CPC PICK-APART POETRY – THANKSGIVING EDITION

Welcome to the November 2013 Edition of PICK-APART POETRY as we celebrate Thanksgiving and the blessings that we enjoy true Pick-Apart fashion.         Please select 25 words from the following two Thanksgiving poems and create a piece using those 25 words. Remember though that the words may be repeated and the forms […]

Science Digest Special Edition Thirty One

Science Digest Special Edition Thirty One Doctors Without Borders Videos 9 Documentaries, Artists, Philosophers, and Scientists 8 Rainwater, Cisterns and Filter Systems Digest Meet Paul Krugman, Economist 1 Voices of Whales and Cetaceans 1 Doctors Without Borders Videos 10 Bird Songs 7 : Lyre Bird Mycology 3 Algebra 6 Meet Big Cat Rescue 8 Science […]

Rainwater, Cisterns and Filter Systems Digest

Rainwater, Cisterns and Filter Systems Digest Rainwater Cistern Construction 1 Rainwater Cistern Construction 2 Rainwater Cistern Construction 3 Rainwater Cistern Construction 4 Rainwater Cistern Construction 5 Rainwater 6 : Filter Systems Rainwater 7 : Filter Systems Rainwater 8 : Filter Systems Rainwater 9 : Filter Systems : Alkaline Rainwater 10 : Filter Systems

The Circle Garden

Dvorak – New World Symphony – 4th Movement Street Chalk 2 The Circle Garden by James Clair Lewis The Circle Garden combines Permaculture, a self-watering system, and Sacred Geometry Dig a Circle one foot deep, and four feet across. Pile the dirt you dig out beginning at six inches from the edge. This will become […]

NO KEEPING ME DOWN

  NO KEEPING ME DOWN Every day when I awaken and my feet hit the floor, I give thanks for today, grateful to be alive and even more curious about things than I was just yesterday or the day before, about how things are and how things work (or don’t); for they’ve always been an […]

FOR EVERY DAY GRATEFUL (with photo)

Photo – Barbara Kausteklis – Oahu 2013 FOR EVERY DAY GRATEFUL   Wouldn’t it be wonderful, wouldn’t it be grand if every day everything would simply go my way, exactly as I planned?   I’m afraid that’s just not the way it is most of the time or even meant to be; very few things […]

Weaving Series Digest One

Weaving Series Digest One Basket Weaving Techniques 1 Basket Weaving 2 Basket Weaving 3 Basket Weaving 4 Basket Weaving 5 Basket Weaving 6 Basket Weaving 7 Basket Weaving and Tapestry 8 Basket Weaving 9 : African Weaving 10 : Tapestry and Looms

CPC PICK-APART POETRY CELEBRATES LABOR DAY AND BACK-TO-SCHOOL

Welcome to the August 2013 Edition of PICK-APART POETRY as we once more celebrate the unofficial end of summer which coincides with Labor Day     and with the beginning of a new school year.       And as we look forward to autumn and some cooler weather, we feature two poems, one celebrating […]

And The Rain So Came

Number: 5 Blogophilia No:5 Blogophilia Week 22.6 – Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head Bonus Points: (Hard, 2 pts): Quote Maya Angelou (Easy, 1 pt): Mention a past U.S. president AND THE RAIN SO CAME ~*~ Raindrops keeps fallin on My head and so makin my life a dread Yet it keep all from seein […]

JUST TEMPORARY (with photo) a Thunderstormy Friday Fling Ghazal

My very first attempt at a poetic form known as a Ghazal which was the featured format at this past Friday’s CPC Friday Fling . . . . The format is included down at the bottom of the page.       JUST TEMPORARY Thunderstorms blaze a trail across a summer sky as children try […]