February 2020 – Page 9

Earthweal OLW 6 — Failed experiment

A convention center in Wuhan, China, converted into a temporary hospital, Feb. 6, 2020. Reading Brendan’s essay about how things with the weather are speeding up and getting stronger, along with the photo he used showing the beds lining up in a convention center turned hospital in Wuhan, China for the viral epidemic going on,…

#MM Music Challenges — true love’s erasure

Jim Adams is the research-loving host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Music Challenges. Jim says: The challenge today is to focus on this “The Race is On” and use it for inspiration in any form of creative expression. Lyrics from the song, “written by Don Rollins and first recorded as a demo by Jimmie Gray in 1961”…

Doodads 2/7/20 — One of these things…

I borrowed “The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy” by Valerie Ann Worwood from the library within the last week and have been consulting and taking notes from it since then. Today the copy I bought arrived in the mail. I noticed immediately that there was a substantial difference in size between the two…

Thursday Inspiration 42 — take me with u

Muriel grew up being taught that staying put and letting the seasons visit was the way it was meant to be. She had never been more than twenty miles from the home she was born in, and she liked it that way. There were times the summer seemed too short and the winter seemed too…

dVerse — a day (or week) in the life — m-f

m-f m 2 am eyelid oil rigs pumping 4 am sagging, then curling into nightmares 6 am anchored in steaming shower 8 am cubicled and waiting 10 am called to private conference 12 pm gagging in stall 2 pm trying to catch up 4 pm the late cubicle drop 6 pm wrapping things up 8…

#FF — I’m YUGE!

PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz Tweet: Paper votes are sad. Joffrey’s “landslide victory” was effected through a nation-wide voting machine virus. The Gamerican People began rioting. Givil War II was commencing, with GAGA outnumbered 10:1 by Bernites. Joffrey consulted Par-a-Gago’s resident witch for ideas on crowd control. Tweet: Free white hoods available at every mall….