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R.I.P. Jimmy Cliff (1944-2025)

Jack Layton (died August 22, 2011)

Human Rights Day Today

 The Nobel Peace Prize this year went to Narges Mohammadi, 51, of Iran.

 She was arrested 13 times, convicted for five and sentenced to a total of 31 years and 154 lashes, for activism, campaigning for human rights, in support of political prisoners, and against the death penalty.

32 Years Ago Today

Tiananmen Square, June 4, 1989

April is Poetry Month

Yesterday

Inspecting their new feedtray

Out on a Limb

Yesterday, three mourning doves, resting

Sunday morning visitors

Boiled Egg Art

in his lunchbox today,
a little surprise

cracked him up

and then
he ate it

My country, adrift

Today

4th of July 2020

Julian

Little chipmunk that lives under the shed,

having his breakfast

Social Distancing

                                                                                              awynart2020

They're BACK!!!!!!!

Two rain days last week & the snow is pretty much almost all gone.

Nice little surprise this morning while out back feeding the tiny birds:  

                                THE GEESE ARE BACK!!!

I so admire their native stick-to-it-iveness. (They can travel 800 miles a day if necessary).

Been watching their departures at the beginning of winter every year, and their return at the beginning of spring. It never gets old.

Two weeks now into self-isolation due to Covid-19.  It's so quiet.

No traffic, no chatter, only the birds and the wind.

You can wave hello to the mailman or the garbage truck guys, or see an occasional

neighbor walking solo outside past your window --but for the most part life-as-usual

is on hold.  (Two and a half more weeks to go till we know when (or if) this new 'now' will be extended.) 

Introverts have an easier time of it.  Also, you spend less $ and learn to be

more self-reliant.  It forces you to look at things differently, that you might not have

done so otherwise.  Kind of like a forced re-setk, that you can learn from.

Life goes on. 

Welcome back, geese!

old untitleds, resurfacing

awyn inkwash 2013

you wake up only when
the dream you're having
can no longer come true

you wake up only when
it's the same old you again
and not that dream person

you wake up in suspense
at what will happen next in
the dream that just ended

              ~~  Bill Knott

Please, no more

-13 F but at least it's sunshiny out 

The Day Democracy Died