Warts and All: An Ekphrastic Pondering Sagacious-eyed, panoptic lumpy godsendPrimordial, a polar sprout, a forked tooth.A state unplaced, outside of time, alleged, A boulder rests, that’s bold yet bland. A rough sleuthIngests all dust ingredients to swirl cake,Its vortex cached with ev’ry seasoned spice sooth. In petroglyphic fashion, fetish-carved castBeyond a culture’s judgment, baking new…
FFF 74 this n that pics in August 2026 with updated jpg of incense tray
Happy Friday Everyone! It’s been a full month of this and that, good, bad, and ugly. Isn’t that the way of things generally. I’ve had a lack of motivation in getting pics off of my phone and into the computer in order to share them this month. Thursday (last) night I kind of got caught…
From Turtle Talk: Enbridge Line 5 Oil Spill on 082626 in Wisconsin
Enbridge can’t even take care of its existing pipelines, and we want to trust them with taking care of a tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac?
#SLS — Song to a Seagull by Joni Mitchell
There are so many quality sandy beach songs out there. I almost went with The Beach Boys’ “Kokomo” but didn’t. (Hope someone else picks it!) Song to a Seagull (also known as Joni Mitchell) is the eponymous debut studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. It was produced by David Crosby and released in March 1968. The album…
The Oracle Speaks: The Truth About Beauty
beauty must never wind us bitterits apparatus tongues dream sweatlike sweet summer storm licks roseplease drunken fiddle, music me;show why ugly beat is a liebeneath honeyed symphony of light My message from The Oracle today, through magnetic poetry. While just out in the kitchen making (a late) lunch, The Analogue’s Sideshow (band doing non-Beatles music)…
Ekphrastic on Manet by Morisot repost
As you freshen up,I wait, gaze upontwo proper ladies;ruffled white blossoms,flushed with salty air,stare, hungry robins.Gull’s cry breaks the spell;guilt flops and lodges. “Where for tea?” you ask.Startled, I turn to meetyour sparkling blue eyes.“Snuggle first, perhaps?”I wink, grasp your hand.Love, afternoon’s task,writhes us like otters;honeymoon’s postures. Octameter form Reading a little about the painting,…
Protect Michigan’s Water, Land & Communities Rally
Speakers: Jefferson Ballew (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi) Miengun Pamp (Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan) Winnay Wemigwase (Tribal Chair, Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa) Lucas Sprague (Tribal Chief, Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan) Andrea Pierce (Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa) Dr. Nichole Keyway Biber (Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa) Aja Wheatley-Medwayosh…
Tao-Talk 