Enchanted Highway & Yellowstone National Park filmstrip
A new filmstrip video shows photography by me and my wife of our 2017 vacation, which included visits to the Enchanted Highway of metal sculptures in North Dakota and Yellowstone National Park.
December: a poem in progress
The title to this blog entry refers to both an actual poem I’m working on and the general state of my mind and heart at this time. I’ve had some recent professional wins that I haven’t done any or much flogging on the Internet for because this past month I’ve had deaths in my family that I needed to mourn and participate in grieving rituals for.
Homemade food & drink love
For a person who grew up not growing anything in a garden or doing any homemaking crafts like canning, I’ve grown to make a lot of homemade love (apologies to the late J. California Cooper) in food and drink.
A double rainbow for MN POC Pride
I was a performer on the “Black Magic on the River” boat cruise held by MN POC Pride. As I was boarding the Mississippi River boat, I had the fortune to see a double rainbow at the dock.
A letter to a therapist
I once had a therapist who took issue with my needing to leave my workplace when I had mental health crisis reactions. In response, I wrote her a letter that turned into an essay about the lack of equity and parity between attitudes and treatments for mental health versus physical health conditions.
The elegy: a sestina
In a poetry class I’m taking, the teacher educated us on the sestina, a very demanding poetic form with rules for word repetition for specific lines. I used the homework assignment to write a sestina to create my promised elegy to loss of friendship and friends.
A forthcoming elegy for lost friends
Last August, I posted a goodbye poem/letter breaking up with a friend who had hurt me profoundly years ago. Tonight, I found out that she had died.