A poem, or a metaphor for love? Holly’s pen is a magic wand.
Author: Resa
Weekend Serial — Atonement in Zugzwang Episode-4, featuring Robbie Cheadle!
Teagan is at it again!
Her new weekend serial is shaping up to be exciting. She’s only 4 episodes in, so it’s easy to catch up and enjoy her wonderful imagination.
Teagan uses random “things” from readers to drive her stories, and you can join in the fun.
I was honored to be a driving force in episode 2. More, I drew an image of Pepper, the star of “Atonement in Zugzwang”.
Saturday, March 18, 2023
Fondant animals & barn by Robbie Cheadle
Welcome back to Atonement, TN, everyone. If you saw my post yesterday, then you know that this new installment of Atonement in Zugzwang was driven by a recipe (from which I chose 3 things) created just for this post by the amazing Robbie Cheadle. Here’s a link to the post where you can learn all about that fabulous Black Bean & Vegetable Soup.
This episode is a little longer, and I’m sitting up late to finish writing it, and do this post. So let’s get to business. The three random things I took from Robbie’s recipe are: chopped, carrot, and soup.
Previously
Pepper learned that the body of her uncle, Wirt (Salty) Riley was missing. In its place a mysterious blue bottle had been left. Inside the bottle, they found a cryptic message, “
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Friday JohnKu – AKA – TGIF – Fri-Yay Good News
Every Friday John posts a GOOD NEWS story. Gotta love this one about a white Husky named Ivy being rescued from an old water filtration pond. Need some good news? Check out John’s blog on Fridays!
Video grab of firefighters in Michigan heroically rescuing a helpless dog trapped in an iced-over pond
Today’s good news comes from the Good News Network. Here is the story in its entirety.
Firefighter Lures Trapped Dog Off the Ice Using Treats–Then Lifts it Up a 10-Foot Wall
Patience, bribery, laughter, and a heck of a bicep muscle were all needed to rescue a helpless dog trapped after falling 10 feet into an ice-covered pool.
The Michigan animal shelter Pound Buddies received several “frantic” calls on March 7th about a dog trapped in the old water filtration pond.
The pond was frozen over, but with water clearly sloshing about over the ice, how long until the 60 lbs. husky plunged through was anyone’s guess.
Pound Buddies called in the Muskegon Heights Fire Department, which arrived “within minutes” to rescue the pup. Video footage shows the moment Lieutenant John…
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Springing Forward aka The Dreaded DST
Timothy Price wrote a song about the Dreaded Daylight Savings Time. He then made a video for it using AI.
The song and video are funny & entertaining. To view the original post and the video in its full glory, click on Tim’s AI pic above! The video didn’t reblog, so I am reposting a lower resolution here.
The Dreaded DST
Lyrics and Music by Timothy Price
Inspired by Marina Kanavaki
Daylight blinds fools who have no skills
They create silly rules they are so unreal
Daylight’s scarce, why don’t we care?
We save it eight months out of… every year
Bedtime at ten feels like nine
Don’t feel sleepy? Have more wine
It’s midnight damn, the bottle’s empty
I’m still awake… I’m feeling pretty cranky
Now we’re on the dreaded DST
Body clocks are broken why can’t we see
That hour we save every single day
Is two-hundred forty hours of daylight that we have… stashed away
Alarm at five it feels like four
Like a zombie, I hit the door
Preparation-H on the old toothbrush
Toothpaste up my… Whew! What a rush
No time to shower, sleepin’ on the job,
Stinkin’ up the office, what a slob
Head bobs up and down, fishing at the screen
My boss is cranky… making quite a scene
Now we’re on the dreaded DST
Body clocks are broken why can’t we see
We can look forward to falling back
We get one hundred twenty hours of daylight from… our stash
We’ve changed to DST for 56 years
That’s six-thousand seven-hundred hours, my dear
Of daylight, we’ve been banking away
So let’s go spend it on our… sanity
Now we’re on the dreaded DST
Body clocks are broken why can’t we see
That hour we save every single day
Is two-hundred forty hours of daylight that we have… stashed away
Visit Tim’s blog for more Original Music, Parodies & Videos. There is also fab Photography, Art, Nature Delux, Seven Cats and More.
The Women who Wait
Merril’s poems from the Oracle are special. We are treated to one every Saturday. This one is particularly relevant today, as it was in yesterdays.
The Women Who Wait
If I need you,
will you come,
with love-put light
to drive away the smell
of man-sweat and boy-blood?
Here, the storms whip
and the shadows moan
black beneath the blue,
but I ask for—not so much—
roses under a peach sun,
the lifeline of sea, its sparkle, and
the whisper of wind in my hair,
telling me you are coming home.
My poem from the Oracle. I thought at first she wanted me to write about Penelope, but she wanted the message to include women everywhere throughout time.
Blue Break
How did I get so busy? I need to chill!
I’m going to take a couple of weeks to work more diligently on Charlotte’s Art Gown, finish reading a couple of books, including John Howell’s “The Last Drive”. (lovin’ it!)
Visit blogs and do some reblogs, do the dentist and doctor thing, prepare my taxes for the accountant, catch up on emails and recover from the sling and arrow of last week.
There’s more for sure, like earning some $$$ and working on my film daze humorous anecdotes. Perhaps a beaver mural would have worked better?
Pics taken by Resa – December 21, 2022
Toronto, Canada
Anne Boleyn
Is it street art, or art in the street?
I instantly recognized the portrait of Anne Boleyn, set in a cold vortex of high rises.
Queen Consort Anne Boleyn was King Henry VIII ‘s second wife. She was beheaded for adultery (charges trumped up by Cromwell) on May 19, 1536. Anne Boleyn is the mother of Queen Elizabeth I.
The portrait in the street is a copy of the famous and only officially verified portrait of Anne Boleyn, that was painted in her lifetime. (Shown below) It is believed that images of her were destroyed to please the king. This is the sole survivor.
Even until today, paintings surface claiming status, but all are renounced.
Photo of the original (left) compared to my photo of the one in the street (right).
I had to go in on an angle to get a close up of her face.
Alongside Richard Burton as Henry the VIII, Geneviève Bujold played Anne Boleyn in the movie “Anne of the Thousand Days”
Elizabeth Taylor, wanted to play Anne Boleyn. At 37, she was rejected as too old. Elizabeth took a small walk on so she could be present at the shooting of the final Tower of London scene. She feared Richard Burton, and Geneviève Bujold were having an affair.
For that tidbit and more trivia about the movie, click on the pic of Elizabeth below.
Here is the infamous 20 second walk on.
Anne Boleyn’s sister Mary was Princess Diana Spencer’s 13th great-grandmother on her father’s side.
So then Mary Boleyn is William and Harry’s 14th great- grandmother on Diana’s father’s side? Does that mean Anne Bolyen is their 14th great-aunt on Diana’s father’s side?
There is a ton of history available on Anne Boleyn. I’ve included 1 link for ease.
In January 1973, Rick Wakeman released his debut solo album, “The Six Wives of Henry VIII. The 36.36 minute album has a piece for each wife. Here is Anne Boleyn.
Pic taken by Resa – February 28, 2023
Toronto, Canada
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