Monday Update 9-11-17

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Poem: "The Gifts That Move"
Decoding the Voynich Manuscript
Poem: "The Choices That Make Families"
Poem: "Even for an Old Soul"
Art Imitates Life: Skin Color in Video Game
Emotional Trauma Care in Houston
Poem: "Accommodating Celebrations"
Poem: "Eddies"
Wednesday Yardening
Hard Things
Poem: "Revontulet"


Last week's Poetry Fishbowl went well.  I am still posting some of the poems sponsored by my parents.


Poetry in Microfunding:
"The Inner Transition" belongs to Polychrome Heroics: Berettaflies.  Valor's Widow coaxes Stylet to take a shower.  "The Higher a Monkey Climbs" belongs to Polychrome Heroics.  Pips reveals his attraction toward Joshua Tull.  "Two Foxes" belongs to Polychrome Heroics: Iron Horses and has 30 new verses.  The Iron Horses tell Kenzie what happened to the gaybashers.  "A Haven in a Heartless World" belongs to Diminished Expectations.

Weather has been mild and mostly sunny.  Currently blooming: dandelions, marigolds, petunias, lantana, million bells, snapdragons, zinnias, firecracker plant, white and red clover, morning glories, frost asters, torenia, purple aster, sawtooth sunflowers, pink sedum, purple sedum. 

Magpie Monday

dialecticdreamer has Magpie Monday running with a theme of "stumbling blocks."  Developments of ongoing storylines are encouraged, but new ones are welcome too.  Boost the signal and get more words in your ficlet.  There is a button for donations.