Hello All. Happy Friday! It’s been a whirlwind week and it isn’t over yet. Wednesday I went out for lunch to a place downtown called The Early Owl. I can’t remember what the building was years ago, but they’ve turned it into a bee-yoo-tiful restaurant. We had lunch up on the rooftop a few years…
POPO 2026 Day 16
As gardener & bird feeder,even when livingalone, I am taking oncultivating community.This philosophy also goesfor folks with fur babiesand aquariums; a willingnessto do the work, with no otherexpectation of thanksthan observing & appreciatingmy & their health blossoming.
POPO 2026 Day 15
Rally July 19 Five yessed to start; now three,we’re going to listen toBernie, El-Sayed, and AOC.A gathering so largebeyond any so far for me.I long to merge with swelling sea,shoulder to shoulder,kindred believers inwe, the peoples’ rightto have and speak outfor democracy.
#FF — Meticulous
Meticulous Henry keeps things exactly where they were when Marijo was still at home. Henry is not a neat person by nature, but he honors her this way. Marijo nursed their five children through fevers, stomach problems, rashes, and much more. It was her meticulous care that ensured they survived each calamity and reached adulthood….
POPO 2026 Day 14
Ground-cover along drivewayresists heat of boulders ’roundwhich they curve.Sedum and woolly thymeride surface of powdery earthlike blooming toupeeon octogenarian’s head.I hear them sigh as hoseshowers cool them in last of day.
dVerse Tuesday Poetics — Fate’s Welcome
Fate’s Welcome Luna’s limelight lures, her mute scream’s casting call,a promise, a pact wakes me within a dream, to fallunder sickly green Halloween spell, her price to tell.She says my drowsing pleas to travel Cronos’ Well,to past, where innocents have lost souls to darkveil;to lift its curse with might, restore their sacred braille,have been heard….
POPO 2026 Day 13
Should I go back to work? Home maintenance cries for attentionbut so do Mlady & Dotty, my cats.Monks live in caves, at peace.Does monk peace energy improvethe world? Although not a monk,if I leave my cave, my work mayimprove the world; and definitelywould refresh-renovate my home. note: poem was writtenJuly 13, when Dotty was still…
