A Haiku for Haiku Horizon’s Weekly Challenge. This week the prompt is: “Rest”.
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A piece of advice
I might give my younger self…
worry less, rest more.kat ~ 23 May 2016
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Shi Sai Sunday’s Week in ReVerse – 22 May 2016
Another week, another shi sai…ReVerse…looking back in snippets so I can settle in for another week with a clean slate
But..
the slate, is never actually clean or completely clear, is it? Our lives are the sum of a multitude of experiences…flash points that leave indelible imprints in our memory.
The sun took a siesta this week, allowing hoards of gray, bloated, sweaty clouds to take up residence in its place. Endless gloomy weather does a number on my serotonin deficient brain. Even medicated, I find myself clamoring for bits of bright.
This is where mindfulness becomes my savior, especially if I surrender to each moment. Moments shift the spiral ever so slightly. It is there in the midst of beautiful chaos. It. Is. Here.
Have a great week, but first…take a moment…take two. 😊
Shi Sai Sunday’s Week in ReVerse – 22 May 2016“Maybe” is too tenebrous.
Bolt, skedaddle, flit
Nope! I told you, I’m good…
visiting my dreams,
azure strokes of ink on parchment,
Blue
don’t forget to stir
darkening blots on gray matter.~kat
Spiral
May is National Mental Health Month. Take care of you and yours…don’t suffer in silence. You are not alone. Peace and Healing ~ kat
back
forth and
rutted deep
sick spiraling
gloom’s unrelenting
misfired synapses
serotonin deficient
darkening blots on gray matter
…depression…
darkening blots on gray matter
serotonin deficient
misfired synapses
gloom’s unrelenting
sick spiraling
rutted deep
forth and
back.
kat ~ 21 May 2016
(An Octet/Palindrome)
Inspissate – Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku
Today’s Word of the Day from Dictionary.com is Inspissate. Seems like a fairly cut and dried (pun intended) word. Think making gravy…adding a bit of cornstarch or flour and heat for thickening. At least that was my first take:
Inspissate Haiku
Try adding cornstarch
to inspissate thin gravy
don’t forget to stir!
But then I googled the word and found this it is heavily (pun intended) used in the medical field when referring to bodily secretions and excretions thickened through dehydration or disease. (See the google suggestions below).
Of course I had to share my findings with you! You’re welcome! (…evil grin…) Think of me next time you sit down to a lovely meal with a steaming boat of savory, thick, or rather, inspissated gravy and remember that in some odd linguistic twist…we are what we eat…what goes up must come down…what goes in, generally comes out. EWWWW! I best drop off this spiral before I drown in this inspissating quicksand of ickiness! If there is such a thing as a word earworm…this is it!
Have a great weekend! 🙂
Echoes of my Neighborhood
How amusing to find that my friend Jacqueline of A Cooking Pot and Twisted Tales (and our Challenge Hostess) chose to feature art for her selections this week! I had been planning to share a peak into my art room for the past two weeks! My busy schedule did not allow me to share last week, but I finally found a quiet moment to pull out some of my paintings. The truth is I am itching to get my hands back at it. But I have so enjoyed writing. Trying to find the time to do both!!! At any rate, here’s a bit of me on canvas. Have a great week!!!! 😊
My first acrylic painting. Art class for a play day at work. 😊
“Loving With Arms Wide Open” 1999
Winter Tree
Moonlight
Beachscape – watercolor on gesso
Beach – watercolor
Jesus Weeping
Deceived
Blue
The Closet
Innocence
Angel
Eos Rising
Faerie
Seeker
Sunflowers
Grace
Flight
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