#vss365 A woman in a crown of spoons knelt before a puddle and tried to translate its ripples into Latin. She sighed, “The #quest for clarity always begins with shimmering confusion.” A passing jogger stopped, cupped some of the water, and poured it over his head like a benediction.

#vss365 from #Quest of la #Bluesky “And the world will be better for this That one man, scorned and covered with scars Still posted with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable “like” ❤️

#vss365 this is my #quest to munch on that doughnut no matter how sticky no matter how glazed

#vss365 Posting on #Bluesky is an #obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, and a pleasure.

#vss365 I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny - #obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they were a thousand things, before 'thin' . . . Let my girls be Hermiones. J.K. Rowling

#vss365 #confessions stressed, #obsessed and repressed, I regressed, transgressed and confessed.

#vss365 #obsessed and preoccupied, I turned my face, though half of it stayed behind, and when I gasped, my mouth opened on one plane, closed on another I do so HATE when that happens!

#vss365 #photography a zero #velocity Friday Casual chair

#vss365 At the end of a long day my preferred #velocity is the speed of light minus the speed of light shaken, not stirred chilled, with an olive

#vss365 The beauty of a hummingbird is speed disguised as stillness. It hovers above a flower, wings, with insane #velocity, blur. I watch, dazzled, realizing that grace is not the absence of effort but its perfect disguise.

#vss365 Wind claws at my face as the ground convulses beneath me, each step a jolt of raw ignition. I try to steady myself, but #velocity surges again - twisting the world into a cyclone of color, heat, and accelerating speed.

#vss365 somewhere in the vast multiverse, there is a #stellar cluster where a cosmic clown juggles stars

#vss365 the #stellar machinery of the multiverse pulses and hums in its #orbital frenzy can you hear it? can you feel it? you might, since we are its cogs

#vss365 #FeelGoodStories A woman in a dress covered with tiny windmills blew on each one until they all spun. She said, “I am obsessed with #orbital motion!” A passerby in an overcoat made of kites lifted off the ground for a moment, while saluting her with a spirited thumbs-up.

#vss365 #moments the sky widens a #stellar current moves through the black the stars’ silence quiets my mind, stills my heart

#vss365 Just passed dusk, the #stellar street lamps blinked awake and I tripped over my own shadow. It laughed and asked me to dance. Before long, we had to stop - I kept stepping on its toes. Awkward :-/

#vss365 rain trickled slowly down the glass reflecting neon lights peaceful, #stellar a windowpane galaxy

#vss365 #memories many years ago on that cold night the snow falling upon us felt like grace #stellar material a blessing

#vss365 #moments on this subzero winter night breath passes from her lips freezes, rises and joins the #stellar scatter

#vss365 she #knowingly steps into the echoes of distant church bells, imagining them as waves washing over her

#vss365 When we are troubled by an issue, it somehow finds its way back to our thoughts and feelings - again and again. It may come back in dreams or in our everyday stream of consciousness. It’s as if there is some part of us that is #knowingly shouting, “deal with it!”

#vss365 #sharing For some reason, my shadow mimics me. #Knowingly, it moves just a split second before I do, anticipating my actions, and exaggerating them in a most unflattering way. What’s up with that?!

#vss365 she glared at me #no-ingly dismissing, spurning, rebuffing, discounting and rejecting all my amorous advances :-/

I sit #knowingly with the #vss365 prompt, allowing it to settle, to germinate, without demand. #Bluesky has taught me that inspiration arrives through patience and restraint. It comes when (and if) it comes.

“I mixed rocks and water just to see what it would do Well, the rocks, they got watery and the water, it got rocky too.” ~ Incredible String Band

#vss365 #Love #Poetry she looked at me #knowingly, her face in candle light the flame cast our shadows - mine beside hers, merging eyebrow raised, she blew the flame out - gentle, deliberate, ready

#vss365 Sometimes, my mind snaps awake, like a match struck in darkness. My pulse quickens and everything is too bright, too fast. Thoughts dart ahead, then double back, then collide. Frenzied, #crazed I speed through everything at a million miles an hour, feeling like a meteor ready to explode.

#vss365 smoke rolls through the lights thin and silver a woman dances right through it #crazed shadows exaggerate her moves some, one beat behind some, one beat ahead

#vss365 Once, an evil magician cast a spell on my donuts they came to life glazed and #crazed I ate them anyway

#vss365 His smile, zig-zaggy and wonderful, entered before he did. The geometry between us bent. #Crazed and confused, I felt the angle of him carve right through me.

#vss365 #desire at midnight, a woman #crazed with lust bloomed in the garden her body, ripe and ready spilled juice under stars

#vss365 a woman in a gown stitched from road signs spun in circles until the directions blurred into nonsense she said, “I’m making a #blatant attempt to confuse time and destiny before they overwhelm me” a little girl in a tutu passed by and began to pirouette - with each turn, she aged a year

#Photography #Nature #Time “Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” — Georgia O’Keeffe

#vss365 #haiku #beastly is the snarl curled up inside us waiting to rise up and scream

#vss365 I turned my head in four directions at once, each catching a glimpse of the #beastly boredom of 3-dimensionality.

#vss365 So I opened the fridge and forgot what I came for. That happens a lot, but this time I’m super #mystified, like I was in some kind of sci-fi parallel universe. Then I grab a pickle just to feel like I’m in charge of things, and not crazy.

#vss365 The radio cut out right before the punchline. I sat there frustrated, stupefied, and #mystified. Staring at the dusty dial. I tapped it once, gentle as a prayer, and the static came back sounding like mocking laughter.

#vss365 trees speaking in damp syllables #mystified, I lean in, listen but understand nothing still, something rearranges inside me

#vss365 information flows in glass veins, silently I stare, #mystified, and maybe just a little terrified at the new “companion robot“ standing before me, waiting

#vss365 #moments a bus sighs to a stop, its doors open like a tired mouth startled and #mystified, I sense the city just told me it’s been awake too long

#vss365 that star up there keeps winking like it’s in on my secret - how can that be? #mystified

#vss365 Some days unfold like small miracles. On those days, ordinary things bloom into something wondrous, leaving me #mystified and grateful.

#vss365 #moments I was slicing a peach this morning - the kind that drips sunshine down your wrist. And I was #mystified / felt blessed when the scent of peach lifted like a tiny hallelujah.

#vss365 I look at the empty chair across from me, mystified by the space he used to fill, #mystified by how absence can glow as brightly as presence.

#vss365 #memoir I gave her a red balloon once. She tied it to her backpack and walked away. I watched it bounce, #bouncy behind her like a heartbeat. I wanted to ask if she’d keep it forever, if she’d remember me when it faded. But I didn’t. Later, I saw it floating in the park, alone.

#vss365 Those red balloon kids begin to feel a little #bouncy when they see water in that puddle wonderful ee Cummings world. Can you blame them?

#vss365 Sometimes, the whole #bouncy world hops an inch to the left, just to see if I’ll follow. I always decline. The world ain’t the boss of me. :-/

#vss365 I’m just sitting there quietly reading hops suddenly a word out of place #bouncey impish making my day what’s up and down with that?

#vss365 a #bouncy memory of her at the beach ricochets in my skull those red balloons! 🎈 🎈

#TheWanderingAphorist Wonder prefers to arrive unannounced.