And sadly - tragically - this is also what we’re capable of - gross apathy.

It’s the night of new learning about old things -

Earlier this evening, I learned of the 1st untethered spacewalk in 1984.

Now, I’m listening to a 1970s band I’d never heard of before tonight -
Pavlov’s Dog.

My husband mentioned them, said he even has one of their albums.

Lots of falsetto..

I was 18 in 1984 but tonight is the first time I’ve ever seen these images.

Oh. My. God.

I’m just…
Just amazing.
The level of bravery, expertise and confidence required for such a feat.

Amazing.
Glorious.

The heights we can reach when we put our collective minds to it.

Wow. Thanks for sharing the article. Just amazing. I cannot imagine the level of confidence and bravery this took.

The Second Coming By William Butler Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? Copyright Credit: n/a Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (1989)

The Second Coming
by William Butler Yeats

. . . feels both timely and appropriate.

I recommend listening here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/...

The Great Gatsby Alternate covers of this ISBN can be found here, here …

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 2

#20books20days
#booksky

www.goodreads.com/book/show/41...

Yeah, I don’t mind the mowers…or cars.
Sounds like a nice warm day to me..

The leaf blowers make me stabby, though. Would help if they weren’t deafeningly loud; and if they were used quickly.

I just saw the news about the Boundary Waters in Minnesota.
The ban on mining there has been overturned, a vote of 49-50.

I am so angry.
I don’t even live in Minnesota but visit often, I have a dear friend in Duluth.
I’m so angry for Minnesotans, for my fellow Americans, for myself…

This is just awful.

Sea of Tranquility The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleve…

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 1

#20Days20Books
#booksky

www.goodreads.com/book/show/58...

Loved this book! Read it in late 2020, it seemed fitting.. Got me more interested in SK. He is a master at character development. His characters are some of the most relatable/sympathetic in the history of fiction, even the bad guys.

International Haiku Poetry Day - The Haiku Foundation April 17 is the day the whole world honors haiku. Registered by Sari Grandstaff in 2007 and initiated as a project of The Haiku Foundation in 2012, International Haiku Poetry Day occurs in the heart of the United States’ celebration…

I have learned something.

thehaikufoundation.org/international-haiku-poet...

h/t @Natasha_Jay

REPOSSESSION - just ok. But I liked the idea of it, even if it didn’t feel fully realized.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

WHO BY FIRE - a slow burn ignited long ago, now left to spread through wilderness…

THE LONELIEST PLANET - a prolonged twisting of a twig against stone, then a long, low smolder, and then a spark; then it sputters out.

I enjoyed both.

RING - a masterpiece.

I remember when hearing neighbors’ lawnmowers on warm days would annoy me..

But atm, a lawnmower’s familiar buzz near my window brings a sense of comfort..
And relief that it’s not the deafening din of a leaf blower.

Dk if this is progress or a demented sense of nostalgia..

#spring

In a similar vein, there’s Andy Warhol’s (in)famous - and imo somewhat prophetic - quote about each and every one of us being due at least 15 minutes of fame.

A whole lot of people’s 15 minutes are up by now and they really need to be dragged off the stage.

“I am here to live out loud.”
- Emile Zola

I doubt Zola could have imagined a future world where everyone on the planet “living out loud” becomes a global commodity to be bought and sold..
And it eventually determines nation’s governments and global policies.

I loved this movie! I was in middle school when HBO aired it, I think a year after its cinema release, and I watched it at least three times within a few short months.
Great songs, and such a fun movie.
Thank you for reminding me of it!

My book reading is split between library loans (and usually e-books) and buying my own.
Sometimes a book just calls out for me to have a print copy of it at home indefinitely.

“Here is also the news…”

Yeah, Idk how I got this from “wisteria” and “yellow” either…
I just went with my initial thoughts/images from the two words.

dawn shatters our dreams-
shards of stained glass carve deep red
rivers from blue streams

#DailyHaikuPrompt (wisteria/yellow)
#haiku
#aubade

This should be the main take on that DoorDash stunt.

Huh.
Guess I really like a punk band, then.

My mom made these for us regularly when I was growing up. I make them now once or twice a year.

We call them salmon “patties.”

Scarlet apples float
In the kitchen sink, where black
Veins of iron crack
Its porcelain cover. Time wears
Us down to what’s beneath us.

#vssdaily (sink)
#tanka
#poetry

I think they mean by this to use your vote to vote in reps and Senators and governors who will hold him accountable.
Currently, GOP is majority in both chambers of Congress and they enable him.

All his dedicated hard work to get out of southern Ohio and get into Yale, then become a US Senator, then Vice President…
all so he can now say shit like this.
Meemaw must be proud.