Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
~Dr Seuss

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.
~Fernando Pessoa

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
~Charles Dickens

EndQuote:
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
~Rita Mae Brown

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Posted from the Grove

The Inner Life of Cats: Why they are the way they are
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-inner-life-of-cats/?mc_cid

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14: Fame’s distraction, a study in celebration, animated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvomWVeF_Qg    (7:04)

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Passing of the Old Year

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Preparing for the New

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Old Songs For a New Year

~Diana Ross and The Supremes:  Reflections   (3:18)

~John Mayer:  Waiting On The World To Change   (3:21)

~Guess Who:  Share The Land    (4:02)

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Prewritten for Thurs 01.03.19:  renegade, cardboard

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten:  continent, resolve

~BarTalk:
begin to end

sentimental mush
monumental love
marriage as a rental
resolve to be gentle
continental drift

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Politician’s Plaint

Canvas the continent
Fly, paint the sky a flag
Dye it red white and blue
Resolve to be important
Voting’s about me-not you

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Alone

Islands In The Stream
No man is an island…
Dare to engage the dream
Each vast as a continent
Resolve to worlds unseen

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a new year

elders pinch pennies
grow old and incontinent
resolve to die young

next time

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Quoted in the Grove*
The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.
~Elie Wiesel

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
~George Orwell

If only each generation would realise that the time for greatness is right now when they’re alive … the time to flower is now.
~Patti Smith

EndQuote:
Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.
~Frantz Fanon

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*Gathered, with increasing gratitude, from Dictionary.com and Anu Garg’s A.Word.A.Day

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Posted from the Grove

Bao ~ A distant place, another culture, a story of inaccurate conception lovingly told – animated.  Harvested from Rusty’s Electric Dream   (7:43)

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Ten Benefits of Owning a Dog
http://mentalfloss.com/article/51153/10-benefits-being-dog-owner

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Prewritten for Thurs 12/27:   resolve, continent

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten:
~BarTalk:
beauty’s beast

lithesome and lovely
skin of pale ivory
language full flowery
winsome for larceny
locked up in pillory

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Savaged

Pilloried for prostitution
Pilloried for truth
Pilloried for opinion
And too long in the tooth

Pilloried for being black
Pilloried For being poor
Pilloried for being Hillary
Pilloried and shown the door

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Cheers!

Pilloried for a willingness to sin some
For being too cute, too jolly and winsome
For braving with conscience and then some
For celebrating too much with the punch rum
So let’s have one

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High Finance

Win some bouts and lose some
Grow some balls with hair
Graduate to gruesome
Play of game ruled unfair
Pilloried in the news, some

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Nu Skewl

It’s no longer about your ABCs
Heredity is inscribed in genes
Take a pill or read the ‘zines
To win some science prize today
Learn to script in DNA

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5-7-5 x 2

winsome smiles, sharp teeth
watch politics pilloried
tonight on the news
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hell’s hot pillory
winsome words from the pulpit
claim to be the key

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Quoted in the Grove:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?
~George Price

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
~Akira Kurosawa

Sanity is a madness put to good use.
~George Santayana

EndQuote:
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.
~Rita Mae Brown

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Posted from the Grove

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Pornhub’s Year in Review: 2018
Harvested from Rusty’s Electric Dream
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2018-year-in-review?mc_cid

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Prewritten for Thurs 12/20:  winsome, pillory

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten:  haze, withdraw

~BarTalk:
road most traveled

advance > withdraw
thrust—> \parry
haste & haze
the road to marry
grows weary, some

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the artist

pathologically withdrawn
years of chemical haze
guilty both and violated
driven by chance, could
paint pictures with words

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A Pong’s Bouquet

Exchange money and favors fragrant with felony
Forsaking decency, choose chaos over harmony
Mutiny, defy legitimacy and canons of order
Flagrant infidelity, sell cannons for murder

Pursuing the mobs who follow with ardor
Practice duplicity unconcerned with the odor
A haze hangs low in the land of law
Justice obscured, the Lady withdraws

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Hogwarts in The News

Unholy hazing in the prep school band
Involved a circle jerk and conductor’s baton
Yet left behind, the master’s witching wand
Withdrew from school when they all went blind

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5-7-5 x 2

blue haze of smoke curls
angst withdraws, ennui scatters
beauty takes a bow
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haze thins, words sharpen
arrange themselves and cohere
the poet withdraws

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