Damn The Torpedoes

Yesterday there was nothing about work I could have complained about, I just didn’t want to be there and the experience felt jarringly discordant all day long. I maintained my smile throughout. Sometimes the corporate straight jacket fits a little too tight; the abrasions are still chaffing this morning.

Attila and I made a trip into the village yesterday evening, to do some much overdue banking and pick up supplies. The savings on groceries when we shop in the village is enough to pay for the fuel to make the trip there and back; and there are more allergen-free food choices in the village.

Store bought soda biscuits are usually made with palm oil, or other saturated oils that aren’t all that good for you. President’s Choice has a new product, Olive Oil & Rosemary soda crackers, made with…. olive oil. After some experimentation the following conclusion was reached; these crackers are not great with peanut butter, not great with strawberry jam, lovely with cheese and best plain. You heard it here first.

After a cloudy start to the morning, the sun is intermittently breaking through the clouds. Attila is working this morning, I am not. Our plans for the afternoon are modest. Attila will split wood and build fires. I will putter.

Our experiment with NetFlix continues, and when the next high-speed bill comes in the total cost can be tallied. Streaming videos is a great way to watch movies and television programs, pausing whenever and resuming whenever one feels the need. The selection outranks our satellite service by leaps and bounds. But the cost, the cost will be the determining factor.

I’m gearing up to write poetry again, it has been some time since I’ve written anything acceptable, acceptable to me I mean, I’ve only published one poem, so publication is not my criteria for acceptable. Time to get out the pen and paper. There is no intrinsic or material reward for writing poetry. Poets seldom become affluent as a result of their writing. And as one disdainful person wrote about poetry readings, “The poetry was still torture, though”. It hardly inspires one to write. Damn the torpedoes.

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Quote

“No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.”
William Blake
1757-1827

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Jeff

Noble Cause
still my fav

Joan

Do you have the poem somewhere online? We have those crackers, too, made by “Carr’s”. Tasty with cheese, yes.

May your poetry explorations be rewarding!

Stubblejumpin' Gal

I like your poetry a lot, Maggie.

And I know that just because I don’t like somebody’s writing, doesn’t mean it isn’t good writing. Just means it isn’t speaking to me at the moment. It might speak to a thousand other people, right now. But me and, for instance, Gertrude Stein … we are never going to have a long conversation, one-sided or not.

Sil in Corea

Oh, Maggie, that’s new to me, but I love it! The poem that clatters around my brain in odd moments is “Sea Fever” by John Masefield. Yearnings for the coast rise up and I get the ‘earworm.’ 🙂
Hugs from Asia!