July 2: Hermann Hesse Day * your soul is the whole world * we can always give it meaning * they take the images outside of them for reality * you are a bird in the storm * there is only a single magic: loving * i am in truth the steppenwolf Hesse: your self-knowledge…

✰ ★ — ❂ how’s the diet? oh you know. money ain’t everything. yeah. watch those expenses. they kill you when the cash flow dies the expenses just keep coming + coming like the truth in a suit. i need another job it’s the way of the world any hard plans? there must be some star on…

JUNE 30: Czesław Miłosz Day * language is the only homeland * tribes on the march, planets in motion * there is too much world * the test of brutal, naked reality * time for me to play hooky. buena notte. The poems of Czesław Miłosz: What is history, politics, morality? .⚫_____…_____⚫. ANAGRAM: another smelly otter …

❆ ❈ (easy Spanish for non-Spanish readers) — ❂ (an easy poem to read) La plaza tiene una torre la torre tiene un balcón, el balcón tiene una dama, la dama una blanca flor. Ha pasada un caballero – ¡quién sabe por qué pasó! – y se ha llevado la plaza con su torre y su balcón, con su balcón y su dama, su dama y su blanca…

JUNE 28: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Day * man is born free + everywhere he is in chains * the fruits of the earth belong to all * let us be more simple + less vain * no citizen shall be wealthy enough to buy another * never hurt anybody Rousseau was a democratic rationalist: a child should…

✿❁ (pronounced for english beginners) ❁✿ — Common Japanese Words used in English su-SHI desu (it is sushi) (desu is pronounced des) (it’s a pitch-accent: su-SHI: low-high) (not a stress-accent like in English) a-RI-ga-to-o (thanks) ka-RA-TE- ki-MO-NO- to-OFU- ha-I-KU- sa-MU-RA-I- su-MO-O- to-RI-I- ge-E-SHA- (geisha) ta-TA-MI- bo-N-SA-I- DES ka-I-ZE-N- (continuous improvement) mo-CHI- DES sa-KE- ka-RA-O-KE- ma-N-GA- o-RI-GA-ME- DES tsu-NA-MI- (na-MI :a regular wave)

JUNE 26: Nancy Willard Day * i take all my meals with william blake * it is time to turn on the moon * answers are closed rooms * feathery, leathery, lovely or bent She wrote a book of poems for children: A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers .⚫__⚫__⚫. 2 ANAGRAMS: …

⫷⫸ — ✪ there is no multi-tasking? single-tasking is difficult enough there is no networking? enjoy your family and friends but i have no social life it’s okay. nobody else does either my boss is not my friend the worker you boss is your friend my computer is just a machine you are real the people in movies are acting? make-up + sfx +…

✶ ✷ ✸ — Someone has been spending way too much time with fake news. Fake art. With happy screens. With a computer. It’s just another machine, boy. A substitute. Another toy. Another techno-step. Not a new window, but another old wall. In a room with too many ghosts (we are the ghosts). What is the line between art and technology? Between art and us? Technology and…