Once Cocoons Fashioned from Nothing to form We came to exist Nestled and nurtured life Immersed in air, water, earth A living seed, destined to sprout Grace and vision foundation’s blueprint Metamorphosed! Butterflies realized! Liberated wings, tired from wiggling out Open and close slowly, practicing While we rest, wind-kissed promises Wings rested now, fluttering Wind…
Month: November 2019
#MM Music Challenge — Life is a Metaphor
Jim Adams is the music-loving host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Music Challenges. Jim says: The challenge today is to focus on [“One Way Out” by The Allman Brothers] and use it for inspiration in any form of creative expression (including but not limited to short stories, a piece of flash fiction, poems, lyrics, artwork, photography, (etc.)…
Coloring Club Plus — 11/15/19
The Celtic Circle was released October 7, 2003 by Windham Hill. There are 31 tracks on the 2 album set. I only got through the first disc today. Chris Nickson at allmusic.com says about this album: The term “Celtic” covers a broad sweep of music, from the traditional to new age, and this compilation seems intended…
Thursday Inspiration 30 — Rivers tell a story
At lyrics.com they list 19,267 lyrics that contain river, 49 artists with river in the name, and 100 albums with river in the title. Next to love/heartbreak, river has to be one of the most frequent themes ever in the music world. per wikipedia: Michigan has over 300 named rivers. Several names are shared by…
Cheetoism is a New Religion — petersironwood
Excellent essay that helps put Trumpism in context. It was written back in 2017 but it is as relevant today as it was then. (This blog post is a temporary departure from Schooled Haze and contemplations of AI/HCI). Trumpism is less a political offshoot of Republicanism than it is a new religion, at least…
Coloring Club Plus (collage) — 11/14/19
I’m way way late on Coloring Club Plus today and for that I apologize. No time to color today, so I’m using one of my collages instead. I hope you enjoy it. It makes me think of a party when I see it. Now I have to think of a good party song. OK, got…
dVerse — OLN — thankfulness — Remember Forget
remembering warm burned conjuring enjoying triggering grounding imprisoning disorienting liberating allowing forgiving detaching present absent forgetting In the trauma support group I’m attending, we need to dig into memories, then write and talk about them. You can guess some of the emotions that are triggered while doing it. Our teacher/mentor said her…
Tao Talk 