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inventory
Some things I miss:- dancing, including waltzing and being dipped
- locking in tight harmonies with other singers
- trying new-to-me bars and eavesdropping on / chatting with whomever at them
- spur-of-the-moment visits to Cheekwood
- hell, unplanned all-the-things
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Tell Luna, tea is waiting
Today is crowded with overlapping possibilities. Newark Museum's virtual Carnival Celebration runs all day, with the samba/capoeira session at the same time as Iowa's English country dance gathering. Says You's Kisses and Quips show was on my calendar for a long time, but my church's cabaret for Habitat for Humanity streams at the same time. Plus, ( Read more... ) -
some things that didn't make it into this week's poems
How the Turkish Liberace could be a cousin of Mr. Heat Miser.
Betty White as Liberace's beard.
"Busterkeys" as one of Liberace's names.
The lemon-anchovy sauce also included radishes:
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9 reasons I enjoy Jackie Lau's #AsianRomCom books
https://jackielaubooks.com/ The Ultimate Pi Day Party is currently free, and the Nashville Public Library has some of her titles.
1. The settings include small-town and urban Canada, and coping with a wide variety of parents, siblings, and friends . . .
2. . . . some of them refreshingly and hilariously down-to-earth, and others exasperatingly "why ( Read more... ) -
the work continues
Worst legislature in the nation shouldn't be a contest, but goddamn if Tennessee doesn't keep stepping up to that plate. The latest is an attempt to penalize Nashville and Memphis public schools for remaining virtual.
This is also where Nashville is at:
Today four doses of COVID-19 vaccine were offered through the Standby List. One person who was ( Read more... ) -
unpacking Misfits Market shipment 1
There are several terrific Beths in my life. My honorary aunt Beth in North Carolina is a public health physician and film professor whose pack of dogs include a very fluffy Rafa (named after Nadal). Here's me holding Harvey (named after the rabbit) a few years ago:
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2021 so far
1 new poetry challenge: https://tupelopress.networkforgood.com/projects/120791-peg-duthie-s-fundraiser
1 flashfic rejection
far too much coughing
1 upcoming choral project (if I ever stop coughing)
4 jars of honey drops
20 hours in the work saddle (already)
1 power outage (20 minutes before my first scheduled meeting with my new intern. The day was ( Read more... ) -
preserving
Well. The past week included more collisions than I would have cared for with figurative handbaskets and pavers, but I managed to get to bed within an hour of either side of midnight most nights. (The exception was the night before nochevieja, when filing all the FSA paperwork and herding Picasso ducks to the designer kept the candles burning past ( Read more... ) -
Hark! How the birds new songs are making
Today's subject line comes from "Shepherds! shake off your drowsy sleep," where the second line invariably makes me giggle and the tune (Besançon) is the same as the one designated for the Advent carol "People, look east."
I am moving through today more slowly than I planned or expected, and I am okay with that. I have a cough -- most likely from ( Read more... ) -
bao and bows
Among the items and services I donated to this year's auction at my church, the offer to read sonnets didn't spark any interest, but the winner of the three-month subscription for homemade bao prevailed over other bidders by their willingness to pay more than $125 for the goods. I delivered carrot and mushroom bao to them last month; today's batch ( Read more... )