Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

a sound wind soft, whispering the trees sun warm & bright then dim - cool clouds nearby, fluttering a chickadee lands for a closer look eye to eye a holy moment pond alive with noise buzzing, trilling dragonflies red-wing blackbird peepers i am unnoticed a holy moment motion milk snake emerges, vani...

never underestimate the value of small victories!

So did my parents. I became an audio tinkerer while in high school, & and wired the tv in the den so I could monitor the sound from my room upstairs - which of course meant I could broadcast from up there as well. To the day she died, my mom swore she heard Lawrence Welk belch in the middle of a show.

And in the meantime, you're supposed to sit quietly and wait until your name is called. Sorry this is happening - as if getting older weren't challenging enough already. Sucks when bureaucracy that's supposed to deal with situations like this makes things worse rather than better. It punishes everyo...

Myron Floren's version of "White Rabbit" is vastly underrated, IMO...

  Eyes Right 5/6/2026 - Had my follow-up Ophthalmology visit with Jaeger today, the one I canceled last month because of the surprise snowstorm that left the roads slicker than I was comfortable with. This was to assess how effectively the 2nd laser surgery on my right eye was keeping the glaucoma t...

and drop your ballot into the paper shredder by the door

I log onto mine so seldom (and I'm such a putz when I do) that I'm not sure I can say anything helpful for you. Sometimes it recognizes me, usually not. I never thought much about it - lighting? glasses or not? O/S out of date? dirty screen? Don't know. I'm no longer surprised whenever it fails to d...

bless me father for I have sinned 50 years since my last confession and here's my worst sin - I hate my iPhone sacrilege, I know heresy but I hate that thing with a passion usually reserved for beets and current pop music... took me an hour to figure out how to delete an old text - never did get voi...

don't try to take me to a disco...

 
first sunlight
now reaches
my bedroom window


mounds of earth
where once stood
snowbanks


naked saplings
each spidery twig
tipped with green


ovenbirds
sounding the all-clear
from the woods


finally
coats and gloves
back to storage
 

wow - this one is Strong....

afraid of a misstep
sure I was misreading signals
assuming the worst
I stayed safe in my burrow -
wondering now...
what if I hadn't?

Doreen Peri wrote: ↑

April 28th, 2026, 11:29 pm

What a fun poem with rhyming couplets! Interesting that it was originally written in Polish. I wonder if the Polish version also rhymes in couplets. Hmmm.

There's an episode of Radiolab that addresses that very question....

https://radiolab.org/podcast/translation/transcript