January 2019 – Dr Rod's Blog (almondemotion)

Tepee Tales (1)

We are all just people who are trying to get-on, to get-by, to find an answer.

Camerado, I give you my hand!
I give you my love more precious than money,
I give you myself before preaching or law;
Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?

Llamas

Not the Tibetan kind (single ‘l’), rather the South American variety.

Those who spit.

Sometimes.

Concessions

If you cut away the edges; If you Plane The roughness, Eventually, You are left With something That everyone Will Accept.

Happiness

Now, here is the question.

How many of us are happy?

Values based recruitment

People are good.

People are beautiful.

This to me is a fundamental of humanity.

How do you kill an idea?

How do you

Stifle

creativity?

It is a spinach shakshuka

Here is the guide: Take spinach, perhaps fifty or a hundred leaves, Wilt in the microwave For a minute or so. Glass bowl, Pyrex. And with this, In a pot, Prepare the roux. Yes, flour and butter and pre-warmed milk, Nice and creamy; Perhaps, some crushed pepper and A spoonfulContinue reading “It is a spinach shakshuka”

Outliers

in old, broken bed; there is a tired man. Fearful. Sticky glue-eye sagging; wrinkled skin w/ faded bruises and scratches, glossy puckers. The human response to uncertainty is mysterious.

The next big thing.

Sure, there is mind-wandering, but real, purposeful thought can be controlled.

Lies and mistakes

I support Celtic

In the moment, walk into town.

The streets Are scattered With Lost And forgotten Bits and bobs. Here An old woman’s Winter hat, There, a bone china jug. It is early in the year And the Trees Are still bare. The dead Squirrel Has been removed And the cars glide Unerringly towards Town. Cigarette packets, Old milkContinue reading “In the moment, walk into town.”