This report was amazing. Thanks for showing up.

  the rest is up for grabs

we're lucky we live in a society where we're allowed to not agree.

Ha ha -- thanks for the edits!

I signed up!

and I'll keep you in mind if I ever get to Spain again. I have a close friend in Portugal that I may visit someday...there's a cheap flight from my Ontario town to Lisbon via Iceland.

Who can't watch horror they're too jumpy

I think about this a lot. There's so much horror right now and feelings of powerlessness -- yelling "ceasefire now" in every gathering, every day. People being accused of anti-this, anti-that, when we're just anti-slaughter. Compassion, compassion, people. We know this conflict in the Middle East is going to end very badly for a lot of people.

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But apart from that, I like your poem a lot. ... I'd like a word after "who can't ever be" ??

Thanks Devac I was looking for this yesterday.

Each line could be a prompt!

Wow Rene

if you could wear the clothes of dreams, seen or unseen, how would you seem, empress?

I ask myself that question every day.

I had completely forgotten about this poem. It seems relevant in many ways -- like it should be read at meetings where some people are too shy to speak up or feel outnumbered or, or . . .

The thread of naughty rhyming couplets was written September 7 2015.

and by the way, I've been playing hockey too. We'll talk, in due course.

Thanks for the notification!

It's harder and harder to be optimistic.

Sometimes all we can be sure of is that we want to be with a loved one, just want them around.

Amazing that I happened to check hubski 45 minutes after you posted this. Please send shout outs to my gmail, if you can. I love listening to your stuff.

xolil

not all the lyrics were clear, but I got the jist. Lyrics help.

I just posted an answer to your question on the sex or politics song. I will listen to Frozen Faces and some others.

Somewhat . . . yes, poetry, would you see it if I posted it on Hubski?

Hi TNG

Shout outs never seem to work. Luckily I found this.

This is great.

("I just want to get back/back to that moment")

("I want to leave behind/all that the world keeps throwing at us")

Yes, the world is throwing a lot at us.

What's the job?

What's the job?

California by any chance?

It's a gorgeous poem, one that I thought of a lot recently after surgery.

Going gently makes a lot of sense to me now.

Raging - not so much.

Perhaps I'll change my mind next week.

Hi Steve! Congrats on changing relationship with food. I just dropped caffeinated coffee cold turkey. My BP was high and my heart was racing for no reason. I’ll text you in church sometime.

Wow! Thanks for answering, both written and audio answers! It’ll take me a while to read and listen and respond, but I will.

Insane fun is a fabulous foundation. Grow. Deepen. Accept. Encourage.

Hi bfx

I know Lillooet. I used to live in Mount Currie Back then, the only way to Lillooet was on a hydro road. Lots of sad history. Canmore is also beautiful.

Happy hiking.

I assume you mean the mean the metaphorical hubski-lit blaze. But if you mean a realy fire, what state are you in. I mean US state, not state of mind (or state of dress or undress).

yeessss -- and some of us know some of those reasons!

Is it bitterly cold and snow-blasted??

It depends very much on where you are -- although potentially everywhere can be bitterly cold and snow-blasted. Vancouver is milder.

omg!! You will have warm weather. How wonderful! And tennis. Sigh. it's cold here, but I spent a lot of time outside, getting the last of the ceramic flower pots indoors and getting the wet wood-rotting leaves off the wooden deck. And crushing aluminum. I'll have to write a post about aluminum soon.

My brother said he identifies with all his characters, even the villains. He says that he has to fully get inside his characters to understand their motives.

I also asked him if he had a philosophy of comedy. He did. Comedy is creating a situation in which the underdog embarrasses the top dog.

Of course, it's a lot more than that, but that's always at the back of his mind. A specific event in his childhood made him realize the power of language to affect and offend the oppressor, and create language, and thenewgreen if you ask, I'll tell you that story.

ONWARD.

It sounds fabulous. I could so use some 24 degrees C right now. I'm in Canada.

1) are you a student, just finished for the year? If yes, a student of what?

2) How did you become acquainted with hubski?

great images -- the asphalt waving!

. . .through the maze

Where are you?