DAILY PHOTO: Perspective is Everything, Kuala Lumpur
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PROMPT: Local Custom
My wife and I once had tea in Nagaland with men who’d been cannibals in their youth, but they weren’t anymore (and — in point of fact — probably didn’t have the teeth for solid food anymore,) so I don’t think that counts.
For the most part, I don’t think of customs as being more or less interesting, just — sometimes — unexpected. I’ve noticed that most people see cultural customs as the strange behaviors other peoples do, while their own culture’s customs are largely invisible to them (i.e. “That’s just how things are done; it really couldn’t be done any other way.”) So, I guess it’s been most interesting, having returned from living abroad for more than a dozen years, noticing just how many strange and baffling things Americans do.
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DAILY PHOTO: Structure 10 Ruins, Ek Balam
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PROMPT: Ideal Life
Daily writing prompt
If you had to describe your ideal life, what would it look like?
The implication being that I’m not living it? I’m outraged. Desire for things to be what they aren’t is the mother of all suffering.
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DAILY PHOTO: Three Views of the Well at Mul Chowk
PROMPT: Concert
I don’t know about “best.” I’ve lived a lot of life. But we went to a Christmas concert in St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans this past Christmas that was a pretty awesome experience (that I can still remember.)
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Vanishing [Haiku]
moving up valley,
fog thickens until there
is only the step.
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Mountain Blue [Haiku]
mountain skies:
fade to a blue so deep
it chills the bones.
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This Is Not My World [Free Verse]
Every once in a while,
you see a sight
that makes you say,
"This cannot be
the world I know!"
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