Blogs
The Ciel Show
- 3 days ago
Dry, dry heat - It's just after 5 in the morning. I woke at 4 in the...
Journal
- Popularity rank: 14
Loosely Speaking
- 16 hours ago
The Magic Hour - THE MAGIC HOUR a sonnet of art and age Stare not at the...
Everything Else
- Popularity rank: 21
How the Universe looks from here
- 3 days ago
A Very Simplistic Template for Growing Up - I read a recent post over...
Religion & Spirituality
- Popularity rank: 48
Kitchen Shenanigans
- 3 days ago
Mexican delight! - Yesterday afternoon I was up for sitting in the car a/c...
Cooking, Food & Wine
- Popularity rank: 49
Adventuring: A Travelblogue with Photos
- Feb 10, 2026
Flying high! - https://flic.kr/ps/rhS1C I've been collecting clouds and...
Travel
- Popularity rank: 71
Items
by Ciel3,968 words, poem
a tribute to JRR Tolkien. A series of poems celebrating Tolkien's Middle-earth: its history, its peoples, and the land itself.. Notes on the poems give some basic clarification for readers not familiar with the works of Tolkien..
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A Shire Reverie A gathering of stones, of mortar and affection: warmed by April sun, a drift of fragrance-- cow’s breath and old hay, ripe cheese, pale grasses, the lightest scent of blossom and the lingerance of snow, and second breakfast hearth-smoke... Distant crows wheeling, crying, cawing, coursely calling admiration of the new-turned turf, of turning season, of turning, turning, turning in the sky above the oaks...
by Ciel332 words, poem
from a dolphin point of view. three linked poems. Imagining the world-view of the dolphin in the highly-sensory environment of the ocean.
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Dive, dive, / descending / into darkness, / cool, / and cold... / and feel the hold / of the Embrace / that presses ever closer / in the greater dark, / the deeper, deepest blue...
by Ciel2,140 words, article
journal entries w/ photos. Several days of close observation during a time of activity of Mt St Helens, a few miles from home.. When a volcano is going off in my back yard, I can't just sit in the house watching it on TV..
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I didn’t intend to sit here all night, but wanted to wait until it was quiet. Really quiet. Just in case there was something to hear. For a couple of hours, there was the constant ebb and flow of car traffic, about one vehicle coming into the area for every 5 or 6 going out, then one for every 3 or 4, and finally, hardly any traffic either way. From here, headlights show them coming either way for miles, and the hillsides contain and reflect the sounds. It was not until just after 8PM that I...
by Ciel2,207 words, short story
short short, magical realism. a photographer's dream: getting the million-dollar image!. But at the end of the world, what is it worth? This short short story emerged from a dream I actually had.
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When the moon came over the horizon, she came steadily, graciously, like a duchess gliding along a grand staircase. It was hardly an unexpected moment, it had been in the Farmer’s Almanac, this moonrise, since the asteroid that just missed Earth glanced off her and she began her slow elegant spiral inwards, the Duchess descending the stair...