Porthole

Make this beauty to be my food

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  ███████          PORTHOLE           ███████

SPRING: 19 Baha 177 (7 April 2020)
O my Lord! Make Thy beauty to be my food, and Thy presence my drink,
and Thy pleasure my hope, and praise of Thee my action...
- Bahá’u’lláh

MY THOUGHTS

I apparently offended a friend. It was not my intention. Having any kind of interaction on spacebook is a landmine. It's not set up for serious conversation. Too easy to misinterpret other people.

WEATHER

16°. 3 p.m. in Missoula
18°. 5 a.m. in Taipei
18°. 10 p.m. in Casablanca
8°. midnight in Istanbul

IMAGES

Sun! Picked pink and indigo chionodoxa (glory-of-the-snow). A man with a lacrosse stick playing catch and throw against St. Anthony's back wall. University bus ... which is surreal as school is not in session. A bundle of daffodils. Taste of cranberries. Dogs wanting to say hello.

POULTRY

Let this be my prayer: "April 7 poem--food" 

Make Thy beauty to be my food

In these times of trouble, cupboards bare,
as ugliness rules a wanting world,

         make Thy beauty to be my food.

When thirsty for humanity's hug,
when kindness seems to have disappeared,

         make Thy presence my drink,

that I may do what's best for others
always doing what's right for myself;

         make Thy pleasure my hope,

When anger rises within my heart
and words keep me from my earthly tasks,

         make praise of Thee my action.

Kåre Enga [177.23] (7.abril.2020)

PORK

From yesterday. It 'won', but no one reads my flash fiction much:

STATIC

Summer of hummingbirds [177.22] (254 w)  (13+) <300 words: horse, picture, hair #2218321 by Kåre Enga in Montana

READING

"Guardian of the Veil" by Gregory Spencer.

QUOTE

"There are stories in this waters ... tales of struggles and fears. I feel the voices between my fingers. I'm carrying their tears." p. 63

MY LIFE

Spoke to 6 people today. Only took one walk. Boiled up eggs. Earlier made hash browns. Living on coffee. Just used the last 2 slices of bread for an egg-salad sandwich. Tomorrow is my regular grocery day.

I'm not accomplishing much of anything. My life is 'on hold' like so many others. Living alone compounds the loneliness.

SENIOR CENTER and COFFEEHOUSE

They were offering spaghetti at the Sr. Center. Ix-nay. Bought scone at Bernice's Bakery. Their employees artwork is up on the walls. Looking good.

O PINIONS!

Our Dear Leader is consolidating his power. Bit by precious bit. If he is not replaced, we may as well crown him King and be done with it.

WATT'S GNUS

At 319 cases Montana has a rate of about .31 per 1.000. However, Bozeman has 119 which is a rate of about 1.1. New York State is at 6.5 and New Jersey around 4.5. USA is 1.2; Spain 3.0; Iceland 4.6; San Marino 8.2. Small places can easily be overwhelmed. Blaine County, Idaho has 428 cases among a population of 22,000. That's a rate of 19.5. Numbers are numbing but in Boise there's an effort to have a large Easter gathering in defiance of state law.

BLOGVILLE

Katya the Poet was kind enough to leave this comment for "April 6 poem--bring in a novel or story plot" : "I love the mirroring, the repetition. Makes me want to read this book again." (She is referring to Cry, the Beloved Country.)

I have been doing the Dew with the Dew Drop Inn poetry challenge. I'm not doing the 30DBC and I haven't been commenting as much as usual. That means I'm receiving very few views and hardly any comments.

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