Month: December 2025

“Oil is Not Energy,” by Jeffrey Insko (share from substack)

Please take a moment to follow the link and read Jeffrey’s essay. Clean water matters. From Bill Latka of Oil & Water Don’t Mix: This is exactly the kind of sharp analysis we need to cut through corporate messaging that puts our Great Lakes at risk. I’m genuinely grateful to Jeff for his clear, revealing…

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#SLS “Amazona” by Roxy Music (1973)

Stranded Album Art When I saw this week’s Song Lyric Sunday’s prompt, my first thought was a place in my home State of Michigan, and I can think of a few songs that mention it: “America,” by Simon & Garfunkel, “Brass in Pocket,” by The Pretenders, “Dancin’ in the Street,” by Martha and the Vandellas,”…

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FFF 62 — Doodads

Happy Friday Everyone! Lots of contending with the weather this week, but a few opportunities to forget about it also.  I went out for dinner with older son last night and took a few pics of the place we went.  It’s one of our favorite places to go.   Son usually gets pizza.  I got eggplant…

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dVerse MTB/Forms Thursday — Michigan December Tableau

taken the day before we got 8 more inches Michigan December Tableaucoat, boots, hat, scarf, gloveslong strides punch tall driftsgarage lock’s unfrozenblessing before taskbacktrack holes to houserehang keys on hookshiny red beast primed,plugged in, roars to lifechurns into bright lightchute spews white rivercoating cottonwooduntil time to turnround we go, circuitsheated grip warmersease arthritic joints.county plow…

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#FF — Never Again

PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson Never Again The parties we used to have! Held on Thursday nights, around the calendar. Everyone knew to bring a dish, a bottle, and a CD of their favorite tunes. Winter time may have been the best of all. Everyone bundled up, rosy-cheeked, snuggling with neighbors, hands over the raised…

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dVerse Poetics Tuesday — unwinding

image link unwindinglandscapes that one hopes are never bindingquicksand, bogs, crevasses please avoidweaves unseam as wisdom is unwindingseasons gather hems forever findingfabrics stitched with bits of overjoyverdant hopes may stay but are not bindingunstick bias, resolute non-mindingcomfort basks in quiet of the voidweaves unseam as wisdom is unwindingserendipity an unsought findingbobbin on high seas of…

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