Monthly Archives: January 2024

A Deer Looks Up

Some days as I stare at the rows and columns and formulas and fonts and icons and stupid bullets with actions and visions and other god damn fucking bullshit putting in my time (of the little time I have remaining on this rock) in my black chair with stylish monitors (meant to be impressive when seen from behind by visiting dignitaries brought into our farm of slaving salarymen arranged in precisely sloppy clusters of desks) all in service of running home to my two-point-five urchins in my two-point-five bedroom palace to talk about our upcoming two-point-five star vacation with my two-point-five star partner, I pause, look up and yearn for

A large open plain, river meandering it’s way through brushes and horsetail, douglas fir lined walls on either side, and hundreds, no thousands, of mule deer idly eating while ring-necked ducks and trumpeter swans poke lazily between their hoof prints, and barn swallows sing overhead.

And I imagine one of those deers pausing, looking up, and yearning: “Mother fucking nature! This shit day-in, day-out! I would kill for a fucking computer!”

Hey You

Hey you!

Yes, you!

Now is a good time
To tell them
You love them!

Serendippy

Ser-en-dipp-y
/ˌserənˈdipə/
Adjective

Maintaining a state that is open to experiences that occur in a happy or beneficial way

“Having decided to have a serendippy month, I just said ‘yes!’ when they invited me to lunch.”

Similar: open, approachable, flexible, affable, happy-go-lucky, serendipitous

Thought #45

The rose that spends all of time
Dancing in the light
Is as sure to die
As the one that just
Cries in the dark. 

Beauty moves as light moves
Opening petals to sing at the sun
Lowering snoods to weep at the moon
Finding sparks from the shining sky
Finding fuel from the dirt of its roots.

So at midnight’s chill, rejoice!
The sun will rise.

At noon’s furnace, rejoice!
The sun will set.

Generated by GPT4 using this poem as a prompt