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Hi there. Is this a for real?
Not sure what you mean by ‘this’? [Is what real?] Is my blog real? yes. :)
PunToons!
Just jest! Pun fun! Loads of laughs, cartoons, puns, puntoons. Get the hang of these:
https://www.amazon.com/Puntoons-Jest-Health-Mack-Rowe/dp/075963999X
Do you know all of these puns? Are you able to use them correctly?
Try one or two (Reply and share your example dialogues).
stress relief
power of touch soothes, embraces humanity, smiles heal masseuses
Beautiful. Worthy of replication ~
https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2017/may/03/best-photos-of-the-day-a-dirty-rotten-job-and-a-tory-poster#img-8
[caption by The Guardian Maban, South Sudan / A disabled refugee child is massaged at Doro refugee camp near Bunj. Masseurs from the local community, trained by the NGO Jesuit Refugee Service, provide massages to disabled children three times a week to reduce stress and improve mobility / Photograph: Albert Gonzalez Farran/AFP/Getty Images]
love nest
gilded paradise lovers cavort, make a date: meet me in the reeds?
https:[//www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2017/may/03/best-photos-of-the-day-a-dirty-rotten-job-and-a-tory-poster#img-14
[caption by The Guardian = Glubokoye, Belarus / Great crested grebes near their nest on a lake at sunrise / Photograph: Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty]
ruby
neighbor’s peonies brightened our morning, petals dropped, nonchalant
mediocrity
living in mundane gradations in umber tell history goodbye
[I find this photo captivating, but am challenged to explain why. It has haunted me this week.]
A photograph by Russell Boyce (taken in Gdynia, Poland), with the caption: “A woman smokes a cigarette on her balcony"
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/apr/29/the-20-photographs-of-the-week#img-16
tingles
meditation blues pine needles pierce attention silent as splinters
lunar pull
lunar tug of war parallel universes collide in my mind
~ ~ ~
Staring at the moon I often (imagine that I) feel cosmic energy, feel as if my pulse is shared by some ‘something’ out there…
I feel these waves, waves of soothe and torment, soothe and torment, and the grit left behind to mull over needles me like the sand used to inside my bathing suit after a day on the beach.
Does the moon do that to you, too?
[revised from haiku written March 10, 2012]
through the looking glass
peering at me; wonder which of us sees more magic? spider finds inside
[While studying the garden through the globe the other day, I realized there was a tiny spider INSIDE the globe. So far no web visible inside. Guess the spider sensibly decided that he/she might not catch much inside a globe? (Though since that day, I have also seen a carpenter ant scurrying around the inside too.)]
so soft ~
some call it a weed mullein, whorls spread cushioned pads truth: lung-healing herb
I love the soft caress of mullein leaves (reminiscent of lambs’ ear leaves).
Whenever they appear (courtesy of birds’ droppings, I imagine), I let them flourish. From this whorl, a tall stalk (sometimes ruffled) will appear, and then at the top, circles of soft yellow flowers will bloom.
[What makes a weed a weed?]
new flower bed
coming soon to this little plot of mine -- blanket covering magic chamomile, cosmos, hyssop, borage, zinnia, love-in-a-mist, more
stone borders
neighbor’s giveaway ‘transplanted’ treasures mark edges, shade critters, delight
[Some of our day was spent wheelbarrowing (my husband’s task) stones from our neighbor’s yard to ours ~ and then placing them as border edging around a few of our garden areas. As I find extra-pretty stones, interesting objects, I’ll place them on top of some of these stones (and probably move them around now and then too!).]
sweet sweet Williams
popcorn exhibit! flowers, leaves, bees, butterflies: pop! pop! pop! pop! pop!
satisfaction
Weeding, planting seeds: even the bluebird approves! Birdbath: flowers float.
[a very satisfying two days (After several days of rain, we’ve had two beautiful days to work outdoors]
some words are just beautiful
feel the sound of it, threshold, forest path, suspense: liminality
WoW7 list April 26, 2017
WoW7 = words of the week (times 7)
1. pollster
2. upholster / upholsterer / reupholster
3. opposer
4. holster
5. squalor
6. bolster
7. boisterous
This week’s list is a bit odd. I hope you’ll spend time practicing the pronunciations, and really paying attention to how your mouth shapes the words.
/s/ vs. /z/
/l/ vs. / r/
different vowel sounds
Try to identify the pronunciation differences between ‘upholster’ and ‘opposer’.
Rumor has it that the upholsterer lives in squalor. He reupholstered my divan and bolsters last year and did a fine job.
It really bolstered my spirits to have the room look new. Even the pollster who made the rounds of the neighborhood last week commented on the fabric I chose!
Did you hear the boisterous Trump opposers at the rally? Watching the security guards reaching for their holsters was enough to send me scurrying!
bluets / Quaker ladies
bluets are singing! with Quaker Lady resolve all spirits lightened