This unfortunate sign placement gave me a giggle. How about calling this, “To Every Thing There is a Season….”
Author: nananoyz
I'm a semi-retired crazy person with one husband and two cats.
As the Lightning Strikes
Lightning strikes and then
Nothing is ever the same
Start again from scratch
Wild bolts sear the sky
Blinding electricity
Frissons gone frantic
That hush afterwards
Silence rushing to fill space
Anticipation
Snapshot #166
At Disney Springs (once known as Downtown Disney) one can be entertained by this gentleman and his strolling piano. I call this one, “Music that Moves Me.”
Kim Stanley Robinson
Love science fiction? Then I highly recommend the writing of Kim Stanley Robinson. His novel, New York 2140 caught my eye a few weeks ago and after devouring it, I was hooked. The title tells us where and when, but the story is amazing.
Mr. Robinson keeps his readers engrossed in the adventures of two water rats living in a Venice-like New York City in the year 2140, while simultaneously juggling stories about the angst of a young stock broker who trades in an index based on changes in sea level, a police officer seeking to solve a major crime, a couple of technology geeks, a union activist, and a video celebrity turned champion of human and animal rights, among others.
I’m currently reading his book, 2312, and am so thoroughly immersed in Robinson’s world that I’m dreaming of life within a mobile city on Mercury. Not only have all the planets in our solar system been terraformed to accommodate human life, but so have their moons and a good number of asteroids.
Robinson has an amazing technical imagination, and I’m left wondering if his writing might prompt scientists to explore the viability of some of his ideas. I certainly hope someone is taking notes.
Snapshot #165 and a Song
This is yet another photo from our recent DisneyWorld trip. Maybe this one should be titled, “I Should Just Let it Go!”
Trump—101 Day Summation—Via Word Association
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These are my expostulations
Of an event beyond imagination
An electoral college upset expectations
Installed thanks to Russian insinuation
Leading to an arguably rainy inauguration
Alternate truth— a Trump foundation
Regardless of his cognitive limitations
A crowd size yuge— with magnification
Popular vote loss— his preoccupation
He employs his friends and their relations
Both Kushners too— immediate integration
Trump commenced his weekly golf vacations
Million dollars a day—Melania’s tabulation
Trump extended family spring Vail infestation
Regardless of tax payers indignation
Worldwide anti Trump demonstrations
First on his list—eliminate banking regulations
Next—a laughable so called negotiation
With big-pharma on prices of medications
Healthcare bill- a promise fluctuation
Without any diplomatic negotiations
Or foreign leader communication
They must read his daily twitter quotations
He has called obsolete—The United Nations
Put North Korean on notification
WWIII a prognostication
Ended U.S.immigration
Commenced immigrant deportations
The Constitution has seen depreciation
To distract from Flynn’s capitulation
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Concert Shaming
A Facebook friend started a little guessing game on the social media app and it’s now gone viral. The idea is to list ten concerts and have your friends guess which one you haven’t attended.
I tried to play. I did. But when I realized that all of my groups seemed rather lame compared to those of my friends and acquaintances I deleted the post in progress. I didn’t have the Stones or Paul McCartney or Elton John on my list. No, I had Merle Haggard and Tanya Tucker, Charlie Pride and Brooks and Dunn. Big acts in their day, but I definitely have concert envy after reading some of my friends’ lists.
But just for grins, here are ten concert acts. See if you can guess the one I didn’t see in person. And try not to make fun of my taste in music.
1. Dixie Chicks
2. Three Dog Night
3. The Fifth Dimension
4. The Cowsills
5. Hootie and the Blowfish
6. Huey Lewis and the News
7. The Captain and Tennille
8. Garth Brooks
9. Boyz 2 Men
10. Foghat
Snapshot #164
I took this one of our youngest grandchild, Harper, during her family’s most recent visit to Florida. I call it, “I Believe She Can Fly.”
Salad Days
Cleopatra contemplated and thus reflected,
“My salad days, When I was green in judgment, cold in blood”
According to Shakespeare, her dalliances with the emperor were viewed as the flighty romance of her dewy youth,
Would the mighty queen have bothered with something so mundane as a salad? A woman who chose
Death by asp would not have bothered with a paltry bowl of greens. Pomegranates and honey, beer and bread,
Figs and nuts aplenty, but salads most likely weren’t on her menu. Unless, of course, it was a Caesar salad.
Snapshot #163
This poor guy made it into a parking lot in downtown Tallahassee only to meet his doom. I call this one, “Requiem for an Armadillo.”
Praying for Eyebrowz 