True beauty never fades
Have you been given eyes that penetrate the surface, that see with the heart? These pictures–an old, dilapidated, long-forgotten barn, and the door to a business no longer in service, haunt yet delight me. There’s intrinsic beauty in each...
Politicool!
Following is an interesting…compelling…and telling visual from the recent Democratic and Republican National Conventions depicting word use in the speeches given. HT and thanks to Chrysalis via twitter. Original link from The New York Times...
Everybody’s NUTS!
Wahoo! A weekend give-away!
It has been a treat sampling products over the past several months for review, and last week I received the funnest package to date: Doesn’t it just make you smile? I open this big ol’ box and a cock-eyed pistachio was grinning at me bigger than...
Trapeze
Friday’s 40 PC, #16
He flies through the air with the greatest of easeThis daring young man, life he does seize!His future, a daring adventure, no doubt–"Lord, keep him safe!" on the journey throughout! How could I not write a poem for this week’s Friday’s...
Is it obvious?
This poem– Mangled illusionCovert collusionBelieving delusionSometimes exclusionElitist profusionTwisted conclusionState of confusion In response to this photograph posted at Laura Salas today for 15 words or less poems– And I’m wondering if you...
Swing vote
Friday’s 40 PC, #16
"When boys fly, a mother’s heart soars with him." ...
It’s not you, it’s not even me…it’s THEM!
Thanks to those of you who have tried to access Inspired Bliss (even though or official launch is about two weeks away) or Blissfully Domestic’s main page. The site is still under construction or it might be a case of your ISP being slow to make the...
“…all the better to eat you with, my dearie…!”
Though we’ve been vacationing at Kiawah Island for 16 years, this was a year marked by firsts. The first "first" was bicycling to the end of the earth Island past the "crescent" to discover where all the sand dollars live. That was a...
Recipes, please!
I’m in a rut. You know the one–the one where the same four side dishes are recycled over and over and OVER. Ad nauseum quite literally, thank you very much. While I’m all about recycling plastics and paper and glass (oh, my!),...