“Live, Laugh, Loathe”

Gonna make me a t-shirt with that slogan and get filthy rich.



Update — Hey!  My friend Laney made a meme out of this just now and it’s pretty cool!



“The End of the Day,” Firmin Baes, Early 20th Century

Pastel drawing on board.

“yummelons”

yummelons — 

fruits so sweet on puckered lips

that juiceruns on your sugaredtongue and

wordsmerge in delectablelisp.

 

(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2024



Photo credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Shine On, You Crazy Mountain.

One of those moments when clouds cast shadows over the valley while the mountain remains sunlit.  It looks so surreal when that happens.  (This picture doesn’t really do it justice.)

Roanoke, Virginia.



“Ruins,” Lluís Rigalt, 1865

Oil on canvas.

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Spillwords Press names Lisa H. Owens as Author of the Month for June 2024.

I hope you will all join me in congratulating Lisa H. Owens for being named Spillwords Press Author of the Month for June 2024.  (Thanks  also once again to those of you who voted for me.)  🙂

And while we’re at it, let’s also congratulate Joni Caggiano for winning Post of the Month for her poem, “Worn Slap Out.”



Variant cover to “Fantastic Four” #4, Alex Ross, 2023

Marvel Comics.

Portrait of Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński by Leon Wyczółkowski, 1907

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“I shall pass this way but once …”

“I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”

— Etienne de Grellet, Quaker missionary



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