image link (not the actual cemetery) Frank J. Tassone is the host of dVerse for Haibun Monday. Frank says: What is worth remembering? Why are some events so important that we need to memorialize them, while others we can let slip away? How do we truly honor whom, or what, we want to remember? Using…
Month: May 2019
Coloring Club Plus — 5/28/19
I bought Cat Stevens’ “Foreigner” album when it first came out. One of my friends had bought me, “Tea for the Tillerman” as a Christmas gift (I bought her a James Brown album) and I loved it so got this one. It’s one I listened to incessantly until it was burned into my grey matter….
Twittering Tales #138 – 28 May 2019 — Letting Go
Kat is the host of Twittering Tales. Kat says: Your mission, if you choose to accept the challenge, is to tell a story in 280 characters or less. Letting Go Mim, award-winning life coach, helped clients turn negatives into positives. Every Friday night Mim’s clients gathered their negatives and brought them to the symbolic barrel…
The Perfect Noodle
Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay A common misconception about the miracle of cooking the perfect noodle is that the gas flame must be banked to the perfect point between the water boiling and the water boiling over. Although it is true that keeping the water just boiling makes for a tender noodle, the ultimate…
dVerse — Ghazal — Reason to Believe
Routine Heartbreak by Ina Mar (2009) Reason to Believe When I look into your eyes and see love’s gentle grace, I don’t want to believe your eyes deceive; they do, and I don’t. As your snug embrace holds me, feeling safe and enraptured, I want to believe it’s love, not just convenience, but…
Coloring Club Plus — 5/27/19
Today is another cut from Sting’s, “Dream of the Blue Turtles.” Read yesterday’s post which gives more information about the album here. Even though the song is about the cold war with Russia in the 1980’s, the scope is much wider. When we fight wars, do our enemies love their children? The innocent children always…
Cock a Doodle Do Do Do Do
Image by klimkin from Pixabay In 1973, Charles was the star basketball player for the University of Wyoming’s NBAA #1 rated Laramie Mountain Lions. Playing forward on and off the court, Charles’ colorful actions around town kept him on Section 1, page 1 of the town’s newspaper, The Laramie Return Serve. Charles’ latest exploits involved…
Tao Talk 