“Assange’s family members will meet with activists, press, and policymakers to raise awareness of the importance of protecting whistleblowers and journalists, and to advocate for the release of Julian Assange, whom the United Nations has declared “arbitrarily detained” since 2010.” Assange’s Father on US Tour, includes Minneapolis/St. Paul — Rise Up Times please spread the word
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 163 — Cello Girl
The cicadas awake to see peonies bloomas the girl with the cello plays songs in the park;where their drones rise with ginger sweet, scented perfume; metronomes setting time with the random dog’s bark.Lovers lie in soft grass / fingers trail arms and cheekswhere the assembled chorus remains until dark. At the edge of the park…
James Oliver Curwood and Curwood Castle — History and Tour with 061821 update
On Wednesday, June 2, 2021, I drove to the first special place (that I haven’t seen yet) from a book I bought a few years ago, called, “Lost in Michigan,” Curwood Castle in Owosso, MI. The Castle was built in 1922-1923, long after Curwood was famous, as a writing studio and as a place to…
dVerse — Poetics — Grandma’s Baby Saturday
Thursday began as any other morning, when the breeze blew in this morning. Cats figure-eight my first sit-spot as cats are wont to do. The coffee brews. Outside, look up, not blue; storm brews? Stirring cream into the hot steaming mug, stirring emotions swirl; Saturday is baby. Not quite eight weeks old, Saturday my…
dVerse — MTB — Curwood Castle
Day trip, along two roads of perpendicular straight lines,cuts through endless fields, punctuated by bergsand a prison. One way ends and then begins curves;first anchored by a rectangle that serves as a dash between a poetry of smooth golden-rodded turrets’ curves.Inside, heavy, burnished oak of narrow staircases curlever upward; tree repurposed to vine. At last,…
Petite Pointe Au Sable Lighthouse (and a few flowers)
These were all taken on June 1, 2021. All pictures can go full size if you click on their caption links. I took a video out there and added a soundtrack because the wind and the screams of a little kid chasing gulls was not pleasant.
Hanspostcard’s Movie Draft, Round 11 Pick 7, “Begin Again” (2013)
Dan: You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.Greta: I know you can. That’s what’s worrying me.– from, “Begin Again” Title: “Begin Again”Released: 2013Genre: Music*Director and Writer: John CarneyStarring: Keira Knightly, Mark Ruffalo, James Corden, Hailee Steinfeld, Catherine Keener, Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def,) Adam Levine, Karen Pittman, Paul Romero,…
