Month: January 2020

Thursday Inspiration 38 — Candy-Colored Clown

In an alternate universe clowns are like sunshine — everyone loves them. All of those fabulous colors, bulbous nose, wild hair, and big shoes. There has to be a fall guy in every circus; a star in every sky. As she spins she sings to the calliope music in her head. Twirling kaleidoscope in cracked…

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Visualizing The Beatles – Part 2

“Visualizing The Beatles: A Complete Graphic History of the World’s Favorite Band,” is written/designed by the duo of John Pring and Rob Thomas; copyright is 2018. I’m covering page 51-150 today. Visually-oriented individuals like myself will find it compelling. These 100 pages have welcomed the pattern but still are throwing new things in along the…

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What do you see? #11 — Jill and the Beanstalk

It took Princess Jill years on her quest to find a crone who had magic beans that could grow a stalk up to the predatory giant ogre’s, Hairy Vineswine’s, castle in the sky. She was going to go home to her kingdom for a farewell visit before planting the beans, but time was a-wasting. The…

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#FF — Oasis

PHOTO PROMPT © C.E. Ayr Oasis Each morning she slathered on a pharmaceutical witches brew and stepped into The Salton Sea. Most Bombay Beach RV dwellers scuttled to their metal pods in the heat. Attenuated to the stench and light as lithium, she floated with the gulls, cushioned by tilapia springs. She could see Salvation…

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dVerse — elemental — (Li) Lithium

Looking at the periodic table, Li (Lithium) jumped out at me, so here goes a poem about it. (Li) Lithium A metal of mettle, many extremes, Maybe why an egghead decided to feed me to those with extremes? Fifty years later, they’re at stage one of understanding the why or why not of my managing…

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Visualizing The Beatles – Part 1

I read about “Visualizing The Beatles: A Complete Graphic History of the World’s Favorite Band” on another blog (sorry, can’t remember which one) and was blessed because the local district library had it. I’m about 50 pages in and have to say that I love the visual format of the book. For visually-oriented individuals like…

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