ART – GENERATIVE AI – SCIENCE FICTION I’m a bit of a science fiction junkie. The live-action stuff. I don’t read much of the literature. But, with all the talk about impending death by machines. I decided to imagine what one would look like. So, I asked a machine to render an example. Here are … Continue reading Portrait of the Day – 06242024
Yesterday, my friend Glyn suggested I lighten the background of the photo on the left. I thought about it momentarily and decided to see what I could do with the image. Since I generated it with AI, I usually play around with the rendering for some reason. Which is kind of weird. I spent a … Continue reading Portrait of the Day – 06192024 – Redux
DAILY PROMPT RESPONSE I came up with potential responses to this prompt. Either would have been fine. However, I spent most of the night and a good part of the wee hours working. As a multi-genre artist, work could mean anything. Well, last night, I worked on character descriptions for my fiction. It’s nothing to … Continue reading Art
CHALLENGE RESPONSE – FICTION Chapter 3 The world shifted, and the fluttering wings stopped. I sat there in darkness, wondering where I had gone this time. I asked myself what was happening to me. It felt like my pen had become alive. Things that occupied my mind and found their way to the page had … Continue reading The Wet Dog – Chapter 3
Today, on Afternoon Time Capsule, we will revisit a bit of my childhood. I can remember countless hours spent watching the adventures of Starsky and Hutch. I had my mother buy a cap gun, and I ran around my backyard in my world of make believe. This might have been the precursor of my writing … Continue reading Afternoon Time Capsule – 01072024
DAILY PROMPT RESPONSE In a previous post, I discussed autodidactic learning. It’s this method of education I’m most familiar with. However, I always wanted to obtain a college degree of some sort. For whatever reason, I convinced myself I wasn’t smart enough to achieve my goal. As I was torn between my beliefs and desires, … Continue reading Distance Learning: The School of Hard Knocks
CLASSIC POETRY – INSPIRATIONAL You Will Never See Me Fall BY Joyce Alcantara You may see me struggle,but you won’t see me fall.Regardless if I’m weak or not,I’m going to stand tall.Everyone says life is easy,but truly living it is not.Times get hard,people struggleand constantly get put on the spot.I’m going to wear the biggest … Continue reading Poem of the Day – 12262023
PHOTOGRAPHY- COLOR I have been playing catch-up all month. So, I figured I’d do one post featuring the challenges for November. Here is my response to CMMC – Macro or Close-Up Here is my response to CMMC – Pick a Topic from her photo Here is my response to CMMC – Red Color Here is … Continue reading CMMC – November
PHOTOGRAPHY – COLOR For the last few weeks of the month, I’ve been ill. So, I haven’t been on top of my posts. I haven’t done any real shooting with my camera and haven’t been writing. I’m not 100 percent, but I do feel much better than I have in weeks. I was going through … Continue reading Last on the Card – November
Here’s my response to pensitivity101‘s Share Your World Here are this week’s questions: Gratitude:Knowing you’re loved is priceless. Over the last several weeks, I’ve had a rough go of it, to put it mildly. What I have learned and been reminded of is that I’m loved. There is no doubt about that. What is your … Continue reading Turkey Day, Hemi’s, Bullitt, and Family
PHOTOGRAPHY – COLOR Due to my illness, I got behind on a few challenges and other posts for the blog. So, I decided to combine several a few challenges. I used the challenges listed below. CWWC – Which Way with People CWWC – Which Way with Bridge Lens Artist Challenge #276 – Looking Up, Looking … Continue reading Getting Caught Up #1
A friend sent this video to me on Instagram. I thought it was powerful enough to share. What are your thoughts on what this gentleman has to say? Please share them. Continue reading REBLOG: Truth
Typically, posts with this title are things I find humorous or riiculous. However, this photo shows a different sort of light. Let’s take a look, shall we? ~Good stuff, yeah?~ Continue reading The Lighter Side of Madness #13
How do you practice self-care? PROSE – RANDOM THOUGHT There is something about taking a drive. A full tank of gas packed lunch, and your camera and notebook. It’s a sense of freedom; at least, that’s the phrase I’ll use as I sit here talking to you. I suppose it’s as good as any, to … Continue reading Eastbound and Down
SHORT FICTION – PROSE/LIGHT RANT Harold Shea is an ordinary fellow, as fellows go. He has no grand stories about this girl or that girl. He is a simple chap who eats tuna on toasted rye. Harold and I are clerks at the Ministry of Useless Facts and Random Memories. A person becomes a clerk … Continue reading Pulling the Pen
After reading this post this morning over my coffee, I did internal fist pump. Smiling as the free-spirit in the office popped in to ask a question. It’s been a long week and I needed a little “Get Some!” Today I felt it was time to bring this 2020 post forward again. After a bit … Continue reading REBLOG: Mother Wintermoon’s Personal Bill Of Rights
Acknowledging people, instead of depreciating them, is a level of soul consciousness that only few know. It’s a humble and compassionate state … Acknowledging people, instead of depreciating them Continue reading REBLOG: Acknowledging people, instead of depreciating them
RANDOM THOUGHT – A RANT? – PEP TALK? I write these words for an unknown reason. Something keeps gnawing at me to speak, but I do not know what. Yet, I’m sure many writers have faced this exact issue, not knowing what to say or how to say it. I recall long ago when I … Continue reading Never give up; Never Surrender
This month, our theme is ocean creatures. For example, write a short poem about your favorite crustacean, cephalopod (octopus or squid), or cetacean;… April 2023 Poetry Challenge Continue reading REBLOG: Rebecca Cunningham’s Fake Flamenco April 2023 Poetry Challenge
What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times? My favorite TV show is Justified hands down. The question ask more than 5 times, that would be low for me. It hard to explain in words why the tales of Raylan Givens captivate me. I could babble on about this show until … Continue reading Justified
POETRY – MINDFULNESS My darkness fadesMy sadness subsidesWith just one look into your eyesThey are such a kindness…So sweet…Just like a marmalade sunrise Continue reading Sunrise
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000) In honor of the writing community we know and love. I wanted to point out one of its legends for a few moments. Gwendolyn Brooks in the poetry room at the Library of Congress in November 1985. (Bettmann, Getty Images) She was the first ethnic minority to win the Pulitzer … Continue reading Java & Verse #1
Mangus Khan 