Kurt Brindley's Blog, page 136
October 17, 2014
Literary Zen III
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Filed under: Literary Tagged: art, authors, books, drawing, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, graphic design, literary quotes, Literary Zen, literature, quotes, writers, writing, zen
A Poet’s Pursuit for a Poem of a Picture ~ September 20, 2014
Poems From the River: a collection of reflections
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Filed under: Books, Photography Tagged: book covers, books, covers, graphic design, nature, photography, pictures, poems, POEMS FROM THE RIVER, poetry, poets, writing
October 16, 2014
The Tickle Café
There’s a café on the corner,
And it’s a most unusual place.
For the café’s only business
Is to put a smile upon your face.
This café is the place to go
If you’re feeling rather sad.
The waiters there don’t wait at all…
Their job is to make you glad.
So when you’re feeling grouchy,
Or sad, or even just fickle,
Just go to the café on the corner
And have yourself a tickle.
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Filed under: Poetry Tagged: children's poetry, grouchy, happy, mad, Poem Man, poems, poetry, reading, rhymes, rhyming poetry, sad, The Tickle Cafe, writing
I don’t always dance, but when I do I prefer to dance to this song…
Stay Foolish My Friends…
#thissongmakesmealmostashappyasa#davidsedarisbook
#happysongsmakemehappy
Filed under: Music Tagged: dance music, dancing, David Letterman, David Sedaris, Dos Equis, Future Islands, happy songs, Seasons (Waiting On You), songs, Stay foolish, Steve Jobs, The World's Most Interesting Man, videos
The surprising, and sometimes scary, things I find when emptying the pool skimmer…
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Filed under: Photography Tagged: amphibians, art, chipmunks, creepy things, frogs, moles, nature, phobias, photography, pictures, snakes, surprises, swimming pools
October 15, 2014
To Be a Superpower or Not To Be a Superpower, That Is Not the Question…
Eric Constantineau – www.ericconstantineau.com / Foter / CC BY-NC
Whether China is or is yet to be, or if it even wants or wants not to be a superpower are not the important questions to me. One way or the other, the answer is or will be yes. An important question for me is, how will China manage its increasingly powerful role in the world while also managing the consumption requirements of its increasingly demanding and aggressive population.
Of course, controlling the flow of information — internet censorship, for example — within and without of the country, will be key to its strategy of ascent to the highest heights of global power. But even censorship and governmental intimidation and societal manipulation will serve little purpose when the country’s water wells run dry from its hyper-industrialization and the ongoing desertification of large swaths of the country. When this happens we can certainly expect an explosive rise in the price of global food commodities. And as we’ve seen in our very recent past, when food prices rise beyond the reach of the least affluent, tempers rise right along with them.
And when tempers rise…
Governments fall.
Resource Wars are inevitable, and I foresee China opening up the first major front in the assault.
Exactly when this will all happen?
Now, that is the question.
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Look it up, folks. It’s all out there.
Scary stuff, for sure.
But scary as it is, it’s all delectable fodder for the imagination
of the author intent on creating a world of horrific dystopian proportions and perfection…
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Filed under: China Tagged: authors, censorship, China, dystopia, dystopian literature, fiction, Hercules Gone Mad, Heroes of the Dystopia, Resource Wars, revolution, superpowers, writing
Funny, you just reminded me of something my good ol’ Grandpa would say to me whenever he caught me daydreaming…
Pay attention, boy! It’s cheap!
A lot cheaper than the price you’ll pay
for what you’re missing out on now…
#thingsmygrandpausedtosay
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Filed under: Humor Tagged: creative thinking, daydreams, family, Grandpa, humor, life lessons, Pay attention, quotes, stories, storytelling, writing
Yeah, I’m all prepped and ready for NANOWRIMO…
#nanomowrimonothanks
#itsnotevennovemberandiamalreadytiredofallthenanomowrimonthblather
#respect2writerswritingeverymonth
#takeiteasywritersitsonlyhumor
#sheeshwritersaresosentitive
#nosuchthingasbadpublicityright
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Cosmos Dreaming
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