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Photo Memory of the Week
Video of the Week: “It was an ambush!”
Leeloo whups a bunch of armed and nasty aliens, unarmed and all by her own self.
The quote is at timestamp 1:43.
Poetry of the Week
On Tender Hooks
- by Brian BilstonLet me cut to the cheese:
every time you open your mouth,
I’m on tender hooks.You charge at the English language
like a bowl in a china shop.
Please nip it in the butt.On the spurt of the moment,
the phrases tumble out.
It’s time you gave up the goat.Curve your enthusiasm.
Don’t give them free range.
The chickens will come home to roast.Now you are in high dungeon.
You think me a damp squid:
on your phrases I shouldn’t impose.But they spread like wildflowers
in a doggy-dog world,
and your spear of influence grows.Posted: 2025 Apr 20
Face Photos from Readers
Category Archives: Mortality
And Around We Go
Usually a serpent does the work, but an arrow works just as well. Or as badly. Continue reading
Posted in Feeling Clearly, Laughing Frequently, Mortality, New Perspectives
Tagged Aging
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What Has Been
A smaller but not a more-diminished life. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Mortality, Photos of Fauna, Photos of Flora
Tagged Aging, Attitudes, Flowers, Insects
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Lunar Tunes
Happy Lunar New Year! As I write this it started yesterday (Saturday, Feb 10), but celebrants carry on their festivities for 15 days, so we have ample time to get with it. Continue reading
Posted in Feeling Clearly, Mortality, New Perspectives, Through the Calendar
Tagged Aging, Attitudes
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The Night Lengthens . . .
“There are only two times of the year when the Earth’s axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in a “nearly” equal amount of daylight and darkness at all latitudes…. The “nearly” equal hours of day and night is due to refraction of sunlight or a bending of the light’s rays that causes the sun to appear above the horizon when the actual position of the sun is below the horizon.” You’ll be relieved to know that this is the last you’ll hear of these mechanics from me. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Mortality, Through the Calendar, You are Here
Tagged Science, Weather
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My Whole Life
I am a one-kid illustration for glump. glump: to look glum: FROWN Sitting at the bottom of the stairs that lead up to the half of our storey-and-a-half house in Edmonton, my head hangs, my shoulders slump. Can you blame … Continue reading
Posted in Feeling Clearly, Laughing Frequently, Mortality, New Perspectives
Tagged Aging, Attitudes, Family
8 Comments
A Simple Rule
Can we knock this off? Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Mortality, Through the Calendar
Tagged Aging, Attitudes, Miscellany
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Three Hands
Remember when? Continue reading
As Fall the Leaves
And so it continues. Continue reading
Gradually and then Suddenly
Just one woman. But what a woman. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Mortality
Tagged Community, Death, History
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