#FF — Shattered Impasse
Shattered Impasse Each night it’s the same dream. I’m at a crossroads, where options are presented with faded, though legible signs. Just as in waking life, I’m paralyzed, unable to make a decision. “Get your fat ass out of bed and make my breakfast!!!!!” His roar from the kitchen rouses me. My warm feet feel…
Female Animator Exhibit at Muskegon Museum of Art
This past Sunday some of the family went canoeing and some of us went to the Muskegon Museum of Art. One of the exhibits was about female animators. It included many drawings, colorings, and biographies by them. They had kiosks set up that showed some neat early ones, including “silhouette animation.” They also set up…
Breathe Deep
Breathe Deep One becomes many,building, pausing;alone again, praying,falling, melancholy,subdued, sustained. Incremental lightconversations of whathope might look like. Warmth spreads, grows,turning eyes skyward.There! Daybreak! Tears stream each cheek,air perfumedwith roses and birdsong.Breathe deep. Kim is today’s host for dVerse’ Poetics Tuesday. Kim says:Now listen to ‘Adagio for Strings’ conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and played by the…
Re-Blog from Turtle Talk: Three Fires Confederacy Reclaims the Straits as a Place of Anishinaabe Ceremony and Collective Action AND… GOOD NEWS ON LINE 5. !NEW UPDATE! (at bottom)
AND from Yesterday was a HUGE win! Governor Gretchen Whitmer and EGLE Director Phil Roos took bold action, announcing they are halting a key tunnel permit and reopening the review. This follows the Michigan Supreme Court’s July 31 ruling, which restored the Michigan Environmental Protection Act and the public trust as the measure of what…
dVerse OLN 415 — A Long Way Baby
When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have done, your role is to remind us how far we have come. –Gloria Steinem A Long Way, Baby women only in dressesmen in work overallsdinner on and at the table when he gets homemeat, potato, vegetabletv trays and foil banquet dinnersmetal lunch…
#FF — The Prisoner
The Prisoner Lines and brick, what does it mean? She sees them when she closes her eyes at lights-out. She palpates her temples, feeling deep grooves from electrodes’ repeat scarring. Her jaws clench and she shudders in sympathetic memory of cold metal tables and burly, hairy arms holding her down. Her fetal curl tightens. She…
Tao-Talk 