Saturday October 18th, my hiking pal, Danielle, and I hiked SW Washington’s June Lake to Chocolate Falls trail, hoping the mist and fog wouldn’t turn to rain, and that we’d get a last fall hike in.
We’ve only managed four other hikes since April. Dismal numbers no self-respecting hiker can like. The weather and our schedules [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2008’
St Helens: June Lake to Chocolate Falls
American sentence for poverty
Today is Blog Action Day: Poverty.
In order to honor the solidarity of (what I hope is) a grass-roots movement to get people talking about, if only for one day, poverty, here is an American Sentence:
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The homeless’ cigarettes harsh truth: they smoke to deaden cold appetite.
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I had always been one of those [...]
American Sentences instead of a confession
I have been working a lot of OT the last few weeks. Before that it was Read Write Poem’s overhaul, even though Dana did most of the heavy lifting.
So here is a brief post as I start my workday. American Sentences.
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Any fear of -nessless pushes me to extravagances, not [...]
PoCo poem: Squall
Squall
I will. Tomorrow.
And an explanation for being quiet.
As if silence can be explained, as if
an explanation is needed. Sonorous expectations
roll down the mud-tracked street. I know. Tomorrow.
And an expectation that all will be resolved.
Anticipation dissolves in puddles like so many
oily rainbows. Tomorrow –
isn’t that what you said? I forget. And leave
wet footsteps to echo through [...]
Arizonasaurus
I wasn’t going to try to write a poem based on Juliet’s prompt – fun that it was – until I saw Reth’s Lesothosaurus. His inspired me to Google Arizonasaurus, and gracious. There is a northern Arizona dino. Well not really a dinosaur, but an ancient critter that looks like a really big croc [...]
More PoCo fun: translating
So The PoCo October-resident-poet, Twitches, came up with a cool play-with-words prompt.
You take a poem, perhaps one you are not attached to, and stuff it in BabelFish and see what comes out.
Nathan offered a very nice poem of his up in the comments, which I borrowed – with permission since it was offered up – [...]
Are you an undecided voter? Read this:
An interesting excerpt from Roger Cohen’s NY Times editorial from yesterday, “Nixon, Bush, Palin”
“I’m grateful to Bob Rice of Tangent Capital for pointing out that the actuarial risk, based on mortality tables, of Palin becoming president if the Republican ticket wins the election is about 1 in 6 or 7.
That’s the same odds as your [...]
A poorly done update
I have about 3 draft started, an attempt to blog, and update, but it just isn’t happening!
Work is busy, had visitors (parents) for 10 days, am working with Dana to rebuild Read Write Poem. And working out details with Christine and Nathan. The site will be delicious once it is up with a new template.
But [...]
