are you surprised? it felt so good to win to own the libs, back then, didn’t it? to have every wild conspiracy theory you warned me about validated by your guy… your guy, who escaped death, miraculously healed only days after his brush with a sharpshooter’s bullet, with not even a scar to boast about…I have to admit it was quite a show and now, five months in reality has swung the sickle your way…tariffs, government services shuttered, rising costs, mass layoffs, history wiped out, innocent people disappearing from the streets, rights revoked, retribution is the theme of the hour, with access to the spoils of this coup reserved for the highest bidder… cruel atrocities too numerous to mention, but this is what you voted for…right? and so I wonder, are you surprised? and if you are not, if you are not even the least bit dismayed by what is happening to our beautiful country, then I am surprised… and pissed off… but most of all, sad to think I never really knew you
~kat
Gonna let today’s poem have the last word today. It’s been a rough week here in the USA. So sorry world.
But…thank goodness for glimmers. My little friend Mr Bean always makes me smile. I hope you too have a reason to smile today and every day.
Does this make me look fat? my obsession began as a daughter stuffed into clothes that wrapped my curves too tightly I learned to hide behind dark tents of fabric, my soft skin growing pale under the weight of loathing You’re not leaving this table until you clean your plate… subliminal mandates haunt me still burning a hole in my soul that demand to be obeyed, then despised in an unhealthy cycle of too plenty and growling want against intrusive reflections that distort my perspective, rendering me less than…diminishing the beautiful light that chokes for air beneath layers of flesh, a battle waged for nearly half a century, somehow cured instantly, by the tender words of a toddler, with eyes blue like mine, nestled close, pressed against my soft belly, head near my heart, wrapped in my ample arms… I love you Gramma… and I realize, I was made for this.
~kat
I was a chubby kid. The yo-yo battle between thin and fat started in my teens. Weight has been a relentless foe for most of my life. Those rare seasons when I was able to shed weight happened only because I stopped eating…well mostly. I subsisted on hard boiled eggs, water and lettuce…and a few strawberries to treat myself, which of course is not particularly healthy or sustainable. I am older and supposedly wiser these days but that doesn’t mean I defeated those demons that haunt me still. But I am working toward being healthy. And today’s recounts a true story…the words of a toddler that saved me. Excessive dieting is not the answer to improving my health. That “I love you” murmured from the mouth of a mere babe set me on a path of embracing my curves because, you do understand, don’t you…grandmas that are soft and squishy around the middle give the best pillowy hugs…💕
Much love, peace and glimmers to you…soft squishy hugs count! 😉
I want to believe that my life matters in this anonymous, faceless world where we have grown suspicious of touch where kindness and empathy are a four-letter Word I need a hug and a good, long, ugly cry to cleanse myself of the sadness that overwhelms me in what we have become if there is a god… may I learn to be one who never wonders if there will be enough who rises at dawn with a song on her lips may I learn to be a sparrow
she tells us where to go how to get there actually what did we do before her?
we were intrepid passengers wrestling with atlas or folded sheets of triple A routes that took us from home to the world and back…
starting route… her familiar voice breaks through my pop rock playlists and…we’re on our way set to arrive in 2 hours, 14 minutes unless…life interrupts, construction, fellow travelers’ journeys cut short, a one-lane detour around fresh carnage stretching our necks to see if there is blood, grateful to have left a few minutes later than we had planned turn left at the next light in 200 feet… turn left, turn left, TURN LEFT… recalculating route…make a u-turn then turn right at the next light…
whatever did we do…how did we ever find our way, I muse to myself parked on the side of the road… I think we broke her, clearly she did not intend for us to cross through this cornfield…
the sun sits midway in the eastern sky… we need to head north… at next intersection let’s take a right, scenic route starting…we might arrive a bit later than planned but we’ll get there, as the crow flies
~kat
I often think about life before tech. The tools of our simple lives did not require 24/7 attention. We had phones of course. Simple land lines, not smartphones that connected us via satellite to the world. If I wanted to learn about sea turtles, I would go to the library. Travel was an adventure. We learned to read maps. Verbal directions included street names and landmarks to get us to our destination. We learned how to tell time by looking at the face of a clock, how to tie our shoes, phonics and how to read and write using a pen and paper. When we paid for things we used actual money And television shows were in grainy black and white, with three channels that ended at midnight with the Star-Spangled Banner playing until the screen faded to black. The good old days some call it. Different from today to be sure.
These days we are tuned in, plugged in, and online day and night. Convenient, I suppose. Intrusive, definitely. But I have to say, I feel fortunate for my youth and the 20th century survival skills I learned. Next power outage I’ll be here if you need me. I know stuff! 😄
Much love, peace, and glimmers to you!
Today’s glimmer? A lovely new pope as of yesterday. While I am no longer a practicing Catholic, I do appreciate the character attributes that Leo XIV brings to this broken world. I think they picked a good one!
So it is easier for you to find all the parts/chapters of my ongoing fiction series, I created a new page that lists all the links. You can check it out HERE!
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