Peace Pieces

There are days where I feel touched. I know that sounds both crazy and a little gross, but there's something about all the horrible garbage I put myself through on a daily basis, and when that is assuaged for a short period of time thanks to an act of kindness, or a nice moment, or the right kind of drunk, I feel this sense of quiet and peace and it is as if someone has reached into a vital part of me and cradled it. I feel at home, and safe and like everything's going to turn out for the better. I've been able to hold onto it for long periods of time, but sometimes it goes away for a decent length and I forget. It came back today, after such an absence and I feel truly blessed. hahaha hashtag blessed. It comes off stupid but it's the best way of putting it. That level of gratefulness that's in line with miracles. Like you didn't deserve it in the first place. 

Haiku of the Day:

Watching the Birdcage

After finishing Derek

So much forgiveness

Today's Drawing (inspired by the word "Dippy" spoken by Tracy Huang)

Today's "365" Project (Do something upside down)
"Light up my Room"

Shift

Feeling a crash coming on as the week swells up and over. I could sleep for days, the pull is so strong. Flashes of warmth, the self fluctuates rapidly. I am the very distant body, pulsing quasar, signaling at the edge of visible space. Speeding away faster and faster, while reaching out with all the light I can muster.

Haiku of the Day:

At "The Squealing Pig"
(a pub near Emily's work)
Ye Olde Timey Place

Today's Drawing (inspired by the words "Sweaty Boy Hands" spoken by the precocious Ellie O'Conner)

 Today's "365" Project (Make something that isn't normally cute and cuddly, cute and cuddly!)

"Redemption of Greg, the broken fridge handle"

50 day marker!

Wahoo! 50 days into the project and still trucking along. A little less than a seventh of the way through...Here's an update!

Stats:
Running Mileage: 95.5/1,000
Push-ups: 710/10,000
Sit-ups: 650/10,000
Pages Read: 1623/6,000
Books Completed: 4/25
Word Written: 8640/100,000

Fasts (Days without)
Internet: 8/100
TV: 27/100
Gaming: 44/100
Meat: 12/100
Junk: 9/100
Booze: 10/100

Better than past weeks by far in terms of increase. This running challenge helps.

Haiku of the Day:

Wine and pierogis

after a psychotic day

The comforts of home

Today's Drawing(s) (SPECIAL! Helped my lovely friend and her wife make a ice bucket challenge video!)

(If you couldn't tell from the video, we had her write it in!)

Today's "365" Project (do something all with white objects)

Grievin' Keel

I know it's a cop out, but some of these busy days are hard to even begin the effort. Here's another image poem:

“Plummet” based on the image of a falling star

These are the days

I feel like Lucifer

hurled forth from the right hand

to boiling pits of thick tar

festering in searing ooze

wings caked in magma

the fallen star of God’s Grace

crushed by the pressure

of man in a swirling

metal core. Left to

contemplate the veins

that spider my eyelids

and where they went wrong.

I was the shining semblance.

I was brilliance incarnate.

I was airy light and a

dancer on cosmic radiation.

Now I am all solid,

an eyeless cavern slug,

feeling in the dark inch

by inch into the vastness.

Haiku of the Day:

Careening through clouds

the wide-eyed martians brace for

watery impact

Today's Drawing (done in silence in memory of a lost childhood hero)

Today's "365" Project (Make something with something you have many of)
"Clippy Way"

A Weight

There's a terrible tension deep in my chest that's been building ever since I got here. It's like I'm allergic to the air and every so often my whole being closes up and forgets itself. The weight of a supreme and irrevocable loss presses in and holds tight. How did I get here?

Yikes.

Ooooook. I think it's time to make a change.

Haiku of the Day:

I am the flayed man,

Back peeled open in red blooms,

Raw as my birthday

Today's Drawing (inspired by the word "Parachute" spoken by Kaitee Tredway)

Today's "365" Project (See how tall you can make something)
"Balancing Binder Clips"

Blooming

This section needs more direction. It's served as a "brain dump," as my brother put it, and a place to post my workout results and creative stuff from last year. But now I'm craving the structure that sticks together the other parts of the posting. Here are potential ideas:

-Free write on a topic: Similar to the typical brain dump I've been doing but I give myself a jumping off point.
-Do a specific thing for each day of the week: I like this one because there's 7 different directions I can mix it up in. The only problem is that some days I really don't have the time/don't feel up to a huge post.
-Explore other poetry forms
-Memory Dump Take inspiration from a word or a Rory's Story Cube and write about the first memory I draw from it. I've enjoyed this exercise in the past, but I tend to delve super personal, so the public forum might prove a challenge to keep it appropriate.
-Tell a short story based off of either the drawing or project
-Talk from the perspective of an inanimate object
-Write a ten minute play over the course of a few weeks
-Do a recurring serial with a specific character

May pick one for tomorrow!

Haiku of the Day:

Blood moon, translucent,

rises at dusk over town.

Photographers flock.

Today's Drawing (inspired by the word "Silly" spoken by Paige Howell)

Today's "365" Project (Do something with flowers)
"Outcropping"

Farts and Faces

Short post. Wonderful saturday with lots of running and cooking and an ice bucket over the head. Wish there were more hours in the day of course. As an update, it's day 9 of my 100 miles in August and I'm on track with 34 miles under my belt. Here's to getting/keeping up with ridiculously high expectations!

Haiku of the Day:

Loose coils, sprawled and strewn

from foot to coverlet yarn

traces my progress 

Today's Drawing (inspired by the word "Fighting" spoken by Georgia Chrisinger but misinterpreted as "Farting" by Emily Kuehn)

Today's "365" Project (Do something with a face)
"Beautify"