I’ve invested seed money,believing in the ABC’s:asters yield deep purple;balloon flowers top charts;cosmos caps capture interest. Incented, content, I sniff,blessed by return kindness.My shareholder butterfly strawglugs from milkweed constellations. Wreaths, bouquets, cinnamon fieldsof carnations — priceless wealth. Today when I dropped off borrowed materials and picked up the new batch, I decided to take…
Author: Lisa or Li
mother, grandmother, gardener, observer of nature, reader, writer, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music, philosophical daoist. Welcome.
The Sunday Muse 158 — Dream Lover
To knock me off balance again I see you, wind-blown, in my dream. Freezing and begging for respite, I beckon, “Come, get in the car.” So cold you are! You reach for me to knock me off balance again. We cling for dear life, for our love, enduring time, circumstances. I hadn’t thought of you…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 26 — CraZed Institution, from Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll, Too Young to Die
And here we are, at the 26th day of 2021’s A to Z Challenge. It’s been a blast to create the daily posts and to read such enjoyable offerings from so many. Thank you for reading about the fabulous Jethro Tull and listening to some of their best tunes, commenting and for making the…
Standing with Women Water Protectors, by Barbara Williams — Rise Up Times
“The proposed monstrosity would snake through 200 pristine lakes and rivers in Northern Minnesota including watersheds for the wild rice that is unique to this part of the world and has been intrinsic to the Anishinaabeg/Ojibwe way of life for centuries. A spill could permanently destroy rice beds as well as the fish and wildlife habitat.”…
dVerse — OLN 291 — Spring slimverse series 042821
I’m frilly, perched with my sisters — songs for the bees. Beauty taunts, but beware: she can take your liver. Leaves too grand for compost; stalks so good – yummy pie! Shrinking, I hide in grass but smile for cameras. Note: if you click on the link to the photos it will take you to…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 25 “Year One” (Skating Away on the Ice of a New Day) from War Child (1974)
War Child is their seventh studio album, released in 1974. Much of the music from it was derived from past recording sessions of the band. “Only Solitaire” and “Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day” were left over from the summer 1972 writing sessions for what was to have been the follow-up…
#FF — Lost Respite
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson For twenty-plus years, they’d lived each weekend at the cabin from spring to fall. Social distancing forgotten, they kayaked Duckweed Lake by day and listened to loons calling at dusk from the patio. Mid-October they winterized the place before heading back to Greenville for winter’s prison. It’s April; time to…
Tao-Talk 