Fandango has posed the following provocative question: “If you could be the opposite sex for one day, what would you do?” My (Satur)day as a man. I’d love to wake up in the nude and go pee standing up AND LEAVE THE TOILET SEAT UP. Then head for the bedroom and put on some skivvies,…
Month: November 2018
which oneo?
Fandango, your question of dependent or dependant inspired my poem today :) audio or video? pan or liddeo? fat or thineo? green or blueo? hot or coldeo? will or wonteo? laugh or cryeo? pitch or catcheo? cavatini or macaroneo? dog or cateo? cow or chickeneo? fish or clameo? salt or peppereo? flakes or wheatieseo? now…
memory of the lake
image link I tried to remember the tactility of a day at the beach as a child. * summer at the small inland lake soft fleece blanket lays on the warm sand anchored with the cooler and our flip flops pulling off tank tops and shorts warm breeze tickles the hair on our arms and…
Listless
The familiar sound of mail being dropped through the postal slot caught Chauncey’s bat-like ears. He jumped up and scurried across the wooden floors, his nails skittering like human fingers tapping on a keyboard, towards the door. Sniffing the mail, he then bee-lined it for the couch, leaping like the natural athlete he is, to…
Castigation in Film
Today’s word of the day is castigation, which M-W defines as, “to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism”. In a bit of synchronicity, I watched a library loan movie, “Force Majeure” (2014), aka “Turist”, last night, which is a meticulous study of castigation. Imdb gives the minimal description, “A family vacationing in the French…
Examples of Finesse
image link — Henri Matisse’s, “Nude in a White Turban” threading a needle while riding a bike * playing jenga on a unicycle * starting a fire on a first try * successful sourdough rise in mid-winter * getting hardboiled eggshell off in less than 10 seconds * tying a shoelace with one hand…
Dream Cave
Recently, when I did the collage for Janis Joplin saving the day in my Manifestation story, I also created this collage. There was nothing particular in mind while searching through the boxes of cutout images, other than wanting it to have a dream-like quality to it. Then, yesterday, I read dverse prompt Meet the bar…
Tao Talk 