Notices by dogtrax (dogtrax@mastodon.social), page 9

@compostablespork thx for the kind feedback ..

Years ago, a friend and I wrote a song with a holiday theme: A Gift of Peace.

Earlier this year, we went into a local studio to record it. We're just putting the music out there now, in hopes the message of song will resonate in this crazy mixed up world.

Song hub site (off CD Baby):
https://thelullabyes.hearnow.com/

Free full listen at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3ZZ-WyCAQc

Peace ...

@katebowles @tellio "see the whole" is where much of this falls apart. Maybe that is not bad -- Terry and I are weaving a quilt from our media -- but in not being able to "see the whole," things get lost. Including us (or at least, me). The forking idea has possibilities for this, but difficulties, too. When I fork, I weave my own quilt from the threads of others. The whole becomes mine, not ours. I think. I'm not sure. Thinking out loud ...

@dogtrax @tellio Coming late upon this exchange I wondered about hyperlikes. That is, being able to loop from the specific word or phrase that I liked to what I’m thinking next, in such a way that you could see the whole.

It’s not quite what hypothes.is does, but it’s what fedwiki did for me. Pulling a loop of an idea from someone else’s canvas to my own.

@tellio Clink

@artsyhonker thx

We gathered in hallways. We counted minutes. At the appointed time, we left together, as a single group. A unified show of force. A unionized show of force. Contract negotiations have stalled -- the last offer was degrading. Insulting. Someone turned the hallway lights off as we walked out of the school building, a visual reminder of how untypical this was (many of us often work long after the school day ends). We won't let this impact kids, though. On that, we agree. #smallstories

@tellio What a cool surprise. Lovely.

@GeoffreyGevalt Snow? Yikes. Not yet. Please not yet.

“I read the poems so often and edit so much
that I begin memorizing them by accident
until my head is full of words and stories,
until I am practicing poems in my dreams.
And the more I write the braver I become.”

-- from Poet X, by Elizabeth Acevedo, page 293

#smallquotes

@Downes Watching into video ... "... because it is so primitive, it should work for everyone ..." has me chuckling ... #el30

@lauraritchie @GeoffreyGevalt Ok. I'm in with a first small post to get my rss fired up. http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2018/10/26/i-am-reading-this/ #el30

@lauraritchie @GeoffreyGevalt Thanks. Let me figure out what is going on (not that that ever stopped me before) and dip my toes in. Anything with @Downes is worth a gander and a jump.

@GeoffreyGevalt @lauraritchie Buddy systems work great. I am wandering around the initial post right now #el30

Shadows
frame places
of ourselves --
the dark parts
of the heart
where we lean
against light

#smallpoems

“I still remember the fever, though, and even now when Springsteen’s guitar thunders and he growls into his mic I glimpse a life other than the one I’ve got, one where I, too, was born to run.”

-- from The Destiny Thief (Essays on Writing, Writers and Life), by Richard Russo, page 100

#smallquotes