Month: August 2023

Stream of Thought

“What Comes Around Goes Around”

Candid Corvid Productions

I had purchased from the local thrift store a smaller-sized crock pot for use in the hotel during the several months we had stayed there last year.

Because its volume was less than what we normally need, I donated it back to that thrift store when we finally found a home.

Now, our oven has burned out and there is an unknown waiting time period while the landlord decides to fix or replace it and plans are enacted.

Meanwhile, we need to eat.

I think I found that same crockpot today – and am repurchasing it!

Healing Therapy, Stream of Thought

The Tree And Me

Candid Corvid Productions

I checked on my rescue tree yesterday, and it was looking like that stressed and droopy fold was returning to its leaves.

I know this is its first summer of heat on its own after last year’s disruption of its roots.

If it is anything like me, it feels intimidated by the repeat of a pattern of heat where it gaspingly previously struggled.

So last night, I had to go that way again and only had about two 20-oz bottles worth of water with me, yet it was enough to dribble around its roots in a circular pattern for two completions.

Today when I drove by, it looked to have perked up – and in the warm breeze, it looked as if its now-brighter green leaves and brown branch fronds were waving more cheerfully at me.

Guess I’m back on summer patrol, again – at least until the weather returns to more reasonable!

Songs

“Return To Me” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, August 10, 2023

On those restless nights when my heart’s in plight
And I’m balled up tight ’til the early light
Have to believe you’re more than just a dream

In the candle light by the fyre’s height
When the world’s a-light and I need what’s right
Have to believe you’re also wanting me

We don’t have to search anymore honey
You can find your redemption with me
When that blue bird came to my window
I learned that the truth can set us free

Come confide in me – let your heart be seen
We’ll create a life with our souls washed clean
Darling it’s true I know we’re meant to be

It’ll be alright we can win our fight
We can beat the dark – turn it into light
By love’s sweet grace this will be our destiny

Songs

Blue Without You (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, August 8, 2023

Now that the time has gone
Where we could sing along

A moment here or there
Cannot seem to compare

The sparks of happiness
For potential manifest

I once felt when thought
Of such joy love bought

Now that the rains will come
Once heat of summer’s done

When I would turn to you
Nothing’s left for me to do

I once found a place for us
That was built on a rock of trust

But when you turned away
I was left with nothing to say

How I wish there was more we could share
But I’ve turned and looked everywhere

When someone admired astrays
There’s only night left to the days

So I make the best that I can
Of what’s left that I understand

But I can’t seem to replace
Precious smiles or hope of embrace

I can’t seem to understand
Why a lover gone once a friend

Can change his mind like a switch
Throwing what is rare in a ditch

Maybe I’m just built as of old
Unlike now where most do what’s told

Its a state of confusion confessed
When facing the void of a mess

There’s no one to ask it seems
How to reclaim once broken dreams

No one wants to work and repair
What is broken and then laid bare

It’s a sad turn of such events
When once born I’m sure we’re meant

To achieve a higher plane
Rather than indulge what’s insane

Poetic Musings

The Running Roundabout

Candid Corvid Productions

For any new venture, there seems to be a large outpouring investment of time and energy toward searching for and coordinating appropriate data for triangulating entry and procedure initiations – which I find quite vexing  because it seems like acquiring a well-rounded picture on what to expect should be easier.

Perhaps it is that I prefer to be very thorough in my prior investigations so that I can tell ahead of time if I am choosing the right directions when pursuing goals from start to completion – and if the results will yield desired benefits.