Science fiction, fantasy, mystery and what-not
Hmmm…true or false?
I can play the what-if? game with any subject. Not hard. A reflective exercise, it can be fun, and it’s helpful when writing fiction. Mostly, the game is about wondering how things would have changed if this or that hadn’t happened.
Janis Joplin died in 1970 of a heroin overdose. She was twenty-seven. She would have turned seventy-five this week. She achieved much in a short life. Playing what-if?, you can imagine how much more she might have done.
On the positive side, she was a person who’s celebrated and remembered. Too many people die and have no one playing the what-if? game with their life. Too many die too young for vain causes or absurd reasons. Of course, it’s death, and we all die. The reasons for our death is a lot of feed for what-if?
Cats on the floor,
cats on the bed.
Cats running around,
even jumping on my head.
Cats demanding food,
cats demanding love.
Cats wanting attention,
and cats wanting none.
Cats on the Internet,
cats in my dreams.
Cats serving notice,
they are the kings and queens.
Following the news cycles and stories, I saw that a volcano erupted in the Philippines. This eruption followed a recent eruption in Papua New Guinea, one threatening in Indonesia, and some quakes around Mount St. Helens, I thought that there seems to be a lot of volcanic activity going on. A search revealed a site that tracks these matters.
So, in case you were were wondering, as I was, about volcanic activity and how normal this is, here’s a place where you can track the activity.
Just a little more to think about.
Floofvatory (catfinition) – sandbox.
In use: “Needing to do her business, the cat hurried to the floofvatory at the playground.”
h/t to Karla Clements
Michael Seidel, writer 