Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.
~Jeremy Irons

Time is the fire I burn in.
Time is the fire I learn in
~Delmore Swartz

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
~Carl Sandburg

EndQuote:
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
~Chinese Proverb

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Piffin: From the Platform: Love: 2, Death: 2
~Hey Violet:  Unholy   (3:55)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA0MMwfylqc

~Rosanne Cash:  Runaway Train   (3:49)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aApAFwZRxuU

~Paul Simon:  My Little Town  (Shooting spree)    (3:52)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1_CNl6w2Tk

~Snow Patrol: Chasing Cars  (Loss of dog)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GemKqzILV4w

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Posted From the Platform:

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10 Cocktails for Counting Down to New Year
https://www.tablespoon.com/collections/16/12/cocktails-for-counting-down-to-new-year?utm_source

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Prewritten for Thurs (01/04) @6pm PT/9 ET is: reward, juggler

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@Writers Platform:

Prewritten: prodigy, season

~Greymane:  Prodigy

My ego is my prodigy it hides between my thoughts
It built a shrine of withered vines that ripens as it rots
It follows me through my debris and filters what it learns
I took it home to monochrome where color never burns
I painted things with shredded wings on winds that whisper strange
My ego went to sleep again too soon for the exchange

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~BarTalk: Brew Master / triku

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Impromptu: metacognitive (thought about thoughts)

~Piffin:   ku

Metacognition
The mirror, she confounds me
I come up empty

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~Greymane:   ku

metacognition
A consequence of drinking
to think about thinking

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~Mattt: Shitty-ku

I wonder today
If I am nearly insane
I don’t give a fuck

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~BarTalk: 5-7-5

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Quoted in the Grove:

Beware the pull on your heartstrings — it’s often the purse strings that are actually being reached for.
~Barbara Mikkelson

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
~Stephen Leacock

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

EndQuote:
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
~Norman Douglas

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Posted From the Grove:

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Poems Aloud:
~Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken   (1:19)
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-road-not-taken/

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Prewritten for Thurs (12/28) @6pm PT/9 ET is: season, prodigy

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Quoted in the Grove:
Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.
~Stephen King

When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before.
~Clifton Fadiman

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
~Ben Okr

EndQuote:
Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
~Giorgos Seferis

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Piffin: From The Platform
What A Wonderful World, shadow magic   (2:59)
https://boingboing.net/2017/12/12/watch-what-a-wonderful-world.html

~Greg Lake: I Believe In Father Christmas   (3:32)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4NA53Yel4U

~The Bangles: Hazy Shade of Winter   (2:47)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cNeXWpTVlo

~Band Aid 1984: Do They Know It’s Christmas   (4:37)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjQzJAKxTrE

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Posted from the Platform:

Best Simple Hot Buttered Rum mix:

1 lb dark brown sugar
1/4 lb Butter
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp nutmeg

Melt butter, add spice and sweetness
Stir into a thick batter
Add tsp of mix to rum and hot water
Stir well
Celebrate

You’re welcome

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Prewritten for Thurs (12.21) @6pm PT/9 ET is: saddle, fabricate

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@Writers Platform:

Prewritten: Sometimes it’s better not knowing

~Greymane: Curtain Call

Amusing as the show must be, repeating where we fail,
Is Man’s continued travesty the Devil’s holy grail?
Is someone on a golden throne prepared to save us all?
A Savior sipping methadone before his curtain call?
Sometimes it’s better not to know the things that lie ahead
It’s funny how the past will tell us futures left unsaid
A distance we can never cross, too cold and deep to hold
A spirit soaring albatross to torture seven-fold
A journey from the place we’ve been to places we can’t go
Apocalyptic tailspin to close another show

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~Heartou: Cognac Once

There is so much swirling around in my head
Is it real or a way to fill up the hole instead
Does the look he gives me provide
a way for me to connect
through my expressionless resting bitch face?
What if this is love and I find out
We could be happy
Sometimes it’s not better knowing
but why?
Couldn’t I just once know this is right
Just soar with no need of faith to fly
I adore him
I do, his touch helps it’s true
But I remember to
not question what I can’t understand
And you,
If you are sharing time and love
Do not bother searching for answers in feelings
Time is the constant, the space
the only connection to ride

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~BarTalk: Cells, and 5-7-5  (not-a-ku)

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