Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

 
if only I'd hit Save first!
 

 
at least things can't get worse
 

and why not? mass lunacy is not a recent invention what's really changed is its transmission rate (thanks, Zuck) now instead of reading the latest in the morning paper and processing it on the way to work every screen on every phone screams at you telling you what to think Trump bad! Billionaires! F...

music has no demonstrable effect upon the aggressive behavior of indigent fauna nor upon the rotational dynamics of planetary bodies - but it sure as hell can bring a rainy day to life or bust a writer's block or turn tears of anger into those of joy or vice-versa - it can fill silence with song evi...

a little more grace
a little less swagger

 
 
winter storms -
my parking space shrinks
with each plowing...

a few warm days
precious sips of spring
a pause between rounds

somewhere beneath the white
the soil can only dream
of spring
 

the emperor is mad
and only if I were, would I make time for his speech

one by one the soloists step up give it their all get with the groove blow what they feel not perfect miss a note here out of step there but while lips & fingers might falter the songs in there hearts take form sharing the jam passing it around planting something in the heart of the next soloist to ...

I'm waiting for it to be released on VHS.......

so true - I hadn't actually thought of this as more than a snapshot of workplace dynamics, but that undercurrent is always there. It can run the other way, too - we've all probably extended a hand in friendship only to get it caught in the gears....

the old Cheshire rail-trail... the Birch Hill WMA... Otter River State Forest, and the unnamed woodlands surrounding my house... different churches, same denomination - places of worship to marvel at how enough Small can make a Large - to almost grasp the meaning of why certain trees grow here but n...

Gotcha... I once worked in Quality Control for a manufacturer of single-use medical products - hypodermics, trach tubes, catheters, procedural kits, and the like. It wasn't so much by choice as by necessity - I'd been laid off from the engineering job I'd held for 22 years when the company disbande...

A day doesn't go by that I don't drive by this site and that the desire to be heard prompts me to open Notepad and tappity-tap a few keys to capture the notions within - like setting out a bucket to catch drips from a leaky ceiling... but sometimes the leaks stop on their own sometimes ideas dry up ...

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February 18th, 2026, 12:19 pm

working on my masterpiece ha ha

writing the next Ulysses (I wish)

spring still sleeps
dreaming of warm nights -
so do I