Warm wishes

Happy Birthday Samuel Langhorne Clemens!

“I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.”  -Mark Twain

My Thanksgiving is perpetual

also happy half bday kiddo xo

Thank you, Owl.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.     --Howard Thurman

Renew!

I love Bjork, I love cornucopias

https://theshed.org/commission/cornucopia/

Vincent Price Weekend Extravaganza!

Vincent Price Weekend Extravaganza!

Vincent Price Weekend Extravaganza!

Dang gone

Look who left the cake in the rain

I don't think he can take it
cuz it took so long to fake it
and he'll blame anyone but himself for anything every day of his fucking life.

All Veterans

Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France at 5:45 am, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918. But, according to Thomas R. Gowenlock, an intelligence officer with the US First Division, shelling from both sides continued for the rest of the day, only ending at nightfall.^[1][2] The armistice initially expired after a period of 36 days. A formal peace agreement was only reached when the Treaty of Versailles was signed the following year 

-Wikipedia

Ceasefire.
I received a snotty reply on Twitter from an Australian on Veterans Day.
It was from something I tweeted in early December 2017.
Walter Tremayne-- "But if you don't have wars you don't get veterans."
Dare to dream, Walter, dare to dream.

Meanwhile, Trump is a weak asshole trying to dismantle the allegiance we have with Europe.

first snow

We are having the first snow of the year in these here parts.
It's nice to know nature doesn't give a fig about the ominous crap going on with the dictator president and complicit republican party in my country.  Currently, the guilty are trying to find a way to stop the investigation on themselves and relinquishing passes on Jim Acosta, one of our prestigious journalists.  The level of danger keeps mounting.  I find myself babysitting Twitter a little more once again.  I managed to shut it down for the night, but I kept going back to my phone, but not to social media.  A poem kept running through my head so I had to document it.  Here's the poem I'm working on:

American Agrimony

Leaves
I don't know you or agrimony
Do I fit the profile?
Extract, essence
Surprised by my cinquefoil roots
So, so many roses
Somewhere on the sad clown spectrum
Yet not occult
Someday roaming for barren strawberries
Laughing over the hill

Halfway home we're there

First do no harm
Halfway there we're home.

A case of the Midterms

It is just that we should be grateful,
not only to those with whose views
we may agree, but also to those who
have expressed more superficial
views; for these also contributed
something, by developing before us
the power of thought

-Aristotle

Curated Oasis

So happenstance (algorithm) brought me here and apparently other people too.  The music and the comment section must be curated in my blog to offer an oasis from the negativity on the net from this time in Two thousand eighteen.