This is not my monthly wrap-up or the Friday post that I was going to write. Somehow my day spun out of control. No need for concern. Sometimes it happens. You know how it is. This stream of conscience (yes, I really do mean conscience) may make no sense at all to some people. Read more
Welcome to my regular Friday song/tune day, ladies and gentlemen, where I pick a piece of music that reflects my mood or the times, to share with you.
It is important to stop that second wave of Covid-19 infections, ladies and gentlemen. Apparently we have to continue to give each other space, practise good hygiene and work from home if we can. I know that is easier said than done, especially for those that must work to survive. Harder still for those that must stay at home to survive and also attend work to survive. As for me, I am not going to relax my guard. I can’t. Lives still depend on it.
Here’s a clip of Wendy Matthews singing The Day You Went Away. It is probably the way many people are feeling right now.
Thank you for being careful. Together we can minimise the second wave.
Kind Regards.
Tracy.
Ragtag Daily Prompt — The Blues
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/20/type-1-diabetics-type-2-coronavirus-nhs-study
Welcome to Week 9 of my Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge. Corvids are birds belonging to the Corvidae family, encompassing ravens, crows, magpies, jays and nutcrackers. So peruse your corvid photo, poetry, music and story archives and join the challenge.
You can participate in the Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge by creating a pingback to this post (my pingback approval settings are set up for manual approval, so it may take a little while for your pingback to appear) and/or by leaving a hyperlink to your submission in the comments. Tag your post Corvid-2020 or C20WC. I really do hope you will join in. Read more
Today, I thought I might do an experiment and try posting a short video of the irrepressible one. I have no idea whether the file is too big for readers to view, so your feedback would be very much appreciated. The irrepressible one is of course my little dog, Ama. When she wants her dinner, she engages in some remarkable attention seeking behaviour. What do you think? Should we surrender to her will?
Kind Regards.
Tracy.
Are you being driven to abstraction by home confinement? What do you do if you have the concentration span of a gnat? I have been fiddling around with photo editing and walking. More on the walking part later, but for now, what? Oh yes, photo editing. Home has become a canvas for my creative endeavours. Hope you like black and white. Read more
Sometimes, ladies and gentlemen, my ambition gets the better of me. I’ve always wanted to make a mosaic of a red-browed finch. I tried, but it did not go well. Perhaps I’m being too much of a perfectionist. The finished product is a bit ragged because I de-constructed it a couple of times in a manner that was a touch violent. Still, I got control of myself and made what repairs I could. Read more
Welcome to my regular Friday song/tune day, ladies and gentlemen, where I pick a piece of music that reflects my mood or the times, to share with you.
It shouldn’t be that hard, especially “in these difficult [Covid-19] times”. Helping each other. Working side by side. It’s what we do, right? For everyone? You know. The big T. Together.
Help me out here.
Kind Regards.
Tracy.
I’m not a morning (photography) person. In the morning, I am usually pretending to be too busy doing stuff to be wasting my time taking photos. So consequently when I checked my photo archive for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge — Morning, my morning photos were few and far between. I normally start to take a few photos around midday, you know, to further avoid actually doing anything “productive”. My photography tempo picks up early afternoon, peaking between 3.30pm and sunset. That’s because by 3.30pm, I’ve convinced myself that it is now too late to actually do anything concrete, for example, like starting work on whatever art project I happen to be contemplating at the time. Read more
Welcome to Week 5 of my Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge. Corvids are birds belonging to the Corvidae family, encompassing ravens, crows, magpies, jays and nutcrackers. So check out your corvid photo, poetry, music and story archives and join the challenge.
Over 170,000 people have died from Covid-19 since December 2019, and yet, I can still enjoy this little corvid challenge. There’s something about minutely concentrating on one thing and just one thing that helps me keep my sanity. It is a triumph of bravado over pessimism. So are you ready? Let’s go corvid-hunting. Read more
A black hat perspective. Welcome to my regular Friday song/tune day, ladies and gentlemen, where I pick a piece of music that reflects my mood or the times, to share with you.
After a buoyant few days, I’ve stopped to think. It is necessary, albeit depressing, but it helps me get things weirdly acceptable in my head. I still haven’t heard anything definitive about how much of the new corona virus, Australia, is prepared to live with. Some apparently. However, no-one in authority is yet prepared to be upfront about the costs of this suppression strategy. It is one thing to be reassured that there will be a (net?) benefit, but without being specific about what is being traded off — who and what is to be sacrificed — how can the community have ownership of any virus-related actions and outcomes? Read more
