth is, I have a deep-seated antipathy towards bodily waste. As long as I can remember, the disgust seems bottomless... so to speak... even knowing it is quite natural, a part of living in a body. Feeling so often overcomes knowing. Maybe I had an unfortunate toilet-training. The point is, some essential part of my personality shies away, disapproves, even disdains the title: URINETOWN, THE MUSICAL. But we had comp tickets and it is a show that has won awards on Broadway, is highly... Sign in to see full entry.

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I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out. ______________________ all my words and images posted on Blogit are copyright 2005-present, all rights reserved.

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