and tomorrow at this time the 5000 hit blip will be gone
that’s right–you bloggers out there know the little joy your heart experiences when your blog hits a zeitguist and receives hit after hit…
and then it seems like it flatlines (heck 50 hits a day after 5000 in 2 days will do that)
but tomorrow, when i check i will see the gentle rise and fall–39 one day, 69 another, maybe 80 or 90 or even 120 here or there…
i appreciate each and every one of you –thank you for visiting my blog and reading my words!
Last weekend a fellow poet blogger and I were talking over around and through a table of loudmouth rowdy poets. He was saying how great he felt when he wrote something and got a huge blip in his blog stats–and how it’s been a let down since.
Know what I mean? he asked.
Oh, yeah, I said. I went from 50 hits a day to 5000 in two days!
What did you write about? he asked.
The lunar eclipse. Action like that will probably never happen again, I said. But you never know.
>>this post, #108, is an auspicious number
>>>10,000 total hits in 6 months (but nothing like the growth of stuff white people like!)
>> written from the Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite Valley, winter 08
here it is so you know what it looks like…
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Total Views: 10,457
Best Day Ever: 2,836 — Thursday, February 21, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Pageviews: 2,836
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pretty wild, huh. most of us bloggers are thrilled to have 500 readers a week!
the ahhhhhwahhhhneeee in yosemite valley winter
it is still winter in the yosemite valley and cold, maybe freezing outside, and snow is piled up here and there, hither and yon
i am warm, writing from the womb of the great hall of the ahwahnee hotel, fire roaring stupendously on the grate, wine in the glass courtesy of friendly traveling folk…a chef, a buyer, two engineers
soon i will venture out into the sparkling moonfilled night across the snowy meadow across a bridge or two to upper pines campground to climb into my flannel sheeted down comforted bed to hear the snufflings of my son and the snorings of my spouse on this, one of the last night’s of winter
and if i get lost in my snowboots and pink polkadotted tights and patagucci dress, vest, hat, and jacket, i have a bag of pretzels someone left behind that fits in my pocket and the tailend of a bottle of puzzletime merlot=
goodnight, winter, good morning spring from the art predator
spring poem
Winter i
s almost over; spring arrives this week! Here’s a spring poem for the Poetry Train, my choice partly inspired by Rhian’s fiery passionate piece. It’s supposed to be 3 stanzas of 5 lines with approx 10 syllables each but I don’t know how to format/blog that yet! Help! (hey, I figured it out! 4/2/08) The poem also needs a title…suggestions, please! This poem also kinda works some for the personification tree prompt from readwritepoem..well it’s personification of a pinyon-juniper desert ecosystem!
my desire a desert drought, dessicated:
you rouse me with gentle, nourishing rain
drops gather on pinyon, shiny globes of
wholeness collect, taste of you and me
nourish flax, forget-me-nots flourish
i learn to absorb occasional flash floods:
outbursts of poetry, temper, resistance
thunder lightening of your fear pain fury
raises my protective spines, scares birds from song
hail dashes, shreds blossoms that couldn’t close
thunderstorms spend energy, move on:
my sweet wet scent lives on with your moisture
my colors saturated rich with your sweat
recall the pungency of our passion
watch this desert bloom, wait for next rain to fall
Holy Bank Loans! Spitzer & Bush
The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2008-03-14 14:55.
By Greg Palast, Reporting for Air America Radio’s Clout
Listen to Palast on Clout at www.GregPalast.com
(While the artpredator doesn’t usually traipse down the sordid path of politics, this is just too stunning…please take a moment to read about this connection which I found on After 10 Downing Street)
While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an ‘escort’ $4,300 in a hotel room in Washington, just down the road, George Bush’s new Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was secretly handing over $200 billion in a tryst with mortgage bank industry speculators.
Both acts were wanton, wicked and lewd. But there’s a BIG difference. The Governor was using his own checkbook. Bush’s man Bernanke was using ours.
This week, Bernanke’s Fed, for the first time in its history, loaned a selected coterie of banks one-fifth of a trillion dollars to guarantee these banks’ mortgage-backed junk bonds. The deluge of public loot was an eye-popping windfall to the very banking predators who have brought two million families to the brink of foreclosure.
Up until Wednesday, there was one single, lonely politician who stood in the way of this creepy little assignation at the bankers’ bordello: Eliot Spitzer. Read more…
challenge to lucid dream & new poem
Recently, I’ve had the same night terror, a mild one in the scheme of things–a very tall (10′) figure draped in black–looking much like “death.” This is on one side of the bed. On the other side of the bed, floating is some undetermined glowing amber object. I also had the following dream which defied my tips for lucid dreaming.
(This is also a response to the readwritepoem prompt. For more dream poems go to readwritepoem.org)
last night, glorious
we travel by covered wagon
the earth the world
cats i had lost are found
kittens taken up beloved
orange tabby snuggles inside
pajama sleeve of my young son
we are happy
aswim in the artic
naked slippery singing
salmon dolphins penguins
sun glows above ice around
a predator soars
marine creatures dive vanish
i turn reach for my son
his head is gone bitten off
i grab his hand
pull his body up through water
to daylight to dad he grabs it
my son is dead
no hope for him
i cannot change this
i am lost no breath no life
i black out sink wake
my headless child still
floats beyond
where i can hold him
i must redeem
redream this dream
chase off menace
save us
this time
On the 5th Anniversary of the war: I am the decider
Shocking and dumbfounding, isn’t it, that we are arriving on the 5th anniversary of this unnecessary bloodbath called the “War on Iraq.”
Protest the war and show your disgust with the current administration by joining in tomorrow Saturday at one of the actions taking place all over the world. In Ventucky, several carpools are being organized by ANSWER–meet at the Ventucky Coffee Bean & Tea at the corner of Telephone and Main (near Kinkos) at 10am.
Show Bush and his ilk that he is “not the decider”–this is a democracy and we the people are the deciders. Stop the bloodshed, stop the destruction of the earth–speak up! Speak out!
click on the picture of Bush as the egghead to hear the background and the song “I am the Decider” (you can find the Beatle’s version in this post “Everything’s Hitched to Everything Else”)
I am me and Rummy’s he, Iraq is free and we are all together
See the world run when Dick shoots his gun, see how I lie
I’m Lying…
Sitting on my own brain, waiting for the end of days
Corporation profits, Bloody oil money
I’m above the law and I’ll decide what’s right or wrong
I am the egg head, I’m the Commander, I’m the Decider
Koo-Koo-Kachoo
they gotta be burners
how to have happy dreams: change the channel
someone did a search on “how to have happy dreams” and found my blog.
just in case that person comes back, or you yourself want to know, this is something i have learned to do–to have lucid dreams.
i thought it would help with the night terrors. unfortunately, since night terrors aren’t dreams but essentially hallucinations that occur before REM or the dream stage of sleep, lucid dreaming techniques don’t help. lucid dreaming has helped me with many nightmares. i might have some strange dreams (see the post “antlers on my head, silene in my teeth”!) and some horrible night terrors, but i rarely have bad dreams or nightmares, and when i do, i take control of the dream and change it. sometimes the dream will scare me enough to wake me up so i go back into the dream on purpose to change it.
my 4 year old son was waking up in the night with scary dreams so this is what i taught him:
change the dream.
it is actually that simple.
every night as part of our ritual for going to sleep, i ask him:
what do we do if we have scary dreams?
we change them to happy dreams.
but mom, he said at first, they’re still scary.
it takes practice, my son, practice. just like learning to ride a bike, you’ll get better and better each time you practice using love to change the dream to one you want to have. when you’re in a dream, and you don’t like how it’s going, you can change direction, you can tell the dream where you want to go and what you want to do! you can do anything you want in your dreams.
so now when he goes to sleep i ask:
what do we do about scary dreams?
change the channel! he says triumphantly.
with lots of love, we agree.
