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Flower-child
Flower child, do you remember?
It was a season of revolution
Of rebellion
Of love and peace
Of fighting for the less fortunate
For fairer deals,
Locally and around the globe
Of sit-ins and marijuana
Of the generation gap
Or so they called it
What did you want, flower child?
Did you hope to change the world
And did you change it?
Aw, flower child
You live on
You have grandchildren now
And, perhaps, great grandchildren
Do you remember
How you tested the waters?
How you marched against war
And persecution?
Against segregation, and bigotry?
Did the world listen? Did it?
And does it even matter?
As long as the change you sought
Was realized
Deep within you
Aw, flower child
Bloom on
who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
Apparently everyone.
The Democrats allow the Big Bad Wolf to ignore congressional subpoenas under the guise of special privileges for Big Wolves. Not just for himself but for anyone who they demand appear before Congressional committees on the second Tuesday of the third week in the fifth month under a full moon. Everyone knows wolves can’t be expected to testify about anything when there’s a full moon.
For verification, ask the Big Bad Wolf Teddy Bear who will agree that the Big Bad Wolf is always right so don’t nobody go up in that Congressional Hill to testify. I’m saying, don’t nobody.
And nobody does.
Meanwhile, the Republicans just lay low – so low they can’t see past their fear that the Big Bad Wolf will eat them in a primary down the road. That’s low.
Where in the world is Little Red Riding Hood when we need her? Oh…
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Tell Me a Story Charli Mills
New Way of Talking
This week, Charli Mills challenged us to consider a world without ice. 99 words, no more, no less. Check out her Carrot Ranch blog and if you can’t join in the fun this week, you can when you are ready! Carrot Ranch Literary Community
A world without ice, how could that happen? What would cats do, with no rodents to chase? And think of everyone stressing out because they’d have to nail it the first time, because they can’t repeat anything.
We’d have nothing to toss at weddings AND Chinese food would be pretty darn boring.
Some might like it, because they could just be mean and never have to change.
Where fewer words normally worked, you’d have to say, “How much does that cost?”
With all the sage wisdom I have accumulated over the years; a world without ice, would be, cold.
©2019 Annette Rochelle Aben
Outfit: The Transitional Dress
For some reason we can’t quite explain – most probably because we hate ourselves or something – Dan and I decided that as well as having a child we’d do a major extension to our house. We are due to get started next week, with an expected finish pretty much on my due date – nothing like a challenge to keep life interesting, right?? This means, of course, that we are pretty much hemorrhaging money right now, meaning that although I would once upon a time have seen pregnancy as the perfect opportunity to have a splurge and treat myself to a plethora of new clothes, I’m having to be pretty savvy about how I spend my cash.
Luckily right now I have managed to back a few really gorgeous pieces that are non-maternity, much like this rather beautiful dress by Joanie Clothing! I absolutely love the soft, generous volume…
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New Zealand – the lost world of the dinosaurs – part 2
Last week I posted about New Zealand being a lost world of dinosaurs – as long as we think of birds as a dinosaur. Which, of course, they are.
This isn’t hyperbole. Today, birds are formally part of the dinosaur clade – the greater family. Specifically, they are avian dinosaurs, whereas the ones that went extinct 65 million years ago were the non-avian version.
This concept has been a long time coming, although it shouldn’t have been. The relationship between birds and dinosaurs began emerging in the nineteenth century, starting with the Jurassic-age fossil of Archaeopteryx dug out of a quarry near Solnhofen in 1860-61. It was a bird with toothed jaws, found to be related to contemporary ground-dwelling maniraptors. Even so, paleontologists usually imagined that birds were a dinosaur side-branch that had gained distinctive characteristics and become a separate creature.
New discoveries during the early twenty-first century revealed a different picture. Some dinosaurs – particularly…
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I like my dinosaur cooked with eleven secret herbs and spices. Do you?
Back when I was a kid, paleontology was simple. Life had evolved from one-celled creatures to fish to lizards to dinosaurs to mammals and finally to Tory-voting, club-going Englishmen – all in a giant and wonderful ‘advance’, a relentless march of ‘progress’ during which each new form automatically doomed the last to extinction.
An 1863 vision of Iguanodon vs Megalosaurus – complete with Iguanodon’s thumb-bone wrongly placed as a nose spike. Part of the problem was that they were reconstructed by Richard Owen (1804-1892) using mammalian-style joint articulation. Public domain, via Wikipedia.
Today we’ve learned that things weren’t so cut and dried. Take the death of the dinosaurs, for instance. Back in the nineteenth century, the best explanation as to why there (supposedly) weren’t any around today was that they’d been too slow and stupid. Mammals had out-competed them in a kind of evolutionary market contest. The very term ‘dinosaur’…
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Why is the weather going mad? Humanity’s ongoing stupidity, that’s why
The hurricanes of the past few weeks that have devastated the Carribean and parts of the United States have been record-setters. The human cost is huge, and our first thoughts must be to the victims and their families.
Storm debris in the Wellington region, New Zealand, after an unprecedented 2013 event.
Unfortunately it’s the likely shape of where things are going, worldwide. New Zealand’s been unusually warm and wet all year – wet to the point where the district where I live has had over 1000 landslips through the urban areas. Part of that is on the back of the 2013 and 2016 earthquakes, which opened up cracks – but the endless rain was still the trigger.
There’s no doubt what’s going on. We’ve been pouring carbon dioxide and other carbon products into the atmosphere, in ever-increasing quantities, for the past 250 years or more. What’s more, while the long-term…
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LIVING THE DREAM 