*My bed* "Oh you have to work today? Don't mind me, I'll just look extra amazing and cozy. Here's a little sun spot too, just to rub it in." 😭

..we need to let life explode-into-shattered-fragments-of-empty.. & remain standing.. —READ MORE in my new article: ‘intuitive ramblings’ 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/46zx7t58 ©️📸 WIPdww #thoughts #quotes #photography #zen #sunset #light #spirituality #amwriting #nature #sunrise #booksky #landscape #writesky #art

German artist Katja Lang Road to E. (2022)

This article devoted one sentence on the impact on immigrants while the rest was on the impact on consumers and the bourgeoisie. We have to stop framing human rights from the perspective of humans as commodities. People don't exist to deliver your food. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I participated in the Outrun Addiction 5K virtual walk / run today. Surely after not running for months (that's plural) my 45 year old body can handle this. Let's give a play-by-play. Mile: 0.00 I leave my apartment and spend 15 minutes navigating around a rudely timed festival.

update: i thought we raised enough to get maha and her baby safe transport south closer to the hospital so hamoud can receive treatment and away from the bombing but turns out no one will take her for the amount we raised ($700 USD after fees). please help out if you can ❤️ gofund.me/33cf03577

#vss221 #woefulsongpoem #myprose

Ruin a song by adding the word "literally" to the title: I'm Literally on Fire by Bruce Springsteen

Josef Kote, Illuminated Sky NYC (acrylic on canvas, c. 2021)

I think I've spent a good part of this last year working long hours and just going to bed right after. It's almost like I've lost part of my personality. It might even be a way for me to cope, but I'd very much like to change this soon. 😅

smoldered movement, poetry in motion… whimsically enriched, within #haiku #brevity #abatract

gofund.me/8e5750db I have been harassed by the family of my rap*st via court and threats of court. Still in debt from the events + medical bills, and after events if anyone can help it’s greatly appreciated, if you cannot help please re-share. 🩷

I don’t wanna go darker but it can’t be helped, at the times I feel most down -

Takashi Yasui (Ginza, Tokyo) 📸

..the truth is.. things just change. like how summer's crushing into autumn.. nothing stays the same.. ©️📸 WIPdww #blueskyartshow #summer #thoughts #quotes #zen #light #trees #photography #sunset #spirituality #amwriting #art #writingcommunity #nature #sunrise #sky #tree #writesky #landscape #faith

his mellifluous voice carried her into the marrow (of her drunken soul)— spilling across (barren ground) where chill & silence bloomed. cloaked in shifting patterns, she strode (the planes of his heart)— a path carved in rain (in storm) walls collapsed in her wake, 1/2 #poetry

"This could have been an email" I mutter to an annoyed Saint Peter, as he reads off each and every one of the dark humor jokes that I laughed at until I wheezed, while saying "I'm going to hell for this."

How did I miss June!? Was I too busy disassociating to listen to music that month?

Went to a local park with a close friend to catch up when I spotted this propped up against a tree. Now the logical part of my brain figured that a child dropped it along the path and someone moved it. The horror part of my brain was kind of expecting it to show up everywhere saying "Come play!"

They looked so soap-rised after it Dawned on them.

Rosette had begun In roseate shades, began to Fade, rose blooms begin. #inkMine #rosette #begun #roseate #began #rose #begin #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @inkmine.bsky.social

Me after realizing that it's only Monday.

..i stare-out my window a lot. sunset. moonrise.. a glass child. transparent. fragile. glitter-on-glass.. in day's remaining light.. ©WIP-dww #thoughts #quotes #spirituality #zen #amwriting #nature #sunset #moon

Juncture Of our lives, Puncture Of our hearts, Fracture Of a life, Fracture Of a heart, Shards Of something Broken... A life, A heart, Shattered... Scars To be mended, Deepest Of the deep, We play a part, Each... We make a mark, Each... Dismantling, Then rebuilding Love departs We depart - ♠️♥️ -

This would be exciting if it were a sci-fi novel, but it's not and there isn't much in terms of guardrails, regulatory bodies, or ethics oversight to protect us from companies racing to produce artificial superintelligence (ASI) while only pinky swearing safety. www.livescience.com/technology/a...

In a thunderclap I go, tearing the veil of the sky. There is no farewell, only the sudden heartbeat of the storm opening the way. The rain will be my echo, the light my wake, and in the silence after my name will remain whispered by the clouds. #StandingMountain

Your body’s tilt whispers— gravitational force, gentle harmony that cannot quell the siren call of the infinite unknown Stars as music of the cosmos.. Fluid and shifting, bending endlessly toward the abyss— The air itself leans forward to receive me— —void's embrace At once temple. #OfMine

Getting sucked into a vortex of doom on an inhospitable planet with violent storms? Nope, just the inside of my vase with light shining on the outside of it.

this reverence of reveries, singing in sonnets sauntering in sacred refrains *. *. * #vss166 #haiku #senryu #sonnet

out to the wretched wilds our hearts roam… floating on wistful winds #haiku #vss144

Vé Boisvert (detail from the Monet inspired Nymphéas collection)

Ahh, finally. In vinyl.

I probably spent 5 years, maybe more, listening to this CD every night while sleeping. It was a dark ambient album called "While you Sleep" by A Murder of Angels. I wanted it to infect my dreams. The music is so unsettling, with dark tones looping over and over.

Every damn time.

rare W for COINTELPRO from a legendary conversation between Bhakti Shringarpure and Mahmood Mamdani (h/t Silke-Marie Weineck)

Treats for a good girl who took her medicine today.

the time of man is over

"Who will be the last to die? Who will think the final thought In the universe? But the sun will rise again The sun will rise again The ocean will swell and surge And the sun will rise again Without us Without us Without us" "Endling" by Zanias

This work week needs to be over soon, ugh. Goodnight, all.

it's time TO BOTHER THE CAT #makeaterriblecomicday

So many surprises in this lovely album. "The Spear of the Lily Is Aureoled" was the debut progressive metal album by Sculptured, led by Don Anderson (Agalloch). A random jazz break and trumpet solo in the middle of a metal album makes you go "wait, what?!"

We’ve been dehumanized in the US and much of the world for at least several decades, but this is what the people of Iran are actually like, full of warmth, kindness, and generosity ❤️

One of my favorite doom metal albums from 2000. "Shades of..." by the Finnish band Shape of Despair is hard to describe other than you're stuck in a slow and sludgy looping dream sequence with the aesthetics being a beautiful grassy field with pink skies, but completely devoid of any life.

Already bad enough worrying about my relatives in Tehran and Isfahan, but now seeing everyone here in the US talk about terrorism?! Is this 2001 again? The most terrorist thing an Iranian can do is loudly sing along to Tom Jones songs with their thick Persian accent.

Me, on the surface of the Sun: "It's so hot today, it's like 10,000 F (5,600 C)" That one guy: "Yeah but it's not so bad, it's dry heat."