DAILY PHOTO: Stone Mountain from Lakeside

PROMPT: Fear

Daily writing prompt
What’s a fear you’ve overcome — and how did you do it?

Swimming in the deeps.

Swimming day in and day out until my buoyancy became an incontrovertible fact of nature that not even my amygdala could deny.

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.

Understory [Haiku]

big-leafed saplings
line the understory:
wee cascade murmurs.

DAILY PHOTO: Helsinki from the Ferry

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Photograph of the Helsinki waterfront taken from the ferry to Suomenlinna with seagulls in tow.

Little Blue [Haiku]

Photograph of a blue Chicory flower, taken near Kolsay Lake in Kazakhstan.
from a gliding boat,
a little blue flower spied
as all else blurs.

Nature’s AC [Haiku]

Photograph of a small cascade between and around mossy rocks taken on the Kolsay Lake hike in Kazakhstan.
water rolls past
moss green rocks;
hikers pause in cool.

DAILY PHOTO: Boats Under Foul Skies

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Photograph taken in Bai Tu Long Bay in Northern Vietnam of boats, islands, and cloudy skies.

PROMPT: 5 Everyday Things

Daily writing prompt
What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness?

A breath of air when I’m suffocating.

A drink of water when I’m thirsty.

A bit of bread when I’m hungry.

Sleep when I’m weary.

Company when I’m lonely.

Muddy Bottom [Free Verse]

Photograph taken from a tower of the Ananuri Fortress Complex, looking at the Zhinvali Reservoir.
Sinuous channels
cut through the
river's muddy
bottom,

carrying clear water
ever downward
- ever onward.

From fortress walls
it's all been seen --
drought and flood,
but something always
trickled through.

As it was before those
stones were stacked.
As it will be when the
last rubble crumbles
into uncut
dust & rock.