The Wordsmith's Forge

... share certain qualities. 

Utterly brilliant video.

Today is cool and gray.

I fed the birds.  A couple of male cardinals were out earlier. 

dialecticdreamer is hosting Feathering the Nest today on fluff. Leave prompts, get ficlets!

If I reach $150 in tips, I have a longer, more complex story ready to post that adds 7500 words to the total published, doubling the amount offered, just to say thank you to everyone who helped get to that milestone.

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Poem: "An Entry into a Character"
Poem: "Proximity Leads to Intimacy"
Community Building Tip: Bike-friendly Districts
Poem: "The Conditions of Your Selfhood"
Birdfeeding
Self-Awareness Question: Decade
Poem: "Where Absolute Evil and Fraternity Clash"
Poem: "Ma'asit"
Birdfeeding
Cuddle Party


There will be a Poetry Fishbowl Tuesday, December 1 with a theme of "Unconventional Living Arrangements."


Poetry in Microfunding:

There is one open epic at present.

"The Best Understanding of Their Differences" belongs to Polychrome Heroics: Calliope. Calliope and Vagary start on couple exercises.


The weather has been colder, and we got some rain the other day. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a flock of mourning doves, a flock of cardinals, a flock of sparrows, several dark-eyed juncos, several goldfinches, a downy woodpecker, and a squirrel.

This article takes a local approach to reparations, in this case for slavery. It's a good idea, because local efforts can move faster than state or national ones, and it's the local town that benefits most when citizens get out of poverty. Some other ideas that would work on a local scale ...

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