image link Today’s offering is a blitz poem , which is where you pretty much do stream of consciousness. Usually I do these with no real idea in mind of where it is going. Today’s is different in that I kept the word of the day challenge — tactile in mind while writing it. This…
Category: Word of the Day Challenge
First Snow
We had our first snow today. I’ve been sitting here and looking at it all day. Birds fly past, heading to and from the bird feeders. The occasional hawk comes into view. Today’s offering is in the form of a rondeau . Snow’s arrival to the season turns the air from cold to freezin’…
kin(d)
image link The world of social services, neglect/abuse cases, family courts, has a term for individuals who aren’t biological family but act in the same capacity as family. The term is fictive kin. When children (using children here but it could be one child) are removed from their biological parent(s) for allegations/substantiations of abuse/neglect, often…
pendulum
image link OK, time to get myself together and get out there and VOTE. So much is at stake in Michigan elections, especially with the governor’s race. We have had slimeball for awhile but his term limits are up. We had a GREAT contender in the primaries, Abdul El-Sayed , but he lost the Democratic…
Adventure with Boss
Boss walked to the entrance to my cubicle, standing there in his $2,000 suit, hands on hips, stating I needed to come to his office immediately. “Just let me finish this e-mail to admin, and I’ll be right there.” “I guess you don’t understand the word immediately?” Click, I hit send on the email and…
A day in the life — of a lake sturgeon
image link I had to look up burgeon in the dictionary today. The first word that came to mind was sturgeon. Yes, my mind is a twisty biscuit. Sturgeons are, or should be, an endangered species, but for some reason they can still be fished, in limited places for limited times. I would encourage…
Tao Talk 