Morty the Misfit, Morty Chameleon, Morty the one-eyed Chihuahua has captured my heart and lifted my spirits. May this musical video bring happiness your way too.
http://www.facebook.com/reel/411441188364931
http://www.facebook.com/watch/hashtag/mortythemisfit?eep=6%2F
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/hUfv5SuSPaVZHsfL/?mibextid=0VwfS7
You know, it don’t come easy and then, again, it sometimes comes way too easy.
The man said, “good topsoil will attract everything: native and invasive, desired and undesired, flowers and weeds. So, there’s always maintenance required to remove the unwanted.”
Plant what you want and be prepared to remove what you don’t.
That beautiful field of wildflowers might be happenstance or design or a little of both.
What are you growing today and what are you maintaining?
I recently moved back to my home state for this beautiful peninsula with its comforting and familiar geography. I have also returned to rebuild a relationship with my beautiful, comforting and familiar wife.
Thank god for second chances and a home that supports them.
Below is the link to another beautiful post from John Coyote aka John Castellenas accompanied by The Accidentals beautiful song.
Great advice from Lynn J Kelly below AND check out the link further below for Jon Baptiste’s song Tell the Truth on his award-winning album We Are.
“The ads for “The Sterile Cuckoo” remind us that you can fall in love for the first time only once in your life. True enough, but that begs the question of whether Pookie and Jerry are really in love. I doubt it. Their relationship is based more on need: her need to be loved, and his need to make love.” Thus begins the critical movie review by Roger Ebert, the late Pulitzer-Prize winning movie critic who died in 2013. See the full review here: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-sterile-cuckoo-1969
I was a movie reviewer for both my high school and college newspapers. I still enjoy watching movies, especially classics, but stopped writing movie reviews long ago. I was more of a promoter than a critic and definitely not as talented a writer as Roger Ebert. Alas.
Liza Minnelli and the song, Come Saturday Morning, were nominated for Oscars, although neither won. Alas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nIdGutgymY
Today’s senryu: Come Saturday Morning
Alas, life is short
and timing is ev’rything.
What time is it now?
It’s said that “America has a loneliness epidemic” (see NPR‘s recent piece at https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173418268/loneliness-connection-mental-health-dementia-surgeon-general
So what? Well, here are the consequences of loneliness according to a recent advisory from the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy :
Today’s senryu: Lookin’ for Love in All the Wrong Places
we all need to love
giving and receiving love
look for love wisely
Victim Mentality? This is a dangerous topic.
Last week during a 5-day meditation retreat that I and 300 others attended, a special small group consultation session was offered to “anyone who has experienced trauma OR knows someone who has experienced trauma.” Duh! Crowd murmuring began immediately with the gist being: wouldn’t that include everyone here, if not everyone on the planet.
While first or second-hand trauma seem part of our times, does that mean we should “wallow in misery”?
A Healthline article, How to Identify and Deal with a Victim Mentality, written by Crystal Raypole (see http://www.healthline.com/health/victim-mentality), offers a lot of information on this malady. Here are a couple of highlights:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6yUY7M9yfw
Today’s senryu: A Victim Mentality Or ….
It’s clear, we’re in pain –
should we tell everyone or
someone who can help?
“As Dylan’s first release during his “gospel” period, “Gotta Serve Somebody” was met with divisive reviews; John Lennon famously criticized the song and wrote a parody titled “Serve Yourself” in response. Nevertheless, the single won the Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Male in 1980. … Cash Box said that the “bluesy instrumentals” were the song’s highlight and that “Dylan avoids a preachy tone with humorous asides.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotta_Serve_Somebody
Yesterday’s blog Living In-Between was a difficult message directed at myself. It is something I needed. I shared it with you in case it might be of help to someone you know.
Upon second thought, I realize that some messages are best kept to oneself, at least until you’ve had more time to consider the possible consequences for putting those words out into the world.
Here’s two more thoughts on yesterday’s blog:
Gotta Serve Somebody en.wikipedia.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Campion
Poet/lyricist Thomas Campion was born February 12, 1567, and lived until March 1, 1620, dying at the age of 52, most likely of the plague. His poems/songs were known for their “brevity and simple, straightforward delivery.” Considered a “keen observer of human frailty, particularly that brought on by the conflicts of love and sexuality. He is also a moralist.” Campion never married and left a paltry legacy to “his longtime friend and collaborator, Philip Rosseter.”
Campion was also known as a metric poet more interested in syllable count than rhyme. He wrote that rhyme should be “sparingly used, lest it should offend the ear with tedious affectation.” He added that rhyming was a “childish titillation.” These comments did not endear him to his contemporaries, and he was “neglected for almost two hundred years, but in the late 1800s he was rediscovered by A.H. Bullen and was later admired by T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. In The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933) Eliot calls Campion, “except for Shakespeare … the most accomplished master of rhymed lyric of his time.” His lyrics and the songs in which he presented them strongly reflect his period’s style, and Davis finds Campion’s influence in the works of such poets as Pound, W.H. Auden, and Robert Creeley. Campion has been called a poet of the ear, and his careful respect for the nature of the language and its capacities for pleasing intonation was a significant development.” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/thomas-campion
Today’s senryu: Happy Birthday Thomas Campion
Offending your peers
may lead to obscurity;
temporarily.
“We are living in a time of unprecedented danger, and the Doomsday clock time reflects that reality. 90 seconds to midnight is the closest the clock has ever been set to midnight, and it’s a decision our experts do not take lightly,” Rachel Bronson, the president and CEO of BAS, said at a news conference on Tuesday (Jan. 24).”
Today’s senryu: Just Another Monday
spy balloon shot down …
do you feel safer today?
proceed with caution
Life Matters 