Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

'bout that same time maybe '79 or '80 mrs & I bought a washer & dryer from someone we knew - and her brother (my BIL) helped us move them. I warned him that mosquito season was upon us - but the hilltop skeeters he knew aren't the assholes that our swamp skeeters are - so he said no problem as we wr...

and if you show up around here
in nothin' but sunscreen
you'd better also splash on some deet
'cause the ticks & black flies
are carrying knives & forks

...or the 3 questions:
"are you really wearing that to the party?"
"what are you taking a picture of THAT for?"
"do you really enjoy this music?"

Doreen Peri wrote: ↑

April 26th, 2025, 9:27 pm

Walking again! Yay! Two new hips!

reborn
into a brand-new body

tears of joy
rediscovering the trails

yes
you CAN go home
again

and don''t forget
the honeydew list...

As far as I know, it means to conscript, perhaps unwillingly. I've never looked it up, but that's what I've assumed from context. I hope it's right. Yeah, business jargon sets my teeth on edge, too. We certainly had our own engineering vocab - end milling, diffraction limited, thread pitch, binary s...

fads come, fads go - cold war fervor. leather jackets, rock & roll... vietnam, bell bottoms, protest songs... cocaine, leisure suits, disco... I've long since lost track and interest in whatever's current now seems to be neofascism, designer brands, overproduced pop... I'm cool with do unto others a...

springtime
an empty canvas
awaiting paint

yesterday I was
today I am
tomorrow - will I be?

 
there are no lies
only
"Alternative Facts"

dirty snowbanks
and among the dead leaves
dandelions

Empty Vessels Corporatespeak! BoardRoomese, Organizationish - the lingo of middle management, verbal affectations adopted to identify themselves to one another, the secret handshake distinguishing the Movers and Shakers from the Doers and Builders. It's a learned behavior. The young bucks fresh out...

never put off to tomorrow
what you can postpone
indefinitely

That's the first time I've ever heard "automobile-sized pebbles."... - guess I was trying to emphasize the size of the glaciers, a mile thick in places. from their perspective. These massive chunks of rock were just pebbles. ... here (in the Pac-NW) among the glacial "drumlin" hills. I read John Mc...

Around here we've got what are called glacial erratics - automobile-sized pebbles dragged along by the glaciers flowing over the landscape 15,000 yrs ago. Great, mute, free-standing granite boulders out in the middle of nowhere - the woods around me are full of them - two just across the road from m...