POPO 2025 — Day 20 — POPO Playtime!

POPO Playtime! POPO has returned the artist to her studio, a 4’ x 2’ foldout table with floor space to stack boxes of magazine, coffee table books, and pattern sample cutouts. TV trays hold implements: paper cutter, paint, brushes, glue, acrylic finishers, envelopes, bits & scraps, who’ve been waiting to come out and play!

POPO 2025 — Day 19 — Turning it Up

Turning it Up May was June June was July What will we get this month? For sixty plus years A/C was optional. Now it keeps us alive. With cars going electric, where will energy sprout as we frogs in the pot begin to boil?

POPO 2025 — Day 18 — Extreme Moderation

Extreme Moderation Summer and winter extremes, their domains of life and death; where only hardy dare tread, watched through windows instead. It is in freedom of spring and fall where moderation gives its all that we step out and call Nature our friend.

POPO 2025 — Day 17 — (chlorophyll coloring)

(chlorophyll coloring) Why do blue and green make such a perfect color combination? Chlorophyll and hydrogen each have three syllables. Blue and red from sun set into leaves and green bounces into our eyes through the sky. Blue light scatters because of the way it travels. Sun’s white light wiggles, worm-like, lazy-prismed sky stealers. Clouds…

POPO 2025 — Day 16 — Solstice

Solstice Lady Luna leads the way glowing reflection to look to balancing of darkness and light if just for a day. The cyclicity of things says things cannot stay still; peace must remain but ideal in a beautiful, terrible sea of chaos.

POPO 2025 — Day 15 — Petroleum Way (re: Oil & Water Don’t Mix)

Petroleum Way (re: Oil & Water Don’t Mix) My elected rep just sent a proud email stating he’s introduced legislation that, if passed, would make it impossible to shut down Canada’s Enbridge Line 5, the decrepit oil pipeline that runs under the Straits of Mackinac. Building a tunnel around it won’t matter. It threatens fresh…