a tangle of bare, black branches
against a cloud-curdled sky:
bleak joy.
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Election
I have a horror
hangover:
a surfeit of tv dribbles
repeating;
the images and words
addictive
and numbing.
I must look away,
change the channel,
I switch to a story of plotted
murder where the killer
is named and blamed
and hunted and destroyed – and
it’s over!
When I can’t resist glancing again,
the crowds are still
raging in the streets.
You Are Who You Are
You are who you are
because of
and despite
your mother.
You are who you are
because of
life’s surprises
and how you felt them.
You are who you are
because of
what you have grasped
and avoided.
You are who you are.
unprotected dreams
I have unprotected dreams
late at night
with strangers
searching through my metaphors
to find the weapons
I’ve buried
and attack.
Time
In youth we come through our bodies as explorers
Seeking and measuring
Astounded and disappointed
As we grow into ourselves.
In our long midlife, we travel our path
Forgetting and wandering
Sometimes grateful, mostly blindly seeking
The more we yearn for.
Now, our bodies re-astound us
Aching and refusing
Complaining and attacking
Reminding us of time.
Learning SEO Basics
There’s so much you can learn just from finding information on the web.
Check out this link on SEO – https://www.tapp.com/101/become-an-seo-pro-in-60-seconds-or-less
Social Media Basics
If you would like to know the basics of Social Media, and some information about Skype, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram, so you can decide if you want to play in them, look at the slideshow below:
Cross posted at http://joanvinallcox.ca/social-media-basics/
2014 in review – and maybe I should post more frequently!
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,200 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 20 trips to carry that many people.
A Major Development in Communication Technology
The Firechat app is a major development in how communication technology works – now without access to wifi or coverage.
Privacy and Self-Presentation in the Digital Age
I have been inspired by reading danah boyd’s It’s Complicated to think about how we all, not just teenagers, behave, and perceive ourselves behaving in our digital environment.
Learning Living 