Disaster – Total Grid Collapse?

The number one complaint during any natural disaster is the lack of power. But what if the disaster was a total collapse of the grid?

Practical Engineering sums it up nicely.

Safe

What if you had an enemy that knew everything about you. Pictures of your face. Your fingerprints, DNA, and medical records. Emails, spending habits, fears, and desires. Your private conversations. All locked up in a database to use against you when needed.

Now imagine it was all true and come up with a word to describe your feelings. I’ll bet SAFE is not one of them.

Poem – Twisted

Twisted is the child of twisted parents.
Twisted is the land of twisted people.
Twisted is the world.

Shop Local – Tiffany Terry

I often talk about small independent businesses, Mom & Pops, if you will. And this series about the R.M.Brooks General Store exemplifies all that is good about them.

Tiffany Terry is a good role model for future entrepreneurs.

The video below is one of ten episodes. Watch them all.

Poem – Liquid Dreams

Liquid dreams take them to a happy place. Oh, how they love it there, the body, forsaken.

Poem – Fall

Light reflects on leaves soon to lie brown, giving way to fall and the cold gray skies to come.

Halloween – Slow Your Bones

Slow down. It’s September, and I am already tired of Halloween videos.

Are you like me and think we should wait until October for Halloween, November for Thanksgiving, and December for Christmas?

September Halloween Videos Link

Haiku – Reset

It is coming soon
A reset to save us all
So says the rich man

Haiku are short — very short — poems

In this haiku, the rich want control.

Fire – Its Importance

Most never see or think about it, but let the power go out in winter, and you will wish you had it. Townsends’ video below is a good reminder of the importance of fire in our lives.

Microfiction – Civility

The bell tolled for civility as evil waves consumed their shores. They came not once but one hundred and ten times six. Five more, then one, and all the waters calmed, afloat with those who would not listen.