Rarasaur

LATEST ARTICLES ( 912 )

• Galactic Meanderings

  

  Tried out the new WordPress Stories format for my Pepper Day post. Was it easy for you to read or did it give you troubles? You can click the badge below to rea... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lilliputian Logs

  

  When I can't quite build a thought out into something solid enough for this blog, I will often post it to Instagram with the tag #LilliputianLog. The last... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Salting This Year

  On the farm where I grew up, the sky would shatter in the winter. It would drop shavings of frozen, clumps of ice sliver. It would breathe in all the months... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Tending to the Mending

  Once broken doesn't mean always broken. Healed doesn't mean there won't be mending to do. Mending doesn't have to be a hard work, it can be a soft one, a... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dialects

  Yesterday, it was the grief that lingers like the smell of pine when the Christmas tree has already been removed. You take big gulps of your own volition,... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• 5 February Joys

  I realize it's March now, but I like this series so I'm just going to pretend that I wrote and posted this yesterday. And since we're pretending, I will also... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Witness

  

  In Third Wish, a book by Robert Fulghum, a man starts on a journey and asks a passing stranger to bear witness to it. Through the years, he sends her letters... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Swish

  My hair is long enough now that it can hold itself up if I tie it right. Before tiny clots slipped into my brain and dented the hardware, this would have been... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Journals 2.14

  In an unforgiving light, the kind that bleaches the façade of wellness from my color, he says I love you. My skin is starting to translucence, just enough that... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Beware of Mouse

  I find myself in a type of day that I have not had in weeks. The sun is barking through my window blinds. My hair is clean because my hot water is working enoug... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• 5 January Joys

  I'll be honest. This puppet video could be 1 through 5 of my list because I like it that much. I especially enjoy that it's from text I had written and... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• the Wrong Side

  I'm in a foul mood, and there's no reasoning with it. I've filled myself up with chocolates and it hasn't sweetened a bit. There isn't a - ta da!- here's why... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Journal 1.22

  

  It's a tale as old as time, really. A book blogger decides to encourage a new blogger in their zany pursuits to write a bunch of haikus for strangers. Fast... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• 100 / Paisley

  

  The little leaf is paisley-shaped now, different from its brethren. Halfway through growing, a stem got in the way. It grew around it. It took its share of wate... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• for Snoop

  I spritz the money tree with water. It's hot here today and the particles sparkle over the plant lovingly, and I hope it feels it is on a tropical vacation... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Jan 6

  Sometime in the dark of early morning, I shook a fluffy blanket out and made tiny lightning. I spread my arms wide and parachuted a miniature sky of spark and... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Cauliflower Seashells

  On the coast, the fog crashes through like kaiju, disappearing trees and buildings with a single blow. Their dense and guttural cries inspire my joints to take... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Looking up

  Today, my color is blue like the part of the flame that knows how to stay, like the mirror glint shaken off the magpie's shoulders to refill to the sun.... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lose & Find

  I'll leave all the hip crunching,and the drums in my head,and the days that I couldn't-or wouldn't- leave bed.I'll leave worry that loved ones,when out of sight... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2021 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• 2020 Blog Recap

  My goal was 97 posts, so mission achieved. That's one every five days, and the entire month of November. You can catch up on them all at... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION