Word of the Day Challenge: BECKON
It is not the light shining from a window
in abandon house
full of ghosts and cold silence
that beckons to me, and whose request I will greedily devour
Its the darkness that calls to me
in a whisper
as soft and fragile as dried and dusty funeral flowers
and that is the invitation I accept with grace.
Word of the Day Challenge: NURSE
Remember the saying: Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel?
It was sound advice at one time, but it isn’t anymore and this is why:
I stopped watching the news when it became painfully obvious that the industry had gotten down on their knees and said to Convicted Felon, Donald Trump ” If you get elected PLEASE don’t hurt me Daddy ”
The media also aided Democratic Leadership in stripping away the votes that were cast for President Biden in the Primary. They gave a big inky platform to Jon Stewart and George Clooney in ” leadership’s ” effort to get Biden to drop out of the race and boy did it work.
The media also put it out there that maybe Taylor Swift could show up at a new nominating convention to – God, I don’t know. Tell the Delegates who to Vote for I guess because as you know all Democrats listen to pop stars when we are lost in the woods.
After VP Harris stepped up and ran, the media demanded she answer questions concerning her positions when they never, not once asked Convicted Felon Trump to give detailed answers. All he had to say was that he had beautiful ideas and Joe Biden was old and nobody in the media questioned why Convicted Felon Trump thought at this point he was running against Bidenwho had already dropped out of the race.
One time Convicted Felon Trump even danced at a rally instead of answering questions because he said nobody cared about him answering questions- which turned out to be absolutely true.
Felon Trump’s VP pick claimed immigrants were eating pets and the media went with that story – a lie Vance a fessed up to, but he said he lied for a good reason ( to save the Country ) and he’d do it again.
Apparently a VP candidate saying outright he intended to lie to the American public if he thought he needed to and THAT wasn’t a story.
Journalists and tv news media outlets are now begging for readers and an audience and to that I say- to effing bad. What GOOD are you?
After all that ass kissing you did for Felon Trump my dear Media and Print Journalists, he’s booting some of you out of the White House Press Pool, he’s threatening to sue ( because that is all he does) you if say mean things about him or his sugar Daddy Elon Musk and he now has the American taxpayers to foot his legal bills for him. It won’t cost him a cent he’s gotten from selling Bibles and golden sneakers.
There are other sources I go to for the news now BBC, CBC , BLUESKY has some people I like to follow because I like their analysis. There is George Conway @gtconway.bsky.social, Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.bsky.social and the coolest Opposition Group in the world Alt National Park Service: @altnps.bsky.social and Medias Touch @altnps.bsky.social
It seems to me that the United States main stream media or legacy media are nursing their wounds and trying to figure out how to grow and audience, but I am OVER them.
That big barrel of ink is empty and at this stage, it’s probably best it stays that way until some real reporters and journalists show up.
Artists Unknown
I try to sit in different cars when I ride the train to and from work.
I read once that it’s a good idea to change up your routines because it keeps your brain healthy. I don’t know if that is really true, but when I change my seat up I see and hear new people going about their day and all of that is food for thought and those thoughts go into my writing.
On Friday I sat with a lady that I see every once and awhile- she is has this big personality and big presence and beautiful melodic accent.
We were discussing the current state fo affairs here in the States and towards the end of conversation I realized that she and I were trading survival tips with each other because, as the saying goes this isn’t our first trip to the rodeo and both of us have dealt with racism, being the victims of hate crimes and all of the crappy things that come in between.
When her stop came up she sort of swept her way down the aisle and she tossed me a victory sign as she went out the door and I tossed one back.
Who would have thought that having a conversation like that would make me feel like I CAN take the world on. It had been a gloomy day and then it wasn’t.
Holy Smokes. Who would have thought that sharing survival stories could make you feel better when the words themselves are so grim.
Word of the Day Challenge: Holy Smoke
Word Of The Day Challenge: POP CORN
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I’m one of those adults that got hooked on the kid’s TV show Bluey.
My Granddaughter Jemma introduced me to Bluey on my last trip out to visit her and there were two things I saw that I l loved.
First were two characters that Bluey and here sister play- they’re two Grannies named Rita and Janet.
The second was this dance that Bluey and Bingo do called ” Floss ” I’ll have to admit I didn’t know ” Floss” was a real thing.
The reason I liked ithat skit from Bluey so much was that it reminded me of this crazy dance to a crazy song that my Dad liked.
For the most part I loved my parent’s taste in music- but this one was a bridge to far for me. It was called ” Popcorn ”
One of these days I might show Jemma that old video of ” Pop Corn “, but right now she thinks I’m cool and I’d like to keep it that way.