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Thursday Seeds | Lens not in Focus
I did twirl for this picture to let the camera lens blur on purpose but I got the idea from a previous shot where I thought the camera was off and it did a partial swirl. Then I decided I wanted to do it intentionally. Deep set eyes, depth perception, and the changes of eyes when we get older are the reason many of us in the 50s are now buying up the market in reading glasses or other optical corrections that otherwise would not be needed. You made it to this age! Good for you! Now here’s a tool. Laser surgery is an option. And perhaps since it has…
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Thursday Seeds | Travel in your Head
Traveling to the fun places! That’s where we want to go. It’s cheap. Cheaper than the real thing! Unless you haven’t actually been anywhere, then your head isn’t full of amazing places. You have to feed the library or it really is boring in there… or here. The beauty of a collective is sharing. Even if I’ve never had the pleasure of going to Hawaii, I can still get there if I know some folks who have and they share photos. Photos are so much easier to share with the internet. They let us intersect into each other’s lives in a way we didn’t have growing up if you are…
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Thursday Seeds | The World is Your Oyster
How many times have you heard that idiom? “The World is your Oyster” But I don’t like oysters. So if the world is something that I don’t want to eat then weight loss is no problem! Ha. This is where I ramble on about how great things are. But am I really feeling it? I’m not. And so what’s in your Oyster? When I peer into the thing, I’m hoping that it has as many pearl-like greens and blues as an abalone. It doesn’t. But there is some pearl to it. And if I fish around in the meat, there is the potential of probablity that there could be a…
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Thursday Seeds | The Fixin’s and the Dressing
The fixin’s and the dressing automatically makes me think of Holiday meals. If you are Chinese or Asian, you may have just observed the Chinese New Year just yesterday. What does that mean? How many New Year’s Celebrations do we need? We need this one and it’s probably to do with how many calendars are there as well as the question of what your culture is. What is your culture? Are you open to more than what your parents taught you? And those Fixin’s and dressings: Have you seen the number of bowls and plates served in Korean food? It’s not just about sauces. There are bowls and bowls and…
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Thursday Seeds | I’m Sorry, I made a Mistake.
It’s a topic. From one email titled hard conversations, this is a statement that is true. “ 2. Everyone owes somebody an apology—and when you do it, keep it simple. “ Apologies can go viral. If the Musk guy did one, it would. But he won’t and I don’t want to make this post about that. How many apologies do you give? Do you end it with the phrase, “I won’t do it again.” And if you do, do you mean it? That is what gives an apology true weight. It’s not just acknowledging that you messed up to the person that you hurt, but also making a commitment not to…
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Thursday Seeds | Cry Fowl and Greet the Cheers
Winter in a southern state means that the birds are thinking about heading back north. They don’t do this is three days and live in a specific region the rest of the time like the snowbird humans of Florida. This is their part of life. They thrive on the move from place to place. Internal wiring helps them navigate to the kind oasis where what they need is plentiful with less dangers. Berries of various shrubs are still available in a southern state. The cedar waxwings usually arrive for several days in January or February depending on the crop. If there aren’t that many, they don’t stay for long. If…
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Thursday Seeds | The October Ball
The Ball beginning: So much to remember and go back through from the evening. This was something to unpack, there were feelings of excitement and a vibe not seen in a dance club since the old days at the mill. The lighting was similar. The walls are not stone but dark and the lights are strobed into colors and blue. The music was fantastic and the costumes were an adventure to look at. Makeup and dresses, kilts and tresses. It was a vampire ball not to be seen before. The lights splash the dance floor but not too much light, many patterns. The place was full of beauty last night.…
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Thursday Seeds | Bury the Owls
What happens when the Owl dies? Was it by natural means? If the death is due to a car, then it’s a murder or an accident. What happens to the feathered friend? If this were the ocean, a shark or other eater of the like would take care of things. For land and air, vultures will do it too. The problem is that vultures tend to be smart enough to know that it won’t work out too well for them on the pavement. Feathered bodies and cars with dents. Who cares about the dents on the car? The car owner. Who cares about the family member missing who is the…
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Thursday Seeds | Mourning with the Doves
What’s your first thought? Mourning with the Doves. That’s what is sounds like…when Doves cry. But if you know much about birds, and doves are more common than most but not as much a nuisance as pigeons or crows. They make a sound that is lonely and communicates solitude to most humans. It’s like it’s hardwired, this sound being considered lonely but in fact, birders know that this sound is about mating. It’s a mating call given right before sex. It’s foreplay, this sound to the doves. If you watch them, the one doing the calling is about to hop on the female to do the “deed”. Crying. Hopefully I…
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Thursday Seeds | Eat Yer Bacon
Bacon is bad for you. Bacon is good for you. Bacon is meat and it also contains sulfites and too much sodium and back in the day before refrigeration, it was one of the only ways you could eat meat that wasn’t freshly killed. Kill the animal. Kill the idea. Kill the grammar police and the spelling bee. Kill the switch. Kill the witch. Kill the fatted calf. Kill the hog. Swim with the hog. [insert picture of paradise island where pigs swim in clear blue waters.] Lord of the Flies…. I just read that one. Somehow I escaped it as required reading in English class. Not the Illiad or…
