This is my first post in many months. Kind of lost interest, but feeling a little more creative again ( Read more... )

I wrote this 30 to 45 days into 2022. The sentiment and the feeling haven't changed almost one year later. And it is true, as I said below, that I've never felt a sense of change as the century and millennium changed from 19__ to 20__. No sense either of the uniqueness of each decade as I did in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Maybe this happens ( Read more... )

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I don't know who wrote this inspirational message or who made the artwork on which it is transcribed. I took this snapshot through a store window in downtown Seattle early one evening 15 to 20 years ago.


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At 1:45 p.m. PST on this Friday, December 23, 2022, it is cloudy and officially 15 degrees outside; high today forecast at 17. No windchills to worry about ( Read more... )

Tired of the collective Christmas "Spirit" -- I get into it a little right after Thanksgiving, the increased energy the "peace on Earth" feeling, but it eventually wears off -- too much forced, cards from people I never hear from except during the "holidays", and then only a quickie card quickly signed with obligatory "Best wishes fora Merry ( Read more... )

Looks like some snow-dust around the edges of driveways across the street, and the street looks damp, and so it might be snowing on this Tuesday afternoon in Richland, Washington, USA, Earth at 3:23 p.m. Pacific Standard Time ( Read more... )

A poem that came to me on one it's-almost-winter night seventeen years ago, misplaced for a few years, found again, then finally finished three years ago. Memories from childhood; the poem stil evokes strong feelings of that holiday-time can't wait excitement:

It Feels Like It Wants To Be …It feels like it wants to be ( Read more... )

Wow! According to my LJ Calendar, I last posted here 214 days ago, on July 6. I didn't realize it was so long ago ( Read more... )