Lancelot Schaubert's Blog, page 93
March 22, 2020
Moral Courage in an Age of Crisis
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
Here at the Showbear Family Circus, we’re less concerned with becoming the foremost literary magazine — still less concerned with even turning a profit — and more concerned with an idea. That idea is moral courage: how virtue upholds civic society and how civil society works best when minds are liberated to manifest ideas in the […]
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Retainer On A Bedside Table
Lillian Johnson over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
When you meet him, try not to look too much into his eyes. And try not to look too much like you’re trying to avoid looking into his eyes. When you meet him try to remember what you’re saying, don’t let your train of thought leave without you because his eyes are glowing too blue. […]
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March 21, 2020
Thunder-turtles
Ingrid Jensen over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
“Thunder-turtles!” That’s the watchword, and it means feet hidden in foliage, flag hauled out of sight, napkins full of white chocolate-chip cookies stuffed up our shirts. We can’t still the shaking of every leaf in the tree, though. I bite my lip in a mix of hope and fear and in the back of my […]
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March 20, 2020
Green Witch
Breanna Coe over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
Plants were powerful vessels. Even the grass in the ground was green with unspoken vitality, woven into their fibers by the delicate hands of mother nature. Admiring the plants in the room, I murmured their incantations on the tip of my tongue, teasing the potency of the spells that rested in their roots. The air […]
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March 19, 2020
A Life Winding Down
Laura Stroebel over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
A flickered visit todayClear, blue eyesProvide brief recognitionOf a year unknown.Am I five or 45 today I wonder?A smile has liftedShe wears a blue pin-flowered blouseLoose, nothing too sexualWith smoke grey tall slacksClean, pressedA button undoneOpening to a padded white braPerched in a shining metal elder prison.Earrings to matchAlways was dressed to the TJean Nate […]
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March 18, 2020
We’re here and okay!
Tara Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
Hello all. We’ve been pretty much home bound here in Brooklyn since last Wednesday (save one trip to Costco and two long walks with friends) and we’re making it. Oh and Lance called in and picked up my insulin prescription from our local pharmacy, VLS, which I HIGHLY recommend. (Maybe another day I will write […]
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55
Jared Scrowther over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
have you ever looked at the birds? they have stories…they have to have stories.just as the movements i make are intentional, so must be the bird’s. moving from one home to the next, escaping its present reality to be replaced with a better one- maybe.they still have to face the wind, storms, and rain.and so must we…all the same. Featured Download: If […]
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March 3, 2020
The Skywalker Conundrum
Ben Macnair over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
We all remember the scene,Luke Skywalker, chased by Tie-fighters,and that history making, chance in a millionshot on the Death Star. Cheering as children,we gave no thought to the thousands of workers on the planet,to the parents who had lost children,children who had lost parents. Doris in the Kitchen, making soup for the Storm-Troopers,Who will never […]
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March 2, 2020
rubies
Tess Eggleston over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
that familiar medicinal smellinstantly reminds her of hospitalsand bracing for a shot methodically, she douses cotton ballsand swabs the swollen lobesof newly pierced ears crimson angrythe reflection in the mirrornot what she bargained for disappointment and regretyou are the unwelcome gifts on her twelfth birthdaya first in a long line of lessons Featured Download: If […]
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March 1, 2020
Reading and Decoding English
Dennis Brooks over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
Reading and Decoding English 3 Letter 1.3 Reflections If you know people who have Dyslexia, help them learn to read starting with this column. It takes patiences to teach them the individual sounds. This is an excerpt from Title: Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley Thez reflekshonz hav dispeld the ajitashon […]
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