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 Klutz

image link Chet was a klutz. It started in infancy when he dropped his baby bottle from the crib. Chet’s nanny came running and had the formula-saturated broken pieces of thick clear glass bagged and put into the bin in a jiffy. “Chetty, that’s the third bottle this week! What are we going to do…

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Coloring Club Plus — 8/4/19

The coloring has nothing to do with the post, except that it is a place I would like to take my mind to right now; a peace-inducing lily-covered pond. I was going to pick a song randomly, as usual. Then I heard about the maniac in El Paso who fired into a busy store and…

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Hungry (mature audiences only)

image link WARNING:  THIS MAY BE TRIGGERING FOR THOSE WITH PTSD Father Jones had been sent by the church to the far reaches of Alaska to convert the Alaskan population to Christianity. You see, Father Jones was a weak man. He’d been bounced from parish to parish for years, as his weakness of “infatuations” with…

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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #98 — Perspective

image link   Perspective — a prism where your eye is the light your brain waits for rainbow.     Reena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge.  Reena says: A favorite theme which reflects in my writing is perspective. I’m totally fascinated with the potential of this – how it creates different realities for…

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Carpe Diem Haiku Kai — Fields of Flowers

image link textured color rainbow or monochrome — happy, tired bees drone * sea of white lilies sweet waves rise in warm afternoon — calls bees to swim * summer flowers, colorful and social, cluster across fields * Pollack’s ideas whispered to him from flowers – color-splashed canvas. * Ants and grasshoppers dine under colored…

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