heat index rises –
outdoors and I become
better strangers
Quotable 255
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
– Samuel Johnson
haiku 366
moon rises
as Venus, Jupiter set
behind the trees
Quotable 254
The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.
– Raymond Chandler
OT: A New Look
Yes, because I’ve got a dozen other things I must be doing instead with deadlines being blown to hell left and right, and because there’s very little new content each week, I’ve been playing with a new theme. Makes sense to me.
The body font is Marcellus, and the headlines are in Cinzel. The background is “Mini Gravel Art on Gray” by Donna Mibus.
I hope you like it. And what little I’m posting. And the archives. By all means, check out the archives.
And now, back on my head.
haiku 365
plastic bag
flits in the breeze –
litterbug
Quotable 253
Poetry is not a means to an end, but a continuing engagement with being alive.
– Kim Addonizio
haiku 364
late spring –
home from the vet
with a death sentence
#quikfic no more
I’m ending the #quikfic feature. It’s been fun, and it’s a great exercise in brevity, but, well, I’ve done that and I’m done with it. And frankly, the chronic fatigue syndrome doesn’t make it easy to do a 140-character story every week. I just can’t pull together the mental resources to meet the challenge.
Thanks for reading the #quikfics, and I hope you enjoyed them.
That leaves even less reason for anyone to show up here, given that I don’t remember the last time I wrote a short story. I’m down to a haiku and a quote every week. I’ll see if I can’t come up with something else for you to enjoy when you visit.
Quotable 252
If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
– Toni Morrison