Image by Robert Ramsay from Pixabay The team of astrophysicists took a small cell sample from the large blue crystalline eye and examined it on a slide under a superelectroplasmic photon microscope. They were shocked that the cells were just as lustrous under 1 million times magnification. “It’s unnatural!,” said Senior Scientist Margo French. “It’s…
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Coloring Club Plus — 5/12/19
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY TO ALL MOTHERS OR THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED A MATERNAL ROLE Jim Messina, formerly of Poco and Buffalo Springfield, was working as an independent record producer for Columbia Records in 1970 when he met Kenny Loggins, a little-known singer/songwriter and guitarist who was signed to ABC-Dunhill as a staff songwriter. The two…
SLS — 2nd offering — Merle Haggard — Mama Tried
Because I’m feeling guilty for not choosing a song for all the moms out there, I’m posting 2 songs today for SLS. “Mama Tried” is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in July 1968 as the first single and title track from the…
SLS — Flowers — R.E.M. — The Flowers of Guatemala
Jim Adams is the ever-ready and always-prepared host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: The theme today is Mom/Mother/Flowers. Here are the “rules”: Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the theme or not. Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due. Make…
Reena’s Exploration Challenge and dVerse Lai form — Blind Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike by Carol Allen Anfinsen Axe’s bleeding edge Raised o’er outstretched necks To strike. Gene-spliced monsters fledge As architects pledge “Safe-like.” Evolution sledged On extinction’s ledge Blind shrike. A Butcher Bird, or Shrike is a predatory songbird, fearless and bold. It is a ferocious killer that will impale its victims. This lai form…
Rest in Peace
Image by Elsemargriet from Pixabay Since I was a young child, it has been hammered into my head that humans share the planet with wildlife. This has given me a base of kindness and conservation for nature’s intricate ecosystems. In college my field of study was aquatic biology. Each summer, a group of students traveled…
Saturday Mix – Sound Bite, 11 May 2019 — Escape (mature audiences only)
Clanking and clinking, she paced back and forth across the cold cement floor, feet slapping, waiting for the cheap tin plate of stale bread crusts and rotten fruit breakfast to scrape under the door. The last time she tried to jump on his back when he entered the room meant now she was affixed to…
Tao-Talk 