#Photography Thanks to photography, we can hold the whole world, past and present, in our heads.

#Memories #Music This is one of those memories that I post every now and then, memories that have stayed with me. This particular memory was triggered by today’s #vss365 prompt, #Symphony: I’m 13 or 14 years old, and wake from a nap. I had been dreaming about music, symphonic music that . . .

#Photography #Music #PoeticFragment #Song a choir in a floral cathedral

#vss365 #Symphony #Nature #Music The rain begins, again. I hear it stumble, then find its rhythm. Each drop adding to another - sound taking shape. A car passes, its splash joins in. Then the gusty wind section and the percussive lightning. The 2nd movement of the Storm Symphony begins.

#Painting #Art “Great art picks up where nature ends.” Marc Chagall

#TimePlaceMoment #vss365 Rain began like forgiveness tapping the earth’s shoulder. #Spooked sparrows vanished into green shadows. The world smelled of rebirth, and it occurred to me that it was time for me to let go and move on.

#FamilyValues #Morality #SaulSteinberg #Cartoonists #vss365 #Spooked by expression, we speak in straight lines and sleep in squares.

#Photography #Flowers #Reproduction #SexualHarassment Put that thing back in your plants!

#vss365 #Poetry the sun, as it rose, got #spooked by a cloud that it mistook for an unkind thought being shy, it blushed - with a pinkish hue but soon, being the mighty sun it’s blush faded, and it burned the shit out of every cloud in sight

#Photography #Photographers #Beauty “Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.” Bruno Barbey

a tasty gumbo of shapes, curves, and lines

#vss365 #dreams in my dream, an #oddball stopped time to tie his shoes a minute waited, politely, although confused the oddball winked at me and said, “eternity hates loose laces” I wanted to believe him, so I did

#vss365 #MicroFiction The chair she sat on wobbled, and someone joked, “Perfect for an oddball!” Laughter, sharp as glass. She looked down and found her rippling reflection in the spill of tea. The word #oddball sank beneath its surface.

#vss365 Yesterday, on Main Street, I passed my old, #oddball uncle Fred. He said that he wanted to hear a poem he had just written. This is it: every night the setting sun signs it name in twinkly stars Well, it’s odd alright, but kind of cute, like uncle Fred.

#vss365 At the boardwalk, an #oddball painter catches the air with her canvas - holds it up like gospel. “This is August,” she declares to no one and everyone. The wind, pleased, ruffles her hair into sunlight. Even the sea forgets its sadness awhile.

#vss365 An #oddball old man weeps his way through most TV commercials, comes undone by even the smallest acts of kindness, sees beauty throughout the day - and that beauty brings him to tears. “I have a rainstorm for a heart,” he shrugs. In his damp wake, strangers feel lighter, salted clean.

#vss365 #Clueless, we wake and board The Bus of Day, a bus going Nowhere. The driver winks, but we never see him, busy with our “reality.“ We pay in laughter, love and loose kindness. At Night we get off, once again arriving at Nowhere.

#vss365 #youth #love We ran, barefoot and #clueless, through fields wet with dew and bright with wildflowers. Even the clouds seemed close enough to touch. We thought love was a kite that never fell. We, of course, were wrong. But I have that day. I cherish that day.

#vss365 She said I was #clueless. And you know, I have absolutely no clue why she said that. All I know is that what’s her name is wrong!

#vss365 Evening came wearing two left shoes, asking for directions to tomorrow. I drew a map in chalk on my palm, but evening had turned to night, #clueless of all that had preceded. I hate when that happens!

#vss365 A girl painted staircases on the air and invited me to climb. I did, #clueless, expecting heaven, but only met a cloud trying on hats, asking if this one made it look more symbolic.

Sometimes this whole #vss365 thing reminds me of the game Simon Says. And sometimes, rightly or wrongly, I just can’t bring myself to do a prompt - like #balderdash.

#haiku #lyric #Bread #Love if a man could be two places at one time I would be with you

#Time #Humans #Perception #TheAlienObservers They cannot comprehend the ocean of eternity. So they break time into numbered units, mere droplets, so they might sense it. The eternal remains beyond them.

#vss365 in the quiet after seeing #abstraction opens like a second sight

#vss365 #abstraction #DrFredFreud Patients with Abstraction Disorder overthink all they encounter. For example, they can’t eat a sandwich without wondering what sandwiches “represent.” For them, everything feels like it belongs in quotation marks.

#vss365 #ImaginationExercise Imagine an #abstraction of a star, and then, imagine an abstraction of that abstraction.

#vss365 I’m an #abstraction. \ :-) a really happy one! \ :-))

#vss365 #abstraction is the sea without horizon the echo without its source

#vss365 On the corner of Maybe Ave. & WhyNot St. I met a shy #abstraction I coaxed it into expressing itself, fully We became friends, but that friendship didn’t last long We were never on the same wavelength

#vss365 #haiku #poetry #3Lines in the realm of #abstraction words are bulky, cumbersome and surprisingly heavy

#vss365 #dreams #poetry in dreams the cacophony of living is simplified, through #abstraction to a simple melody our hearts can sing and understand

#vss365 #MicroPoetry #3Words #abstraction expresses essence

#vss365 I take #delight in her face when she stops mid-sentence, stumbling into a silence more expressive than any words could possibly be

#vss365 #haiku #delight, deeply felt, sparked by her simplest gesture one nod, brightens the world

#vss365 There’s something powerful about #delight. It’s hard to contain, to hide. It leaks, it spills into gestures, movements and facial expressions. In my case, delight bubbles up into a goofy smile that I can’t suppress. ?:-)

#vss365 Well! I never! You are engaging in wanton #delight! And you are doing so in a way that shows a complete disregard for common decency!

#vss365 #DrFredFreud #Delight is the helium of the psyche, speaking in a funny voice. In this matter, I am in complete disagreement with my colleague Kurt Jung.

#vss365 #haiku #delight is our heart, our spirit, doing cartwheels in a deep blue sky

Today is going to be one of those frustrating #vss365 days. Yeah, one of those days when I get a prompt that I can’t hit you over the head with. And if I tried, #delight would just burst like a bubble and make you smile.

#vss365 #Delight is luminous and weightless it is quieter and softer than its sister, Joy oh, did I mention? it floats!

#vss365 a quiet ”yes” blooms between them delight

#vss365 I ran outside with a jar labeled “misc. sky,” hoping for a breeze, but instead #delight snuck in, giggling. It pinged off the walls of my jar, to a crazy beat, and flashed a lightning grin. I let it escape, it winked on the way out ;-)

#vss365 #NewYear’sEve in my New Year’s Eve #dream a ball drops through clouds 8 billion people count backwards into wonder, 9 8 7 6 5 . . . Time undoes its tie and by zero, humanity is singing, dancing, and ecstatically exploding into a better tomorrow

#vss365 I #dreamed that a long silence was a doorway. I passed through it, only to find that I was a face on a screen. And I was being watched.

#PulpFiction #FemmeFatale #vss365 Her dress clung like a secret and her walk made time stutter. I felt like a man in a #dream who didn’t want to wake. She said “hello,” and that’s when things went south.

#vss365 #2025 “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy #dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a politician.” from The Metamorphosis 2025

#vss365 #Bluesky #2025 We Bluesky-ed our way through the nightmarish #dream of 2025.

#vss365 I ask the #dream if it knows what waits beyond turmoil it smiles without a mouth, and transmutes into a sea it then answers in waves, each wave a sentence begun and undone begun and undone I understand nothing, yet still feel gratitude still feel peace

#vss365 Under the same stars, miles apart, we #travel each other’s thoughts. The night holds us both in its dark. She stirs a fire. I feel its glow.