The Little Words Mean the Most

better books are

mostly about

what's left

out

 

My goal? ZERO clients

 

just

 

lovely ambitious

 

friends

 

 

An outdoor hotdog occasion to celebrate the land

Gina's new banana car; Gina firepit master; the provisions for 3 including Sam; the view @ sunset including a glacial erratic and a well-built dry-stone New England wall from the dairy farm that once clomped here

Toma and Andrée Joyaux in Providence, Nov. 2022; photo by the impeccable Nicole Joyaux Kramer

I love what's left of my life; just this morning....

 

spoke to AK; will speak again to AK later today

spoke to TX

heard from New Orleans

planned a tree-rubbish roast of hotdogs in my own backyard this afternoon

promised to stay sober enough not to fall into the fire

writing a first-of-its-kind workbook for a national charity, based on new research conducted on several continents (the very same reason I'm drinking chardonnay at 11:30 in the morning; these biggie things sometimes require a fresh, sloppy point of view)

still: running out of relevance

Sim One: you took me away from just me thank you very much

 

 

Leaving a legacy (working on the January 2023 show)

 

Leaving a legacy isn't about leaving something behind.

 

It's about leaving something ahead … something that says, “I was here. I cared. Tried, I think. Did what I could ... hope. This is one lasting thing I can contribute to the suffering world that gave me so much.”

 

or emotions to that effect

 

Quitting 2 social media platforms

 

Leaving:

Facebook. It keeps asking for two-level verification ... and then won't accept mine. Since I get almost no nutritional value from my FB feeds anyway: bless and release. "Dear who cares..."

Twitter. That became where cesspools and their distorted fish held international conferences to become even stinkier. Assassins united! Refusing the membership.

 

 

How to market charitable bequests: Master-webby plus unlimited Q&A ~ Jan 26, 2023

 

Today’s key word?

“Marketing.”

Marketing a charitable bequest is a planned activity.
It requires persistence and investment. You build a pipeline.

Lucky charities benefit from accidental bequests. Accidental bequests are the ones you didn’t prompt. That’s the opposite of marketing.

FMI: https://www.fundraisingwriting.com/webinars

 

tonight's other lazy poem

 

bang a pan

a space what (?)

nothing rises {???}

 

Sim One raised questions

it was for her a kind of breathing

 

without her at my wellbow

sea to shining sea of boring

 

the laundry

 

the laundry's in

tumbling toward a fresh future

 

I'm making the bed

our bed

 

I wish you were on the other side

looking up at me now, laughing; mineral blue eyes

both sides, bedmaking ping-pong

back

and forth and

back

it was a lovers' game

you made it sharper straighter

we made this tired bed together

 

with principle and purpose

across the usual mattress frontier

with all due awe & conventional bodily functions