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Looking down from the upper lot gazebo into the sculpture garden. Quetzalcoatl still in progress––being painted. Spiderwebs galore. Here are a few of them.
Peeking Over the Wall
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A Regal Final Breath, for RDP Wednesday
Her Highness Contemplates A Seemly End
Nobility in dying is something I shan’t botch,
for I know it shall be one that the whole wide world will watch.
I cannot go by fire, for I’m sure I would be screaming
as the water quenched the fire and set my flesh to steaming.
So unseemly and so crass. I’d find it unappealing.
So, too, a rope around my neck, hanging from the ceiling.
Jumping from a roof won’t do. Nor will a gun nor pills.
Every sort of suicide just sports too many ills.
It’s clear that death by avalanche is the only one
that will really suit me when the day is done.
A certain swift clean fall of snow seems such a pristine death.
A queenly mode of dying. Such a regal final breath!
For RDP Wednesday the prompt is REGAL
Must admit that I am rerunning a poem I wrote for RDP six years ago. At that time the prompt was was “avalanche”, but as you can see, the poem works for “regal” as well!
Ohh, That’s RICH – This Commentary is as Applicable Today as It Was in August, So I’m Publishing It Again!!!
I have an additional favorite political commentator who is on a par with Heather Cox Richardson. Here he is again!!! Thanks to Forgottenman for sending me this video.
Ollie Update––He’s Back!
For the first time, Ollie didn’t show up for dinner tonight. I’ve looked everywhere he could be. I don’t think he ever left my property and he is not here. His sister has been yowling for past half hour or so. I am so sad. Afraid he is gone for good. I don’t think he ever went up the hill or into the street so he must be on my property unless some wild animal or dog got him. So so sad.
This is Ollie when he first showed up at my door with his three sisters. He was runt of the litter.
Here he is with his sisters, Kukla and Fran, after they’d all been fed for a few weeks. Roo is barely on view…just her ears.
Ollie is the one in the middle–no longer runt of the litter–– and Roo is above him, Kukla in front. Fran is missing in this pic.
And….guess who just showed up an hour later? After his mom had at least 3 anxiety attacks?
WHAT A RELIEF!!!!! I SWEAR, HE HAS NEVER ONCE IN THE 8 YEARS HE’S BEEN LIVING HERE EVER MISSED A MEAL!!!!
Double Shadow for Squares Challenge
I lover this double shadow of the same object..Once on the wall so it looks like she is carrying the frame, the other on the frame itself which shows the head and hand of the sculpture hanging between the camera and wall.
For The Squares Challenge: Shadow
Reblog of Poem Published in 2019 Mistakenly Attributed to Dr. Seuss with Note from the Real Author
Just today, Nov 4, 2025, I received this message from “Handy Barker” concerning this poem he wrote, which was quoted as a Dr. Seuss poem everywhere I could find it, or I would have attributed it to him. Here is the note I received from him, which I am publishing along with my apology:
Message:
Funny that you borrowed my Dr. Seuss poem from 2015. I was recently retired in Roseburg Oregon as a HS Drama teacher and saw all the chaos between HIllary and Bernie and how divisive it was to call Bernie a “Socialist” when “Democratic Socialist” was more accurate. I spent a whole morning researching the term “DS” and felt I could use my still-sharp skills of breaking down a complex idea and teaching it to people on my newly-opened FB account. I’ve changed it a bit since then, but I’ve often said I think Dr. Seuss is both the greatest teacher of the 20th century and the greatest writer because he could not only create effective anti-Nazi propaganda–with other brilliant creators Frank Capra and Stan Lee, who created Spiderman–but that he could teach us to unclench our closed minds with simple books a five year old could understand like in “Green Eggs and Ham”. I lost the original of this, but have found that if I google it, people from Oregon to China have posted it anonymously–which is how I saw it. In the face of the NYC election with Zohran Momdani running as a DS, I was looking for it and was grateful you have it here for me. Peace. Handy Barker
Again, sorry, Handy…
Halloween, for Bushboy’s Last on the Card
One is Company, Two’s a Crowd, for SOCS
One is Company, Two’s a Crowd
I have no need for company. I’ll make it on my own.
Most anything that two can do, I can do alone.
I am no Santa Claus who needs assistance of an elf.
All tasks that need doing, I can do myself.
I never interrupt my sleep by calling on the phone.
I never argue with the choices I have made alone.
The company I give myself is by far the best.
As my best friend, I have to say I outshine all the rest!
The prompt for SOCS is “Company.”
Pull Up A Seat Challenge
It was a treat when long-time friends Berta and Jesus pulled up a seat at my house for coffee and a chat. On his way out, Jesus couldn’t resist pulling up one more seat and my cat Kukla chose a more reclining position next to him. Zoe chose not to leave her cushy seat-turned-bed to join us.
For the Pull Up A Seat Challenge
I Just Have to Share This Article by Elizabeth Fitzsimons. It is A Must-Read!!!!!
After you have read Elizabeth’s essay by clicking on the link above, read her mother, Jan Wilburg’s WP blog HERE. She certainly raised her daughter right!!!!
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 