Was house- and dog-sitting at Nancy's Wednesday and Thursday, while she and Mark went out of town. Lucy and I took two walks a day, slept together, did each other's hair and nails (ha!), hung out on the patio. It was a true getaway for me, albeit three miles down the road!
Pool Day today with Nance, and two lovely phone conversations, Alisa in the a.m. and Melanie in the p.m. (much laughter in the second one... 😍) Just ordered pizza from the restaurant in our condo community: no cheese, broccoli, mushroom, and kalamata olives for me... and meatballs, Italian sausage, and pepperoni for Chico (Can this marriage be saved?). I also sauteed some onions and garlic to top it all off. If it's good, this could be a weekly occurrence.
It's Feel Good Friday and, as is tradition, five items below of beauty, interest, and humor to brighten your day/weekend/week. Enjoy!
~ He’s Running: LeVar Burton Commences Campaign for Jeopardy! Hosting Job: After months of murmurs from fans, the actor, director, podcaster, and previous Celebrity Jeopardy! champion LeVar Burton is through with waiting for producers to come to him. He’s making his interests known to the world. He wants to be the next Jeopardy! host.
Online, $10: This Earth Day (April 22, 2021), savor a cocktail class with a conservation twist! Learn to make Lincoln Park Zoo’s specialty Acts of Green cocktail using food scraps from around your kitchen, as well as creative ways to give your “trash” another delicious life! This virtual event will include 30–45 minutes of guided instruction followed by 5–10 minutes of Q&As with the presenters.
~ Making Music Visible: Singing in Sign: A new project is producing sign language covers of 10 seminal musical works recorded by Black female artists.
~ It’s working in Eugene, Olympia, Denver: More cities are sending civilian responders, not police, on mental health calls
~ How to Make Small Talk After We've Been Through... a Pandemic: Do we try to keep it posi vibes, or commiserate about the one thing we definitely all have in common?
BOOK: Everyday People: The Color of Life--a Short Story Anthology by Jennifer Baker (Editor)
POEM: Whack Report by Kim Addonizio
POEM: Whack Report by Kim Addonizio
A woman at the gym today said to her friend, Most people are whack.
Whack meaning crazy, displeasing, undesirable, stupid, of poor quality,
appalling, masturbatory, laid off, weird, or dead.
Most poets, as it turns out, are generally pretty whack
as in mentally ill. Anne Sexton, for example. Robert Lowell, also quite whack.
I myself am whack about sixty-seven percent of the time,
not counting nights and weekends, when it's more like eighty-two percent.
But let us focus on the beautiful wine glass, eighteen percent full
of sane, delightful, and intelligent fruit and acid. A whiff of rose petals.
Black cherry, pomegranate, cassis, devil's food cake. And limestone. Drink me
and taste my ooids, my hot buttered toast. For we must be ceaselessly whack
as in deranged said another whack poet who became a whack gun runner.
Guns are whack. Much of the world population experiences the whack factor
ninety-nine percent of the time, which can cause excessive thirst, diarrhea, death
and other side-effects. After a while, if you keep saying a word, it kind of loses
its meaning. Whack. Whack. Here come the weed whackers, beheading the grass.
QUOTE: "The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything." ~ Anatole France
