Aretha, Taketi and Uloomu

 
     Beam me up. Count me in. Let me go on record: Miss Aretha Franklin’s grey felt Luke Song hat – give her props!
    As a new co-worker and I sat inside a sandwich shop, watching the live inauguration broadcast, the Queen of Soul looked grand in her coronet before she rose to sing. In [...]

Argent Aurific Oneiric

   Inauguration Day morning in Pennsylvania is silver rich. With the temperature at eight degrees at 5:30 a.m., the creek continues to churn out mist and moisture which forms fern-like crystal colonies on the bank’s marginalia of branches and boughs. The water itself at dawn has  the teal and aqua iridescentishness of abalone; the heron flying low: blue and slate. The woods look [...]

Web Presence: the Barack of an Envelope

  
   Heavy rain before daybreak. Walking for the Heron Report: first one sits hunched on a branch, facing the bank of the creek, opposite. From this position, its head looks like a hard-boiled egg on grey feathers.
   The day is quiet, the sky grey. Mostly runners on the path, single or in pairs.
   Another heron flies above [...]

Duck Red Tape: Sudoku Rebus

   Prior to the elections, a friend described the WOW! factor that governmental edifices in Washington D.C. have. Their clean, classical lines and rigor, the precision and immensity that awe and overwhelm us. Their marble and granite mystery. What goes on inside them?
    “People lose sight of what the government’s purpose is, ” he said. “You can’t have government without people; you can [...]

This just in

   The political landscape
    and the natural signs favor
        the Obama camp.

Back of an Envelope: Election Day Forecast

 
   Feng shui forecast for the United States Presidential election, 2008: Hawaii and Alaska, absent from the art piece, have provided two of the major entrants in the race.
From the back of an envelope, a look at the markers for this contest:
 
   Both sides are so even in terms of balance, creativity, growth and desire to [...]