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Sunday, July 31, 2016

When it is just too darn hot...

What one word describes how summer heat feels to you? What do you like about hot days, and what is your comfort range? What do you do to cool down? This prompt is to inspire simple answers to the questions, but maybe pondering on heat and summer will inspire something poetic, or a photo that... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Untranslateable

There are words we use in English that are not considered actually English, though in time, they are likely to be absorbed and understood as English. We use them because they express something for which we have no equivalent. Like 'schadenfreude,' that German word that means finding pleasure in the... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, July 8, 2016

Defining terms

Some words are powerful on the surface, but they don't mean as much as they would if they were actually and specifically defined. Aside from 'good' and 'bad' and all their permutations, there are words like 'love' and 'peace.' There are so many kinds of love, and it seems the Greeks had different... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Circus and Zoo: An exercise in re-invention

There is an emotional/philosophical revolution happening in the relationship between our traditional, Western, civilized selves and the rest of nature, particularly the animals we think of as wild, the ones we capture or breed for our zoos, and exploit for entertainment. There is a powerful push... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Ripped from the headlines... of Facebook...

My son-in-law shared this on Facebook today. He is English himself, and he and my daughter now live in Lancashire. He has, from time to time, posted something about the Ins and Outs of the UK: tomorrow's nationwide referendum to decide whether the UK will remain in the European Union, or make an... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Jury duty...

What's your experience with jury duty? Do you look forward to the opportunity, or do you resent the inconvenience? If you have ever served on a jury, what was the case, and how was the experience? I've been called twice in the past 20 years, the latest time was this morning. The first time, I was... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, May 14, 2016

here is the poem promised a few days ago

When I am a ghost Freed of body hungers and gravity and time… I will stay to tread and swim and fly Where in life I could gaze only, deaf and blind, With my inadequate human heart And boundaried human mind. I will soar on wings of dream Over vasty desert dunes Great swathes etched and shaped... Sign in to see full entry.

Thinking of Muses...

I wrote this years ago for a writer friend who had a very real relationship with her muse: Muse Under branches reaching... for light of stars and solitary moons and wanderers across the sky... Always I am here-- another tale unfolding, a flower held in both our hands unbudding to an unexpected... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 8, 2016

What in the world...

If you could go fearlessly--nothing could hurt you even if it wanted to) out across the world, perhaps flying, or maybe just invisible, (why not both?) what would you go to see? What would you be seeking there? Would it be an event, like a great migration, or watching animals and land respond to the... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Prompt: The Temple

A friend of mine recently posted on facebook something about temples. Hers is the Mormon Temple, and her post was about Biblical temples, and how they are built for people to meet and make their covenants with God. Later, I saw a post about Jane Goodall, and her statement about how the forest is her... Sign in to see full entry.

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