The Selection
invisible flares
ignite chemical code
primevil messages
inescapable
inherited sins
virtue and habit
assimilated
thought
desires and fear
swirl material
into matter
whose mind
is it anyways
linked to the myriad
the network
the portals
corrupted and confused
free will
weeds and selects
the seed
gave bud
the sun is never miserly
but will the garden share the rays
or will it allow the ravenous legions
to consume promise
before petals bloom
will the expanded, the deeply-rooted
allow the garden to grow, diversify
embraced by gentle limbs
in a moist, dappled nursery
give space and light
possibility and evolution
or select
their own fading reflection
weed out new creation
***
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The photos are so beautiful, I couldn't concentrate on the words!
Seriously, they are pure gold.
Thank you, Denise. The roses do seem unusually beautiful this year:)
@prydefoltz & @dswigle,
A poem 'bout flowers and mid-summer showers,
And sun that brings to us peace,
Those words and their score, I'd heard them before,
... Pryde's an elf like Denise.
Just thought I'd drop in to say hello. Hope everything's going well.
Quill
Hey you! Nice to see you here or there, but as no there for now, here is good. Next month Beta-ing again?
Miss your verbosity. It's just not the same without it.
Say hi to Katie! Hope she is doing well and hopefully going to summer school and knocking out a class or three.
I love that Pryde is an elf, and, a cute one at that. Come back and see us again. :))
Hoping for July 15 but we both know that crypto deadlines are aspirational rather than definitional -- so who knows, launch could be sometime in ... 2100. Or later. Katie is dividing her time between one summer class (Biochemistry) and working in a hospital microbiology lab (they won't let me visit the lab. Apparently, my reputation proceeds me ... Gain of Function and all that. Blah blah blah.). As it turns out ... she LOVES making money! She's turned into a veritable calculating machine, rattling off the product of her hours worked times her hourly wage as if she were reciting elementary school times tables. She was somewhat surprised (aghast) though to see how much of her first paycheck got clawed back in taxes, etc. Welcome to the world of grown-ups, baby. :-)
Quill
@quillfire
Haha! Oh, that first taste of money, along with the first paycheck once they have reduced it to a pittance. I liked taking Anatomy and Physiology in the summer session, it didn't seem quite as brutal. Anything I could knock out in the summer was a gift.
I am with you on the launch, but, I am not sure it will even be a player for me. I am pretty sure I will not fit in with my content and I haven't been home long enough to even work on it. I am serious when I say I am clueless as to what I would even do. Just the way life is running for me for the moment. I was answering comments at the local library as I have no reliable service at the Shore House. (I am good with that. I have never gotten cable or internet there) My sister called and told me she has been holding my mail for almost two months, that doesn't seem possible.
Life should be normal soon-ish. How is it going with you?
Hey Denise. Sorry for the tardy reply (these days I'm only making the social media rounds periodically).
Respecting Voice: write a poem and superimpose it on a picture. Team up with visual artists or photographers for the artwork and split the earnings. Or, just recite your poem with a bit of background music.
@prydefoltz, you should look into this as well.
Here's a link to a few poem-NFTs on other platforms to give you some ideas (some have sold for more than $1,000 and the quality is, at best, mediocre):
https://etherpoems.com/
The interest in NFTs seems directly tied to the interest in cryptos generally so we may have to wait for the bulls to return to generate material rewards. That said, transactions are still occurring, just not at the ridiculous levels seen earlier in the year. There's a LOT of (well-capitalized) development under way and "NFT 2.0 projects" will begin to materialize over the next couple of months.
Quill
Hello stranger. Nice to have you in these parts:)
Voice.com decided to re-invent itself, hence from beta blogging to beta NFTing. This necessitated a Dark Period. The Dark Period is re-inventing itself as a Dark Age so I thought I'd drop in and harass folks on Hive until it re-opens. I read your post regarding your vaccine travails. Hang in there.
Quill
Thank you. I never thought it would be a struggle to convince people democracy is a good thing.
Nice flowers photography.
Thank you:)
Wow the picture is pretty 😮😍😍😍