Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! Ivan’s Childhood (1962) Ivanovo detstvo (original title) Criterion Collection spine #397 Starring: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov, Stepan Krylov, Nikolay Grinko, Dmitri Milyutenko, Valentina Malyavina, Irina Tarkovskaya, and several others. Director: Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov Genres: war, drama Synopsis: blurb comes directly from imdb: During WWII,…
#FFFC129 — Mountain God
image from Google Photo Frame I was born and raised in the small village of Ukara. The medicine woman crone delivered me. My mother named me Cupra for the beautiful copper stones we found on the lake’s shore. When I asked where they came from, my father pointed to the mountain and said, “God gives…
dVerse — Haibun Monday — August 2021
As August begins, chipmunks are busy a-gathering, their cheeks bulging with seeds. They still make time for chase across the driveway, under the shrubs and back again. Butterflies swarm swarms of blossoms, welcoming affections of others of the same patterns in brief amorous encounters. Monarch caterpillars wander in solitude, grazing fuzzy milkweed leaves in lackadaisical…
Doodads yard in July flora and fauna
These have all been taken within the last week or so. The lilies are flourishing! The butterfly weed is on the wane now but a few days ago, these lovely orange butterflies were swarming it. I’ve also had the hummingbird moth here on a regular basis but it goes for the zinnias more than anything. …
Resisting Drone Terror: Behind the Scenes of Shut Down Creech! — Rise Up Times
UPDATE: learn more about who Daniel Hale is and why he’s important in this recently published New York Magazine article This is the first I’ve heard of Creech but it’s something we all need to learn more about. 60 miles from Las Vegas This fall will mark the 12th year CODEPINK, Veterans for Peace +…
TSM 171 — Matlalcueye
“Roots” 1943 by Frida Kahlo Winged angel eyes beam from a young crone’s face; mute proclamation that she’s planted. Her grounded consciousness reaches up and out, giant’s stalks to climb, vines that stretch and root in once barren fields Winged angel eyes behold as forest rise symphony of trees temper arid breeze See! Clouds come…
dVerse — MTB — Trimmed Trimmed
Grace is today’s host for dVerse’ Meeting the Bar. Grace says:Today’s challenge: To write a poem in monotetra form. You choose your theme, following the stanza structure as described. Glenn was kind enough to point out that I didn’t follow directions very well by not having every line of every stanza rhyming the same rhyme. …
Tao-Talk 