Marina A folly of pleasure boatscrams the marina,sterns to the ocean,bows facing the shoreas if to say, “we’re here,we’ve arrived”. They are a motley crew:plucky tug boats straight out of a children’s story book;sleek, testosterone –fueled speedstersutilitarian skiffs,large, white, tiered confectionsin which ruddy-faced menwearing navy blue blazerswith gold anchors on the lapelsdrink gin and tonics […]

Marina

The intricacies of autumn with their colorful stories untold to brighten even the darkest days for the magical hour has finally arrived – Sweetbriar (Snippets from my book)

The Intricacies of Autumn

I just want to pause for a moment and say thank you to everyone who replied to my last post, “Why are you following my blog?”. Reading through all your thoughtful, kind, and encouraging comments truly made my day. I felt so much love and connection in your words — from curiosity about Latvia, to […]

A Heartfelt Thank You 💛

Butterflies denote transience and ephemerality of beauty.

Black Beauty

Hi (Furry)furriends😸 Faye come and look at this… I think it’s time for us to harvest… this enormous amount of grapes… it’s a lot… but to much for Granny and Grandpaw to eat… so our twofeet family has to help eating them… because we don’t like them at all… but Granny has to be very […]

Thankful Thursday Poem

What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in? Ok, so I could just go on and on and on about what I love about being Italian and Irish. That would be a totally appropriate blog post for this prompt. It would definitely hit the mark, but eh… I wanted […]

A Lil Bit of This & That

For today’s Poetics, we will try to make this Tuesday a happy Tuesday. I am sharing titles of some books. You can incorporate one or as many as you like in your poem. 1.The pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardener 2. Happy Accidents: A memoir by Jane Lynch 3. The ministry of utmost happiness by […]

Happiness is fleeting, joy stays on

I’m so proud my family history includes Native Americas from the Cherokee tribe. I don’t know who exactly married a Cherokee in the 1800’s, I think it was my granny’s grandfather. The best I can determine is I’m 1/16th Cherokee. I encourage you to read the brutal story of The Trail of Tears, it’s best […]

Daily Writing Prompt

Livin’ and Dyin’ in 3/4 Time

– Jimmy Buffett

The Creek Houses

Thank goodness when the spacecraft crashed none of the five crew members were injured. The craft however was a write-off. A meteor of some sort had hit the side of the craft and cracked the uncrackable coating. The craft plunged to the ground, but since they were in the process of landing they didn’t have […]

3340. Is salvation near at hand?