PROMPT: Security or Adventure

Daily writing prompt
Are you seeking security or adventure?

Not sure what to do with this one. It reads to me much as would, “Would you prefer air or water?”

Urban Oasis [Haiku]

stream cascade:
soft water burble drowns out
the city’s noise.

DAILY PHOTO: Shivajinagar

“The Lion” by Hilaire Belloc [w/ Audio]

The Lion, the Lion, he dwells in the Waste,
He has a big head and a very small waist;
But his shoulders are stark, and his jaws they are grim,
And a good little child will not play with him.

The Common Hoopoe [Lyric Poem]

Let me introduce the Common Hoopoe:
It can raise its crown when it wants to.
With me, it didn't (as you may have guessed;)
I suppose it was just unimpressed.

The Fire-Bellied Toad [Lyric Poem]

Let me give you a Fire-Bellied Toad fun fact:
They're party in the front, camo in the back.
With safety vest wrong side up on this toad,
You'll often find them squashed on a road.

DAILY PHOTO: Gwan-Eumsa of Gyeongju National Park

“Wonder—is not precisely Knowing” (1331) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]

Wonder—is not precisely Knowing
And not precisely Knowing not—
A beautiful but bleak condition
He has not lived who has not felt—

Suspense—is his maturer Sister—
Whether Adult Delight is Pain
Or of itself a new misgiving—
This is the Gnat that mangles men—

PROMPT: Better with Age

Daily writing prompt
What do you think gets better with age?

Equanimity and emotional resilience — i.e. the ability to give fewer f___ks.

Heron [Haiku]

a heron stalks
amid rice seedlings:
mild Summer day.