MissMeliss: Escribition

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Just as plastic trees become objects of wonder just as they’re bedecked with fairy lights and ornaments, Christmas decorations, in general, become unmagical as soon as the Christmas season is over.
For some, this change happens around the 6th of January – Epiphany, the 12th Day of Christmas. [...]

We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves?
~Morris Adler

This week I’ve been feeling insular, and basking in not-quite-solitude. I say “not-quite” because Fuzzy has been in the house, but mainly keeping to himself, in his office. I, on the other hand, have [...]

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has much to say on the subject of flight.
There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Pick a nice day, the book suggests, and try it.
The first part is easy. [...]

Music
From the white truck
Hails childhood’s sweet return.
Magic wrapped in freezer paper:
Ice cream.
Totally Optional Prompts invites us, this week, to create a Cinquain, which is, “… a short, unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines.”
I’m not so great at poetry, but I like challenges that encourage [...]

I had an entire post written, then scrapped it because it was disgustingly whiny, and there’s enough whining on the web without me adding to it.
I was supposed to have a Day of Writeyness, but instead I had a Day of Sleepy Grouchiness. I feel like I can’t connect to any of the projects [...]

He is a drunk leaning companionably
Around a lamp post or doing up
With intermittent concentration
Another drunk’s coat.
He is a polite but devoted Valentino,
Cheek to cheek, forgetting the next step.
He is feeling the pulse of the fat lady
Or cutting her in half.
But close your eyes and it is sunset
At the edge of the world. It is the [...]

I don’t write about religion or faith all that often. I write about specific things encountered in various churches, and of people associated with them, but I’m hesitant to share my own beliefs here for various reasons. I should preface this huge block of text with the following: It’s a ramble. It’s not well thought [...]

There is nothing like a lazy Saturday to refresh and inspire. It’s after two AM, and though I have to be up in the morning, I’m not feeling particularly tired.
We spent the day in quiet pursuits: napping, chatting, bad television, cuddling with dogs, all despite the fact that by noon the rain was gone [...]

Sometimes the most wonderful gift we can receive is a day like today: the air outside is cool, but not cold; rain is falling in fat, gentle drops, and thunder is rumbling softly in the distance. We have no firm plans (though a trek out for movies, dog food, and espresso would not be amiss), [...]

One in the morning, and I’m sitting in the dark blogging, even though I have to be awake at 4:30. We have friends sleeping in the guest room. A packing glitch in San Jose stranded them in DFW for the night, and it would be wrong to make anyone stay in an airport hotel at [...]