Elvis Dylan

#vss365 #journal Today, I finally worked up the courage to walk up to her, say something and smile, I think I smiled and I don’t remember what I said, but it was something. Well, it was a #start. 

#vss365 All #travel is the same. It’s simple. We go from here, to there.

#vss365 travel splits me in two: the one who goes and the one who stays the one who goes, changes he must, travel demands change the one who stays watches and frets when I return, the two I’s merge usually for the better

#vss365 #MicroFiction #Travel gives me respite. My focus is on: timing, waking, leaving, observing, sleeping. But after a while, fucking grief returns like an uninvited guest, and I have to move on again.

#vss365 I leave home #travel and discover that so much of what I have become is about routine, predictability and comfort and the wish to maintain them

The posts of Bluesky’s #vss365 - the craziest way to #travel! Here and now in one post, 100 years ago in the next! Heaven in one, Hell in another. We laugh, scroll down, and cry. We travel inward to another’s experience, and then we travel outward to the edge of the cosmos. 

#vss365 day #tapered to night, and stars wakefulness to sleep, and dreams

#taper each day, a little less than the one before but what is lost was never the Self, which becomes more attentive, intense, deep until it loosens its grip, lets go, finally becoming nothing at all #vss365

#vss365 from 0 to 60 #m p h in 4 seconds in the rearview a girl waves with both hands shrinking, shrinking the size of a match flame then the idea of a flame then regret

#vss365 My old man drove trucks for twenty years, sometimes covering five hundred #miles before stopping to sleep in a parking lot All he ever talked about was tires, diesel prices and the time a deer came through the windshield. His philosophy: keep your mouth shut, pay the bills, keep moving.

#vss365 #Haiku through #miles of hard rain he brings flowers in his coat she studies the mud youtu.be/nW9Cu6GYqxo?...

#vss365 #Slam Strange trip. I drove twenty #miles before realizing the radio announcer was using my mother's voice, complete with the little cough she made before lying. Just outside of Chicago, a street preacher dragged a wooden cross through slush, followed by a dog wearing a paper crown.

#vss365 #song #lyrics #love There's a #man who climbs a mountain. And he's calling out her name. He hopes her heart can hear three thousand #miles away. ~ Joni Mitchell youtu.be/myeJYtiKJR0?...

#kids This is what I see!

#vss365 #kids #questions  Mommy, I’m a little worried. Now I don’t think so. I #doubt it, but tell me, are the stars falling? Are they going to fall on us?

#vss365 #UnsentLetters  When I tried to hold the sky with my two hands, when I hoped to love you,  my #doubt said, “What are you doing? Are you crazy?” My heart said, “Let him try.” And so I write you.

Today's #vss365 prompt, #doubt?! I don't know. I'm not sure. I really don't know if it was a good idea :-/

After a year on #Bluesky, I remain 100% #committed to #vss365 -ing. I am waiting for the day that the perfect post comes out of me. Then I will quit, satisfied, completed, fulfilled. Wait! I think this is it!! It’s all that I have been waiting for. And more. So much more! Goodbye all.

#vss365 #haiku she’s long gone, yet he still wishes her “Good Night” #commitment remains

#vss365 #dogs Grandpa’s old dog followed him every morning to the corner store. There wasn't much left to either of them. But they were there for each other. #Commitment doesn't always come with speeches or wedding rings. Sometimes it's just an animal waiting outside while you buy cigarettes.

#vss365 #Love #If if we allow ourselves to love someone we are making a #commitment, whether intended or not we’ll be committed in that the person will a l w a y s be a presence if only in our memories, thoughts and dreams

#vss365 the sun and moon appearing, disappearing changing shape yet always returning the most constant most predictable of presences it feels like #commitment

#vss365 The Rewards of #Commitment: “The more I give to thee, the more I have.” - William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet

#vss365 there’s beauty and value in remaining faithful to a vow, to a bond despite time and change #commitment

#vss365 kindling burns #fueling the fire’s flames above, stars pierce the smoke veil

#vss365 6 a.m. at a gas station, fueling pump clicks and stops across a field, the Sun rising, lighting, #fueling a cold, dark world

#vss365 #haiku engine, coal and sweat #fueling a long, black serpent through the valley fog

#vss365 I ain’t foolin’ it’s music and beauty that’s #fuelin’ (The above response to today’s prompt, brings back memories of my career as a rapper. My rap name was, “Too Pooped To Pop” Have you ever heard of me?)

#vss365 Listen, I’ve got to tell you that your silence and indifference is just #fueling my anger and resentment. And then you complain that I’m moody and emotional. This hurts.

#QuestionsForVss365ers #questions Is it just me, or does everyone remember those times when you told a joke or did something so funny that you were surprised by the volume, intensity and duration of the laughter it produced? You don’t have to answer if it makes you #nervous.

#vss365 #Tarot The tarot card that most strongly resonates with the word #nervous is the Nine of Swords.

#vss365 Gregor Samsa was often #nervous when the moon came down to borrow his shadow. The moon always promised to return it by dawn, but it always arrived late, and was often damaged.  Once it was stained with tides, smelling of salt and other people's dreams.

#vss365 #Kids #KidsJournal #Words #Feelings #Observations  Today I noticed something weird. I noticed that sometimes when I say a word for a feeling, I feel that feeling. Like if I say the word happy, I feel a little happy. And if I say the word nervous, I get #nervous. 

#vss365 When I get #nervus I don’t spell too good.

#vss365 #CrazyStuff At sunrise, the Sun just stopped mid step and said it wouldn’t shoot another ray until someone came up with a new color name. A child #nervously suggested, “Marvin?” The Sun nodded and tried it on, while the stars looked on, twinkling.

#vss365 I am #training myself to move mountains across the continent with a teaspoon. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can! Probably :-/

#Writing #Bluesky I spent two hours this morning responding to the #vss365 prompt, #training. I posted three times. I deleted three times. Frustrating, but I’m fine with that. It’s not about writing or posting. It’s about training myself to think, feel, write, evaluate, tinker and persist.

#vss365 #Astrophysics  The Moon rides around Mother Earth on #training wheels. Its eyes always towards us, as if seeking praise and reassurance. Each year it moves 1.5 inches further away. If not for the blustery and controlling Sun, it would eventually leave orbit and go off on its own.

#vss365 #sneakers #painting  The Blue Boy in Sneakers - Thomas Gainsborough (1770)

#vss365 It was a beautiful morning in the Shire. I spotted Bilbo Baggins walking over the crest of the hill, smiling, humming and wearing green and yellow hobbit #sneakers. And then I woke and wrote this. 

#vss365 my grandmother wore gym #sneakers they always made her look both fast and slow