Community Building Tip: Connect

For my current set of tips, I'm using the list "101 Small Ways You Can Improve Your City.

85. Reflect and connect with your neighbors. "Create an anonymous prompt in public space using simple tools like chalkboard paint, stencils, and chalk." — Candy Chang, Before I Die, New Orleans

Creative Jam

The August crowdfunding Creative Jam is now open with a theme of "Kindness." Come give us prompts, or claim some for your own inspiration!


What I Have Written


From My Prompts

Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, August 17

The Poetry Fishbowl has four tallies on its $250 goal, so there will be a bonus fishbowl on Tuesday, August 17 with a theme of "anything goes." You can ask for anything you want! Now is a good time to think about your favorite settings, characters, plotlines, etc. and take notes on what you'd like to see more of. Have you been wondering what happens next to someone? Intrigued by something that I mentioned would come up? Do you have anything you've been wishing I would write that hasn't fit a theme? Prompt for it! If you don't have ideas immediately, consider going back through older material for inspiration. You can ask for new things as well as old things. Please mark the date on your calendars, and I hope to see you then.

Birdfeeding

Today is sunny and warm.

I fed the birds.  I've seen house finches and doves today.

I trimmed some grass around the septic garden. 

EDIT 8/14/21 -- I gathered butterfly milkweed seeds from the septic garden and planted them in the wildflower garden.

EDIT 8/14/21 -- We trimmed  branches in the ritual meadow.

EDIT 8/14/21 -- I trimmed and pulled weeds from the septic garden.

Free Epic Poll

The August 3, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl made its $200 goal, so you get a free epic. Everyone is eligible to vote in this poll. I will keep it open at least until Saturday afternoon. If there's a clear answer then, I'll close it. Otherwise I may leave it open longer. These are your options:

"An Embodiment of Human Creativity"
Something thought lost is rediscovered.
102 lines, $52

"Tempestry"
Women crochet temperature afghans to warn about climate change.
64 lines, $32

"A Velvet Revolution"
Women's Institutes inspired more than just crafts.
69 lines, $70

Poll #26032 Free Epic for the August 3, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 17

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Which of these should be the free epic?

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"An Embodiment of Human Creativity"
6 (35.3%)

"Tempestry"
3 (17.6%)

"A Velvet Revolution"
8 (47.1%)

Free Epic Poll

The free epic poll is up on Dreamwidth.

Unsold Poems for the August 3, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl

The following poems from the August 3, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl are currently available. Poems may be sponsored via PayPal -- there's a permanent donation button on my Dreamwidth profile page -- or you can write to me and discuss other methods. There are still verses left in the linkback poems "Everything That Blooms," "In the Shade of the Mighty Oak," "Let the Children Lead Us," "Autumn's Palette," "Pumpkin Spice Prosperity," "Delight in Another," "A Sense of Weather Changes," "Ouroboros Insects," "The Loving Embrace of Night," and "Generations of Cooks Past."

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