image link Another one for Song Lyric Sunday, as I see it is a memorial day for the fallen in the UK. After listening to Soul Cages, I was reminded of another Sting tune that speaks to the memorial. Update: embarrassed to say I didn’t realize it was Veteran’s Day in the US! It’s for…
Month: November 2018
“Beware of Darkness, by George Harrison
In 2014, I bought the box set of George Harrison: The Apple Years 68-75, which has his first 6 solo albums, as well as a video disk with short documentary, music video, etc. Being honest here, I can’t say I’ve gotten much past the “All Things Must Pass” CD. George Harrison and his solo music…
Tacky or Silk?
image link Today’s offering is a blitz poem , which is where you pretty much do stream of consciousness. Usually I do these with no real idea in mind of where it is going. Today’s is different in that I kept the word of the day challenge — tactile in mind while writing it. This…
Reluctant Guide
Health is a homeostatic condition where all of the systems and functions operate collaboratively and harmoniously with each other in the microcosm and with the environment in the macrocosm. Our bodies are like well-tuned machines that were designed long ago and have been refined over millions of years. Health is something that is often…
Mean Streets
When someone hears the expression mean streets what exactly goes through their mind? If they’ve never lived on them they will have to use their imaginations. If they have, they have enough packaged memories of them to last many lifetimes. I was one of the ones who did. Dirt poor, lots of kids in our…
Orange Disease
image link Evil took an essentially inert orange slug life form and disrupted it into first a brittle, crunchy, Cheeto-like substance, from which it then morphed, after exposure to radioactive doses of dark force, into an oozing orange slime, which, when sublimated into a vapor, has now disseminated itself across the globe, inadvertantly being either…
First Snow
We had our first snow today. I’ve been sitting here and looking at it all day. Birds fly past, heading to and from the bird feeders. The occasional hawk comes into view. Today’s offering is in the form of a rondeau . Snow’s arrival to the season turns the air from cold to freezin’…
Tao Talk 