Learn all the sounds
and mimic them ad nauseum.
Swoop at cats and people
and anything that pisses you off.
Harass other birds
because it’s your territory
and fuck ’em.
Build your nest fearlessly
close to the ground
and live unapologetically loud.
Sing all day.
Sing all night.
Sing all the time.
Never let them sleep on you.
Never let them think you’re through.
lessons from a fool
Luck favors the bold
just as much as the foolish
is it better to be foolish or bold?
or perhaps
is it foolish to be bold?
is it bold to be foolish?
maybe they are the same
sharing the core
that certainty in self
the confidence to act
where action fails in most
perhaps we should all be
boldly foolish
to live in Her favor
and find worth within
doomed
I will think of you in the deep quiet of the night
I will think of you in the ferocity of the storm
On the bright summer days
Through enduring drought
When the ice storms of winter
Bend the trees to the ground
I will think of you through every plague
Through frogs and swarms and blood
And through more modern apocalypses
I will think of you, I will think of you
I will think of you through laughter, tears
While huddled facing deep set fears
When I find myself in another's arms
When buried beneath my cairn
The past is past - I will never tell you
But I will never not think of you.
eclipse
For a moment
there was a cacophony of crows
as the temperature cooled and the darkness grew
At totality
a cheer from the watchers
and the brightest stars shone through
And then
like all fleeting things
it passed, returning the daylight to view
Sidequests Week 14
My sidequests for this week included meditating for 5 minutes, learning to make a better paper airplane, and to do 15 minutes of yoga.
See – already we’re meditating again. Good thing I downloaded that app. And also once again I used darebee for my yoga – this time keeping in mind to go with “Easy” for my fat lazy ass. So those were pretty easy to do. I almost considered cheating because there is a darebee one that had a few stretches and then 15 minutes of meditation, but I decided to do the 15 minutes for the meditation card, and do 15 minutes of yoga on top of that.
Then there was making the better paper airplane. This was also not going to be hard because I really only know how to make the basic of basic bitch paper airplanes and they never fly well at all. I did a google search and came across this youtube video posted about a year ago discussing the design for a literal world record paper airplane. They admit that the design that they have is not the actual final design used to break the record, but rather one of the prototypes. I followed the instructions on the video and made this:
Owing to the fact that I don’t have a large space to test this in, I don’t have any impressive video of the flight, mostly just of me causing it to crash immediately into the wall and then doing a really weird laugh as a result. But, it does fly significantly better than any paper airplane I’ve made before. The folding is a bit of a pain in the ass, but the guy in the video explains it really well, and it’s easy to pause at each step to follow the directions.
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