13Feb26: Sundown.Watching the colors fade. Noticed a crow hurrying home, the last bird in the darkening sky. One tenth of a second later the song playing went,”the evening crows are in flight, the messengers forlorn”*.
In an instant I was catapulted out of the ditch, frown I’ve worn all day flying off as I did.
*The song is called “The Fox Has Gone To Ground” by The Bamboo Shoot (1968).
The quoted above was the only line mentioned by the original band members in the Tube’s comment section. I’ve owned the compilation album the song’s included in for 4 decades (!), but it was only a few hours prior found it on YT.
Splendid!!
– my flip flops
One of this year’s ‘what’s new’ for me: drawing with a pen – hence no erasing – without looking at the paper. So far my favorite subject has been the ocean waves.
Photos were taken with my phone camera back in May 2025.
San Francisco, CA, Christmas time 2011. Time flew fast.
Performing Light Calligraphy* at a “legendary” ‘beat’ cafe with an Italian Volcano name.
Rough treatment from a barista with hatred in his eyes**.
I found the place to be slightly…pretentious. I could be wrong.
All you need is you***, for your Creativity to sprout, grow, blossom. You don’t need other people’s permission, nor to inhale the same air as a known writer****.
And might add, haters ain’t got enough power to diminish your Creativity.
Conflict, difficulty, discouragement – all can work for you as fertilizers.
*Use my camera as a calligraphy brush, at long exposure with my eyes closed.
**Trip advisor reviews had told me I wasn’t the only one on the receiving end of unwarranted animosity. At least he was straight forward about how he felt, which I can appreciate.
***Nice to have support/encouragement/comrades but. When you got you first and foremost, other people can be who they need to be.
****Altho I understand – e.g. people were nicer to me at West Hollywood Barney’s Beanery as I, a youngster, sat there inhaling Janis Joplin particles.
I flew back on ANA, a fancy alternative offered for a missed flight, on which I found an infinite wisdom:
Good Times Fly.
– ANA Coffee Creamer
Text added at 19:20 JST on Dec 13, 2024.
Spiced Tea Recipe:
Choose spices you like and boil them a while before adding black tea. Heat/combine milk of your choice in either a pan or a cup. Sweeten, add more spices e.g. powdered variety.
Sip like reading a letter, savor the subtext.
‘Small’ things matter, make them count, treat them special. Come alive every chance you get.
I dream of Everlasting Beauty.
Limitations Fuel Creativity.
The photo, a monochrome version of it, is in the Digital Zine 1: Own Your Shadow.
Sense. Elevate. Whirl.
Suspend.
Dream.
Text: Haiku derived from Television “Dream’s Dream”.
Picture: The layered photo is called “Dreams Never Cease” (2015), from Digital Zine One: Own Your Shadow.
Published by chance right at the exact moon rise.
