2025: the year in reading

Since I stopped using Firefox for my browser, I lost all of those cool apps I had, like screen shots.  I can’t figure out how to get an app that works on the PC that will do screen shots on Duck Duck Go, so I went the mechanical way and took pics of the books…

#TNG 105 / 227 (photographs)

Judy Dykstra-Brown is the host of The Numbers Game.  To play, go to your media search box and type in 227 and share photos from what pops up.  Here are mine, in a slide show.  Look for the little arrow to the right of the pic to advance it.

Book Review: _Poems & Prayers_, by Matthew McConaughey

It’s good for what it is, which is a short, but dense, handbook comprised mostly of rhyming verse and haiku-like proverbs — with notes — that make existential sense. The poems and prayers cross all chronologies and matters of heart, soul, and conscience. Several of them resonate for me as I perceive them as hard-won…

FFF 63 and Friday Faithfuls essay on AI

white crystal twinkleson the night before Christmaswalking in the air Jim Adams asks Friday Faithfuls to write about anything related to AI. This is going to be stream of consciousness. The first thing coming to mind is a movie I watched recently, “Eddington,” where one major conflict between the sheriff of the town and the…

A Christmas Eve Prayer (repost)

Today and every day a wish: as we experience moments, we each resonate in mind, body, soul; shine light within ourselves and towards others. With peace so reign on Earth top image:  my photo of a holiday decoration at the hair salon form:  Waltmarie.  The “Waltmarie” was created Candace Kubinec. The Waltmarie form is a…

Holiday pictures, poems, The Snowman

energy gatheredcold short solstice days preparefor long eveninghuddle closely face to facecomfort brightens lonely space   sanctuary singsholy instruments bring joytell sacred storiesone with one they sound as oneworshippers gather today   everyone welcomedeserves is just a conceptto dine in rules outwith judgment there is no placedignity for all   Notes:first pic are the solar…

#SLS – “Hell is Near,” by St. Vincent

St. Vincent album cover photo for “All Born Screaming”image from Atwood Magazine, which also has a spotify playlist of the album linked to it The first two groups I thought about for today’s prompt were Lucius and St. Vincent. Because I just saw St. Vincent on Colbert again, I went with the latter. I wrote…