Optimistic in Summer
Going through a stack of sketches and papers I came across this little sonnet. A note says it came from this comment — which was not …
Regarding user names and passwords; A best practice note from your friendly neighborhood web dude
WordPress being the most-used software on the web these days, sites that run on it find themselves constantly under attack. A weakness found will show up in so many other sites, so it is an efficient investment of time for
As Each Day Arrives
As each day arrives, he will open up his mind.
To the suffering and joy he sees in all of humankind.
She does not know what will happen, as the world spins around.
Fear arises, love comforts, he knows no …
Music Theory Lesson 2: Range of Notes
reposted with kind permission
from Garbo’s blog
Push Start Music
Last time, we established that Middle C is the musical note that sits in the white space between the top five lines and the bottom five lines of sheet …
Music Theory Lesson 1; Middle C
reposted with kind permission
from Garbo’s blog
Push Start Music
It is not necessary to read music to play well. Many musical greats did not and do not. But if the magical system which is music is to be understandable, …
The King of Euralia And The Fairy
I have been busy in the Esoteric Library this week. I’ve just finished editing, reformatting, and upgrading the unbearably adorable illustrations, for A.A. Milne’s not- about-bears book Once On a Time.
What a delight! Milne says in his preface that …
A Batch of Peanut Butter Cookies in Two Quantities
These cookies are a bit like a peanut – flavored “sandy” style shortbready kind of thing, so satisfying in the mouth!
Another altered recipe. Doubling the amounts is never enough for me; I always end up fiddling with the ingredients …
Why laughter is the best medicine.
Waarom lachen het beste medicijn is.
Het hebben van plezier brengt je in het “hier en nu”. Nu is de enige “tijd” die er is, op deze “momenten” ben je niet bezig met de toekomst of het …
Changing Light
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Art, Interpretation, and Competition
Art can’t be misinterpreted.
Art can be interpreted, and it should be. And some of those interpretations seem to defy all sense of time, space, and logic. And they should.
Art is not math, or physics, or sports. Art is
Sometimes
Sometimes They tell you things you need to hear
Sometimes They tell you things you shouldn’t hear
Sometimes They won’t be quiet at all, even if you don’t understand
Sometimes You wish others could hear, but they’re listening to themselves
Oatey Biscuity Cookies for a Family of Five
This oatmeal cookie recipe is adapted from the one on the Quaker Oats lid. I reduce the sugar, add extra liquid in the form of one more egg and maybe some yogurt. The result is like little bite-sized quick-breads, less …
found on twitter
Tread softly because you tread on my words.
— Brian Bilston (@brian_bilston) December 13, 2018
Deity
Travelling by train from Paris to Milan,
Spooked and saddened from too much movement;
My uneasy rest was cut short by the customs official demanding my passport
I had been in one of those sleeps which do not let go …
Stolen Roses
All Lenore could see through the peephole was a confused mass of dark red.
The bell rang once more. “Who is it?” she demanded. “I don’t answer the door for invisible people.”
‘It’s me.”
Lenore rolled her eyes. “Who is …
Seventy-Five Cents
lost in translation
Cami Cobra
…
Dead Man’s Shoes
He bought the shoes on a Monday, I think.
The store was pretty crowded, but he found them right away.
9EEE. The perils of wide feet.
These are pretty comfortable, he thought.
The shoes came home in their box, as
Workhorse Woodies
These days Woodies are collector cars restored to pristine condition. This wasn’t always the case. There was a time when Woodies were filled with ladders, lumber, bags of cement and buckets of paint. This is a tale of those strange …
Ice Age of the Heart
Stella Omega
Lyrics are not complete as poetry. They are created with an additional element, and you just can’t take that away- it’s like printing a poem without any vowels. The music is integral to the form- most of the …
The art of making an ass of myself
Lukas Rönnqvist
One sunny spring day, at the tender age of 25 I was out and about in my favorite place in the world, Stockholm the capital of Sweden. I was walking the streets, not really looking for anything when …
Fireflies
Stella Omega
My daughter was a stay-awake baby. Sometimes, to shorten the process, we would load her in the car and drive out into the lyrical Pennsylvania countryside, watching the colors of night gather in the sky, the green trees …
What’s in a label? Topping, bottoming, Dominance and submission
Stella Omega
(I wrote this essay for the forums at literotica.com, back in 2012. Recently a few people asked me to bring it forward, so here it is… )
Note: Our society has become very enamored of the concept of …
A recipe for pasta with broccoli
Prepare your ingredients;
Chop the Broccoli into very small florets. Smaller than these. Figure a half-cup per serving.
Chop Garlic fine. Lots!
Chop a Cured Meat into small dice; the original was pancetta but I’ve used
Prosciutto,
Smithfield ham,
Black …
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