Moment of Silence: Lila Gleitman
Aug. 31st, 2021 04:41 pmMaster linguist Lila Gleitman has passed away. She was best known for her experiments proving that part of language is hardwired in the human brain.
Aug. 31st, 2021
Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, September 7
Aug. 31st, 2021 06:27 pmThis is an advance announcement for the Tuesday, September 7, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. This time the theme will be "Leadership and Followship." I'll be soliciting ideas for leaders, followers, world figures, dance partners, beat partners, housemates, communards, comares, superheroes, supervillains, mentors, activists, counselors, other people who provide or seek guidance, building trust, establishing loyalty, creating intimacy, making friends, getting to know each other, growing closer, relying on each other, asking for help and getting it, teaching people, making plans, cooking together, discovering things, troubleshooting, improvising, adapting, cooperating, bartering, taking over in an emergency, discovering yourself, studying others, testing boundaries, coming of age, learning what you can (and can't) do, sharing, fixing what's broke, upsetting the status quo, changing the world, accomplishing the impossible, recovering from setbacks, government seats, mentorship organizations, dance halls, sharehouses, schools, clubs, workplaces, laboratories, makerspaces, nonhuman environments, other places where people lead and follow, organizational structures, family dynamics, dominance theory, partnerships, leading/following as an orientation, layered personal boundaries, emotional closeness, first contact, interspecies relationships, trial and error, lab conditions are not field conditions, innovation, loneliness, problems that can't be solved by hitting, teamwork, found family, complementary strengths and weaknesses, personal growth, and poetic forms in particular.
Among my more relevant series for the main theme:
An Army of One is about neurovariant people developing their own society.
The Blueshift Troupers travel in a living ship with a solid group structure.
Clay of Life follows Menachem the blacksmith and his friend Yossele the golem.
Daughters of the Apocalypse is largely run by women, and leaders are often quite young, given the pattern of losses.
Feathered Nests has very different social structure between humans and Fifers.
Frankenstein's Family features two scientists running a valley in historic Romania, plus werewolves, vampires, and a mummy for a wide variety of social dynamics.
Hart's Farm is a free love community generally run by elders.
The Moon Door mixes a women's chronic pain group and lycanthropy, which includes pack dynamics.
Not Quite Kansas has demons and angels quite alert to respective ranks.
The Ocracies all use different systems of government.
One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis features Shaeth, who keeps attracting more followers than he knows what to do with.
Path of the Paladins has the paladins leading people while following their patron deity.
Polychrome Heroics has ordinary humans, supernaries, blue-plate specials, superheroes, supervillains, primal and animal soups all of whom have their own interpersonal expectations.
Schrodinger's Heroes save the world from alternate dimensions. World without Alex = life expectancy of a glass hammer.
Or you can ask for something new.
I have a linkback poem, "Begin to Understand Ourselves" (8 verses, An Army of One).
If you're interested, mark the date on your calendar, and please hold actual prompts until the "Poetry Fishbowl Open" post next week. (If you're not available that day, or you live in a time zone that makes it hard to reach me, you can leave advance prompts. I am now.) Meanwhile, if you want to help with promotion, please feel free to link back here or repost this on your blog.
( New to the fishbowl? Read all about it! )
Among my more relevant series for the main theme:
An Army of One is about neurovariant people developing their own society.
The Blueshift Troupers travel in a living ship with a solid group structure.
Clay of Life follows Menachem the blacksmith and his friend Yossele the golem.
Daughters of the Apocalypse is largely run by women, and leaders are often quite young, given the pattern of losses.
Feathered Nests has very different social structure between humans and Fifers.
Frankenstein's Family features two scientists running a valley in historic Romania, plus werewolves, vampires, and a mummy for a wide variety of social dynamics.
Hart's Farm is a free love community generally run by elders.
The Moon Door mixes a women's chronic pain group and lycanthropy, which includes pack dynamics.
Not Quite Kansas has demons and angels quite alert to respective ranks.
The Ocracies all use different systems of government.
One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis features Shaeth, who keeps attracting more followers than he knows what to do with.
Path of the Paladins has the paladins leading people while following their patron deity.
Polychrome Heroics has ordinary humans, supernaries, blue-plate specials, superheroes, supervillains, primal and animal soups all of whom have their own interpersonal expectations.
Schrodinger's Heroes save the world from alternate dimensions. World without Alex = life expectancy of a glass hammer.
Or you can ask for something new.
I have a linkback poem, "Begin to Understand Ourselves" (8 verses, An Army of One).
If you're interested, mark the date on your calendar, and please hold actual prompts until the "Poetry Fishbowl Open" post next week. (If you're not available that day, or you live in a time zone that makes it hard to reach me, you can leave advance prompts. I am now.) Meanwhile, if you want to help with promotion, please feel free to link back here or repost this on your blog.
( New to the fishbowl? Read all about it! )
Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, September 7
Aug. 31st, 2021 06:28 pmThis is an advance announcement for the Tuesday, September 7, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. This time the theme will be "Leadership and Followship." I'll be soliciting ideas for leaders, followers, world figures, dance partners, beat partners, housemates, communards, comares, superheroes, supervillains, mentors, activists, counselors, other people who provide or seek guidance, building trust, establishing loyalty, creating intimacy, making friends, getting to know each other, growing closer, relying on each other, asking for help and getting it, teaching people, making plans, cooking together, discovering things, troubleshooting, improvising, adapting, cooperating, bartering, taking over in an emergency, discovering yourself, studying others, testing boundaries, coming of age, learning what you can (and can't) do, sharing, fixing what's broke, upsetting the status quo, changing the world, accomplishing the impossible, recovering from setbacks, government seats, mentorship organizations, dance halls, sharehouses, schools, clubs, workplaces, laboratories, makerspaces, nonhuman environments, other places where people lead and follow, organizational structures, family dynamics, dominance theory, partnerships, leading/following as an orientation, layered personal boundaries, emotional closeness, first contact, interspecies relationships, trial and error, lab conditions are not field conditions, innovation, loneliness, problems that can't be solved by hitting, teamwork, found family, complementary strengths and weaknesses, personal growth, and poetic forms in particular.
Among my more relevant series for the main theme:
An Army of One is about neurovariant people developing their own society.
The Blueshift Troupers travel in a living ship with a solid group structure.
Clay of Life follows Menachem the blacksmith and his friend Yossele the golem.
Daughters of the Apocalypse is largely run by women, and leaders are often quite young, given the pattern of losses.
Feathered Nests has very different social structure between humans and Fifers.
Frankenstein's Family features two scientists running a valley in historic Romania, plus werewolves, vampires, and a mummy for a wide variety of social dynamics.
Hart's Farm is a free love community generally run by elders.
The Moon Door mixes a women's chronic pain group and lycanthropy, which includes pack dynamics.
Not Quite Kansas has demons and angels quite alert to respective ranks.
The Ocracies all use different systems of government.
One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis features Shaeth, who keeps attracting more followers than he knows what to do with.
Path of the Paladins has the paladins leading people while following their patron deity.
Polychrome Heroics has ordinary humans, supernaries, blue-plate specials, superheroes, supervillains, primal and animal soups all of whom have their own interpersonal expectations.
Schrodinger's Heroes save the world from alternate dimensions. World without Alex = life expectancy of a glass hammer.
Or you can ask for something new.
I have a linkback poem, "Begin to Understand Ourselves" (8 verses, An Army of One).
If you're interested, mark the date on your calendar, and please hold actual prompts until the "Poetry Fishbowl Open" post next week. (If you're not available that day, or you live in a time zone that makes it hard to reach me, you can leave advance prompts. I am now.) Meanwhile, if you want to help with promotion, please feel free to link back here or repost this on your blog.
( New to the fishbowl? Read all about it! )
Among my more relevant series for the main theme:
An Army of One is about neurovariant people developing their own society.
The Blueshift Troupers travel in a living ship with a solid group structure.
Clay of Life follows Menachem the blacksmith and his friend Yossele the golem.
Daughters of the Apocalypse is largely run by women, and leaders are often quite young, given the pattern of losses.
Feathered Nests has very different social structure between humans and Fifers.
Frankenstein's Family features two scientists running a valley in historic Romania, plus werewolves, vampires, and a mummy for a wide variety of social dynamics.
Hart's Farm is a free love community generally run by elders.
The Moon Door mixes a women's chronic pain group and lycanthropy, which includes pack dynamics.
Not Quite Kansas has demons and angels quite alert to respective ranks.
The Ocracies all use different systems of government.
One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis features Shaeth, who keeps attracting more followers than he knows what to do with.
Path of the Paladins has the paladins leading people while following their patron deity.
Polychrome Heroics has ordinary humans, supernaries, blue-plate specials, superheroes, supervillains, primal and animal soups all of whom have their own interpersonal expectations.
Schrodinger's Heroes save the world from alternate dimensions. World without Alex = life expectancy of a glass hammer.
Or you can ask for something new.
I have a linkback poem, "Begin to Understand Ourselves" (8 verses, An Army of One).
If you're interested, mark the date on your calendar, and please hold actual prompts until the "Poetry Fishbowl Open" post next week. (If you're not available that day, or you live in a time zone that makes it hard to reach me, you can leave advance prompts. I am now.) Meanwhile, if you want to help with promotion, please feel free to link back here or repost this on your blog.
( New to the fishbowl? Read all about it! )
Birdfeeding
Aug. 31st, 2021 07:50 pmToday is partly sunny and hot.
I fed the birds. I've seen house finches and doves.
I planted wild onions in the prairie garden.
Cypress vine is starting to bloom. :D I hope it has time to set seed before the frost.
I fed the birds. I've seen house finches and doves.
I planted wild onions in the prairie garden.
Cypress vine is starting to bloom. :D I hope it has time to set seed before the frost.
The following poems from the August 17, 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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Our theme this time was "anything goes." I wrote from 1:15 PM to 6:15 AM, so about 15 hours, allowing for breaks. I wrote 5 poems on Tuesday and 11 later in the week.
Participation was down, with 13 comments on LiveJournal and another 30 on Dreamwidth. A total of 14 people sent prompts.
Read Some Poetry!
The following poems from the August 17, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl have been posted:
"As Varied as the Individuals"
"Garden Bread"
"Gentleness Is ..."
"Gravity Lessons"
"A Radical Nonviolent Revolutionary"
"A Way of Bringing People Together"
Buy some poetry!
If you plan to sponsor some poetry but haven't made up your mind yet, see the unsold poetry list from August 17. That includes the title, length, price, and the original thumbnail description for the poems still available. All sponsored poems have been posted.
This month's donors include:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ng_moonmoth and Anthony & Shirley Barrette. There were no new donors.
The Poetry Fishbowl has a landing page.
Participation was down, with 13 comments on LiveJournal and another 30 on Dreamwidth. A total of 14 people sent prompts.
Read Some Poetry!
The following poems from the August 17, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl have been posted:
"As Varied as the Individuals"
"Garden Bread"
"Gentleness Is ..."
"Gravity Lessons"
"A Radical Nonviolent Revolutionary"
"A Way of Bringing People Together"
Buy some poetry!
If you plan to sponsor some poetry but haven't made up your mind yet, see the unsold poetry list from August 17. That includes the title, length, price, and the original thumbnail description for the poems still available. All sponsored poems have been posted.
This month's donors include:
ng_moonmoth and Anthony & Shirley Barrette. There were no new donors. The Poetry Fishbowl has a landing page.
I have made bingo down the N column of my 8-1-21 card for the Hot Summer Writes Bingo fest. I also wrote 3 other fills on this card.
N1 (Swimming) -- "Recreating Our Life as We Would Like It to Be" (Polychrome Heroics: Kraken)
N2 (Smell of Fresh Cut Grass) -- "A Breath of Life and Growth" (standalone)
N3 (WILD CARD: Sailboat) -- "The Highest Dynamic of the Human Soul" (Polychrome Heroics: Aquariana)
N4 (Thunderstorm) -- "Summer Thunder" (standalone)
N5 (Camping) -- "Camping on Finn Skerry" (Polychrome Heroics: Finn Family)
B5 (Climate Change) -- "Disturbing the Elephant" (standalone)
I3 (Sun-Drenched) -- "Gravity Lessons" (standalone)
O4 (Seashells) -- "Like Love Letters in the Sand" (Eloquent Souls)
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I have made bingo across Row 3 and Row 4 of my 8-2-21 card for the August Intimacies: Time Bingo fest. I also wrote 4 other fills on this card.
B3 (prolonged eye contact) -- "A Desire to Be Deeply Known" (Polychrome Heroics: Mercedes)
I3 (controversial opinion) -- "Il difficile e scoprirle" (Polychrome Heroics: Marionettes)
N3 (mystical experience) -- "A Radical Nonviolent Revolutionary" (standalone)
G3 (change across time) -- "A Beautiful Reminder" (An Army of One)
O3 (unexpected mercy / generosity) -- "A Dish for Family" (Polychrome Heroics: Rutledge)
B4 (first aid) -- "A Very Clear Mind" (Polychrome Heroics: Broken Angels)
I4 (why I left my family) -- "Acknowledging the Complicated Truth" (Polychrome Heroics)
N4 (homelessness / frequent moves) -- "Life-Bending Loyalty" (Polychrome Heroics: Broken Angels)
G4 (losing a parent / mentor) -- "The Scariest Part of Raising Teenagers" (Monster House)
O4 (memories / nostalgia) -- "A Body Taking a Mind for a Walk" (Polychrome Heroics: Iron Horses)
I2 (atypical neurology) -- "As Varied as the Individuals" (An Army of One)
B5 (hand feeding) -- "Fall Down Seven Times" (Polychrome Heroics: Broken Angels)
N5 (foster care / adoption) "Like Love Letters in the Sand" (Eloquent Souls)
G5 (regret / guilt) -- "Gentleness Is ..." (LIFC)
N1 (Swimming) -- "Recreating Our Life as We Would Like It to Be" (Polychrome Heroics: Kraken)
N2 (Smell of Fresh Cut Grass) -- "A Breath of Life and Growth" (standalone)
N3 (WILD CARD: Sailboat) -- "The Highest Dynamic of the Human Soul" (Polychrome Heroics: Aquariana)
N4 (Thunderstorm) -- "Summer Thunder" (standalone)
N5 (Camping) -- "Camping on Finn Skerry" (Polychrome Heroics: Finn Family)
B5 (Climate Change) -- "Disturbing the Elephant" (standalone)
I3 (Sun-Drenched) -- "Gravity Lessons" (standalone)
O4 (Seashells) -- "Like Love Letters in the Sand" (Eloquent Souls)
* * *
I have made bingo across Row 3 and Row 4 of my 8-2-21 card for the August Intimacies: Time Bingo fest. I also wrote 4 other fills on this card.
B3 (prolonged eye contact) -- "A Desire to Be Deeply Known" (Polychrome Heroics: Mercedes)
I3 (controversial opinion) -- "Il difficile e scoprirle" (Polychrome Heroics: Marionettes)
N3 (mystical experience) -- "A Radical Nonviolent Revolutionary" (standalone)
G3 (change across time) -- "A Beautiful Reminder" (An Army of One)
O3 (unexpected mercy / generosity) -- "A Dish for Family" (Polychrome Heroics: Rutledge)
B4 (first aid) -- "A Very Clear Mind" (Polychrome Heroics: Broken Angels)
I4 (why I left my family) -- "Acknowledging the Complicated Truth" (Polychrome Heroics)
N4 (homelessness / frequent moves) -- "Life-Bending Loyalty" (Polychrome Heroics: Broken Angels)
G4 (losing a parent / mentor) -- "The Scariest Part of Raising Teenagers" (Monster House)
O4 (memories / nostalgia) -- "A Body Taking a Mind for a Walk" (Polychrome Heroics: Iron Horses)
I2 (atypical neurology) -- "As Varied as the Individuals" (An Army of One)
B5 (hand feeding) -- "Fall Down Seven Times" (Polychrome Heroics: Broken Angels)
N5 (foster care / adoption) "Like Love Letters in the Sand" (Eloquent Souls)
G5 (regret / guilt) -- "Gentleness Is ..." (LIFC)
Today's Smoothie
Aug. 31st, 2021 11:48 pmToday we made a smoothie with:
1 cup Lakewood Organic Papaya Blend juice
1 cup Brown Cow vanilla yogurt
1 banana
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1/2 cup ice
This turned out thick and creamy, pink with a good berry-tropical flavor. :D
1 cup Lakewood Organic Papaya Blend juice
1 cup Brown Cow vanilla yogurt
1 banana
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1/2 cup ice
This turned out thick and creamy, pink with a good berry-tropical flavor. :D