image link From the attic, the young girl watched the elderly German couple tend their garden. She awakened each morning to the sound of the sprinklers spraying the plants. Over the weeks she watched the watermelons grow from egg-sized to plate-sized to ever-larger. The old man pulled weeds in the mornings and the old woman…
Author: Lisa or Li
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U.S. company making $750 per day, per child to keep immigrant children in ‘prison-like’ conditions
Originally posted on Rise Up Times:
These children are battling a sense of deep helplessness and sheer frustration and confusion on why they don’t know anything or on why they are still detained,” By Tod Perry Good June 24, 2019 One of the most perverse aspects of the American justice system is for-profit prisons. Companies that own…
#FF — A Final Bow
PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz Hernando the Magnificent died on Wednesday, June 6, 1974 at age of 70. Hernando’s passion for magic and illusion began when he saw a live Harry Houdini show in 1926. Hernando traveled the east coast for 40 years and was President of the Magicians and Illusionists International Guild for the…
Coloring Club Plus — 6/26/19
Lightning Bolt is the tenth studio album by the American rock band Pearl Jam, released October 2013. It’s their most recent studio album, but I have heard word that they have a new one coming out. Lightning Bolt is an excellent album, so this is just one of many good cuts on it. I like…
Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, June 26th 2019 … sun bathing with link to dVerse OLN
Sun Bathing Sunlight’s magnet pulls our clothes off as if metal. Skin burned in toaster. Our beach blankets lie close enough to cool wet sand to feel the wind’s chill. All-sized birds sunbathe; regardless, clothing optional – tan lines or no? Surf’s constant shushing is sunbather’s lullaby — soft blanket’s cradle. Sunscreen is poison; sunlight…
dVerse — Laurie Lee poet passage alchemy — Animal Kingdom Commodity
image link Laura is the host of dVerse today. Laura says: The Challenge therefore is to CHOOSE ONE of the extracts of [Laurie Lee’s] prose … and with your own alchemy, turn it into poetry. I chose to follow your tips, Laura, and used unexpected adjectives in a quatrain form with 9-syllable lines (one has…
Amos Moses
Mrs. Sweet had been teaching kindergarten for thirty years, and in all of those thirty years, she had never come across a more disruptive and dedicated-to-violence child as Amos Moses. Mrs. Sweet would watch Amos out of her room’s window in the morning before school opened. Amos would throw pea-sized pebbles that the playground was…
Tao-Talk 