Yesterday morning brought a red-tailed hawk close to the bird feeders. Only when her head swiveled to and fro and when she repositioned herself on the sapling was she brought to life. It seemed she was willing to risk detection at a chance to eat a warm meal. Perhaps she preferred an unsuccessful hunt to…
#SLS — Why Didn’t You Stop Me? by Mitski
Jim Adams is the meticulous host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: This week I/Me/Them/Us/You/We is our prompt and I feel this should work out for everyone. Here are the “rules”: • Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the theme or not. If it does not fit, then please…
#MM Saturday Mix — Rhyme Time — lived to tell
Pulsebell unquelled when she smelled what cave dwelled. She did yell. Lived to tell. The Septolet is a poem consisting of seven lines containing fourteen words with a break in between the two parts. Both parts deal with the same thought and create a picture. Sarah is the host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s…
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #121 — the last book on planet earth
The last book on Planet Earth will be the first book, the one to be an idealized representation of what humans could and can be if they could clear their minds of the cloudiness of what is most frail and harmful about our species. When it is found or taken with humans, it can set…
Earthweal OLW 6 — Failed experiment
A convention center in Wuhan, China, converted into a temporary hospital, Feb. 6, 2020. Reading Brendan’s essay about how things with the weather are speeding up and getting stronger, along with the photo he used showing the beds lining up in a convention center turned hospital in Wuhan, China for the viral epidemic going on,…
#MM Music Challenges — true love’s erasure
Jim Adams is the research-loving host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Music Challenges. Jim says: The challenge today is to focus on this “The Race is On” and use it for inspiration in any form of creative expression. Lyrics from the song, “written by Don Rollins and first recorded as a demo by Jimmie Gray in 1961”…
Doodads 2/7/20 — One of these things…
I borrowed “The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy” by Valerie Ann Worwood from the library within the last week and have been consulting and taking notes from it since then. Today the copy I bought arrived in the mail. I noticed immediately that there was a substantial difference in size between the two…
Tao-Talk 