Porthole

August 30 - 31

52 calm cool degrees. 20 AQI. It normally would be a pleasure getting up this fine morning but I feel odd.

Wrote Elisa: In your response you touch on:

Identity
Home
A Break
Options
Experience
Intersectionality

I've written blogs on all of the above; but, perhaps I should focus on one at a time and once more address the issues you raise

Saw friends. Ate.

No, I did not eat my friends.

Seen at YCC re twitter: Brocken Spectre.

A Brocken spectre (German: Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow, mountain spectre, or spectre of the Brocken is the magnified (and apparently enormous) shadow of an observer cast upon clouds opposite the Sun's direction. The figure's head is often surrounded by the halo-like rings of coloured light forming a glory, which appears opposite the Sun's direction when uniformly-sized water droplets in clouds refract and backscatter sunlight.

The phenomenon can appear on any misty mountainside or cloud bank, even when seen from an airplane, but the frequent fogs and low-altitude accessibility of the Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany, have created a local legend from which the phenomenon draws its name. The Brocken spectre was observed and described by Johann Silberschlag in 1780, and has since been recorded often in literature about the region.

AUGUST 31

PPC#13 Remember 'time capsules'?

Write a poem about what you'd put in one if
you were to create one today.

Line Count: minimum of 12

Image ID "Short Shots Image Prompt (August 2021)" 

I did write it! [222]

STATIC

Cecilie  (13+) Cecilie encounters a bright blue object glowing in the night. She goes to investigate it. #2257569 by Kåre Enga in Udon Thani