My friend Daisy wrote me late Sunday asking if I am doing okay. I’ve not posted at H&Q for most of a week, a sure sign I’m off my feed as they would say if I were a cow or a kitty. I wrote her back that I was on the verge of posting an [...]
Archive for August, 2009
The Bread of Idleness
Posted in writing on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Totally Awesome Right? Predators and White Hunters
Posted in writing on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you read my post about guns for $1,299.99 earlier, you can skip this one. I posted it earlier today (Sunday) and appeared on Facebook with no problem. But after I revised it slightly, the posting did not appear. I hope it will appear with the new title. . . .
The older I get, the [...]
Summer
Posted in arts, poetry, writing on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Summer
By Job Conger
Summer visits spring, a guest
fragrant from the field and stream,
fragile as dawn’s fading moonbeam,
sincere as rooster’s farm scene reveille.
Summer comes, not readily –
the cannon ball dive into the swimming pool –
as spring departs, reluctant, cool,
but inexorably beneath the rain drops.
Summer: cats on hot tin roof tops
as the striding saga of elegant profusion
with torch [...]
Quilty Pleasures: Rod Buffington Retrospective at Springfield Art Association
Posted in arts, writing on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I told a friend I would not take my camera to the reception for the new exhibition “Paint and Patchwork, Rod Buffington Retrospective” which continues at the association gallery through October 31, 2009.
I changed my mind. I’ve decided to return to my old camera toting ways as a regular blogger, which I hope H&Q readers [...]
Incident at Rock City
Posted in writing on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes a breeze wafts into Rock City that allows me to inhale in a few star-blessed moments, all that is beautiful about life. So it was August 22.
When the door from the parking lot into the showroom is closed, a mechanism on the hinge sounds a bell anytime someone enters or leaves. When I’m laboring [...]
Join the Wednesday Protest Against High Speed Rail on the Third Street Corridor
Posted in Uncategorized on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This message, is shared in the belief that a large piece of future happiness affecting every citizen of Springfield, Illinois and nearby is at stake. Fat beuraucrats in Washington, DC and our own Illinois Department of Transportation who think they can jam their will down our throats are mistaken. If you favor a BETTER Springfield, please [...]
The Vehicles Were Nestled All Snug By the Curb
Posted in Uncategorized on August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The newcomers upstairs spent most of Sunday moving in. They’ve had the keys for the past three weeks after agreeing to pay rent for the last week in August, and they’ve brought things over a little almost every day. This is how I prefer to work with good people upstairs. I’m going all-out for this [...]
Two Items Two Supermarkets, 40 minutes, No Sacks
Posted in Uncategorized on August 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Daisy set me straight about Shop’n Save Thursdays. They don’t announce what Thursdays there special discounts are going to be in force, so their game is to get you to their ballpark EVERY Thursday so you don’t miss your chance to save extry-big, even if it means buying $35 of your favorite salad dressing to [...]
Wine After the Poetry Reading
Posted in poetry, writing on August 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wine After the Poetry Reading
by Job Conger
written 7:00 pm on the front porch, Saturday, August 22, 2009
To let it sink in deeper,
the echoes
the redeeming laughter
from the woes of the daughter,
the page turned to us
to show
words
sculpted
on paper before
spoken in the linear by the voice.
Wisdom in prose and two poems
by Lindsay – Vachel; not Lohan.
Of Alzheimers crescendo [...]
When Blogs Collide
Posted in Blogroll, writing on August 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I want to learn how staff and freelance journalists who also blog separate (which is not to say segregate) one from t’ other. How much can be revealed in a blog without risking offense (through perceived mis-appreciation) for same or similar subjects covered? Does even posting this question at Honey & Quinine place me at [...]
