Neologism
Once talk at the next table had hushed, I made the observation
that it was likely they were listening to our conversation.
And though they were both smirking and though their eyes were glistening,
they swore they were not eavesdropping. They were just overlistening!
For dVerse Poets Quadrille Challenge: Eavesdrop. (This true story happened to a friend and me in 1981 in a small diner in Cannon Beach, Oregon.) A quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words.
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.
(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
As usual, Lydia does a good job of recapping current issues regarding Mr. Trump..Please read and share.
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 supposedly…
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This is an informative and entertaining essay by Karen at Momshieb. I just had to reblog it.
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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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.
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.
These pots of succulents do well in the sunny location around the pool and serve as decorative holders for the solar lights
For Cee’s FOTD
Here are A Guy Called Bloke’s Questions for the month, along with my answers. There’s a link to his blog at the end if you want to play along.
What really lights you up?
Interesting and unusual people.
When do you think we become old?
When our curiosity dries up.
What’s in your fridge right now?
Two shepherd’s pies that I made today. One to share with my neighbors and one to freeze, ingredients for my weird coleslaw which I’ll also share, a pint of vanilla ice cream, frozen blueberries, frozen bananas, extra smoothies from this morning’s batch, every color of sweet peppers known to man, green olives with pimentos, two frozen cheese pizzas, a cold bottle of gin and bottles of tonic, cold beers for the guys laying my new brick sidewalks, 3/4 of a can of catfood, a pitcher of water and every condiment known to man.
Never mind three wishes, give me one good fantasy which would be … ?
My friends decide to move down to Mexico after all and we build the fourplex house in my extra lot.. shaped like a huge X with a circle in the middle for a common area.. each leg a complete little house with bedroom, bath, small kitchen, garden, sitting room and studio. Big studio, kitchen, sitting area in the circle in the middle. An extension to my studio in the front corner of the lot, detached, for a housekeeper and driver/gardener to live in. As our health deteriorates, they can move into one of the wings.. Our own managed care facility.
How do you think your readers see you as the writer of your blog as a person away from your blog?
They see me as someone who doesn’t spend much time away from my blog. I take it with me to my hammock and my art studio. I’m sorta hooked.
How do you wish to be seen and interpreted as a person away from your blog by the readers of your blog?
As someone still engaged in life, but within a smaller domain.
Do our fears start with our DNA?
Some of the things that lead to some of our fears start with our DNA.
What is the truest quality of life in your opinion?
Imagination. It is what ties us to the universe.
What do you think the secret is to you letting yourself go?
Not taking yourself too seriously.
What stops you from being the truer version of you or are you already the truer version of you?
I think I am the truer version of myself. Hope that is true.
What are 7 things you have learned about blogging since you started your blog that would be beneficial to other bloggers right now?
It is possible to still use the old editor if you go to the administration page and find the POSTS upper left.. Click on “Add New.” and it will take you to the old editor.
That if you create your photos as a gallery, you can click on them to enlarge them.
That’s all my blogging smarts at least for the time being.
Should we care what other people think about us?
Yes, but we shouldn’t let it lead us into behavior that goes against our being our best selves. Courtesy and kindness are necessary–so far as they are possible. Taking other people’s needs into account if their needs and wishes are reasonable is necessary.
Image by Matt Walsh on Unsplash. Used with permission. For 12 Bloggerz Questionnaire for Sept, 2020
