An omphalos is a religious stone artifact, or baetylus. From point of view website: Frequently such ‘Navels of the Earth’ also prove to have associations with meteorites – stones fallen from heaven. Many will have their own ‘navel stone’, or ‘sunstone’, or ‘foundation stone’, which will sometimes be accompanied by a tradition of a rod…
Race
Alcohol and ink painting by Joy Dorr Laura is the host of dVerse today. Laura says: BELL-VOICED CRADLE-PETALS DARK-VOWELLED DUST-TONGUED FIRE-DWARFED GRAVE-GROPING HARE-HEELED HEAVEN-CIRCLING LARK-HIGH MAP-BACKED MOON-BLOWN MUFFLE-TOED OWL-LIGHT RINGED-SEA SCYTHE-EYED SHE-BIRD TEAR-CULLED TIDE-LOOPED WATER-SPOKEN WHALE-WEED For this Tuesday Poetics I’m asking you to write a poem using at least FOUR of the hyphenated…
Deep
image link Fandango’s FOWC is prime, the Word of the Day Challenge is ferry, Paula’s 3 Things Challenge words are sauce, diamond, lynx, and Teresa’s Story Starter Challenge phrase is “Sitting on the front porch.” Petty’s fear of commitment led him to be a bachelor at 50 years of age. He lived on a small…
321 Quote Me ~ Attitude
Update: my gosh, I completely forgot the 321 Quote Me is a tag-event started by Rory. I tagged him in his own game. Round and round we go, where we stop nobody knows. The lovely blogger extraordinaire and author Paula Light of Light Motifs has tagged me to come up with two quotes on…
Olivia Chaney (was Coloring Club Plus — 4/16/19)
Olivia Chaney was born in Florence, Italy, and grew up in Oxford, England, studying composition, piano and voice. On graduating from the Royal Academy of Music in London, Chaney taught herself guitar and Indian harmonium, and began performing regularly as a soloist. “Shelter” is Olivia Chaney’s second album, released in 2018. Shelter includes original songs…
A2Z — N — Ner Tamid, Sanctuary Lamp, Eternal Flame
all taken from wikipedia Ner Tamid in Judaism A sanctuary lamp, chancel lamp, altar lamp, everlasting light, or eternal flame is a light that shines before the altar of sanctuaries in many Jewish places of worship. Hanging or standing in front of the ark in every Jewish synagogue … it symbolizes God’s eternal presence…
Spin the Yarn — I was the first teenage Werewolf to become vegan!
image link Rory is the host of Spin the Yarn. Rory says: At the core of the game it is basically a fiction based writing prompt with a twist. There will be naughty, risky or risqué if you prefer, downright odd and strange, unusual and weird and oft inappropriate questions posed. Naughty in the majority…
Tao-Talk 