The day opens cleanly.The skyline standslike a thought too tall to hold,its buildings disappearinginto a gauze of cloud. He cranes upward,the photographer,neck aching, eyes narrowed,hunting that brief anglewhere a tower seems to leaninto the sky. Around him, the street surges.Engines mutter.Footsteps strike the pavement.A siren folds itselfinto the distance.Yet in the circle of his lensthere … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Lens Above the Street” – Up Towards the Clouds, v.3
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #442 – Windy day
Windy Day Musings of the Artists Mind She went out for her walk and realized too late how windy it would be. It’s too far to turn back now, so she …500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #442 – Windy day
How Much Will We Burn In This Fear? – The Hollow Ones #41
Made on May 28: The news was amazing this morning. It started with the local statistics for Covid-19. The radio voice did their best to make it sound…How Much Will We Burn In This Fear? – The Hollow Ones #41
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #442 – Windy day
Windy Day Musings of the Artists Mind She went out for her walk and realized too late how windy it would be. It’s too far to turn back now, so she …500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #442 – Windy day
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #94: Walking on Mars #2
Walking on Mars #2: The History: Here’s my story on this… Two of Four: The red planet has a strange fascination for us and short series came after … 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #94: Walking on Mars #2
The Hudson UFO!?! (Fun Fotos for Friday)
What the heck was this? I was sitting outside the creepy old St-James Cemetery in Hudson, minding my own damn business when all of a sudden this damn… The Hudson UFO!?! (Fun Fotos for Friday)
Beyond the Selfie: Why Shakespeare’s Sonnet 3 Still Matters
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 3 is a striking meditation on beauty, aging, identity, and inheritance. On the surface, it urges a young person to look into a mirror and recognize that their beauty is not something to hoard selfishly. Beneath that, though, the poem is really about mortality: time will erode the body, but a person can … Continue reading Beyond the Selfie: Why Shakespeare’s Sonnet 3 Still Matters
T.A.E.’s. Book Review – The Book of Lost Tales, Part One by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Book of Lost Tales, Part One is not merely an early draft of the legendarium later embodied in The Silmarillion; it is the site of Tolkien’s imagination in motion, where myth is still molten and where the great structures of Middle-earth appear in a more lyrical, experimental, and intimate form. Read as literature, the … Continue reading T.A.E.’s. Book Review – The Book of Lost Tales, Part One by J.R.R. Tolkien
T.A.E.’s. Book Review – Sir Orfeo by J.R.R. Tolkien
Sir Orfeo is a work of quiet brilliance: at once a scholarly recovery, a lyrical recreation, and a deeply moving meditation on loss, endurance, and the tenuous border between the human world and the realm of enchantment. Tolkien does not merely translate the medieval poem; he restores its music and discipline while allowing its emotional … Continue reading T.A.E.’s. Book Review – Sir Orfeo by J.R.R. Tolkien
“Catfished by My Twin? – Illyria Drama Unlocked” – Poetcore Shakespeare: The Bard for Gen Z
(T.A.E.’s LitBites) – A modern retelling of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Okay, picture this: a storm, a tiny boat, and two twins who get absolutely separated like two socks in a washing machine. Viola ends up on a new coast (Illyria), thinks her brother Sebastian is gone for good, and decides to play it safe. … Continue reading “Catfished by My Twin? – Illyria Drama Unlocked” – Poetcore Shakespeare: The Bard for Gen Z