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Prompt 3 {The Vessel}

Today's prompt asks me to write about a ship. I choose that great mysterious nonsensical ship. The relation-ship. It was not until I thought about what to write and then considered that word ship that I came to realize that "relation"-"ships" are nothing more than vessels we cast ourselves away in as defence against the bewildering events of life. As a side note, I have become both aware of and comfortable with a fact  which might alarm a sensible person, that I have missed the importance and meaning of almost all of life's occurrences, its comings and goings. Anyway back to ships…if you steady yourself for a long journey into the unknown it is best perhaps that one pack a sufficient number of socks and pairs of underwear. Check the inventory of necessities you have at the ready. All packed? Good. Setting off alone, are we? Hmmm.  It is at this point in the journey that if you are at all like me then I suspect no matter how many pairs of undies and socks a
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Prompt 2 {The Unrequited love poem}

Today's prompt would have me drone on endlessly about the virtues of pining for the one you love. Regardless of the outcome. Oh one I love who loves me not I wish you knew my touch, but alas you live outside my reach and so I pine alone and in this emptiness I drown in sorrows vast as the breach between us both so look to me on deaths sweet bed as last I lay my weary head for never have I known your touch you miserable fucking such and such  Yadayadayada wax poetic? Nope wax pathetic! But actually, there is a love I have yet to know fully one which I pine for even though I know not it's touch or the excitement of engagement with its divine forces. The one who got away for me? Travel. I have wanted to travel and experience and eat, smell touch all that is unknown out there. And yet I have not. I know deep inside that this is because I have not allowed myself the freedom to do this, I suspect that for all my lofty ambition I am tethered to this non-motion by fear. I consist
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Prompt 1 {Outside my window}

Although it is hard to see right now I can imagine what is out there, in the dark. Lurking behind the frosted pane, stark grey landscapes and shattered shapes splay across its frigid surface. I bundle up tightly against the imagined ill wind that blows with a relentless ferocity pummeling the age-old shingles of my tiny home. No, I can not feel that imagined bitter wind and biting cold because thankfully I am inside, ensconced in a bundle of cloth and an assortment of scarves blankets and housecoats. A mad array of items which provide me with a weighty protection against that crazed angry wind. A mass of fabrics that would, by comparison, make a very swaddled babe, even one which was swaddled in a very proficient manner by a professional swaddler seem to the casual observer to be nothing more than a loose collection of garments cast in a haphazard manner in the general direction of a newborn trapped in a snowbank.  In short dear reader, I am warm and snug as a bug in
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how to hide an elephant in plain sight

And so begins a year of random and surely misguided thoughts committed to paper; more or less. Or, how I spent 2018 … and the joy following through on a commitment to yourself brings. Introducing my scattered non-mansplain'n brain And so it is with the loftiest of goals I undertake to commit to taking pen to paper (metaphorically as I suspect most attempts will fall to fingers on keys) at least once a day. Getting Started there is a plan to this daily foray into self abuse and exposure to ridicule and this plan is as follows. 1: Awake daily (as I age this becomes more a more daunting task than one might imagine) 2: Fall or crawl out of bed 3: Drink coffee 4: Read daily Buddhist lesson 5: Poop, wash face & brush teeth *Note to self,  do NOT get this series of actives muddled in any fashion* 6: Do some Yoga asana, chanting and/or pranayama. 7: Take up laptop and proceed to BE FUCKING BRILLIANT! The rest of it all be a walk in the park well perhaps the coffee and
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