Ti piace Manja

Yesterday and today celebrate a couple of people but I only have eyes for one. (The other is Ed Vedder.) Every year I try to imagine how little Marco growing up in Rome had to fight for his birthday with that other guy. But he …

Pic and a Word Challenge #166: Texture – war

Get that moon off of my face. Written yesterday, on a day when How do you do? is the wrong question. Solstice Red rivers on the full moon. Texture: vicious viscous. War inside my body, Rorschach test in my pants. Man is fearful for a …

Lens-Artists PC: Happiness is a choice

Happiness is a choice. “Thought is like a little boat upon the sea,” and you are the storm. Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. First, thank you to Norm of Thursday Doors fame for the featured photo and one more in today’s gallery. Amore showing …

Pic and a Word #163: Out of hand

If not made by hand, then surely hand operated and without a doubt hand taken. Nostalgia For all the hands little and big that ran out of time. For the fingers that pressed all the right buttons and wrapped around the loved ones when the …

Happy Ab day, Aleš!

Today celebrates my poet friend. It’s a bit more than just a birthday. Abraham is coming on a visit. I’m not in our country so we will have to celebrate another time but we yet had an excellent day this summer, in Koper on the …

Thursday Doors, 6/9/18: Ljubljana Savc

Another Thursday Doors edition that is more about the experience than doors themselves. It takes place in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, where everybody comes lately. Savc is the term of endearment for Savsko naselje where certain rappers stem from, including my mother. Here are …

Lens-Artists PC: Time to relax, July 2017

Oh yes, it comes to those who wait: holidays! Here are some relaxing times from last July for my Calendar 2017. And for this week’s Lens-Artists photo challenge, where Amy asks us for photos of how we or somebody else relaxed. Last July I was …

Silentish Sunday

Well, I cheat. It’s not all that silent. We’re much too close to Croatia for that. 😉 A few hours before Croatia wins the world title in soccer (but of course!), here are just five photos from 400-ish I took yesterday. First I went to the Festival …

That’s PJ and amore

While a neighbouring country – my Slovenia – celebrates 27th birthday today, here is a band that has survived that awkward age. The poem is for June edition of the A and I Poetry Challenge, and the concert is tomorrow. First their poem, my favourite: …

WPC: Simple twists of May 2017

In a simple twist of fate, the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is coming to an end. The last theme will be posted this Wednesday. In another, I felt an emptiness inside to which I just could not relate. Not only have I been an (almost) …

Three deep thoughts

Deep as the sea, deep as the mind. Thank you to Leya from To See a World in a Grain of Sand… for thinking of me on Day 1 of her 3 Day Quote Challenge. Her first is by Gandhi and includes this sentence: We need …

Day 26 & Thursday Doors, 26/4/18: Five-sense door

Today just one door, one poem and one song.  This most glorious door was discovered and photographed by my sister in Bernardin on the Slovenian coast. She let me have it and post it and told me that she loved the house attached as well. …

Day 23 & WPC: Prolific yellow and green

Today a cento made of song lyrics and a war between green and yellow in images. Challenge 23: “Today, we challenge you to honor this idea with a poem based in sound. The poem, for example, could incorporate overheard language. Perhaps it could incorporate a …

Me, Janis and Bobby

A memory rolled to my Facebook today from two years ago. It was a quotation by Janis Joplin for her 73rd birthday. This means today she would turn 75. Never compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. —Janis Joplin I don’t know who bought it …