PROMPT: Spree

Daily writing prompt
Where would you go on a shopping spree?

I’m not a fan of the “spree.” I don’t like a shopping spree and I don’t like a murder spree and I really don’t like a shopping mall shopping / murder spree.

DAILY PHOTO: A Temple in Tainan

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Photograph of a temple in Tainan, Taiwan under blue skies. Anping Kaitai Tianhou Temple (安平開台天后宮)

Cloudy Sky [Haiku]

Photograph of Chihkan Tower in Tainan, Taiwan.
look up: cloudy skies
from the upper story,
blot green yard from mind.

PROMPT: Middle Name

Daily writing prompt
What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?

el matador. No significance whatsoever.

Yellow Blossom [Haiku]

yellow blossoms
herald the Spring:
fragrance spreads the news.

DAILY PHOTO: Dramatic Skies Over Georgia Tech

PROMPT: Last Thing

Daily writing prompt
What is the last thing you learned?

To think of lifting weights as a means of injury prevention, rather than just a means to build strength or power. I picked up this perspective reading Santino DeFranco’s “Fight Ready” (https://wp.me/p1jv7k-fiK.) I haven’t been a fan of weights for many years now and have long preferred yoga, calisthenics, and other (more minimalist) practices, but I can see the scalability advantage of weights as a means to build a robust body.

Although, I hope this prompt uses “last” in the sense of “most recent,” because I very much hope that I am far from — and couldn’t possibly predict — the last (as in “final”) thing I will have learned.

Ships at Anchor [Haiku]

Photograph of Kaohsiung Harbor in south Taiwan.
ships in harbor,
anchored fore and aft,
await the typhoon.

The Temple That Never Closes [Haiku]

Photograph of the Taoist Temple / Cultural Center at Kaohsiung's Central Park.
the streets are dark --
even streetlamps rest -- but
light spills from the temple.

DAILY PHOTO: Lighthouses, Great & Small

This is the Kaohsiung Lighthouse at the rocky end point of the Qijin District peninsula.
This is the scale model of the Kaohsiung / Qujin Lighthouse that is at the Pier2 Art Center.