Lee 🧵🪡🪢 🇨🇦

~ Tempests ~ Having come from the seas of your storms and decades of disquiet, I step, directionless, on an unmoving Earth. Being tooled for havoc, I despair of knowing what might fill this brazen peace, this wild surcease. [Art: The Ship, by Salvador Dali]

~ The answer ~ On an errand from my town to another,
I pass by the old weathered sign “Trail Entrance”.
It’s a blue arrow, meant to point north, to the left,
but now broken and leaning in its old age. 
It’s been ten years, maybe longer,
since I took pride in making that steep ascent,
fording streams on stepping stones,
marching up muddy slopes,
finally reaching my destination:
a balding summit called Teapot hill. 
It commands a beautiful view of the countryside and,
immersed in its quietness, on just the right day,
one can watch the cloud shadows roll across green fields,
gobbling the golden sun. 
In the late summer, when these dark ships passed over me,
I felt a slight chill as little vortices of whirlwind seemed to spring up from the earth, dispersing bugs and scattering the ashes of old campfires. 
After a time, those black windblown spaceships would disperse,
giving way to green radiance once again.
A one act play that I would give anything to call up at will. Today is such a day, and I know it, even from the pavement well away. 
God, can I make it? (I think)
I surely would like that feeling once again:
of being soothed, of being comforted, of being spoken to without words.
Of owning my place in this, a green jewel of the universe. 
I stop, and reverse back down the gravel shoulder. (Lock up and go, you fool.) 
It’s mid September. The rains have not been kind this summer,
and so the steep sections of the trail are not so muddy.
And, another kindness: someone has built rudimentary bridges across the streams. 
Even with these blessings, I have only half the wind, and take twice the time.
I look nervously at my phone. Plenty of battery, but no signal.
On my own, I stop three times, and then reach the flat top. 
Someone has carved an old stump into the form of an armchair, and I sit, catching breath, head bowed. 
There’s a sign, crudely carved.
You Are Here
You Are Here
Welcome Home.

In forest found: a javelin, its haft bejeweled with beads. Its feathered shaft, unraveling, was hid amongst the reeds. Such luck, there was, to find this thing of mythologic worth, whose perfect point and balancing impaled the crooked Earth.

We were singers. They knew, and tied us to two chairs, facing one another. We sang, at first in fear, then with spirit. From behind, they poured gallons of paint on our heads. First green, then grey. We sang more strongly, making a burbling sound, and getting used to the taste.

@booksbyJeanneR @graestonewriter @JasPhoenix_Rise @joanne_paulson @Elderac Thanks, Jeanne. They’re few and far between. 🙂

@66human @graestonewriter @JasPhoenix_Rise @joanne_paulson @Elderac 👌👌👌 great 3, Lee!

Wordle 1,778 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟨🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 No award today, one sneaked in lol. @joanne_paulson @graestonewriter @66human @booksbyJeanneR @Elderac

I just wrote 975 words. Yes I did. Then I wondered, why the H can I not do that every day? Or even every other day? This damn book would be finished by now. ARGH. 29,478 words. Getting there. 🙄Slowwwly. So how are you? 😃

@booksbyJeanneR @JasPhoenix_Rise @joanne_paulson @graestonewriter @Elderac Good 4, Jeanne. Great jump from line 2 to 3!

@JasPhoenix_Rise @joanne_paulson @graestonewriter @66human @Elderac Wordle 1,778 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Nothin' to see here, ho hum 😆

@joanne_paulson @graestonewriter @JasPhoenix_Rise @booksbyJeanneR @Elderac Thanks, Jo…I think there are three of us in this club so far today…

@66human @graestonewriter @JasPhoenix_Rise @booksbyJeanneR @Elderac OOOGIE BOOGIE Lee! good one!

@JasPhoenix_Rise @joanne_paulson @graestonewriter @booksbyJeanneR @Elderac You started the trend today, Jas!

@graestonewriter @JasPhoenix_Rise @joanne_paulson @booksbyJeanneR @Elderac Wordle 1,778 3/6 🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 had to strive to keep up with you, George!

@JasPhoenix_Rise @joanne_paulson @66human @booksbyJeanneR @Elderac Ha. Good get in 3. Look at me: (I made a poem) Wordle 1,778 3/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 @joanne_paulson @graestonewriter @66human @booksbyJeanneR @Elderac

@AikinNorb @jgmacleodauthor @ta_welton @Kellyrei007 @Susanjeanricci @jordana_greene @AuthorPiro @kampungkreepy @JasPhoenix_Rise @ionacrv @Ivyloganauthor @tristan_dineen @SPOFarrell3 @LaylaHawke2 @VanitaHork @loveGoldenHeart @lisamariehaden @booksbyshauntae @Russell_Writer @GordonMiyoshi @KaceyKells @SFBaumgartner @MQuigley1963 @blujreviews @_Andrea_Ricca @booksbyJeanneR @Thief_Of_Harts @Irishgirl692 @inspiredbylaban @impoliticpolit @js65594 @steven_arnett2 @tristanbtaylor @fatdogsfrance @EvelynChartres @v_ananya_ @KalFulsom @TheRealA_Bayles @ServantsAnd @Adele_Royce @Emme_Klama @JulieBeagley1 @LMFord2 @steven_arnett @GDocSwift @SerenaHassan4 Thank you so much, Norb @AikinNorb ❤️ @KMcgivens @booksbyJeanneR @STrueshan He's been lying in the forest for 40 years. His killer thought he'd never be found. He didn't count on Inspector Adam Davis. mybook.to/200Bones

@LFrostWrites Congratulations, Laura!

Another sold out bookstore event!!

@mooninabucket 😁

Yesterday, I realized for the first time that “Donuts” spelled backwards is “Stunod.” I ate one anyway 😂

@ToraBrinn 🙀

This is who runs this account. #Caturday

@joanne_paulson @graestonewriter @JasPhoenix_Rise @booksbyJeanneR @Elderac Just unbelievable 👀 Congrats, Jo!

Wordle 1,777 2/6 Whoaaaaaaaaaa 😃 @graestonewriter @JasPhoenix_Rise @booksbyJeanneR @66human @Elderac 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

@joanne_paulson @booksbyJeanneR @JasPhoenix_Rise @graestonewriter @Elderac I believe you are psychic, Jo.

@66human @booksbyJeanneR @JasPhoenix_Rise @graestonewriter @Elderac Nice pattern, Lee. Might be a B and a P there?

Wordle 1,777 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Just noticed I have an award for avoiding those traumatic yellows! 😂 @joanne_paulson @graestonewriter @66human @booksbyJeanneR @Elderac

@booksbyJeanneR @JasPhoenix_Rise @joanne_paulson @graestonewriter @Elderac Sometimes makes it worse…

@66human @JasPhoenix_Rise @joanne_paulson @graestonewriter @Elderac perhaps overthinking it just doesn't "do"

@booksbyJeanneR @JasPhoenix_Rise @joanne_paulson @graestonewriter @Elderac 😁

@66human @JasPhoenix_Rise @joanne_paulson @graestonewriter @Elderac ... p.s., Jas is going to love this sea of greens!

@booksbyJeanneR @JasPhoenix_Rise @joanne_paulson @graestonewriter @Elderac I had the same thought, as I seem to do better with the puzzle when I’m still a bit groggy in the morning. 🤷‍♂️

@66human @JasPhoenix_Rise @joanne_paulson @graestonewriter @Elderac Thanks, Lee! I really need to keep doing these when I'm zonking tired, it seems!😅

@graestonewriter @JasPhoenix_Rise @joanne_paulson @booksbyJeanneR @Elderac @curleyhammcozy Great 4, George.

@JasPhoenix_Rise @joanne_paulson @66human @booksbyJeanneR @Elderac Nice, Jas. #Wordle 1,777 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Splattering of yellow. @joanne_paulson @curleyhammcozy @66human @elderac @booksbyJeanneR @JasPhoenix_Rise

@JasPhoenix_Rise @joanne_paulson @graestonewriter @booksbyJeanneR @Elderac Good going, Jas!