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October 25, 2025

Day 297~ Daily Prompt

By Kat Myrman

How much would you pay to go to the moon?

Mar-A-Luna 

You ask me this, as if you assume 
I had the slightest desire…the moon?
To leave this beautiful, life-sustaining
place that I have known…i love my home
i think I’ll pass…but glad you asked
the price I’d pay to send away
a certain orange man with tiny hands,
his team of loyal hacks…now that
is worth considering, the lunar scape 
suits this lot, cold as ice, core of rot
barren land paved with debris
two-faced, a dark side no one sees…
what wouldn’t I pay…it makes me giddy
to think of it, oh my! Would be a pity
to let this opportunity pass…you asked,
What would I pay? Let’s just say 
anything and all to my last penny!

~kat

It’s been a rough week for democracy y’all. Well, let’s just say DT struck the final blow when he demolished the East Wing of the people’s house. We are not a democracy. There are no longer three separate branches of government. Congress has abdicated its responsibility, the Supreme Court majority is in lockstep with crowning the executive branch a dictatorship. The rule of law is dead. And the fourth estate has been silenced, cowed underground. SMH

So when I saw today’s daily prompt on WordPress I had to smile. It broke through the angst I had been feeling and gave me liberty to imagine an alternative reality to the current nightmare. I may have spent more time than is healthy crafting my poem and artwork for this one…but you know…desperate times do call for desperate measures to make sense of the obsurd.

So I started with my response to the prompt question…and then, once I allowed myself to muse at the possibility of freedom and liberty from our current state, i couldn’t help myself…I came up with my blueprint for Mar-a-Luna. Hey…a girl can dream.

It may not count as a proper glimmer but I do hope it relieves some of the tension of this current time, and makes you smile. I’ll try to share a proper glimmer once I head out into this beautiful world. But for now…

Much love, peace, and glimmers to you!

~kat ✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨

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October 24, 2025

day 295

By Kat Myrman 
vespers

here in the mountains all is well, the sun is setting
it’s hard to tell, to imagine the peril we're  in
as I lay me down to sleep, I pray this alt-reality to keep

~kat

Some days, imagined glimmers are all that my heart can muster….we drift toward the light when our hearts are troubled.

Much love, peace and glimmers to you

~kat

✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨

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October 22, 2025

day 294

By Kat Myrman 
asking for a friend

dear god,
I get it
I do…but
I was so hoping 
the rapture was
a thing … … I waited
all day, but they are
STILL HERE!

~kat

Fun with Magnetic Poetry Online ~ The Poet Kit

The bucks wandered through the yard this morning. What a glimmer that was…and is!!!

Much love, peace, hope, and glimmers to you!

~kat ✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨

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October 21, 2025

day 293

By Kat Myrman
East Wing of The White House…”The People’s House” October 21, 2025 / Photo Credit: Pedro Ugarte/AFP via Getty Images

This makes me so sad…so I wrote about it…

a reckoning…we were warned

he’s planning to stay in the white house, you know 
paving rose gardens, wrecking east walls
in horror, the world sees our once great nation fall
while powerful cowards sell off their own souls
paving rose gardens, wrecking east walls
he’s planning to stay in the white house, you know 

~kat

It’s a rollercoaster isn’t it? I had an appointment today. One of the rare times I head into town, leaving my house in the foothills. When I returned to my car this was on the front hood…

It’s a little acorn cap, right there for me to see. Of course, to me this was no ordinary acorn cap. In that moment, I imagined that a faerie just might have left it there for me to find…to show me that my beloved patch of land in the woods is never far away, even when I find myself in the city. I carry the woods with me in my heart and soul wherever I go. Actually I carry nature’s glimmers with me wherever I go…because, dare I say it…I am nature and nature is me…I am a glimmer!

That sounds a bit arrogant I’m thinking, but I feel that spark in me. Even on a day when the news is sad. Even amidst concrete and blacktop and bricks and mortar. Even in the midst of busy blank faces.

Much love, light, and glimmers to you.

💚✨✨✨kat✨✨✨💚

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October 21, 2025

day 292

By Kat Myrman 
by a thread

roots of grass,
seeds of change
where hope dwells


~kat

Still thinking about the past weekend’s grassroots peaceful nationwide events and feeling hopeful.

I’m late in posting today’s glimmers. My schedule has kept me busy! you may remember I had gotten a beautiful African Violet plant over the summer. It was three plants in one pot actually, and once the blooms had faded I knew it was time to separate the plants giving them their own bed of fresh soil to settle into. So, I did that over the weekend. On Monday, several days after the transplant each plant is thriving! The hue you see in the photos above is from a grow lamp. I am spoiling them a bit. Well not really. Giving them luscious soil and plenty of UV light is not spoiling. Plants, like people need the most basic things to thrive. Over 7 million people came out on Saturday to remind those who may have forgotten or who just don’t care, of that very fact!

Bonus glimmer! You may also notice my rescued sago pine plant featured above. I had to be very brave in my intervention, clipping away the wilted fronds as was suggested in my research on recovery for sago palms. To my delight nubs of new life erupted from the base. And now a month or more later, just look at those leaf limbs! She is coming back! Such a beautiful soul.

Much love, peace and glimmers to you!

~kat✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨

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