 Last week, I discovered kayaking. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. And it felt like I had been doing it a long time. By the time actual Friday arrives, I will be getting ready for my third time kayaking in about 10 days.  My notebook entry for August 29, 2020 I wrote a Shadorma, which is a 3-5-3-3-7-5 syllable Spanish poetry form. kayaking estacada lake sunshine warms calm waters osprey observes visitors waits for the corn moon © jone rush macculloch (draft, 2020)  Tomorrow I take my three grand girls kayaking at the lake. It will be warm and hopefully we can make it to the bridge and back.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DO YOU KNOW WHAT SEPTEMBER 25, 2020 CELEBRATES? NATIONAL MATH STORYTELLING DAY #MathStorytellingDay A little history. It was created in 2009. It’s a day to tell stories using math. The fourth Friday of September is #NationalBRAVEDay. September 25th is that Friday. This began in 2017 to uplift and honor the women who make up feel brave. So why am I focusing on September 25, 2020? Because I will be hosting Poetry Friday. How about the theme of poems that tell a math story or honor a brave woman might be fun. Maybe your poem will feature a poem steeped in a mathematical structure: Fibonacci, Zeno, Cinquain, Nonet, Sijo, or Arun. Or any poem with a mathematical structure. Maybe your poem will combing both BRAVE and a Math Story. Are you in?  All the Poetry Friday goodness is happening at Ramona’s Pleasures from the Page A friend of mine has recently started looking at the pandemic with a different lens. Instead of from the loss lens, she’s been adding “during the pandemic” at the end of her sentences as she focuses through a positive lens. It started me thinking. Today, I share a page form my notebook. I started writing with a group of women twice a month during the pandemic. We Zoom meet on Saturdays for about an hour in the Mud Puddle Writing Hour. The organizer provides a prompt. Last Saturday the prompt was Guilty Pleasures. We wrote for ten minutes. I am always surprised at where the prompts can take a writer.  Guilty Pleasures from the Window
Crocosmia opens blooms wide-an invitation Hummingbirds sip nectar refuel mid-flight Juncos flit between feeders breakfasting on nuts and seeds Grey squirrel flicks his tail, the party crasher My hands warmed by my tea cup as dawn breaks ©jone rush macculloch (2020, draft) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DID YOU KNOW WHAT SEPTEMBER 25, 2020 CELEBRATES? NATIONAL MATH STORYTELLING DAY #MathStorytellingDay A little history. It was created in 2009. It’s a day to tell stories using math. The fourth Friday of September is #NationalBRAVEDay. September 25th is that Friday. This began in 2017 to uplift and honor the women who make up feel brave. So why am I focusing on September 25, 2020? Because I will be hosting Poetry Friday. How about the theme of poems that tell a math story or honor a brave woman might be fun. Maybe your poem will feature a poem steeped in a mathematical structure: Fibonacci, Zeno, Cinquain, Nonet, Sijo, or Arun. Or any poem with a mathematical structure. Maybe your poem will combing both BRAVE and a Math Story. Are you in? And I am planning to have my new website up. Details will be coming. |
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