Month: March 2025

Two of Me

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Inspired by the  WP Prompt: Which animal would you compare yourself to and why?

It would be great to say that I know my spirit animal is a cat, or a snake or a bird or maybe even scarab beetle.

I think it would be fantastic to be a Scarab Beetle living it’s life in pyramid with stories painted on the walls and etched into wrappings wound artfully around  the mummified remains of  a person encased in a wood sarcophagus that speaks of the living form it once had,   with it’s wide unblinking eyes staring into the darkness.

I understand the  Scarab Beetle’s life, because I used to work with the dead. I think I could live among them comfortably too.

But if I had to to chose which animal I am the most like as I am right now- it would be the Werewolf.

French villagers hunt a werewolf

I know my nature is split in two. I know that one part of me is calm, reasonable, empathetic and I guess I’ll say human.

But I know, as sure as I know that I am that calm and reasonable person who likes to eat seafood  nachos, that there is another part of my nature that is not reasonable, or calm. It doesn’t smile, it doesn’t cry out and funny to say- it never flinches or blinks.

It does howl though. Sometimes I can hear it just before I fall asleep at night and before I wake up in the morning.

Listen Up

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Inspired by WP Prompt: Write a Letter to your 100 year old self.

Forty years from now, will I be 100 years old?

Or will I be a box of bones

or a jar full of ash

taking up space that nobody wanted?

Will my name matter, will the time I made people angry or happy matter?

The truth is:

When I am 100 years old, and I am NOT a box of bones or a jar full of ash

I hope that none of that matters to me anymore.

Artist Unknown

It’s A Simple Thing

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For Journeys With Johnbo: CELLPIC SUNDAY

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Puget Sound
Seattle, WA 2025

I was explaining to my son why I liked taking the train to work and I told him I liked it because I always saw something new.

But that’s not entirely true.

I  always see boats, I see eagles and crows and Sea Lions. I see dogs at the beach side dog park. I see the same ferries and I see people taking lessons at the Scuba Diving school.

On the day I decided to participate in this prompt and I looked at these two pictures taken a second apart on my phone I had my Eureka moment.

The new thing I see that makes everything look different is the light.

The light makes  our everyday world  look new.

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Puget Sound
Seattle, WA
2025

Snow and Sound

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I recently learned this is a reason for why it seem to be so quiet after it snows:  a couple of inches of snow can absorb as much as 60 percent of sound.

Pluto, has an eerie symphony of sounds, which we can hear thanks to NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.

Pluto is also covered with snow and ice and I can’t help but to wonder if that makes this small world just a little more spookier then it seemed to be before I learned about snow and sound.

In this digital painting, Pluto is depicted as a world of ice in many forms. Its surface shows mountains of rock, thought to be super-cold water ice, and vast fields of carbon dioxide, ammonia, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide snows. Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, composed of the same materials, looms large in the sky.
This illustration is based on images and data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft currently exploring the outer reaches of our Solar System.
Image Credit: K.B. Kofoed

INSPIRED BY WORD PRESS PROMPT: WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU LEARNED.