@lauraritchie@mastodon.socialEvery year when I take students to LA I push myself in different ways. This year it's been physical, mental, musical, and it feels so good to stretch my arms and my mind.
Learning out loud. Learning in the wild. Learning with one another. I love it. a. lot.
Today started with a waterfall and ended with a rainbow. We're at a school doing jazz workshops all day tomorrow. bliss
#thisday #smallstories
I see the last word
that you write--
bliss
It is unadorned
with punctuation
and has no Capital.
That's because
bliss
stands alone,
naked
and
un-needy
a new fledged star.
#smallpoems #smallstories response
@tellio @lauraritchie
And yet so many
in single line's mention
or #poetry written for her
ignore the honourific
and leave the Moon uncapital.
@wordsmith @tellio @lauraritchie As with The Universe, what could they possibly be thinking?! I do not care if Ms. Moon is technically a rock; I am technically a skin sack of meat, but I require my honorifics. And so ought She.
@uschi_the_listener @tellio The Universe? It's only everything that is can exist. Why would that be deserving of a "proper" noun? Unlike Starbucks.
@wordsmith @tellio HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh you corporate whore you.
@tellio yes, it was on purpose.
I find when I come here, I always seek ways to become a more authentic me.
there is much bliss.
and the Moon watches over and smiles.
I read the first word
you wrote: bliss,
and wondered
about this - whether
we need another
to find it in the noise
of the world, a phantom
star in a distant
constellation
#smallpoems response response
@dogtrax I think the etymology of the word 'touchstone' might bear a little on your wondering here. Bliss needeth a touchstone.
touchstone
[f. touch- 1 + stone: cf. OF. touchepierre, F. pierre de touche, Sp. piedra de toque.]
1.1 A very smooth, fine-grained, black or dark-coloured variety of quartz or jasper (also called basanite), used for testing the quality of gold and silver alloys by the colour of the streak produced by rubbing them upon it; a piece of such stone used for this purpose.