Monthly Archives: September 2020

Naked Truth

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His truths are vile graffiti scrawled in charcoal on a wall,
your belief in them, immobile—not budgeable at all.
You spout online rhetoric not based on any fact,
using a selfish tyrant to pattern how you act.

I simply cannot understand people of your kind.
Will any foul deed propagated pry open your mind?
Fire, tempest, pestilence—what further natural curse
will finally persuade you that it’s only getting worse?

Divide and conquer is his game, and he’ll use any means
for engineering chaos and creating scenes
matching brother against brother till our nation rips apart.
Destroying all it stood for. Ripping out its heart.

What quality does he display that moves you all to court him?
What single act for common men leads you to support him?
Children kenneled up like animals? Men shot because they’re black?
One-by-one his sane advisers all given the sack?

Our emperor has no clothes on, please take the time to see.
Look at all the devastation—what our country’s come to be.
We are a global laughing stock. If you’d expand your view
beyond Fox News, perhaps this truth would be clear to even you!

 

Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash, used with permission. Prompt words for today are charcoal, online, pattern, pry and mobile.

Can anyone guess what flower this is? FOTD Sept 7, 2020

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(No fair. It is actually the calyx that the huge yellow hibiscus from a few days ago fell off of! It’s so pretty that I just left it in the vase.)

This morning, it looks like this: (Click on photos to enlarge.)

 

For Cee’s FOTD

Why Are We Surprised?

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As usual, Lydia does a good job of recapping current issues regarding Mr. Trump..Please read and share.

alotfromlydia's avatarA lot from Lydia

https://youtu.be/ioXKgviIqDM

Why are we surprised? When I say we, I mean you. This is old news. Trump is a five-time draft dodger, on tape in 2015 disparaging the military service of former United States Senator John McCain. McCain had been a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, offered an early release but refused to leave his fellow captives behind. On March 14, 1973, after having been tortured for five and a half years, he was among 108 prisoners released. The torture he had sustained in those years left him with permanent physical restrictions, such as the inability to raise his arms above his head.

Trump said of McCain: “He’s a hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

Trump called McCain a loser and was so proud of his words that he retweeted a report quoting himself.

The ”breaking news” this week which will…

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Nonni Hits the Dispensary

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This is an informative and entertaining essay by Karen at Momshieb. I just had to reblog it.

momshieb's avatarNot for sissies

Back in the olden days, when I was young and we called it “grass”, I rarely indulged in recreational marijuana.

But times have changed, and Nonni has joined the growing list of aging potheads.

Thanks to a few conflicting but minor ailments, I am now a fibromyalgia patient who can’t take any over the counter pain medications. Nor can I drink alcohol (hello there, aging liver!). I am trying to cut down on the medication that helps me to manage the fibromyalgia discomfort, which means that at the moment the only part of me that doesn’t hurt is my right earlobe.

Enter the magical joy of the Medical Marijuana Card!! Ta, da! Safe and happy pain relief (I hope!)

For the past few years I’ve been the lucky beneficiary of weed guidance from my kids. My sons and son-in-law have helped me to find relief from insomnia by providing me…

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Time and Space

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I hear it from afar—
across the street
or down the mountain—
unoccupied laughter
that carries with it
memories
of long-ago encounters.

Lessons learned,
idiosyncrasies shared
with a place and a love
on a mountain
thousands of miles distant
from any previous experience.

These encounters,
long dead,
resurrected
by anonymous merriment
that, unknowing,
carries messages
linked to memory
by some truth
of quantum physics.

Two beings, once connected,
maintain that connection
over time and space.

 Your laugh.

Prompt words today are lesson, Idiosyncrasy, Encounter, Laughter and Unoccupied. 

Daily Post Photo Challenge: Saturated

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These are two of my older retablos–both pretty colorful! Although the retablos were sold many years ago, I found these photos on an old photo disk. The top one is about 5 inches wide, the bottom one probably about 15 inches high.  Click on photos to enlarge.

 

For The Daily Post Photo Challenge: Saturated

Grafted Blooms

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I’ve taken to taking my camera with me into the pool during dragonfly season. I love watching these beautiful creatures and sometimes leave ugly bare branches poking out from above my planters just to attract them.

For Cee’s Flower of the Day.

New Car: Daily Funny, Sept 6, 2020

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Six on Saturday: Subtropical Garden Shots

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I moved from Boulder Creek, California to San Juan Cosala, Mexico fourteen years ago, trading one beautiful spot on Earth for another one.

For Six on Saturday

Pecky Eaters

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Although these birds are of different species, they have one thing in common, in that they are domesticated birds who also happen to live in restaurants. Who could order chicken with these handsome fellows in clear constant view?  Click on the photos to enlarge and read their stories.

The soup was so good that he even licked the spoon!

For Bird Weekly: Domesticated Birds.