Lisa or Li

#MMB October — “All This Time” by Sting

I lived next to a shipyard when I was young and it was a very powerful image of this huge ship towering above the house. Tapping into that was a godsend – I began with that and the album just flowed. – Sting Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (b. 10/2/51,) known as Sting, is an English singer, songwriter,…

POPO 2025 — Day 21 — drinkable riot

drinkable riot Riotous chamomile with its tall stalks, tiny daisy heads moving to wind’s (uneven) rhythm makes me smile; as it delights me to see my tea free in the wild.

dVerse — Q234 — Anime Girl

Blue platform shoes. Courtesy Vivienne Westwood. Photo Victoria and Albert Museum, London Anime Girl Stepped from eighties anime,she’s topped,pink mop’sridge falls togreen almonds.Her zygomatsappled rapture.Lipstick smile,bulldog chin,bobble necksouths, slender,to shadow valley.She’s sheathed in pressed purpleelastic sparkle.Her sequins lighttwo matchsticks strike blueplatform shoes. Punam is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday, where we write a 44-word…

POPO 2025 — Day 20 — POPO Playtime!

POPO Playtime! POPO has returned the artist to her studio, a 4’ x 2’ foldout table with floor space to stack boxes of magazine, coffee table books, and pattern sample cutouts. TV trays hold implements: paper cutter, paint, brushes, glue, acrylic finishers, envelopes, bits & scraps, who’ve been waiting to come out and play!

Toad Vs. Frog

Son attended No More Kings march in GR earlier in the day. A friend attended one in town earlier in the day. We attended one later in the day. At all 3 places, the gatherings were peaceful, and there were no signs of magates, disruptors, ICE, etc. The mood in the crowds was positive and…

POPO 2025 — Day 19 — Turning it Up

Turning it Up May was June June was July What will we get this month? For sixty plus years A/C was optional. Now it keeps us alive. With cars going electric, where will energy sprout as we frogs in the pot begin to boil?

#SLS — “Bones” by The Killers

When I saw Jim’s prompt, I had no particular song in mind but I wanted one that had bones in it. Something for the listener to gnaw on when they heard it. Doing a YouTube search with bone, this one popped up. Have you ever listened to an album and apprehended it via the musical…