Florida never ceases to amaze me: yesterday, at the beach, we went to build a sandcastle with the kids and a huge flock of birds covered the sky before diving for breakfast, and various seagulls watched with amusement while bathing themselves.
I like listening to the trees sing.
It’s comforting to my soul.
Little Dragons
Where I live, there are dragons everywhere. They live in trees, bushes, the tall grass, even in your house! Although, if you do leave them in your house, at least you won’t have to clean up dead bugs, and you may have a new friend. You know they’re dragons, but they try to hide their wings anyway, from people who can’t see right. Sometimes, they peek out of the bushes, or they scurry along your path, but they’re mostly harmless. The occasional scorch or nip won’t really hurt anybody, but sometimes they’re just too playful or frumpy that day. The only people they really get mad at are the ones who pick them up and mess with them. Those jerks get sent to the hospital.
But my favorite time to watch dragons are when the rain comes down and the new baby dragons first poke their heads out to glance at the clouds, and then scurry along in little groups away from the nearest frightening sound, bobbing their little heads up and down. It’s really cute and wonderful! Other times, when a dragon sits on a tree and doesn’t immediately run away, I try to get closer, and maybe talk to it, lean in a little bit. They stay very still and quiet that way, unless you get too close. Then, they run away into the treetops. None of them have stayed yet, but I try anyways.
So, if you ever come to my home, feel free to sit on benches and watch the dragons play, because there are plenty where I come from.
The End, Lotus
P.S. - There aren’t only small dragons. There are big dragons too, who live in the swampy forests, and while they don’t like to peek out as much as the small ones, they can be fierce and massive beasts!
If you’re gonna waste time on distracting yourself, put a timer on. After the timer goes off, get back to work. And maybe, after a milestone, you’ll treat yourself to another distraction.
Using concentrated distractions as a reward for productivity.
The dragonflies hover and bounce in the garden
dancing like shimmering shafts of light.
Got my cassette tapes from a friend returning from her trip! $0.69 each, from a thrift store. Online, $15 each!
Listening avidly to the music on my Walkman. It seems strange, an entirely different sound, music I’ve never heard before, but returning to life tonight, like Frankenstein. Like every track is Back to the Future.
I wonder if anyone else listens to these songs anymore. Everyone’s gotten rid of their cassettes.
Culture. History. Lost. Always and Forever.
Moving Day
Found the reverse speech website through finding a video of Stairway to Heaven played backwards. Apparently, the theory is that your speech pattern is dictated by your subconscious, and when played backwards reveals your unconscious thought. (Speaking backwards and flipping images, like the anti-cross, is a classic cult move. Like Disney’s Wicked Mickey)
Until a short while ago, I almost never ate meat. But living in a fishing town makes it rough. For some strange reason, I feel fat and sluggish whenever I eat starches or carbs now, which is all I eat. Lately, all I’ve been craving is blue cheese salad…
It’s wonderful that people love my articles, but I honestly have no idea what I’m doing. Does that make it more or less magical?
I feel like I should be writing important journalism for my future as a writer… but I prefer to write about the weather and the trees…
I wonder if the Romans gave Jesus and his disciples curly hair and white skin to “beautify” them, as curly hair was considered handsome and desirable.
Even then, there’s no sane excuse for certain evils of humankind but actual evil.
Satanism is the murder of God, and the replacement of science and reason. But most Atheists wouldn’t pull crazy satanistic stuff, because they still believe in a greater good and social structure… unless… they’re also narcopaths who only pursue their own pleasure and power…
The method of linking on Micro.blog keeps tripping me up. The parenthesis and the brackets are switched backwards in my mind… AND you only need one pair!
Being a columnist is hard. I’ve had so much to say for so long, and by now all the things I thought were right were wrong. I don’t even know what to say, or if what I say is wrong, or stupid, so I sit silently.
“Your opinion which is of no consequence at all”
The internet started as a place of education, right? Look at it now. It’s beautiful, and horrifying, and kind of hard to not stare at…
You can’t listen to everyone’s opinions, everyone’s opinions on those opinions, and still expect to maintain sanity.
Which is more important; Liberty or Safety?
They weren’t kidding when they said, “Give me liberty or give me death!"
Don’t ask of others what you aren’t willing to give.
Why read books when you can play the videogame? Why play the videogame when you can cosplay the game? Why cosplay when you can actually be a knight? Why be a knight when you can learn to use modern weapons and technology? Why use a modern technology when you can build the future?
As a child, I loved reading books. Then, I started reading adult novels. Needless to say, I stopped reading.
Stop writing garbage books! Stick to the classics, and your heart can’t be broken by a lack of good material…
(The last fantasy book I read was Malice.)
You ever draw something, and it comes true?
Made a drawing a while ago of a “mother of peaceful death” ghost, with a square robe and many ripples in the fabric. When a person close to me was very ill, her blanket made the exact same shape and ripples.
Lesson: Channel light.
Been reading about Osceola, the Seminole warrior. This guy held off THOUSANDS of U.S. soldiers using guerrilla tactics and no more than four hundred fifty warriors. Don’t mess with people in their natural habitat – they can and will use it.
Saw an alligator. Ran towards it at full speed. Sploosh, it dove underwater.
Concentrated distractions.
Darkness was there before the light.
Darkness is everywhere where the light is not.
Without the darkness, there would be no light.
So, when we go into the darkness, would that not be more fitting than going into the light?