Music Lesson
Jan 13th, 2021 by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
I can’t say for certain which music I’m enjoying more – Susumu Yokota’s Asian ambience on the laptop or the garden’s new water fountain concert.
Mr. Chipmunk, the gaudy flutterby, and the fledgling redwings all clearly prefer the fountain. And why wouldn’t they? What do they know about synthesizers, electronic percussion, or the meditative properties of fluid melody transformation? For them, the fountain’s water, singing its spontaneous aria, is life itself; is the music without which their lives—all lives—would cease to exist.
I reach out and tap the laptop’s mute.
Some creatures—most creatures—know far more than I.
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For D’Verse
Published January 28, 2021 by Nan MykelDOWN
Like two kittens in a burlap bag
we scrabbled for each other
against the warm fur we shared,
drawing blood with sounds
like purring as we sank.
A FRIEND’S FUN QUESTIONNAIRE
Published January 28, 2021 by Nan Mykel
QUESTIONNAIRE BY ALEXA ABERCROMBIE ROSS
Please choose your best answer to the following questions.
- ) I was born
A – in the best country on earth
B – because someone took advantage of my mother’s drinking problem
C – to trouble as the sparks fly upward
D – and I will die
2.) I consider work
A – honorable no matter what the job is
B – fine for people who think they need to do it
C – slavery to the capitalist conspiracy
D – something no one I know can find
3) To me, religion is
A – the life you lead
B – just another money-making scheme
C – institutionalized guilt
D – old-fashioned and irrelevant
4) I consider government
A – society’s means of keeping order
B – a path to power and riches
C – a plot to take your money and curtail your freedom
D – boring on every level
5) Marriage is
A – the reason girls go to college
B – going out of style
C – legal servitude
D – no longer sacred since homosexuals got that right
6) Human beings’ purpose on earth is
A – to create more human beings
B – to pollute and deplete our natural resources
C – to exterminate all other species
D – to just die already
7) Education is
A – the hallmark of civilization
B – punishment for being a child
C – the only way to get out of Dodge
D – less fun than video games
8) The devil is
A – a mythological creature intent on evil
B – a bogeyman to frighten children
C – the owner of Mar-a-Lago, Florida
D – my lord and master
9) Sickness is an indication of
A – an imbalance in your body
B – caused by eating spoiled food
C – an excuse not to attend school or work
D – evidence of weak character
10) My greatest wish is
A – for peace on earth
B – a million dollars tax-free
C – for certain people to drop off the face of the earth
D – immortality
11) Before I die, I would like
A – to become famous and rich
B – to see a woman President of the United States
C – to reverse climate heating
D – immortality
12) I am most grateful
A – to own my own home
B – to be single and without a boss
C – to be human rather than an animal killed for meat, fur, or eyelashes
D – that my cats use the litter box
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Feathered Sleep re-blog
Published January 27, 2021 by Nan MykelThis is special. I’m reblogging…
Without you there, rubbing against my emptiness
I am a scream
begun without end
I may close my mouth
I may purse my lips and paint them
I may say yes please and thank you very much
and still dial your number
that no longer exists
just to hear it ring
in my mind
once
twice
three times
it may be you
on the other end
picking up, I can hear the lint
of the connection stretching like walkers on wire
a crackle, a fizz, the ghosting hiss of you
what are you saying?
Rolling down bled city streets with lights
hanging like old bottles, catching stray saline
I strain to hear
through ceaseless whiteout of rain
it is yellow against brown glass
distorted from downpour
slapping wetly in time to lost rhythm
pirate radio in storm, trying to reach land
crackle, fizz, pop, static … spreading her fingers
we…
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Timeline DOUBLE WORTH THE VISIT!
Published January 26, 2021 by Nan MykelTrump’s extraordinary efforts to overturn the election: A timeline
Mark Sumner
Daily Kos Staff
Saturday January 23, 2021
OH, DEAR
Published January 24, 2021 by Nan Mykel
After witnessing almost half my country (including perhaps most evangelicals) embrace lies from a false prophet so easily, I find myself wondering if all orthodox religions might be a holdover from primitive mythologies. Is the Christian trinity but a remnant from an ancient pantheon of gods? Some want to unite church and state. I guess that’s what the crusades were all about: power. As for me, I’m glad if you have a god you can trust. I’m happy for you. Hang onto him/her/them/it.
My current readings in evolution keep me wondering.
FOR THE HUMORISTS
Published January 23, 2021 by Nan MykelIs a sense of humor catching
or just comes with the genes?
When did you start laughing,
and did you ever stop?
Do you ever laugh out loud reading
or when you’ve made a blooming mess?
In seccret do you find dark humor funny
or leave a meeting due to giggles?
Have you felt the laughter healing,
reassured in the belly that you’re
onto a good thing: you!
Do blacks laugh more than whites?
Seems they maybe do–black women,
solid underneath. I remember Georgia,
black sitter for us kids, who laughed at
Arthur Godfrey and all the little Godfreys,
Warm and cheery, she laughed until
her husband died and left us because
she cold not repay my father’s loan.
I hope she’s out there somewhere a laughing
up a storm with humor deeper than tears.
If humor’s a defense, Hail Mary!
All my bases are covered.
CROSS MY HEART…
Published January 19, 2021 by Nan MykelOf all the jobs in the world
the worst is at Heaven’s gate.
When the day arrives and he stands
there before you with a choir
of evangelicals singing,
while thousands behind him
still weep
And the Virgin Mary protests;
Children, still searching for
mommies and daddys,
for parents they lost forever…
Your job is to count all the ways
he failed himself and others:
Worshipping the god of money
and power
Lying for personal gain
Turning with vengeance on
friends
Ki;ling thousands by inaction
Adultery
Booby trapping his country’s future…
How much good is enough
to cancel out
the too damn bad?
Gatekeeper, what’s your decision?
KARMA!
As many lifetimes as are
required.
I WAS AN ENABLER
Published January 17, 2021 by Nan Mykel
For most of my life I was an enabler. Still have to fight it. We have enabled Donald Trump (the “real” Trump?) Ho. We have enabled his pretend presidency. He has raised gullible children.
I haven’t been alone. Cared for his feelings while he defecates on the American Dream. Impeach him one day and enable his leaving on a red carpet and a military gun salute “not to make him mad?” Present him with a list of those who voted for impeachment? Come on! I trust he will not be allowed a flyover on inauguration day, as I earlier protested.
Good parenting is called “natural consequences.” How dare him play nasty on the American Dre
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NO FLY OVER!!!
Published January 16, 2021 by Nan MykelTrump announced he is going to leave the the white house by plane the morning of the inauguration. He has requested a fancy ceremony including a flyover Washington. NO NO NO! A bomb might deliver him back in control, coup achieved. As we’ve seen, there are a few dissidents in our armed services.
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