PHOTO PROMPT © Fatima Fakier Deria The BOOM pulled us out into the night. At first they said it was a fire, but the colors looked all wrong. It felt like a holiday, and the children chased each other in the dewy grass as we watched the glow reach heaven. The ashes fell on us…
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.
Coloring Club Plus — 12/4/19
Today’s selection is a new one for me. I know the Indigo Girls, but I went out in search of a song that had a forest in it and Christmas, and this one sounds pretty danged good. I also learned that they are currently doing a few shows. Indigo Girls are an American folk rock…
dVerse — Wordless
Laura is today’s host for dVerse. Laura says: The challenge is to choose ONE or MORE from THE LIST of words BELOW and include it/them in the body and/or title of your poem. If possible, add a soupçon of hopefulness for Hope is the message in this first advent week! ageless ~ boundless ~ breathless ~…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #14 – December 3, 2019
A Touch of Sin (2013) Starring: Wu Jiang, Lanshan Luo, Baoqiang Wang, Jia-yi Zhang, Tao Zhao, Li Meng Director: Zhang Ke Jia Synopsis: Four powerful, unflinching vignettes that each, in their own way, showing a human being pushed past their point of endurance. Exploitation and corruption are a continuing thread that run through each. Excellent…
What do you see? #6 — First Sighting
image by: JOHN TOWNER @unsplash Log of events as captured by implant recorder’s stream of consciousness by subject #A463992 on July 31, 2070AD: July 31st is the day it was broadcast across planet Earth that the extraterrestrial invasion was imminent. I was on my bicycle on a favorite country road, riding the snaking road through…
#FFFC — A Warrior and a Gentleman
One of the perks of being in the Samurai cavalry was when not out serving their Shoguns, they could visit the pleasure bathhouses and partake of hot water and being scrubbed with crystalized lotus blossoms before making a choice of a lady for the evening. Most of the soldiers were not interested in small talk,…
dVerse — quadrille — Coloring Musical December
one-dimensional snowflakes, nesting dolls, ornaments, gingerbread houses, sleighs with ponies, children building snowpeople, trees with red-winged bobbles, sleds pointing downhill, skates going “8”s Hynde’s dirge Ukrainian carol Run-DMC’s Hollis Carey’s want Bing-Bowie’s boy Eartha’s baby Kinks-Elvis father blue Warning: Multi-sensory gestures may evoke spirit. De Jackson (aks WhimsyGizmo) is today’s host of dVerse. De says:…
Tao-Talk 