Happy Birthday!

I finally started reading the Wayward Children series this year and quickly raced through them. Clever and fun take on portal fantasies.

And for the past nearly two months, I've been loving Rosalia's Lux album. Beautiful voice, amazing production, and lyrics in 14 languages

(top image is taken from a work by Robert Anning Bell for a book of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems, from the Public Domain Image Archive)

"Defeating the Dragon-Wizard Lord" (a chained limericks) in Limerick in Chains anthology; 20 lines; www.amazon.com/Limerick-Cha...

"The Voices Calling Us Back" (a curtal sonnet) in Star*Line 48.3; 11 lines; sfpoetry.org/wp/starline/...

"The Truth About Trees" in Star*Line 48.2; 16 lines; sfpoetry.org/wp/starline/...

"In the Sloth Tunnels, at a Time of War" in Small Wonders; 40 lines; smallwondersmag.com/piece/in-the...

"Lesser Zodiacs" in Merganser; 26 lines; mergansermagazine.com/story/lesser...

"River of Naming" in Orion's Belt; 42 lines; www.orions-belt.net/archives/the...

I'm team ground sloth, until proven otherwise.

(This poem was inspired in part by a science article that examined some prehistoric Brazilian tunnels, trying to figure out if they were naturally occurring or might have been dug by ground sloths)

Listening to an audiobook of Left Hand of Darkness, and I was thrilled they include LeGuin's intro essay about this exact question. All we can do (SF, and I add fantasy) is tell you what we're seeing in the world today. *This* is what it's like in 2025, this is what we see in humans, in ourselves

Arlo Guthrie (referring to Reagan, but…) in his monologue intro to a song, “I think it’s great to have a sleeping president. The more he sleeps, the safer we are.”