Category Thoughts About Art & Culture

Three-Letter Folk

We have absolutely no idea how our world will change Despite those who have wild hairs of how to rearrange Someone may push a button, start the last of our wars Perhaps we finally see the dream of having flying cars What of the three-letter agencies hidden in plain sight Who tell us they are […]

Serial Tuesday ~ Toliver

Chapter Fourteen Toliver climbed into the low branches of the tree with the densest foliage. He planned to wait out the day, watch and learn from his hiding place. Initially, he wedged himself into position, with his feet on a branch and his back pressed into the trunk. He still feared he would be found […]

Serial Friday ~ Arcadian Journey

Chapter Fourteen                 Charoo proved an awful place, cool, green and brown with a pale blue sky. She missed the reds and blues, Arcadia’s lovely turquoise sky. Eni adjusted the scarf over the lower half of her face. She’d done it first to mask the odd smells that greeted her when she left the ship. […]

Answer to an Unasked Question

Passionate Pacific my daily inspiration, sunlight, sand and surf Murmured messages wash on shore, chased by crashing waves Warm strand, moonlit, twinkling on the swells, reflecting earth Wind, water, weather form transient art, nothing the sea saves Humbled by such vastness of ocean, rolling beyond the horizon This and more besides to stir or calm […]

Serial Tuesday ~ Toliver

Chapter Thirteen (cont.) Toliver lay there a while longer, with no sure clue as to how long, dazed, dozing, slipping into and out of awareness. When he could finally open his eyes and keep them open, he could see more of the area around him. He struggled back to his knees and looked up. The […]

In Between

Within the difference, all of our choices are made It’s where we decide is it better to be loved or paid Who made the second choice, how did they decide Wrong path taken long ago, this generation’s ride What’s the difference, can you parse what I mean Either right or left, or a hammer claw […]

Serial Tuesday ~ Toliver

Chapter Thirteen Toliver awoke suddenly to the sound of the lock disengaging. He’d been sleeping lightly, his hat over his face, and realized immediately what he’d heard. He got up and approached the door hesitantly. He knew he hadn’t been lying there long. When nothing else happened, he grabbed the door handle. From the first […]

Always Choose

Would that it be so, that we could redream our world in sleep Though, I suppose we must decide are we a butterfly or a man Dreams are the seeds of change and hope; is it too great a leap I will wonder, write, share this vision, at least that is my plan I will […]

Serial Tuesday ~ Toliver

(Chapter 12 cont.) After that, everything seemed to flow more easily. True, Toliver thought, sometimes they would find the equipment room locked. Then he would have to complain loudly and threaten to go find Sawyer before the key mysteriously appeared. They were provided extension ladders when they needed stepladders, but he could work around that. […]

Life as We Know It

What do we mean when we say life as we know it? I wonder if there is anybody who really has a clue? Is it something we know, we have learned to forget? If we recall it, do you think it might alter our view? A long time ago just now, the void felt bored, […]