Notices by dogtrax (dogtrax@mastodon.social), page 25

@tellio @Algot Yes yes yes ... next week is crazy for me with two presentations (one at our WMWP event and the other at the 4T Virtual Conference). After that ...

@tellio @Algot I'm in ... surfing the oscillation wave ...

@tellio It's tricky, though, when interpreting the text of others .. what to leave in, what to leave out, what to infer ... and all constrained here by the art available to me, too. I wondered, does the bird belong in the frame? Decided not. Absent, but present.

@Algot Do I star that? :)

@tellio A comic interpretation of your bird story ... I heard the song ... #smallstories
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I'm bending words again,
twisting stanzas
out of shape,
like balloon animals
about to pop.

I'm the man behind
the counter at the carnie
calling out as you
wander by

and you keep on
walking --
I would, too --
as my voice
and my poems
linger in the air
behind you,

fading shadows
of false rhymes.

#smallpoems

@Tdorey Small things ... small stories ... small doesn't mean insignificant ....

@RussSharek Nice response. I felt put off by his demand to 'give it to me." I would have added, "and then I pedaled away."😗

The house next door has become far too quiet. Sarge, a Korean War vet, and his wonderful wife, who has taken care of him as he slipped into deeper and deeper dementia, have been neighbors/friends for 20 years. They even let us get married on their huge lawn (where they later built the small house that's now too quiet). He's hospitalized, and won't likely be coming home. She visits him. We bring over tomatoes and deliver kind thoughts to help her as we can. It never seems enough. #smallstories

@tellio @Algot Ain’t that the truth ...

@bronwenj safe journeys ... wherever the road takes you ... stories everywhere ...

@tellio Not quite related, other than the muse, but I shared a few new songs of mine with you via your newsletter email ... :) I won't share here since folks get antsy about outside links ....

He holds the coin
up to the light --
a quarter with a small hole
plugged out clean --
as if he might discern
the history of the hole
by looking,
but the mystery of it
remains unsolved:
Yet another lost story
engraved by force.

#smallpoems

@bronwenj Nope. Neither. Let me know if you find out more, please

Just finishing up a great book of interviews with 13 graphic novelists (Comics Confidential) and one interesting common theme is the difficulty they have in drawing horses. Except one (Danica Novgorodoff) who finds it easy.
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@katebowles I live in a part of the US where many places still have Town Meetings -- annual gatherings where residents come out for long nights to discuss, debate and vote on issues pertaining to their communities. There's something important worth holding onto in that. It can decentralize decision making. But the role of Town Meeting Moderator is critically important. Sort of like Social Media, but in physical space. (Actually, reverse that: social media was designed like Town Meeting).

@tutormentor1 There is always the yin/yang switch of our own human condition in relation to others, I suppose.