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Happiness is a warm keyboard=I Live to and Love to Write

Posted by Penny4athought on Sun, 25 Feb 2024

The air is just that shade of crisp but the sun is out and the day is bright; a perfect day to wake up my senses and my writer’s imagination. I have my coffee poured but it’s far enough away from my little laptop to avoid conflict and my hands are poised over the keys ready to capture that spark of inspiration. My favorite chair is comfy and in close proximity to the open window so I shiver a little when a cool breeze playfully ruffles the...

Just Remembering.....

Posted by TJW on Sat, 24 Feb 2024

Welcome back you coward! You're a coward! A real man would stand up for the weak! You kill women and children for oil! Fucking baby killer! Government puppet! Just follow your orders, coward! You have the blood of the innocent on your hands! No blood for oil! No blood for oil! And they drove away.

February 24th #Irelandreads

Posted by Robert Craven on Sat, 24 Feb 2024

"T he more bookstores you go into, the more you’ll realize how many different ways there are to be curious." - Paul Yamazaki - City Lights Bookstore / San Francisco I was talking to a fellow author over the week, he's both a respected author and a valued mentor. He says its increasingly hard to sell copies these days with so much competition from streaming services, whether you're a big name or not. And he has a point - but only to a point. I...

Joan Didion (2005) The Year of Magical Thinking.

Posted by celticman on Fri, 23 Feb 2024

The Year of Magical Thinking has been an international bestseller, been reprinted over twenty times and is perhaps the best-known of her books. The subject she specialises in is death, which we’re all familiar with, but nobody seems to want to talk or write about it. In Duncan Williamson’s short story Death in a Nut , Jack (no relation) lived with his mother in a cottage by the shoreside (Williamson was born in a tent on the shores of Loch Fyne...

Story of the Week, Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point 23 Feb 2024

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 23 Feb 2024

Not an easy task ever and this week is no exception. Poem of the Week RhiannonW’s Titterstone Clee (533m)16/02/24 was very fine, as was seashore’s deeply moving Killing the Killers . However, from a personal point of view, I always like to see writers stretch themselves, go places that don’t normally go with their work, do something different. With that in mind,this weeks Poem of the Week is Jack O’Donnell’s sweetly charming Tilly cut loose from...

WTF?

Posted by TJW on Wed, 21 Feb 2024

The good news: IRS has accepted my federal tax return. WTF news: I'm being refunded $2. Ain't enough for a gallon of gas. Guess it's better than owing and I don't have to worry about the state cause there is no state tax in Florida. Still, $2!!!! Definitely worth the hour it took to file. WTF!?

WE ARE ONE

Posted by memphis on Wed, 21 Feb 2024

We Are One Never have you ever, been an unknown: Your very presence arouses those animalistic instincts . Ravish and torn, in a demoralizing taste clocked in Surveillance storm chaser: always under its radar. Uniquely as you are; so near yet so far: could the Bleeding dry on an open canvas, as stars fall from The sky. Even if an outcast by choice or society Force, chosen to go it alone you’re never on your own. For who we are, you are, they are...

Amy Cuddy (2016) Presence Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges.

Posted by celticman on Tue, 20 Feb 2024

Amy Cuddy (2016) Presence Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges. I usually give books like Amy Cuddy’s Presence short-shrift. Fake it till you make it seems to me like pebbledash. Yet it works and she shows her workings. How and why it works. She traces her ideas back to polymath William James, who helped to develop psychology as a subject of study outside philosophy, or perhaps inside? ‘Begin to be now what you will be hereafter...

John Vaillant (2023) Fire Weather: A True Story From A Hotter World.

Posted by celticman on Mon, 19 Feb 2024

John Vaillant moves from the taiga of The Tiger to ‘thinking like a fire’ in the boreal forests surrounding Fort McMurray (Fort Money) in Alberta, Canada and the evacuation of its almost 100 000 residents in May, 2016. His argument is that these fires can no longer be considered the exception to the rule, but the rule itself in an Anthropocene warming world we have created by our increasing use of fossil fuels which destroys our planet. A...

Element of Distortion

Posted by memphis on Mon, 19 Feb 2024

[ELEMENT OF DISTORTION] Heed, light separating from light, giving form to darkness ever co-exiting. It was once a rumbling throughout the Heavenlies. Arch-angles displays a uproar: Battle for primacy, warlords usurp estate, dominion causing an unbalance overflow. Slithering faceless. serpent, night stalkers, day walkers, midday talkers: millenniums subliminal messages, archon, aliens, Ufo; contending within a battle galactic celestial orbiting...

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