Monday Update 8-16-21

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These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Poem: "A Velvet Revolution"
Birdfeeding
Unsold Poems for the August 3, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl
Birdfeeding
Community Building Tip: Connect
How to Identify Sapient Species
Birdfeeding
Mini Workouts
Birdfeeding
Quasi-Dead Monks
Coping Skills: Serve
Cuddle Party


There will be a Bonus Fishbowl on Tuesday, August 17 with a theme of "anything goes." Please brainstorm early and jot down your ideas in case you're too tired or busy to think of things tomorrow.


Poetry in Microfunding:

There are two open epics at present.

"Rainshadow Road" belongs the Daughters of the Apocalypse series. It introduces Maggot to the Clearwater Caravan.

"A Celebration and a Consolation" belongs to Polychrome Heroics. Keira comforts her mother after the breakup.


We got a little rain. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a small flock of house finches, a few mourning doves, and a squirrel. Currently blooming: violas, spiderwort, purple coneflower, yellow coneflower, morning glories, nasturtium, cup plant, black-eyed Susan, Queen Anne's lace, petunia, zinnias, marigolds, naked ladies, sunchokes, purple penstemon.  Butterfly milkweed has gone to seed, and I'm gathering the seeds to plant.