Month: January 2014

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break.

Fact is, I’m terribly excited to open the OpenLinkNight doors again and have goosebumps as I turn the keys.

It has been a wonderful break and I enjoyed the time that I spent with family and friends, with biking, Museum visits, painting, reading, cooking and and and….

but one evening, I sat in the pub, in the half-dark, read through a few poems and comments, lit a candle, polished some glasses, and pssshhhh… was there something…? just the wind, smiles

yep, I missed the voices, your voices, the busy pouring in, the hugs and laughter and friendship.

Welcome to our first OpenLinkNight in the new year – my name is Claudia and… let’s get the party started…

Enjoy visiting others, click through the links, meet some new people, comment on other’s work and keep the conversation going…

If you’re here for…

shadows of late afternoon
exhibited across
the melon colored wall
sitting alone
listening to silence

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© rgb for “On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea”, 2011 – 2014

January is the month of Mindful Writing: Small stones

What are small stones?

A small stone is a short piece of writing (any style) that precisely captures a fully-engaged moment for you. The process of discovering small stones is as significant as the finished creation. Searching for small stones encourages you to keep your senses on the “alive and alert” status. Involve yourself with a new set of eyes, ears, nose, mouth, fingers, feelings and mind. In short … OPEN, OPEN, OPEN!

Welcome to WWP’s first wordle. A wordle is a tool on the Internet that creates a word cloud.

What we’re doing is to create a word list. From this word list you select the words to create a poem. Nicole’s idea of feeding our submitted prompted poems to a Word Counter (an Internet tool to pick out the most frequently occurring words in a body of text) triggered the idea of selecting three words each from poems submitted to our Thursday’s prompt to create a collaborative wordle.

Here is the word list compiled from poems submitted to Elizabeth’s Thursday prompt. Contributor’s name is given in parenthesis.

dreams, crowd, edge (Robin)
creation, motley, fabrics (Vivienne)
grouchy, giddy, wildflowers (Marian)
portal, antedilluvian, begetting (Denise)
sepia, fluid, voyeurs (Nicole)
wishes, cycle, beaming (Annell)
tail, tangled, shadow (Abby)
exultant, bowed, untrodden (Jules)
intoxicating, melancholy, stillness (Elizabeth)
sparsity, plough, wrinkles (Misky)
eats, coal, neon (Barbara)

Divine self awakes
Amused fairies clap with glee
Golden web connects

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© rgb for “On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea”, 2011 – 2014

Prompt:
Clap
(316 )

Well- 2014 has got to start somewhere. Where better than a Fun Photo Challenge.

http://ceenphotography.com/2013/12/31/cees-fun-foto-challenge-free-and-easy/

Three of my kids and a niece on Christmas Day 2013- summer in South Africa, not a care in the world…  What are they looking at? I can’t remember! Maybe with hope to 2014 arriving….

I hope 2014 treats us all like this- free and not a care in sight…

This morning’s post was all words, so here to balance the verbal with the visual is a photograph showing (yet again) a colorful flameleaf sumac, Rhus lanceolata, now with fruit prominent enough for you to see the details. As was true for some other photographs shown here recently, this one is from a thankfully undeveloped property behind Seton Northwest Hospital; the date was November 14, 2013.

© 2014 Steven Schwartzman