DAILY PHOTO: The Government Palace of Mongolia

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Photograph of the Government Palace of Mongolia (Засгийн газрын ордон) in UlaanBaatar, Mongolia.

PROMPT: Won’t Live to Witness

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Daily writing prompt
What’s something you’d love to see in the future, but know you probably won’t live to witness?
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I would love to see an era in which AI and robotics frees up humans to work on the project of being better humans physically, mentally, creatively, emotionally, artistically, etc.

However, I suspect that on the way to that point there will be periods of dystopia, chaos, and quasi-Armageddon. As near as I can tell, it will involve the invention of a new form of economy (and possibly governance,) which I haven’t seen anyone discussing in the merited depths.

Rusty Prayer Wheels [Lyric Poem]

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Photograph of prayer wheels at a Vajrayana Buddhist Temple in Bhaktapur, Nepal.
Rusty prayer wheels
   on a dusty street.
 They squeak & they squeal,
   & no circuit completes,
      but still hands reach out for each one
      'cause who has faith in the clean wheel spun?

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Lake Titicaca

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Photograph taken from Amantani Island in Lake Titicaca. Taken from the hilltop over the roof of a thatched hut.
Photograph taken on one of the Uros floating islands of Lake Titicaca with a reed boat along the island's edge.
Photograph of a boat at dock on Amantani Island in Lake Titicaca.

PROMPT: Minimalism

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Do you believe in minimalism?
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Absolutely. The IKEA Nesting Instinct has run amok, and Consumer is a definitionally discontented state of being.

Personally, I hate that I know what a duvet is.

Blank & Blue [Haiku]

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Photograph of cacti, blue sky, and mountains, taken near Huambo, Peru in the vicinity of Colca Canyon.
sky -- blank & blue --
 stretches mountain to mountain;
  unseen raptor: "screech!"

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Cebu City

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Photograph of Fuente Osmeña Cir in Cebu City, Philippines.
Photograph of Oriente Building on Colon St. of Cebu City, Philippines.
Photograph of the Cebu Provincial Capital (Kapitolyo sa Sugbo) in Cebu City, Philippines.

PROMPT: Out of a Movie

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What’s a moment in your life that felt like it was straight out of a movie?
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I once slipped and fell on ice, and it was like an outtake from a Jackie Chan movie.

Frame of Reference [Free Verse]

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Photograph taken at a butterfly sanctuary on Bohol Island, Philippines.
a butterfly hangs
   upside down,

but it seems upside down
   is as meaningless an
       an abstraction for it
 as the two million km/h
    that a human sweeps, 
       spins, expands, etc.
            through space
    is for the person who
        feels only the couch
             against his backside.

what must it be to not know
     upside down -- to feel free
         to fall, knowing the air
              will catch one?