Penguin Trial

Day Seven for Imaginary Life Two, Board Game Designer:

I'm working on this D&D campaign slowly but surely and it's fun to start picking and choosing how the world will become manifest. I'm often overwhelmed by the options with things like this but I'm finding myself able to take a step back and impose some restriction. I'm learning! Also the not drinking probably has helped along with not being so friggin' busy all the time.

Haiku of the Day:

Trial at the Penguin

The libations call to me

Pizza staves them off

Today's Drawing

Sylvan

1 a : living or located in the woods or forest
b : of, relating to, or characteristic of the woods or forest
2 a : made from wood : wooden
b : abounding in woods, groves, or trees : wooded

Bad Seeds

Day Six for Imaginary Life Four, Poet:

Fed the poet today with a movie about Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds called Once More with Feeling. It was simply beautiful. It all circled the drain of the tragic death of his teenage son. I am reminded of how to be yourself and how suffering does not necessarily make a "good" artist.

I highly recommend watching and listening to his music.

Haiku of the Day:

The echoes of grief

hypnotic and punishing

A one-two gut punch

Today's Drawing

Bevy

1 : a large group or collection
2 : a group of animals and especially quail

Adventure Journals!

Day Seven for Imaginary Life Eight, Playwright:

Started workshopping the notebooks from the summer that I put together with a couple of my collaborators on this project we'll be putting up at the end of the fall before Em and I leave. They wrote journals as their characters based off of prompts I gave them once a week or so. Poetry excerpts and music and stuff like that. The result is astounding. I'm incredibly impressed with them and ready to take on the challenge of staging it. I get the notebooks this week and hope to be able to glean from their rich offerings.

Haiku of the Day:

Girls on adventure

they climb trees and uncover

life's great mystery

Today's Drawing

Untoward

1 : difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly, intractable
2 a : marked by trouble or unhappiness : unlucky
b : not favorable or propitious : adverse
3 : improper, indecorous

Wet Tarantella

Day Seven for Imaginary Life Two, Board Game Designer:

Digging in deep to the D&D realm. I've even drawn a map! I won't share it here yet because I don't want to spoil it for my potential adventurers. This is so reminiscent of my childhood when we would have these fantastically visions for game worlds. Hell we made our own version of D&D without even knowing it while trying to recreate the same mechanics of video games (which were based off of D&D to begin with).

I may share some of the text I'll be writing for it here or maybe a recording? Podcasting this stuff has become pretty popular. Who knows?

Haiku of the Day:

On six inch wedges
she danced an accidental
wet tarantella

Today's Drawing

Will-o'-the-wisp

1 : a light that appears at night over marshy ground
2 : a misleading or elusive goal or hope

Laberless Day

Day Five for Imaginary Life Five, Carpenter:

Haven't touched this one in a while, probably because I know I will be moving soon. Odds are there will be a frenzy in the fall/winter as we set up the new place. I especially excited to start crafting a gaming board, as I've mentioned in the past. I'm intently considering making our dining room table. 

So many plans!!

Haiku of the Day:

Vegging out, couchwise
buds-in; pants-off; no problems
Keeping it real, yo

Today's Drawing

Sagacious

1 : of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning
2 : caused by or indicating acute discernment

Snake Hunting

Day Five for Imaginary Life Three, History Teacher:

Another pleasent day of vacation in Maine. My aunt and uncle have been living there for a long time now and are basically historians of the areas around Portland. I'm inspired to be more connected to the history of my own city and the cities I've lived in.

Also realizing how some much of history is about studying a community at a specific point in time and that time can be the present.

Haiku of the Day:

Going snake hunting

in the dangerous jungles

outside Westbrook, Maine

Today's Drawing

Asperse

1 : sprinkle; especially : to sprinkle with holy water
2 : to attack with evil reports or false or injurious charges

Spinning Out

Doing a check in today because...who cares they're my arbitrary rules.

I've been negligent. The dates on the blog are no longer true. I've mentioned this before but it's getting out of hand now. I've been planning on dedicating a day to maintenance and catch up so I can make sure I've got pictures and haikus for each day but it's gotten out of control. I'm going to seeing how much I can do and keep up in this month but it may be pretty sparse. I'm often far overestimating my creative capacities. I'm a dreamer with execution problems. This I know. THIS is the reason for the project. Figuring that out.

Haiku of the Day:

Atop the dome car

New England passes us by

You can taste the fall

Today's Drawing

Quodlibet

1 : a philosophical or theological point proposed for disputation; also : a disputation on such a point
2 : a whimsical combination of familiar melodies or texts