OT ~ Welcome to Saturday!

Submitted by smiley7 on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 4:40am

Water spills from sky dippers

lips meet

voices kiss.

Good morning good people,

Welcome to morning ramblings.
If America is great again, why is Trump living in my spare bedroom?

"Out damn spot!" "No more negative waves."

Forgive me, been out of sorts for a few months; poetry frozen.
Dormant; and i misbehave when the words don’t flow, tongue-tied i can be, sincerely; how can i say i’m humble when i so want to be like daddy!

What a week?! Waking from anesthesia to beers, followed by breakfast with friends...
life is incredible.

The purple lights before sunset
Shy they are, never talking, courteous, green,

wanting what all want

fruit

water, peace and sun

until work is done

seeds formed for eternity

rolling eggs of destiny

untouched by blight

they grow

sight unseen sharing delight, every right without constitution

breathing oxygen, giving back

great works of humility

treading upon no thing

possessing families galore greeting shores

knowing more in pores

than spiders

Magenta heart pumping, still

colored

willing to run, if able...

writing fables, news no more

reaching roots, counting dreams

kissing winds

that wait

in green houses.

“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”
~ Lewis Mumford

Hoping you all a beautiful day, the stage is yours!

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Submitted by riverlover on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 7:09am

A good Saturday to all

Your poetry has budded in the spring? I liked this line: willing to run, if able...

I have not been able to run for over a year. And I broke something in my surgically-stabilized foot 2 days ago in a tumble down a half-flight. I flew down. A new head injury as well. My facial scar will be vertical with a small gap all the way down through part of my nose. No Harry Potter lightning bolt.

So I am back in a foot brace. But not das boot to the knee. And I have been dosing with ibuprofen, ulcers not with standing. I had to break that last phrase down to its base words.

A thunderstorm early this AM. Woke up to my first distant thunder of 2018. The storm went N of me. Rain returning in a few hours. April showers have consequences.

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Submitted by mimi on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 7:31am

I wished so much someone could help you and live

@riverlover
with you to take care of you. It's not good for you to live by yourself. Hugs.

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Submitted by riverlover on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 9:11am

TY mimi. working on that.

@mimi It's after 10 AM here so back to bumble upstairs to bed. MY colonoscopy on Wednesday should be a fun prep.

Are there leaves on the trees in Germany?

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Submitted by mimi on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 2:12pm

yes, the first leaves are popping out

@riverlover
and everything starts to bloom. I will make photos and post them next Friday. It's really beautiful.
And we have a lots of birds and a mama deer which must have made her home in the neighbor's garden and has a little one. They hop over to our side and I think they eat up all the first blossoms and leafs. They are so 'fresh' they even come three meters in front of our livingroom window. We would need a dog to chase them away, but my sister doesn't want one, because she thinks she can't handle a dog anymore, which is true.

In the forest near by there are wild hogs and we don't walk into it anymore. Nor only because we don't walk well anymore, but because if my sister would fall, it would be a disaster to 'rescue' her. She is very heavy.

But we are surrounded by houses and actually it's a pity how much they built in our street.

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Submitted by smiley7 on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 11:20am

In our thoughts, riverlover...

@riverlover
sorry to hear of the fall and new cast and facial injury. Joining, mimi, in concern for you going it, alone. Wishing you were close by. Please check messages later today.

As you say in your comment PS: you are a dear friend to us all, so the best back at you for good and gentle days of recovery.

Submitted by randtntx on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 7:09am

Sounds like a good way to wake

from anesthesia. From oblivion to the company of friends. As long as the stomach can handle the beer and eggs, it sounds fine. Hope the shoulder is on the mend and you are doing well.

Submitted by NCTim on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 8:24am

Friends in low places

@randtntx

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -

Submitted by randtntx on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 8:58am

No negative

@NCTim waves.

Submitted by smiley7 on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 12:42pm

The grestest performance by

@randtntx
Sutherland; stays in the recess of me mind. It's the little epiphanies that matter, have to keep the thought close, that they are there, waiting for a smile, a hug, a challenge a springing of green in the garden. Not always easy for this old coot, but, i'm learning and it feels good.

Submitted by randtntx on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 10:13am

Yup

@smiley7 Southerland; hands-down awesome in that movie. The rest of the cast pretty darn good as well. That movie.....what a sly way to talk about what 99.9% of our wars are about. Only part that was fantasy was who saw through the B.S. thereby deciding a different course of action and who won in the end....not the winners in 'real life'. In all, an awesome fantasy. Would that the 'average Joe' would come to that realization.

Submitted by smiley7 on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 12:29pm

Carolina Blue Skies, remember the sunscreen :)

@NCTim
pass along a smile and hug in hopes special pickers get in your ears today!

Submitted by smiley7 on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 1:20pm

Feeling good, thank you, randtntx. Can attest that our friend's

@randtntx @randtntx @randtntx
spirits in person exceed the sincerity of their good pens. Hoping for more meet-ups. Perfect timing for me after all as our crew lifted my spirits and the fog as well.

Looks as though, this healing process is a long one...no worries, it can be managed.

Smiling that you mentioned the pineapple; rambled across this story from The Paris Review and enjoyed: "The Strange History of the “King-Pine” https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/25/the-strange-history-of-th...

“There is no nobler fruit in the universe,” Jean de Léry writes of the pineapple. Charles Lamb loved the fruit erotically: “Pleasure bordering on pain, from the fierceness and insanity of her relish, like a lovers’ kisses she biteth.” Pieter de la Court professes: “One can never be tire’d with looking on it.” How did these men, and so many others, become so enraptured with the pineapple? And how have we forgotten its former grandeur?

In 1496, when Christopher Columbus was returning from his second voyage to the Americas, he brought back a consignment of pineapples. Little did he know that this golden gift, nestled among the tame parrots, tomatoes, tobacco, and pumpkins, would be the crowning glory of his cargo.

Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

edit for spelling

Submitted by mimi on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 7:35am

Wishing you and your friends a delicious breakfast

and joy along the days spent together. May you all be happy together.

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Submitted by smiley7 on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 12:33pm

Good times, mimi, good times.

@mimi
Good to see you and thanks for your continued caring for this place!

Submitted by randtntx on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 8:45am

The pineaple/fleet of ships

image puts me in mind of this image:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Citrus_x_limon_-_K%C3%B6hler%E2%...

Colonizers all? I'm appropriating some land for a lemon tree this morning. Will need to be fenced in to fence something else out.

But, in appreciation of lemons, independent of anything else,

lemons are a rich source of vitamin C, providing 64% of the Daily Value in a 100 g serving

according to the nutritional tables. Their oils are an effective nontoxic insecticide, and they have a myriad of other uses.

Submitted by smiley7 on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 12:49pm

Had a lemon tree, once, in LA...

@randtntx
bearing fruit; the ting backyard of our bugalo up the hill in Sherman Oaks shaded two small chairs and a bucket table.

I try to keep lemons on hand and drink lemon water, mostly, all day. I think it's magic along with apple cider vinegar with the "Mother."

Submitted by randtntx on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 10:21am

Sounds nice.

@smiley7 Like your idea of lemon water. Green tea is supposed to be have anti-inflammatory properties, improve immune function, and is rich in antioxidants. You can dress it up a bit with lemon, mint, lemon balm, or any other good-tasting herb you have on hand. I'm trying to get into the habit of drinking more water....this is one approach to make it a bit more palatable.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 9:35am

Good morning, Smiley7. Have a speedy recovery and take

care of yourself in the interim.

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Submitted by smiley7 on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 1:04pm

Good day to you, el.

@enhydra lutris
Thanks for reading. Were missing you in conversation, here, as more than a decade has passed in sharing cyberspace; gentle thoughts headed you way.

Anticipating Spring to make an entrance up high this coming week; i'll give it two more weeks before my favorite day hike up to Story Teller's Rock.

Have a good one!

Submitted by mimi on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 2:31pm

"Deport Trump, Make America Great Again"

Bumper sticker at a car in Germany in front of me....

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Submitted by smiley7 on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 2:50pm

Big smile, cool sticker

@mimi
but giving it reflection, which country would take him...Russia?

On second thought, is Riker's Island a country?

Submitted by mimi on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 3:17pm

nah, Italy is the right country

@smiley7

Elba... an Island where great men reflect on their accomplishments.

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 6:21pm

Corporate PACs

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Cory Booker: 10.37 percent of Booker’s campaign funding has come from PACs, 76.40 percent of which is from business PACs. By contrast, 72.12 percent of Booker’s campaign funding is from large individual donors.
Maria Cantwell: Just 0.62 percent of Cantwell’s campaign funding has come from PACs of any kind. In contrast, 73.61 percent of her campaign funding has come from large donors.
Kirsten Gillibrand: 6.95 percent of Gillibrand’s campaign funding has come from PACs. Of this proportion, 65.73 percent is from business PACs. Meanwhile, 62.15 percent of her fundraising has come from large individual donors.
Kamala Harris: 4.89 percent of Harris’s campaign fundraising has been through PACs; 41.07 percent of this total has been from business PACs. By contrast, 64.99 percent of her campaign funding has come from large donors. (Though the OpenSecrets analysis covered a five-year period, in Harris’s case, it only goes back to 2015, when she first ran for U.S. Senate.)
Bernie Sanders: 1.73 percent of Sanders’s funding has come from PACs. Of that, 7.27 percent is from business PACs. 17.70 percent of his funding has come from large individual contributors.
Elizabeth Warren: Just 1.4 percent of Warren’s campaign money has come from PACs. Of that, 12.91 percent is from business PACs. Large individual donors made up 29.72 percent of her campaign funding.