Simon Ensor @sensor63@mastodon.social

In response to @sensor63 's Vialogue (https://goo.gl/kuPAen) a #smallpoem #smallpoems

I aint lying when I say:
I am a bitter southerner.
I am a card carrying member of the precariat.
Every identifier also claims to know what I ain't.
That just ain't so.
I am not nothing.

You know that feeling when a crazy idea becomes reality? When the time between "hey, can we do this?" to "hey, we did this!" is over? Yeah. We're at that point with a open collaborative digital media project that we brought to the finish line this week. Nearly 20 people contributed nearly 50 digital media objects into an immersive 360 Alchemy Lab. I can barely explain it, except the project is collaboration at its finest. Come look: https://sites.google.com/view/netnarr-mediajumping/home #smallstories @wentale

“Unlike prose, which is complete, linear, headlong movement forward -- a poem is design that displaces silence on the page. You can look at it as a thing to wander in.”

-- from Into the Deep Heart’s Core, passage by Billy Collins, in Light in the Dark (Writers on Creativity, Inspiration and the Artistic Process), page 103

#smallquotes
#smallpoems

Cacti in the forest are strange enough, but then again not, as in this part of northern Arizona all are adaptations to varying seasons of limited water. Strike your visions of desert as sand dune piles. They are lush.

But behold the surprise when a cactus is not just a prickly fella, but one bearing, for a short while, bouquets.

All still part of the life cycle, draw bees, pass on pollen, germinate, reseed.

https://mastodon.social/media/uxZjjdDdAqmQs44CwtQ

@katebowles @Tdorey last week I thought: this green corner of the garden has not enough colour. Then it started to rain. #passivegardening https://mastodon.social/media/a61kthjU63QRfbKPh64

@Tdorey Gardening teaches me continually that things can seem to be in bad shape, but actually be ready to flourish. Also, that I have no idea where to plant things.

"Art can obliterate all of the little lies we tell about ourselves... Art puts us in communion with the parts of ourselves buried under those lies, but only if we take time to immerse ourselves in it."
- Listening to CBC radio

An Invocation to “Come & Play” – Impedagogy http://impedagogy.com/wp/blog/2017/05/18/an-invocation-to-come-play/ #rhizoX #nwp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_mTKI94qSs @sensor63 @tutormentorteam @dogtrax

Almon Strowger is best known for inventing the first deployed automatic telephone exchange in the late 1800s, but his main business was as an undertaker. He invented the exchange because he believed that a local manual-exchange operator, married to one of his competitors, was redirecting calls from his potential customers to her husband instead.

The net neutrality issue goes back a long, long time.

Sure/Not Sure: A Poem –

@sensor63 I am sure. http://impedagogy.com/wp/blog/2017/05/17/surenot-sure/