DAILY PHOTO: Iglesia de San Servacio, Valladolid

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Photograph of the Iglesia de San Servacio, a Catholic church in Valladolid, Mexico that was rebuilt in the 1700's from its original founding in  1545.

PROMPT: Soulmates

Daily writing prompt
Do you believe in soulmates? Why or why not?

I know I found someone who can tolerate me for prolonged periods. There can’t be more than four such people in the universe. So, do what you will with that.

Mayan High Priest Limerick

Photograph of El Castillo at the Mayan site of Chichen Itza, Mexico.
A newly promoted Mayan High Priest --
queasy, but charged with bloodletting next feast.
Suggested a new style:
Lymph, sweat, milk, tears, or bile
Were offerings that made his odds of fainting decrease.

Iguana Limerick

Photograph of an Iguana on the rocks overlooking Tulum Beach.
In Tulum, a lazy old Iguana
was asked to leave but said, "I don't wanna!"
They threated and chided -
reasoned and derided -
'til it left, bribed with good marijuana.

Ger Limerick

Photograph of a yurt taken in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
There once was a nomadic ger-dweller
who had no garage, attic, or cellar.
But what it lacked in space
it made up for in pace
when ger turned to baggage from shelter.

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

Daily writing prompt
What’s something you’d love to see in the future, but know you probably won’t live to witness?

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]

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

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.