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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…
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Thursday Seeds | Think of the Forsaken
Who are the Forsaken? Those that have come and gone? Those that have been forgotten? Those that lack something: food, money, attention? Those that lack….home and all its comforts. Those that are never discovered. Why are they never discovered? Premature death in the timeline. Crossroads moment that changes their trajectory from you. Are they really forsaken if you never meet them? Perhaps it’s only You who are the forsaken then. Because I never met [this person], I am forsaken. But then also, so are they! For it is a yin and yang. If you never meet me, then I never meet you. We both lose. Nameste Think of them.…
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Thursday Seeds | Ship it
I’m having a little difficulty getting my thoughts down on paper. It’s all wordy, the concepts make me cringe, and the idioms will not go away. I know that it’s just a phase and that I’ll come out of it stronger. It even reminds me of past times when this has happened. I know what to do. I’ll reach for a book that reminds me to play hurt and I’ll keep with the practice of another book. I think I know what happened. This is about my own leveling up and owning up to what needs to happen next. I can’t sit and believe the things that others tell me.…
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Thursday Seeds | Give to the Fake
The object of artifice? It’s to sell something with a frame or narrative. It’s not a lie exactly, it’s the truth cloaked. It’s usually for a purpose and the best artifice is fiction story. You can tell the truth, the naked truth in fiction and folks will be ok with it. The naked truth as truth, it’s not well received. The fake news and who will believe it? Are you a consumer? (We all are to some degree) But do you only take it in and never use it for benefit? Is it something you gossip about? Well meaning of course. What if it’s about you? And you KNOW it’s…
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Thursday Seeds | Chat bots and your privacy
It only takes one share of your cellphone number… There are folks out there you have to be careful of. They have basic names and they wish you to remember – Things that never happened. Time to block. Do you recognize the phone no? Did you google the area code? What about the full number? Sometimes they are reported as spammers. NEVER give out your personal info. In this message, no confirmation of name is given on my part. Should I have even responded? Maybe not. This could have been someone contacting for a legitimate reason. I chose to engage. No one should have these, but here we are, the…
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Thursday Seeds | Candy
10-30-24 Candy. I’ll need it for tomorrow And Honoring loved ones that have gone before. Even if they are all on the other side, they still help you with what they have gone through. Even if you don’t even know what their stories were. Maybe you know the location or the year of birth and marriage. But the day to day could be hidden in the details and get so very similar to your own. Some rail against life being so similar. There are some of us that think that life should be evolving, changing into something better at each iteration or generation. And are we? If we measure history,…
