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“Add An Element of Nature”

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The little headdress is composed of the feathers of birds that my cats have regrettably brought to me as offerings. This little shrine honors their too-brief lives and reminds me to be prompt in my feedings.
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Pasiano and I are trying to add more elements of nature to the empty lot next to us. We’ll add more once I get it fenced off from marauding cows!!

Click on photos to enlarge and read explanations.

 

For this prompt of Cee’s: https://ceenphotography.com/2020/06/17/on-the-hunt-for-joy-challenge-week-24-add-an-element-of-nature/

Anthuriums: FOTD June 18, 2020

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Taken at my friend Margaret’s house.

For Cee’s FOTD

Crystal and Amber

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Crystal and Amber
(For Anmol)

Angel, wherever you fly, may you have a charmed life.
May the scroll of your life coil without kink,
your totems protect you from the cruel wrinkles of life
and those unenlightened creatures who inhabit them.

May you be you without subterfuge.
May you expose your polka dots, no matter how flamboyant.
May the keys you possess open the doors where you want to go
and the scent of your spirit waft out on a welcome breeze.

What is key in you—let it write your story,
and let the stone you were born to guide your way.
Patience. Wisdom. Balance.
Bring to the world what it needs more of.

The part of the world that knows it needs you
prays to whatever God it can believe in
that you be met with
an open hand.

I wrote this poem using the symbolism of this necklace that I made a few years ago. It was written in response to Anmol’s prompt which invites us to write a poem about pride, gender fluidity, sexuality, protest, et al. or to write about the continuing fight for equality and the realization of the aspirations of the marginalised communities.For dVerse Poets

After Two and a Half Months, Finally Finished!!!

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After 2½ months, the murals that Jesus Lopez Vega and son Eduardo have been painting on the outside of my house and studio are finally finished. Forgottenman asked to see the total results, so I’m sharing them with you as well. If you are interested in seeing more of his work, look at the gallery of previous work I have bought from him below and also see his website at: arteajijic.net. (More contact info below.)

(Please note that there are two separate galleries.
In both you can Click on photos to enlarge and read captions.)

Streetside entrance.
Murals above my bedroom.
Above studio door.
Street side of studio.
South side of studio.

When Bob and I bought our house in 2001, the first thing we did was to go out and buy one of Jesus’ paintings in a local gallery. Here is that and other paintings I’ve bought from him over the years and other mural work he’s done in my house:

The inside of my street entrance door, with pedestals that once held two large Precolumbian replicas of a man and a woman that Bob went out and bought in an antique store while I was waiting to sign the papers to buy the house. Both since tipped over by the kittens now turned cats–and turned into flower pots. ( The remaining parts of the sculptures, not the cats!)
Pedestal detail.
Other pedestal.
My garage door with embellishments by Jesus.
The ugly electrical post by the garage, made more beautiful by Jesus and Eduardo.
My house’s front door.
And this is one I bought a few months later when I moved to Mexico.
A Huichol motif
This is actually the etching plate of one of Jesus’ limited editions that I bought and asked him to paint as though it was one of the etchings.

If you want to contact Jesus about custom projects or to view his gallery, here is contact information:

Five Bombshells about Trump in Bolton’s Book

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https://judydykstrabrown.com/2020/06/17/five-bomshells-about-trump-in-boltons-book/?fbclid=IwAR2s3y85qKZntRGa6Ve3lTYlMSuMkVXq47nkLSegiDi-5ozDTTeB_WC4QEI

The Politicizing of the Coronavirus (Reblog of Thom Hartmann Article on Common Dreams)

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To read more click on link below:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/16/what-should-punishment-be-crime-weaponizing-virus-political-purposes?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR35r231ItrqBpWiGoUmPh8lVgqSBxQXw5QcO3VEKpEb56asta0pfL0qHGc

 

 

Helpless: Scene Viewed Through the Locked Glass Front Door of the Kitchen

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Helpless:
Scene Viewed Through the Locked Glass Front Door of the Kitchen

There’s insurgent action at the rear kitchen door.
First one unrepentant rebel and now I see one more.
My houseguests didn’t secure the periphery completely
and now one paw has breached the screen and opened it completely!
A dog’s whole avarice is culinary. Now they seek it out.
That pork roast on the counter? Gone without a doubt!
That carrot cake I cherished? Demolished in a flash.
The potato salad vanishes. And now a furry dash.
They depart the opened doorway and soon they’re over yonder.
Their tummies adequately filled, I think they do not ponder
what the rest of us will dine on. Dogs are not endowed with guilt.
Should have factored in housebreakers when that sliding door was built!

Prompt words today are cherish, avarice, yonder, insurgent and potato.

Hibiscus: FOTD June 17, 2020

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ForCee’s FOTD

Noam Chomsky: Trump is Worse than Hitler (National Observer Article)

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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/06/15/analysis/noam-chomsky-post-covid-19-society-trump-worse-hitler-peasants-are-coming?fbclid=IwAR1Z01FiEcfa87uhRyRuykemktnvWV4SOwRnjzKTFTdu9V_NGVwqLviscGo

 

 

Blending in–Hibiscus: FOTD June 16, 2020

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I just noticed this cream-colored hibiscus with a red throat for the first time–two blooms in among a  bush with a profusion of bright coral blooms. It is on a good-sized bush that has woven itself into the fabric of the other even larger bush, so must have been there for a long time as I haven’t planted hibiscus along that wall for over ten years. Where has it been hiding all these years? Or is it I who have been hiding? This period of forced isolation has revealed some amazing secrets about my back garden and after all these years I am beginning to feel that instead of this house belonging to me that I belong to it.

For Cee’s FOTD