click for essay, “The obsession with creating ‘perfect female robots’: Should women be worried?” Warning: this post contains material of a sexual nature that is not appropriate for children and may be objectionable to some adults. Last night I watched a 45-minute netflix offering about the subject of fembots, called, “My Sex Robot”. Going to…
Category: Word of the Day Challenge
Oblivion
image link A Quatern is a sixteen line French form composed of four quatrains. It has a refrain that is in a different place in each quatrain. A quatern has eight syllables per line. It does not have to be iambic or follow a set rhyme scheme. She sinks into oblivion Each instance his name…
Thunder Wood
On November 2, 2 cords of wood was dumped in the driveway. A cord of wood , “measures four feet high by four feet wide by eight feet long (4 ft. x 4 ft. x 8 ft.) and has a volume of 128 cubic feet. The amount of solid wood in a cord varies depending…
Guilty
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ~Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind, 1707 * Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels;…
The Tale of the Owls and the Wee Folk
image link Once upon a time, in the days of mighty trees and nights of magical forests, the owls chose to live among humans. I’m here to tell the tale of how that came to be. At one point, owls were solely the servants of the Wee Folk, transporting them to their own frolickings, especially…
A beautiful shambles
image link The haphazard way she put the fan back on the box of kindling caused it to crash to the floor and bend. The haphazard way she threw the pieces of kindling together and lit it guaranteed it wouldn’t continue to burn. The haphazard way she stacked the wood in the pile caused it…
la bella luna
image link Today’s prompt is lunacy. Today’s offering is based upon concepts laid out by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola-Estes , a Jungian psychoanalyst who is also a cantadora , or storyteller. The darkness is a metaphor for one’s dreams. The lunacy here are the strange and fantastical icons, symbols, etc. that one is able to retrieve…
Tao Talk 