Jonathan Ojanpera's Blog, page 47
December 22, 2014
Etch A Sketch Unlocked
The secret to this art form is knowing that it can draw in other directions than horizontal and vertical.
If you give your kid one for Christmas, be sure to tell them; the hours they spend with it will grow exponentially. The best part is that it doesn’t take batteries. :)
Filed under: Side Quests Tagged: Etch A Sketch, gifts, kids, lines
December 20, 2014
The Illusion – Free Download
The Illusion is available for free download (mp3)here. I think it’s a great song for these holidays. So, no matter what you worship or whyyou do it, this is agift to my WordPress family. I appreciate all of you, and look forward to a new year of growing together in our respective arts and thoughts.
Happy Holidays!
Filed under: My Music, Side Quests Tagged: family, free download, Happy Holidays, Jonathan Ojanpera, music, original music, The Illusion, video
WordPress – BLOODY STOP IT!
It’s unanimous. Coherent notifications should be a given.
Originally posted on A Mixed Bag:
AGAIN they have changed something. Now the notifications is completely WRONG! You have to scroll down them, there is not the choice to right-click and “Open In A New Tab” or even just click and open notifications. I am getting sick of all these damn changes. You are not improving the experience, you are making it worse.
Don’t change what doesn’t need to be changed. Whoever has just joined...
December 18, 2014
A Minor Part in a Major Play
Originally posted on Underground Energy:
I have played minor parts in major plays and major parts in minor plays, but mostly I have played major parts in major plays. So, in audition #876,032 I would just like to say that I don’t need much. A minor part in a major play is enough.
Take #1:
A soft pillow underneath your head
A wrapped blanket to keep you warm
The vast backdrop of the night sky
A light to keep you safe from harm
The strength to live another day
An ardent hug when times are hard
A patie...
Music Theme – The Winter Solstice
Bear picked our theme this week. It prompted me to look back on our music themes to see all of the great topics we have covered. The entrance into winter has always been the time that I take a sort of inventory of my experiences, and maybe even an assessment of who I have become throughout the year. So far, I still don’t like to be cold, and I have been known to be vocal about it. On the other hand, I was quite productive this year. I managed to publish two books, wrote tens of thousands of w...
December 17, 2014
Ascention To Liberation ~ A Duet With Antanya St. John
There are things that thrive in dark places,
Rather than die.
I prefer light, bright honest spaces,
Rather than lie.
Sometimes it is necessary
To expand our comfortable periphery,
Or else end in purgatory.
When needs are met, scruples become secondary.
A telling, more true than every word humming,
I can see it in my own eyes.
The darkest places in me reside,
My desire is for light and a possibility.
To become as wide-eyed,
As only one can in the mind.
As my soul opens to opportunity,
I confidently approach...
December 16, 2014
Uprising – Featuring Callum McLaughlin
Prison of flesh and blood, bars of broken bone
Long forgotten whispers flow on tainted blood
In with the tide as dawn incites the memories
The world battered, every dot of poison creeps in
Drifting now in the dull ache of a barren dusk
A former light, the feast for toxic tongues
Open eyed, thirsty, they listen as if drawn
By a lie so believable, fiction surreal
Themelancholy afterglow, concealed from lifeless eyes
Unbearable burdens, born of vicious verse
Will our verse become as their raucous cries?
Th...
December 15, 2014
Mild Climate
“As long as there are flowers blooming, I know we will make it through the winter without freezing.” -Johnny
Filed under: Photography/Art Tagged: December, Flowers, freezing, quotes about winter, Winter
